The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-09 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 8.
In a Convocation to be holden on Thursday, the
16th inst., at 2 o'clock, it will be proposed that the
Rev. Edward Keddington Bennet, M.A., of Uni-
versity College, be permitted to commute from that
degree to the degree of 8.C.L., and to proceed
forthwith to D.C.L.

The Professor of Mineralogy (Mr. Storer Maske-
lyne) will commence a course of lectures on the
silicates, in the lecture-room at the Museum, on
Tuesday, the 14th inst., at 2 o'clock.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 8.
A numerous and highly influential meeting was
held in the Senate-house to-day, in furtherance of
the Palestine Exploration Fund. The Vice-Chan-
cellor occupied the chair, and the meeting WAS ad-
dressed by a deputation front the committee of the
fund, consisting of the Dean of Westminster, Lord
Henry Scott, M.P., the Rev. H. B. Tristram, Mr.
Cyril Graham, Lieutenant Anderson, R.E., and
Mr. Grove, the hon. secretary, as well as by the
Dean of Ely, Professor Sedgwick, the Rev. G.
Williams, and Professor C. C. Babington. Resolu-
tions were passed pledging the meeting to the gene-
ral support of the objects of the fund, the investiga-
tion of the archology, topography, physical geogra-
phy, and natural history of the Holy Land, and a
committee was appointed, consisting of many of the
leading members of the University, to raise funds for
the support of the undertaking. A suggestion was
made by the Rev. G. Williams that a grant should
be made to the object out of the fund accumulated
by the suppression of the Wort's Travelling Bache-
lorships, which were done away with by the new
statutes a few years since, with permission to apply
the money to the promotion of antiquarian or
scientific researches in foreign countries, and other
objects within the scope of the present investiga-
tion. This suggestion appeared to meet with the
commendation of the meeting, and was warmly re-
commended to the consideration of the Vice-Chan-
cellor and the University Council. The meeting
separated, With a vote of thanks to the Vice-Chan-
cellor and the Rev. T. G. Bonney, the local secre-
tary. A large collection of photographs, taken by
the agents of the fund, were exhibited in the Arts'
School, and excited much interest.
The Lectures of the Professor of Moral Philo-
sophy during the present term will be on the fol-
lowing subjects :—On the 11th and 14th, "The
Family and its Manners;" on the 18th and 21st,,
" The Nation and its Manners ;'' on the 25th and
98th, " Christendom and its Manners ;" and on
June 1 and 4, "The Modern Idea of Humanity."
At the meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical
Society on Monday next a communication will be
made by the Dean of Ely " On Modern Musical
Scales."

ARRIVAL OF THE PERK..—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Pere, arrived at Southampton
yesterday. She left Gibraltar on the 2d, and on the same
d3y spoke the Delta, on the 3d the Nyanzaand the General
Lee, on the 7th the Hermann, the British ship Shannon,
411c1 the French ship Arequipa ; the two latter were steer-
ing up Channel. The British war-ships lately at Gibraltar
left on the 2d fur Malta. The transport a:ontes and the
French transport Allier were at Gibraltar. The Para
brings. 1' passengers, but no mails or cargo, haring comp
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HER MAJESTY, &c•
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OSBORNE, May 8.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold,
and her Majesty drove iu the grounds this morning
with Princess Louise.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice walked out.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-skeet. The Ministers present were
the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellot, the Duke
of Marlborough, the Earl of Mahnesbury,.the Right
Honourable Spencer 11. Walpole, Lord Stanley'
the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pakingtoo, Sir
S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond,
Lord J. Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne HardY)
and Lord Naas.

THE QUEEN'S RETURN TO WINDSOR.—Her Ma-
jesty the Queen and the royal family will, it is expected,
leave Osborne about the 17th or 18th of this month, and
return to Windsor Castle for a few days previous to visit-
ing- Scotland. Prince and Princess Christian will, it is
understood, accompany her Majesty to Balmoral.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—It iS
understood that the health of her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales continues to make the most satisfactory

progress. The Prince of Wales is expected to leave Marl"
borough-house shortly for Paris, for the purpose of visiting
the Exhibition. It is not unlikely the Queen of Denmark
may leave town, on the conclusion of her Majesty's visit to
the Prince and Princess of Wales, at the same time.

