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and addresses of the wives and children of those
non-commissioned officers, upon receipt of which
authority will be furnished, as usual, to the regi-
mental agents to issue allowances to the said:wives
and children.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in Chief has nominated Cul. J. K. Ripon to perform
the duties of Inspector-General of Militia during
the absence in Canada of the Inspector-General,
Major-General Lord Frederick Paulet, C.B.
The following list of promotions and appointments
in the corps of Royal Marines was yesterday an-
nounced in the divisional orders at Woolwich, by
command of Col. Campbell, Commandant, under
(late Jan. 16, 1862:—Brevet-Major Geo. Stephen
Digby, to be Instructor of Laboratory at the Artil-
lery Division, vice Brevet-Major Charles Loudon
Barnard, to be Acting Lieut.-Col. to the Division ;
Capt. William Penn Burton; of the Woolwich Divi-
sion, to be reappointed to the Artillery Division,
vice Digby ; First Lieut. and Adj. James Conway
Travers, of the Woolwich Division,-to be Capt. at
that division, vice Burton; First Lieut. Charles
Bullen Hugh Mitchell, of the Woolwich Division,
to be Adj. at the same division, vice Travers;
Second Lieut, John Ignatius Morris, of the Ports-
mouth Division, to be First Lieut. at the Woolwich
Division, vice Mitchell ; Capt. Enbule Dalish Thel-
well, of the Portsmouth Division, to be reappointed
to the Artillery Division, vice Capt. W. Pitt,
Draffewito,half-pay ; First Lien T; Frederick Lewis
David, of the Plymouth Division, to be Capt. at
the Portsmouth Division, vice Thelwall ; Second
Lieut. Gerald Altham Heseltine, of the Portsmouth
Division, to be First Lieut. at the Plymouth Divi.
sion, vice David, promoted.

THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF CAM.
.13R.IDGE 'UNIVERSITY.

Yesterday afternoon his Grace the Duke of De-
vonshire was formally installed as Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge, in the room of his late
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, at Devonshire-
house, Piccadilly, in the presence of a large con-
course of members of the Senate.
The gentlemen who formed the deputation—
doctors of divinity, doctors of laws, and masters of
arts—assembled at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-
street, and thence walked in procession, to Devon-
shire-house, headed by the different officers of the
university, bearing maces and other insignia of
authority. The doctors wore their scarlet robes,
and the other members of the Senate were attired
in academic costume, and their appearance in the
street soon attracted a large crowd of spectators.
The ceremony took place in one of the splendid
drawing rooms of the mansion, along which the de-
putation ranged themselves in two rows ; and on
the noble duke, who wore the richly embroidered
robes of the Chancellor of the University, walking
down the centre to his seat at the end of the cham-
ber, he was greeted with enthusiastic applause.
The persons present included the Bishop of Llan-
daff, Lord Monteagle, the Hon. Spring Rice, the
Rev. J. Barlow, F.R.S., the Rev. A. B. Suter, the
Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, M.P., Dr. Paget, Dr.
Aldis, the Rev: Sir Nicholas Chin nery, the Rev. J.
Russell Stock, the Rev. Joseph Brown, rector of
Christchurch, Southwark; the Rev. Canon Lons-
dale, the Rev. C. J. D'Oyiey, Lord Wriothesley
Russell, Mr. James Heywood, the Rev. J. Bury
Harrison, the Rev. Dr. Howson, the Rev. J. W.
Blakesley, the Rev. J. F. Erskine Goodeve, Pro-
fessor Stokes, the Rev. T. Borlase Coulson, Mr. W.
F. Moorsom, the Rev. S. Leathes, Mr. J. Story, the
Rev. E. D. Kershawe, the Rev. G. R. Tuck, the
Rev. Dr. Peile, the Rev. Dr. Phillips, the Rev. A.
H. Williams, Professor Adams, Mr. E. F. Moore,
Professor Lightfoot, Mr. Snell, the Rev. Dr. Eng-
lish, the Rev. R. M. Wheeler, the Rev. J. C.Ebden,
the Rev. J. J. Soden, the Rev. C. W.Hyne, the Rev.
T. Sikes, Mr. J. B. Goren, the Rev. R. Graves, the
Rev. B. Sams, Mr. Cracknell, the Rev. S. T. Gib
son, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Heath, the Rev. J T. Walker,
the Rev. W. Walch, the Rev. G. E. Patteriden, the
Rev. J. J. Tuck, the Rev. S. E. Marsden, Mr.
Brooke, Mr. Babbage, the Rev. T. Radcliffe, Pro-
fessor Willis, Mr. C. W. Lawrauce, the Rev. T.
Fuller, the Rev. J. W. Gleadall, Mr. Bright, Mr.
W. Helps, the Rev. Walter Mitchell, Dr. Philp,
Mr. Halswell, the Rev. R. A. Holden, Mr. Stan-
ford, M.A., F.R.S., Mr. Chailes De la Pryme.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR of the UNIVERSITY, the
Rev. Dr. Phillips, President of Queen's College,
said—My Lord Duke, it is my duty to present to
your grace the letters patent of the office of Chan-
cellor of the University of Cambridge, to which
you have been unanimously elected by the Senate.
Your grace was pleased to comply with the strong
wish expressed by a great and influential portion of
the university that you should accept the office
which was rendered vacant by the death of the
much lamented Prince Consort. Permit me to say
to your grace, that deeply as that mournful event
is deplored by the country at large, nowhere
has it caused greater sensation and pro-
duced more heartfelt grief than in the University
of Cambridge. (Cheers.) During the years his
Royal Highness was the head of our academic body he
watched with solicitude every change which was
introduced for the purpose of promoting its welfare,
and in general he took a lively interest in all its
proceedings. But that Prince is removed from us.
It is better that we should submit with Christian
fortitude to the will of God than to indulge in ex-
pressions of idle regret. We are required by our
statutes to fill up the void so painfully caused
within a very limited period, and the acceptance by
your grace of the office of Chancellor has contra

