The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE INSTALLATION.

At the risk of tome ch gree of repetition we mu-t lay
beture our readers a programme of the proceedings at
the Installation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert
next month, so tar as they are yet definitely feed upon.
We have already stated that her Majesty arid her
Royal Consort will arrive here on Monday, the sth
of July. It was hoped that the Chancellor would
have I.een amongst us on Saturday, the 3d, so as to
attend Divine service at St. Mary's on Commencement
Sunday ; but it was found that this would be an in-
coavernent arrangement, and consequently it has been
abandoned. The Rey al visitors and their suite will leave
Buckingham Palace about ten o'clock on Monday, and
proceed to the Tottenham station on the Eastern Coun-
ties railway, at which place a temporary platform will
be erected for their accommodation. A very elegant
new carriage now in course of construction for them, in
which they will travel down to Cambridge. me station
here will be handsomely fitted up on the occasion, and
accommodation will be provided for a considerable number
of ladies to witness the arrival of her Alajesty and the
Chancellor, who will be received by the Mayor and
municipal authorities, and conducted by them to the
gates of Trinity college We are nut at present aware
what arrangements are made, or likely to be made, with
regard to the afternoon of Monday; it may be that the
Qieen and the Prince, retaining a lively remembrance
of the glinies of King's chap!, will again attend Divine
service in that magnificent temple; but this. we appre-
heod, is nit decided upon. In the evening there is not
much doubt that they will dine in the hall of Catherine 11 all
with the excellent Mast r of that society, the present
Vice-Chancellor ; and subsequently there will be a con-
cert in the Senate House, arrangements for which are
progressing, and we have reason to hope that Jenny Lind
will lend the charms of her voice to the other charms of
the oceasioi'.
On Tuesday the grand point of attraction will be the
Senate House, where the Installation Ode will be per-
formed, and various academical proceedings will take
place under the presidency of his Royal Highness the
Chancel! ir. In the afternoon the horticultural fete
in the beautiful grounds of Downing College
will take place, at which her Majesty will
be present. We hear gratifying accounts of the
arrangements in progress for this fete, which is ex-
pected to be of the most sumptuous kind. Edgington
will supply six or seven large tents, as well as one for
the exclusive use of her Majesty, and we believe that
the scene will be enlivened by the presence of a military
band. The admission to this fete has been fixed, by her
Majesty's request, at the low price of five shillings. On
the evening of Tuesday there will be a Royal banquet
in the noble Hall of Trinity College; after which her
Majesty will hold a small reception at the Lodge.
When we wrote last week it was expected that her
Majesty and the Prince would quit Cambridge at an
early hour on Wednesday ; but circumstances have
occurred since then which will probably delay their
departure for a short time. On Wednesday last the
Vice-Chancellor issued the following notice:—
" St. Catherine's Hall Lodge, June 2, 1847.
"Several members of the University having expressed
a wish that arrangements should be made fur a public
breakfast, or other entertainment at the ensuing com-
mencement,
" The Vice-Chancellor requests that all such graduates
as are disposed to promote this object will meet in the
Lecture Rona under the Public Library on Friday next,
the 4th instant, at one o'clock, to consider and deter-
mine upon the measures necessary for carrying it into
effect."
In accordance with this notice, the meeting took place
yesterday, when the proposal fur a public breakfast was
seconded in a very spirited manner, and arrangements
were at once entered into for holding on Wednesday
morning, in the grounds of Trinity and St. John's, which
rival societies are to be united for the occasion by a
temporary bridge across the Cam, in token, we hope, of
a perfect burial of whatever ill-feeling may have arisen
at the late election. This will be a magnificent enter-
tainment, and we we cannot doubt that it will upon the
whole eclipse all other festivities during the Installation.
A public/de at Magdalene College has been talked
about, but we believe the engagements of the Royal
visitors will not permit them to be present.
It is understood that there will be no general illumi-
nation: the season of the year seems to interpose its
authority against that mode of testifying loyalty. But
we hope for a magnificent display of fireworks.
We have authority to state that the following distin-
guished persons have accepted invitations to be present:
—Duke of Wellington, Lord Juhn Russell, Sir Robert
and Lady Peel, Lord Morpeth, vlarquis of Lansdowne,
Marquis of Northampton, Bishop of London, and Bishop
of Oxford.—Cambridge Chronicle.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
(Extracts from the Provincial Journals.)
LANCASHIRE.—Heaven is kind, if man is ungrateful.
Never was there such glorious weather as that which has
blessed the country during the last three weeks, and
never, we believe, did the crops increase so rapidly in so
short a time. The wheat and spring corn present a
splendid appearance. The beans are equally promising.
rne grass is most luxuriant, and the potatoes never
came up with such a prospect of abundance if the old
disease does not again attack them. In short, during the
time of which we have been speaking, nature has been
working long hours and short hours, and all hours for
man, and the result shows that the time has been well
o,•cupted.—Liverpool Chronicle.
YuRKSHIRE.—Another week of magnificent summer
weather has confirmed the hopes of an early and favour-
able harvest. There has now been a mouth of the finest
weather possible, and vegetation of every kind is in a
healthy and vigorous state, excepting only the potatoes,
which are again found to be suffering from the mys•
terious disease which destroyed them last year. The
dnitsreyas ise,
Ode inicoonu, however, has revived that the stock of corn in
very
has
produced a decd
low;
and
this, cowithmbined
the
potatothe
market.—Leeds Mercury.
