Cambridge University has elected Prince Albert, LL.D., for its Chancellor
; and he has accepted the honour with the best grace he could. Of course his Royal Highness has acted on advice ; and it is not surprising that he should take the course least calculated to mortify even the indiscreet. It is very likely that the Prince will be as good a Chancellor, and as useful, as any of his predecessors. He has opportunity for shedding the benignant warmth of Royal favour on endeavours to improve the ancient seat of learning, and to convert it into something less of an anachronism ; and unless he be restrained by the motives of delicacy, for which, on the whole, his conduct has been dis- tinguished, we do not doubt his good-will. The contest was a scandal, if it was not a worse encroachment on the suffrages of the electors ; it should, in one way or another, have been stopped sooner : but the memory of the scandal will not outlive the pa- - geant. The splendour of the Royal presence dazzles the view, and hides what was ugly behind it.
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