buted to raise us from the grief which the loss of
that illustrious Prince has produced. Of public
men eminent for their rank, their virtues, or their
deeds, the university felt that the selection of your
grace to fill the high office of Chancellor was the
most appropriate. It has thus secured for its head
a nobleman not only distinguished for the virtues

which adorn private life, but also a nobleman who
has himself won the highest honours which it has
to confer on its meritorious youth. (Cheers.) We
feel that your grace has by these academic triumphs
set an example most worthy of imitation by the
youth of the aristocracy of England. (Cheers.)
I am glad to be able to state to your grace that that
example has not been without its effect, and that

since your grace's time there have been others born
to the inheritance of coronets who passed through
the university and carried away with them high
academie distinctions. (Cheers.) We are aware
that your grace has throughout, both publicly and
privately, taken a deep interest in the progress of
science, and we feel that in consequence of that
interest, as well as by your academic achievements,
you have nobly sustained the name of your illus-
trious house, which for a century past has been so

well known as associated with scientific dis-
covery. (Cheers.) To your grace it will not be

a matter of surprise—it may be one of some plea-
to know that the same activity which has

marked the busy world without during the lasi

quarter of a century has also manifested itsel

within the precincts of the university. During
that period the area of university education
has been at different times extended. New dub-
jects of study have been introduced and new
honours and triposes established, by which
fresh paths are open to our youths for academic dis-
tinction and reward. Your grace is doubtless awaro

that the. constitution of the University of Cam-
bridge as well as those of its colleges, have recently
undergone by legislative enactment considerable

change. It is hoped—it is certainly desired—by a
vast majority of those who have spent their lives in
the service of the university, that whilst that

change was intended to adapt the ancient institu-

tions of Cambridge to the circumstances of modern
society, it may still be found in most of its essential
features not to be inconsistent with the principles

on which those institutions were founded. (Cheers.)