DUMFRIES.—A new order ofweather began
Thursday last. Thursday and here on
Friday were quite worthy
of May. A slight thunder-storm
storm passed over our town
early on Saturday morninsothat few of our
citizens heard it. It seems tp early
have been general in
England: London had its share of it. It was followed
here by a copious and refreshing h s ower, which tom
prodigiously on vegetation after the heat cf the two
preceding days. Saturday was a somewhat dull day;
but it was soft, mild, and feeding to the crops. Since
then the weather has been magnificent, and the full
glory of summer is upon us. Monday evening, with the
broad rising moon, was almost the loveliest we ever saw
on earth. It has been noticed as a fact that the oak is
earlier out than the ash this summer, which is by no
means always the case ; and this, they say, foretokens
a dry summer. When the ash is out before the oak
the summer is to be a wet one. This is not our
place for speaking minutely of the crops ; but we may
state that they are looking well in this neighbour-
hood. Some ct the early sown oat fields seem almost '
gone, whether blighted by the cold, by vermin, or by
disease. Throughout the south of Scotland, and especi-
ally in the confines of Lanarkshire and Peebles-shire, the
mi-chiel was too common, In many eases fields were
plou4tred down as quite useless. Whatever may he the
case elsewhere, the blighted fields in this neighbourhood
are gradually recovering, arid their crops may still be
fair.—llunifiies.shire 'Jerald.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE —THE POTATO CROPS.--Having
seen statements alleging the prevalence of potato disease
amongst the growing crops in this neighbourhood, we
have thought it right to make as dilig,nt examination
and as general inquiries into the accuracy of these state-
ments as our time and opportunities have puran.ted, and
we are happy to say that the result has be en to per •
feetly satisty us that, for the present at least, the
general—almost universal—indication, points to a
healthy and abundant harvest of this important root.
One or two symptoms of disease on the leaf has been
pointed out to our observation, and a solitary leprous
tainted potato or two amongst the early hot-bed produc-
tions have been shown to us; but these are exceptions
in proportion to one iu a thousand, which, in ordinary
•
times would have been overlooked entirely, and are only
now of importance as tending to excite apprehensions
that a greater development of nisease may unhappily
supervene. We think there are good grounds for hope
and confidence that such will not be the case. The
atmospherical influences this year have been and are of
quite an opposite character to those of the two last
years. A severe and protracted winter prepared the
earth for the reception of the seed. and a bright summer
sue has followed to bring to healthy maturity the crops.
We perceive that reports of disease have also been re
ceived from Ireland, from the Isle of Wight, and from
various parts of England, -but they have all been fol-
lowed by disclaimers, qualifications, or contradictions.—
Gloucester Journal.
DEvoNsmuE.—HAY HARVEST.—A field of young
gras,', in this neighbourhood, belonging to Mr. N.
Tuckett, was carried on Tuesday in prime order.—
Woolmer's Exeter Gazette.
HAMPSHIRE.—A correspondent has sent us some fine
wheat ears, which were plucked on the first of June,
being two days earlier than any at all approaching them
in forwardness could have been found last year. The
last three weeks have done wonders for all kinds of
crops, and thrown the interested prophecies of a late
harvest and expected scarcity into the shade.—Hanip-
shire Advertiser.
MONMOUTHSHIRE.--The bark season has commenced
at Newport, Monmouthshire; the prices are from SOs.
to 85s. per ton. Our Monmouthshire correspondent
says:—" The weather for the last fortnight has been
everything that could be wished for. Crops are every-
where looking well, and hay-making will be general in
a few days. We have heard no complaints yet about
potatoes in this country."—Bristol Journal.
HERTFORDSIIIRE.—The hay season commenced here
on Monday last. The crop has since been carted, and
now may be seen a new rick of meadow hay. The
cinquefoins are ready for the scythe, and two farmers
have begun to cut them. The crops are fine, and hay-
ing will soon be general.—County Press.

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TYPHUS FEVER IN BRlSTOL.—Bristol, we regret
to say, is, in common with Newport and other places el
the western coast, now sufferivg from the ravages of the
i
typhus fever, imported from Ireland, in consequence of
the great influx of Irish paupers who have arrivedin Bris-
tol in a state of complete destitution and disease, the effects
of the famine in that unhappy country. In St. Peter's Hos-
pital, which is in Bristol used as one of the poor-houses,
there are now upwards of forty cases of severe typhus
fever, chiefly sheeting the Irish paupers; and the great-
est care will be required to be taken by the medical au-
thorities to prevent its spreading among the other inmates
of the hospital, which contains some hundreds of inha-
bitants. The governor and deputy-governor of the Bris-
tol Corporation of the Poor have memoralised the Home
Secretary upon the subject, praying him to take imtne-
*lista steps to prevent the masters of sailing vessels from
bringing paupers from Ireland, many of them in a state of
fever, and landing them on our shores, leaving them to the
mercy of calluil charity, or to the relief by the pour's
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