28 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 3

We are very happy to announce that Mr. Henry Fawcett,

of Trinity Hall, whose high claims to the Professorship of Political Economy in Cambridge we advocated some months ago, has been elected to the chair. The poll showed for Mr. Fawcett, 90; for Mr. Mayor, 80; for Mr. Courtney, 19; for Mr. Macleod, 14. We are not sorry to observe that the curious economical fallacies of Mr. Macleod received but little support in Cambridge. A popular election to a professorship has for once yielded a good appoint- ment.