I have now only to express my earnest wish that it

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may please God to grant that your grace may enjoy
many years of life to hold the office of Chancellor ;
and I hope that this new trust will be a source of
some satisfaction to yourself, as I am persuaded it
will he of honour and of advantage to our univer-
sity. (Loud applause.)
The SENIOR PROCTOR (the Rev. W. Emmy, of
Corpus Christi College) then read the patent of ap-
pointment which was in Latin, and confided to his
grace all the powers which the university could
confer upon the chancellor.
The oath was then administered to the noble duke
by the Vice- Chancellor in the following form :
" Dabis Hem. te bane et fideliter prmstiturum
omnia quay ctant ad officium Cancellarii Aca-
demi m Can tabrigiensis."
His GRACE responded, " Ita do fidem," and then
took his seat upon the throne.
The PUBLIC ORATOR (Mr. W. G. Clark, of
Trinity) delivered a Latin oration, congratulating
the noble Duke upon his appointment as Chancellor.
He addressed his grace as follows ;—Munus, quod
suffragis unanimis destinaveramus, certiores facti te
non abnuere,' adsumus hodie ut solemni more in-
auguremus, to scilicet auctoritate summa induamus,
in locum illius Principis quem iniquo fato ab 7
rentum, et universa gens, et aciademia nostra, ut
virum prcecipue coluerat, ita huni prwcipue
deplorat. Tam vero et tibi et nobis gra-
tius futurism erat, moram interponere, per iliquod,
temPthis 44Patitun''- • curulers,--: seltbm macantoni
contemplari, mcerori desiderioque indulgere; sed
vetant statute, sed maturato opus est; capite enim
suo orbata, neque alius cujus vis negotii capax est
academia, neque etiam potest, quod, primum pietatis
est officium, ad Reginam suam tanti societatem dolo-
ris et fausta in posterum vote literis rite conscriptis
mandare. Quod cum proxime curandum sit, nunc
ne extra ordinem preecipiamus, neque enim par est
initia novi muneris omnibus minus latis contristare,
et persuasum habemus non immoderato luctu sed
ipsius consilia revocando, ipsiusimitando exemplum,
ipsius operum, si quid inceptum modo ante imper-
fectum reliquit, ad culmen perducendo, optimi viri
memorire optima consulendum esse. Nobis igitur,
amisso duce, ante omnia curve erat virum exquirere
dignissimum qui illi sufficeretur. Nimirum permul-
tis alumnis academia censetur, his propter locum et
natales, illis literarum atque artium scientia illustri-
bus, to autem, utraque ornatum laude, meteris, ut
par est, prmtulit ; to Cancellarium salutat, magna
cum fiducia, si quam identidem discipline° vel studio-
rum mutationem tempus et ratio flagitet, te provi-
dum consilii auctorem, sive aliquando jura ex an-
tiquo stabilita defendere oporteat, te acrem fortemque
esse sdfuturum patronum. (Cheers.)
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE replied as follows:
Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen of the Senate,—
The ceremonies which in conformity with ancient
usage are observed on the installation of chancellor
having been completed, I present myself to you as
your chancellor, to discharge the duty which first
devolves upon me—the duty of offering you my
grateful acknowledgments for the high distinction
of which by an unanimous vote you have pronounced
me to be worthy. (Cheers.) The language in which
my election has been officially announced to me, as
well as that which the vice-chancellor has just ad-
dressed to me, leave no doubt in my mind as to the
reasons which influenced your choice. Undoubtedly I
must attribute my position to-day principally to the
academic success which I had the good fortune to
achieve at the close of my university career. That
success was in itself an ample, and more than ample
reward for any diligence I may have exercised in
studies which were congenial to my inclination,
(Hear, hear.) I had never expected that my con-
duct as a student would, after the lapse of 30 years,
be still remembered, and would be considered as a
sufficient qualification for the highest honour which
it is in the power of the university to bestow. The
vice-chancellor has said other things of a very flat-
tering nature; but upon matters of personal charac-
ter it is always irksome and unwecome to dwell,
and I would not have touched on them had I not
felt that I could not, without disrespect to him,
have left them altogether unnoticed. I now come
to a more painful subject. We must all of us be
deeply impressed by the peculiarly mournful cha-
racter of the circumstances under which I have been
chosen. Rarely could the election of a chancellor
have taken place in a season of deeper gloom. In
the long catalogue of chancellors who during the
lapse of centuries have been placed at the head of
this university, can be found the names of some of
the most eminent personages—some of the most
distinguished statesmen who figure in the pages of
English history; but it may well be questioned
whether the office at any time was more appro-
my immediate predecessor,
priately filled than by
the late Prince Consort, whose premature death has
excited such universal sorrow among all classes
throughout the country. The active interest he
always took in every pursuit which tends to elevate
and adorn mankind, his powerful and cultivated
intellect, his virtuous and blameless life, surely
peculiarly fitted him to be the head of this ancient
establishment of learning. (Cheers.) It is difficult
to speak in exaggerated terms of the loss you have
sustained in being deprived of a chancellor on whose
sympathy you could always depend, and on whose
sound and sagacious advice in any emergency you
could with confidence rely. The period of his
chancellorship has been prematurely cut short ; it
will never be forgotten in the history of the uni-
versity. (Applause.) The vice chancellor and the
public orator have spoken of those improvements and
alterations which have been recently introduced
in the- system of the university education. Of
those improvements the late Prince Consort was no
mere observer—he actually co-operated in their
introduction. Whilst he recognised the great claims
which this university has to be considered the
patron of learning and science, he felt that the time
was come when the importance of other branches
of study to which it had not hitherto devoted its
attention should be fully acknowledged, and the
study of them encouraged. I feel it is no light
honour to have been elected his successor. I feel.
that the post to which you have summoned me, as
the successor of one who so admirably discharged
the duties of the office, is an arduous one. I cannot
• hope to repair your loss, but I shall endeavour, to
the best of my ability, to follow the excellent ex-
ample he has set me, and any assistance it may be
in my power to contribute towards further advances
in that good path which the university has lately
pursued with so much zeal and diligence, and of
which she has also cheerfully approved, shall be
freely given. From early associations, as well as
from a sense of the favours and benefits conferred
upon me, I must always entertain feelings
of the
strongest attachment to this university; but lam
convinced that you would not expect
to regard it with that blind and exclusive
wvenera-
tion which would make me indifferent or hostile to
other institutions founded in(Amporpelaruee7t tlimdeo not
sfoort
the promotion of learning.
wish to forget—it almost seems to me my duty to
remind you—that forseveral years I held the highest
office in another university—the University of Lon-
don—an institution demanded, it appeared to me,
by the state of society and by the circumstances and
opinions of the times in which we live. With that
university I am still connected as a member of its
senate, and I should not do justice to my own feel-
ings if I did not avow that I take a warm interest
in its success. (Cheers.) You have placed me in
this high office with a full knowledge of that con-
nexion ; and allow me to say that it gives me great
satisfaction to find that it is not regarded with
disapprobation, nor considered as in any respect
disqualifying me for the position to which you have
elected me, and elected, I know, in the full con-
viction that my best energies will be devoted to
your service. I trust that your expectations will
never be disappointed, and that you will always
find me a faithful "guardian of those rights which
you possess for the public advantage, and which
are essential to the due exercise of the functions en-

