The private installation of the Duke of Devonshire in the
Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge took place at Devonshire House on Tuesday ;—Cambridge, of course, will be the scene of the public installation, which will not take place till midsummer. The University authorities, with the two Members for the University, assembled in the hall of Devon- shire House, and ascended the staircase into the great gallery. Soon the Chancellor-Elect, wearing the robes of a Privy Councillor, came in to receive them. He was met at the entrance by the Vice-Chancellor, and conducted to the great- dais, and there presented with the letters-patent of the office of Chancellor, and reminded that time had been when the Chancellor was expected to defend the rights of the University by repressing "the license of Puritan zeal," though it was not probable that such days should return. It was recalled to him that his career at the University, " though brief, was not midis-
tinguished," and that immediately after it he entered upon the duties of his political life, the independence with which he had discharged these duties having become a ground of Cambridge confidence in him, no matter to which political party Cambridge men might belong. Then followed an eloquent en- comium on the academical distinction, the munificence, and the dignity of the late Chancellor (the late Duke). whose sentence, when he was called upon to give one " in doubtful matters," was "accepted without question." The Duke was then welcomed to his office in an eloquent Latin speech by Dr. Sandys (the Public Orator), who congratulated the University on having secured the son for the office which the father had so well filled.
