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Subject for a Composition.

--The London papers of the 11th inst., contain the following notice:

‘ His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, being pleased to give annually a gold medal for the encouragement of English poetry, the Vice Chancellor gives notice that the prize will be given this year to such resident undergraduate as shall compose the best poem on "The Prince of Wales at the Tomb of Washington." N. B.--The exercises are to be sent in to the Vice Chancellor on or before March 31, 1861, and are not to exceed two hundred lines in length.

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