1 tance it must be clear to us all that the proceedings
of our universities must command a large share of
public attention. The working of these alterations
in the system of study, to which allusion has already
been made, as well as the result of those changes
and modifications which have been effected in the
government general regulation of the university
by legislative enactment, will be sedulously ob-
served; and, coming into office as I do at a period
when these alterations are in active operation, you
will allow me to express a fervent hope that they
will be found not only, as the vice-chancellor has
said, consistent with the principles of the institu-
tions on which the university is founded, but may
also be instrumental in still further increasing the
reputation and usefulness of the university, and in
extending that vast influence which, as the legiti-
mate gunrdin of the highest education of this
country, it has long exercised, and I trust will
continue to exercise, in the formation of the national
character. (Loud applause.)
The Duke then shook hands with the principal
members of the deputation, and the proceedings
terminated.

'ENER,IL CLF,I,LAN'S ADDRESSES
TO TEE AR,SIY.

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The following address has been issued to the
Federal army by Gen. AlTiellan
• " WASHINGTON, JAN. 1

" Soldiers of the Army of the Union,—Though on
iast New Year's Day the horizon of our.country's
happiness was somewhat darkened by the rising
clouds of disunion, yet ;those were cot4artitively iu
the minority who did not believe ,ttatt, ere spring
had ripened 'lnto slimmer, the thieateded• %-rm
!in/Odle averted...nut this belfk,--thie hope, proved --- eIA
fallacious, and summer was not here before the
furious tempest seemed to be sweeping away the
very foundation of our liberties. Almost up to this
time the Government, relying on the justice of its
cause, and a knowledge of its reel superiority in
power over its enemies, refrained from any vigorous
vindication of itself until the belching batteries of
Charleston harbour rained their iron hail on Fort
Sumpter, to its reduction,
" On the 13th of April last the nation held its
breath as the lightning flashed in all directions the
dire intelligence that the Charleston batteries had
opened fire upon Major Anderson and his little band
of heroes. And the nation's heart thrilled proudly
as the wires kept telling, from time to time, that
Major Anderson, amidst showers of shot and shell,
was still bravely battling at his post, and that,
above the lurid flashes of his cannon, could still be
seen floating the bright flag of our fathers. But the
hope thus awakened was gradually quenched, as
word presently came that some of Sumpter's guns
were silenced; then, that the fort was on fire; then,
that the walls had been breached ; and, finally, that
the banner of the stars had been pulled down and
the post surrendered. Soldiers, on that eventful day
you were citizens, pursuing the various arts and
occupations of peace; but as the flag of Washing-
ton, of 1776, of your own hearts, came fluttering
from its staff, amid the smoke and flames of Fort
Sumpter, you became heroes. A few hours later
came the call for 75,000 three-months volunteers,
and you nobly left home and dear ones to rush to
the defence of our threatened capital, some of you
coming even without arms, content if only your
dead bodies should hinder for a moment the advance
of the foeman. As the full extent of the peril to
which our country was exposed became known,
however, this number was found inadequate to the
accomplishment of the great end aimed at. More
brave hearts and sturdy arms were wanted, and
regiment after regiment was speedily added to your
ranks, until you now number over 500,000 men!
The length of the enlistment was, also, too short;
and it was announced that perhaps service for three
years, instead of three months, will be required
from you. But this only increased your ardour, and
you have determined that your breasts shall be
bared for the protection of your country as long as
she shall need.