The Earl Russell received Viscount Amberley,
M.P., Lord Dufferin, Lord J. Hay, M.P., Sir R. Palmer,
M.P., the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.P., the Right Hon.
W. 11. Cogan, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Knatchbull-
Hugessen, M.P., Mt. Forster, M.P., and Mr. Adams at din-
ner last evening at his residence in Chesham-place.
Lord Stanley, as Secretary of State for the Fo-
reign Department, gave a grand dlplomatic banquet last
evening at the First Lord of the Treasury's official resi-
dence in Downing-street. There were present his Excel-
lency M. Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador, and Madam°
an.l Mademoiselle Musurus; his Excellency the Marquis
d'Azeglio, the Italian Minister ; his Excellency Count
Bernstorff, the Prussian Ambassador, and the Countess,
and Countess Therese Bernstorff; his Excellency M. J3ll-
- the Danish Minister, and Madame Bulow ;
his Excel-
lency Baron Bentiuck, the Netherlands Minister; his Ex-
cellency Count Vistahermosa, the Spanish Minister, and
the Countess and Mademoiselle Owens; Count and Coun-
tess de Rilvas, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl and
Countess Of Carnarvon, the Earl and Countess of Dartreh
the Earl of Longford, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Elcho
Hon. Thomas de Grey, Lady Constance Stanley, Sir John
B. Karslake (the Solicitor-General), and Mr. E. Egerton.
Later in the evening Lord Stanley had an evening, at
which a brilliant company assembled.
Lord Brougham is expected home from his villa
at Cannes in a week or two. On his return home to Lon-
don he will take up his residence at the mansion recently
occupied by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres in Ber/O-
-i
ley-square.
Vibe Queen has addressed an autograph letter -to
Lady Llanover, expressive of her deep sympathy, and of
her Majesty's appreciation of the services of Lord Llanover
when a Minister of the Crown.

- DEATH OF THE DEAN OF CHESTER.—We learn by
telegraph that the Dean of Chester, the Rev. F. Anson,
died at the Deanery at Chester at half-past two yesterday
afternoon, aged 87.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S VISIT IO

INDIA.

The 7inies of India of the 13th April says
" We have had other royal princes in this count**,
but not yet one of our own blood royal. Now that
the union between India and the Crown has been
accomplished, it cannot be too complete. The bonds
cannot be too securely riveted. There is a feeling
of affection and reverence, vague but strcng, arnoog
the natives of India, especially the higher classes, for
Queen Victoria and her family ; and we have no
doubt that the appearance amongst us of one of her
Majesty's sons would evoke the most enthusiastic
demonstrations of loyalty. We have no doubt that
that people would come from afar to do honour to
him, and that his progress through the coolant.
would be something of a triumphal one. And if the
Duke of Edinburgh is to come amongst us at all, he
must not come as a mere traveller or sportsman,
under an assumed name. If there is to be the risk of,
the visit, it is right to demand that the empire shall
have the benefit of it. That a royal visit of this kind
would have a good effect—that it would tend to
cement the union of the two countries—is not to be
doubted. We do not know any other objection to

it than that the climate is supposed to be un-
healthy, and that fever or cholera might fasten itself
with fury upon the royal visitor. But if a prince
of the blood royal can come here for the sake of
amusement, without regard for the possible con-
sequences, he can come here also for the sake ei
conferring benefits on the state. If then there be
truth in the story of the contemplated visit of the
Duke of Edinburgh to Bombay, we trust that in the
sequel it will turn out to be true, and not merely in
the limited sense of his coming on a hunting exPe"
dition. The Duke of Edinburgh may do something
much better among us than slaughter tigers and
bears. We may not, probably, live to see the daY
when a royal prince will rule in this country es
viceroy of India ; but our children may see a Queen'?
grandson or a King's sou occupying the vice-regal
throne. We do not purpose now to discuss the
question which this more remote prospect suggeste:
It is sufficient to consider that which is nearer 3v
hand. We repeat that if one of the Queen's sees
comes amongst us, we trust that there will be ll°
effort made to preserve the private character of the
visit. Of the incognito we need say nothing, f°/.
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that in India must fail. If the Duke of Edinburg'
should visit this the most magnificent of all the
dependencies of the British empire, all India Will
be eager to do him homage. It might for b'°
be rather dreary work to be lionised--to
be led about by the Governor-General, to be
exhibited at a series of durbars, and to hear his
Excellency lecture the princes and chiefs of Jodie
who would press forward to offer their respects to
the son of the Queen. But if his royal highnel
should complain of this, we are afraid that we must
remind him of the old commonplace, that high SW
tion has its duties and responsibilities as well as it's
privileges and immunities. He may take his hen.
days like the rest of us. He need not " sit up COin:
pany" during the whole of his visit. If he
the bears and tigers better than Sir John Lawrence'
and the jungle better than the durbar tent, We
would let him devote a fair share of his time t°
these more exhilarating pursuits and engagemeetSa
But we are afraid that he must make up his min e
to be "on duty," as the Queen's son, during se%
part of his visit, if he ever should honour us with
his presence. And it would be better, perhaps
to
that this should be well considered before he start
,
on his journey. It would not be expedient that he
visit should be an impromptu one. It ought t°
of such a character that it shall be regarded as ale
intentional compliment to the princes and Peel)by
of India—a manifestation of the interest taken
her Majesty in her Indian subjects ; and, moreovea'rt
he should go among them dons fuel's, and deP f
leaving behind him many cherished mementoes,
his visit, to be heir-looms in our great families.'