LEARNED Peserszr. AT Cemuannosa—On Saturday, while the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge
University was conferring the usual B. A. degrees in the Senate-house, there occurred—no unwonted affair—a stamping in the gallery among the Under Graduates on the presentation of the gentlemen who passed their examinations. Dr. Thackeray ex- claimed against the indecorum' and it ceased. By-and-by, on the pre- sentation of the Senior Wrangler, there was another and a louder round of clapping ; which tile Doctor was pleased to cut short—or rather to attempt to cut short—for it was continued with redoubled violence, until it compelled the Vice-Chancellor to quit the chair and break enp the meeting. At two o'clock, when he proposed to resume the business of the day, the whole of the gates of the Senate.house were closed, and the iaterrupters of the morning's solemnities carefully excluded. The gownsmen were not, however, to be dealt with : they besieged the house, burst open the doors of the hall, then those of the gallery, and in a few minutes the seats were as full and as noisy as ever. The Vice-Chan- cellor was steady to his purpose of conferring no degrees but with empty galleries; and the malcontents were at length induced, partly by force, partly by fair play, to retire, and the B. A.'s were regularly created. When the Vice-Chancellor made his appearance at half-past four o'clock, he was received with hootings and yells ; and had he not been sur- rounded by those wino had taken degrees he would probably have suf. fered actual violence. As it was, he was followed home with every mark of insult and contumely. The issues of this row are yet undetermined, but it sdems not unlikely that some of its ringleaders will rusticate for
their violence. _
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