FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of OCTOBER 31, 1843. Cambridge, October 25, 1843. HER Majesty having been pleased to appoint this day, at two two o'clock, for visiting the University of Cambridge, Her Majesty was met, at the entrance of the borough, by the Mayor and Corporation, who there did their homage to Her Majesty. Her Majesty was then attended by the University in a body. The Vice-Chancellor, after laying the bedells' staves at Her Majesty's feet, made a speech to Her Majesty, in the name of the University, expressing their duty and affection to Her Majesty. Her Majesty was pleased to receive the University in the hall of Trinity College, when the Vice-Chancellor read the following Address : To the QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty. May it please your Majesty, WE, your Majesty's dutiful subjects, the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, most gratefully avail ourselves of your Majesty's gracious permission to offer within the walls of the University itself, the expression of the devoted loyalty which we at all times feel towards your Majesty, and of the sentiments excited in our hearts by your Majesty's presence among us. The University of Cambridge, protected and favoured by your Majesty's Royal Predecessors, and intrusted by them with important offices in the great national concerns of religion and education, has ever been profoundly grateful for the dignified duties thus assigned her, and full of reverent affection towards the Sovereigns of the realm. When, in former times, the Members of this University have been so highly honoured as to see among them their Sovereigns in person, such an event has, upon all occasions, called up in their breasts the most earnest and lively sentiments of loyalty, and has made them feel, more strongly than ever, both the dignity and the responsibility of their position. We trust your Majesty will believe that any expressions which we can use, very inadequately convey the sense which we entertain of your Majesty's great kindness and condescension in thus enabling us to add the name of your Majesty to those of your Royal Predecessors, the Queens and Kings who have in succession visited this their University. We feel it an additional mark of your Majesty's favour and consideration, that your Majesty's visit takes place at so early a period of your Majesty's happy reign, and in the company of your Majesty's August Consort, so as to bring our academic institution under the immediate notice of his cultivated and enlightened mind. We also esteem it a peculiar instance of your Majesty's royal favourable disposition, that your Majesty has been pleased to make this visit at a time when the occupations and business of the University are proceeding in their ordinary course; and so soon after the announcement of your Majesty's gracious intention that the University necessarily wears its usual aspect. We trust we may consider your Majesty's visit, under such circumstances, a mark of your royal good opinion and good will, of your Majesty's sympathy in the purposes which the University has to fulfil, and of your Majesty's confidence that we are labouring in the discharge of our duties with fidelity and diligence. We trust at all periods of the history of this University, the number of the persons who, after receiving their education here, have distinguished themselves as statesmen, divines, and scholars, has abundantly shown that the culture which is here given to men's minds is not unfit to mould the noble national character of the country over which your Majesty reigns, and to qualify men to act their respective parts in that glorious national constitution, in Church and State, of which your Majesty is the head. But whatever our exertions may have hitherto been, we shall henceforth have, in the recollection of the interest in our institutions and occupations which your Majesty's visit implies, a most powerful motive to labour still more diligently, in the hope that this University may continue to produce worthy members of the State, and faithful and able servants of your Majesty. This gracious visit of your Majesty and your Royal Consort will ever be kept in mind as a memorable event in the records of the University, and will be by all of us, who have the good fortune and the high honour to be present on this auspicious occasion, rcollected with feelings of deep gratitude and affectionate reverence towards your Majesty. With these sentiments we pray, that the Supreme Disposer of events may be pleased to shed upon your Majesty and your Royal Consort a continuance and increase of all blessings, to shield you from all harm, and long to preserve your Majesty for the benefit and happiness of these realms. To which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to return the following answer: "I receive with peculiar satisfaction, on the occasion of my visit to the University, this dutiful and affectionate expression of your attachment and loyalty. "I am deeply sensible of the benefits which your exertions in the cause of religion and learning have conferred upon my people; and the University may, on all occasions, depend upon my continued favour and encouragement." The Vice-Chancellor and the other Members of the University waited likewise upon His Royal Highness Prince Albert with the following Address: To His Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT. The humble Address of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge. May it please your Royal Highness, WE, Her Majesty's dutiful subjects, the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, beg leave to avail ourselves of the opportunity now given us of tendering to your Royal Highness the expression of our profound respect; and of welcoming, with our most cordial good wishes, your Royal Highness's appearance 3 t within the walls of the University, an event which is a source of satisfaction and joy to every Member of our Body. الاس. The intimate ties which connect your Royal Highness with the happiness of our beloved Queen, and the future prosperity of the nation, cannot but call forth our most lively desires and earnest prayers for your Royal Highness's welfare; with which your Royal Highness's virtues and high endowments lead us to combine a cordial and respectful feeling towards your Royal Highness's Person. We are persuaded that your Royal Highness's known regard for religion, learning, and science, will make your Royal Highness receive with kind condescension the salutations of a Body which has these great objects for its special ends. Your Royal Highness, educated in a distinguished University of your native land, will not fail to feel a lively concern in the academical establishments of this your Royal Highness's adopted country. And connected as your Royal Highness is by the most endearing ties, and by the relations belonging to your Royal Highness's exalted position with the institutions of England, your Royal Highness, we are persuaded, visits one of the ancient universities of the land with a strong interest, arising both from the place which it occupies in the history of the country and its importance in the social fabric of the empire. We trust that the attention which in this University has been bestowed upon Divine and human learning has been such that we are not unworthy of some portion of the sympathy which your Royal Highness feels in the cultivators of such pursuits; and we rejoice that the delight and gratitude excited by the visit of our Gracious |