The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-04 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

MARCH 3.—At a congregation appointed for this morning,
at eleven o'clock, the grecious answer of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Chancellor Elect, to the letter announcing
his Royal Highness's election into that office, was read to the
Senate :

" Mr. Vice- Chancellor, and Gentlemen
of the Senate,—
" I thank you for the kind terms in which you have ap.
prized me of the result of the recent election for the Chan-
cellorship of the University of Cambridge.
" I need scarcely observe, after so recent and public a de-
claration of my sentiments and feelings with regard to my
nomination as a canelidate for that office, that the proceed-
ings whichhave subsequently taken place have been entirely
without my sanction or privity.
" The intention to propose me as a candidate was not
known tome until a period when the time for the election was
at hand, and when the arrangements for ascertaining the
sense of the University were already completed.
" I could only have suspended their progress by a peremp-
tory declaration, that under no circumstances would I con-
sent, if elected, to accept the office of Chancellor; and such a
declaration I did not deem it respectful to the University to
make.
" The election has now terminated ; and a maj rity of the
University, including a very great number of its members
most eminent for their services to the Church, to the. Uni-
versity, and to the cause of literature and science, has de-
clared itself in favour of my appointment to the vacant office.
" It is incumbent therefore, upon me to notify without
delay the course which, under these circumstances, I shall
pursue.
"I have resolved to accept the trust which the University
is willing to confide in me.
"In forming this decision I have been ,influenced by a
respectful deference to the wishes of a majority of its mem-
bers, by a great unwillingness to involve the University in
the probable necessity of another contest, but, above all, by
an earnest hope that through a zealous and impartial dis-
charge of the trust which I undertake, I shall succeed in.
establishing a claim on the confidence and good-will of the
whole academical body. " ALB ERT.
" Buckingham Palace, March 2."
At the same congregation the following degrees were con-
ferred :
M.D.—E. L. Birkett, Caius College.
B.C.L.—John Gardner, Trinity College. •
M.A.—John Ball Chalker, St. John's College ; Charles
N. Strickland, Trinity College.
B.A.—John Beasley, St. John's College.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Sphynx, steam•sloop,
was hove out of her stranded position at Brook, yesterday,
about 45 feet, when a ledge or bank stopped her further pro—
gress seaward. About two feet and a half of water, which
she had made, having been pumped out, it was expected
the vessel would have been hauled off last night, but as she
has not made her appearance at Spithead up to this evening,
we conclude the experiment was a failure. After to-day the
tides" take off " again,
The Dragon, steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, left this
morning, with 150 tons of bread and meal, for Cork, on the
relief service.
Last week between 600 and 700 tons of meal and biscuit,
for the service, were made and shipped from the Royal.
Clarence Victualling establishment. The highest praise is
due to the officers of this vast depot for the immense exertions
they have made, and are still making, night and day, to
meet the demand upon their resources for food for the ielief
of the prevailing distress in Ireland and Scotland.
The Centaur, steam-frigate, arrived at Spithead this after-
noon for Ireland.
The Baretto Junior, transport, Lieutenant Griffith, agent,
was towed into harbour this morning by the Rattler, steam-
sloop (all the tugs being at the wreck of the Sphynx), to be
loaded with stores for the squadron in the Tagus.
The Emerald, tender, arrived to-day, from Woolwich with
suLPeiernultiemnearnais'
Lieutenant Robert Reid, late of the Sappho, has been ap-
pointed to the Mariner brig, at Devonport.

Major-General Richard Hassal! Yates, of the East
India Company's service, died last week at his seat is
Staffordshire. He belonged to the Madras division of the
army. _ _

Colonel Ferguson paired in favour of Mr. Bon.
verie's motion for a committee of inquiry into the refusal of
granting sites for churches in Scotland with Henry Stuart,
Esq., Bedford.

FIRE.—About half-past nine yesterday morning, a
fire broke out in the workshops belonging to Mr. Wil-
loughby, carpenter and builder, in Pearl-street, Old Gravel-
lane, Wapping. Owing to the combustible nature of the
stock, and also of the building—the latter being nearly all
; wood—the fire travelled with great fury. The occupier was
insured.
DEATH OF A SAVANT.—Prince Mourad Ali, the
85th son of Feth Ali, Schah of Persia, who had 104 children,
of whom 39 are still living, died lately at Khoi, a small town
of Persia, at no very advanced age. On the decease of his
father in 1831, and the accession of Abbas Mirza, the eldest
son, to the throne, Mourad Ali left the court of Persia and
retired into one of the provinces, where he lived in a com-
paratively humble style. He was a man of a cultivated
understanding, and employed himself chiefly in astronomy.
A few years ag a treatise on the prognostics of the weather,
written by him, was published at Taural.