" Soldiers, when summoned from the mountains
of Western Virginia to take command of the Army
of the Potomac, I felt overwhelmed with mingled
surprise and gratitude for the signal honour thus
conferred upon me ; but the pleasant burden was
doubly increased when, upon the retirement of
Gen. Scott—the war-worn warrior of our country's
battles—the full command of the armies of tho
United States devolved upon me. Hesitation and
self-distrust might well accompany the assumption
of so vast a responsibility, but, placing lily trust in
God, and for the rest confiding in your loyalty, dis-
cipline, and courage, I put my hand to the plough,
and, Heaven helping me, I will never look back
until our country's flag floats triumphantly over
every foot of her soil, or my body lies stiffening
upon the field of strife.

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" For some months past you have, by constant
drills, skirmishes, reviews, and other means, been
prepared for the grand contest, the opening of which
now depends entirely upon the movements or de-
signs of the enemy, and may, therefore, come at any
moment. The inexperience and treachery that in
the opening of the present campaign caused your
reverses, have been, as far as human judgment could
direct, successfully combated; the first by con-
tinual practice, and the list by continual vigilance.
"Soldiers, our cause is just, and God is on our side.
The decisive moment is rapidly approaching, the
notes of the bugle may soon ring in your ears. And,
soldiers, when the bugle does call you to action,
then let every man, taking his comrade's hand,
swear by the days of '76, and by the dear ones at
home, to press onward, right onward, to victory or
the grave ! Remember, also, even amidst the darkest
carnage of the battlefield, for what you are fighting ;
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tgehe'n'eSl oldiers, when you have accomplished all that is
required of you, when your bayonets have en forced
obedience to the Constitution and laws throughout
the length and breadth of the land, and have rescued
your brethren from the deeply-laid plans and artful
machinations of a few designing traitors, then you
will feel the proud satisfaction of having faithfully
preserved the hallowed Ark of the Covenant, left to
us as a precious inheritance by Washington and
his illustrious compeers. And in future years, when
chance or fortune may scatter you throughout your
own and other lands, men will point to you and say
—' He is a brave man; he was of the army of the
Union.'

Soldiers, comrades, I have said enough. I feel
proud of you, I know you are brave, you are
patriots, you will conquer or you will die !"

THE CILIXESE REBELS.

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The following
extract from a private letter gives
some account of the atrocities perpetrated by the
rebels of Shangtung :
"Two generals are in the field against the rebels, Shing-
paou and Sang-ko-lin-sin ; the former has been operating
' along the south-western borders of Shantung, has been
victorious in many engagements, and has bought over many
discontented people; the latter is in the centre or eastern
part of Shantung, and is, generally speaking, doing nothing
at all. The Shantung Too-fei are said to be acting under
the orders of the Taepings. The order seems to be Kill,
burn, and destroy l' They are a set of bloodthirsty scoun-
drels, ruthless marauders. They are desolating the country
part of the province, but have not yet taken any walled
towns. In the villages they murder all, young and old,
male and female, and burn down the houses. Their con'luct
is inexplicable. The other day they appeared at Yenta°
(Chefoo), and were going to set the place on fire, when
the English and French gunboats fired into them; they
then retreated. The following day they were fol-
lowed into the country by the French; they avoided their
pursuers ; but the French account of the state in which
they found the villages—filled with the dead and half-
burnt corpses of men, women, and children—is heart-
rending. Previously, two American missionaries--Mr,
Parker and Mr. Holmes—hearing that the rebels were likely
to visit Yentae, buckled on their revolvers, mounted their
horses, and rode out 35 miles to meet them. They passed
the outposts and got to the chief; they asked him his in-
tention, questioned him as to his religious belief, explained
a little Christianity, and were then cut in pieces by his
people.
"Nanking, on the Yangtsze, has been retaken by Tsang
Kwoh-fan. He is working well along the Yangtsze, and
he is probably the man that will be first into Nanking, if
the Imperialists ever do retake it.
it The Canton and Ful2kien provinces are quiet."