The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-06 00:00:00

RIOT IN CAMBRIDGE.

FIGHT BETWEEN THE UNDERGRADUATES
AND THE POLICE.
On Friday night a gentleman essayed to give a lecture
against the use of tobacco in the Town-hall, at Cam-
bridge. The room was crammed long before he com-
menced, most of those present being gownsmen, provided
with pipes and cigars, and with their pockets and de-
positories of squibs, crackers, and fireworks of various
descriptions.
The lecturer had not proceeded far when he was in-
terrupted by cries of " Three cheers for Sir Walter
Raleigh," and becoming angered at last with the in-
creasing disorder, he somewhat injudiciously said that
he had expected on coming to a university town to ad-
dress gentlemen, and not a lot of blackguards. After
this the noise and confusion rendered hearing what he
said out of the question. Pipes and cigars were set
alight in all directions, and a number of persons who
entered the gallery (which had been closed to the
undergraduates) were saluted with a shower of squibs
and crackers.
At this juncture Mr. C. E. Brown, an active
borough magistrate, arrived at the hall, and seeing that
a riot was inevitable, despatched messengers for the
police, and himself went for the Mayor (Mr. Brimley),
with whom he soon afterwards appeared upon the plat-
form, by the side of the lecturer. The place by this time
was a perfect Babel, and the Mayor, after repeated inef-
fectual attempts to obtain a hearing, declared the meeting
dissolved, and the lecturer then retired into the Alder-
man's parlour. The gownsmen immediately stormed the
platform, and proposed an amendment, " That tobacco
was anything but pernicious."
It is probable that all might yet have passed off,
with no worse result than the noise and uproar, but for
the silly action of an undergraduate. He was stand-
ing near a seat, the back of which was partially broken :
he splintered a piece off, and commenced belabour-
ing the rest of the form with it, with the view of
breaking it up. Mr. Brown, who was near him with
Jaggard, the superintendent of police, expostu-
lated with him, but he refused to desist, and
Mr. Brown then demanded his name and college.
The gownsman refused to give it, and as he con-
tinned. ; his work of demolition Jaggard collard him he
immediately struck out, aid raised the shout of "Gow n."
A rush of all the gownsmea was immediately made, and
the silly fellow was borne off in triumph, amid the crash
of seats and the loud hurrahs of the undergraduates.
The whole of the police force had by this time arrived,
and the affair soon came to fisticuffs. A gownsman struck
a policeman, who retorted by collaring him • another
rescue was attempted, and a desperate fight ensued, the
police using their staves freely, and succeeding in making
sundry prisoners, whom they lodged in the old sessions
room just as the Rev. Mr. Edleston, of Trinity Col-
lege, the senior proctor, arrived. On the arrival of
Mr. Edleston, the prisoners capitulated, and, having
given their names and colleges, were allowed to pro-
ceed to the latter in anything but an enviable plight.
An investigation into their conduct and that of
others who were most forward in the affair is to take
place so soon as a sufficient time has elapsed after the
sth of November to allow feelings of irritation to subside.
On Saturday night, notwithstanding that the proctors,
assisted by a number of masters of arts, paraded the
town, several skirmishes took place with the townsmen,
and it is feared that the Friday nights affair will produce
afearfultown
of the-and-gu
town-and-gown
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A. SOLEMN HIGH MASS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH ItOR THE SLAIN IN THE WAR.•—Yesterday, it
was announced at the Sardinian Ambassador's chapel,
Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, by the Rev. Mr. Price,
who delivered the sermon, that a solemn high mass and
requiem would take place in the chapel next Tuesday,
for those brave men who had fallen during the present
war. It was also announced throughout the various
chapels within the metropolitan diocese that a jubilee, to
continue two months, would commence during the week
by order of Cardinal Wiseman, the proceeds of the jubi-
lee to go towards a fund for the relief of those orphans
who had been left ilestituto and friendless by the cholera,