passage to a temporary stair-case, to which an opening was made through one of the windows into Radcliffe Square.

At half past ten o'clock the Prince Regent rose, when His Royal Highness and His Imperial and Royal Guests were attended to their carriages by the Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and Proctors. The Chancellor conducted the Prince Regent in his carriage to the Deanery at Christ Church; and the Emperor and the King with their respective attendants retired to the Colleges, which had had the honour of being appointed to receive them.

At this time there was a general Illumination throughout the University and City; many of the public Buildings, the front of every College, and St. Mary's Church, as well as private houses, being brilliantly lighted up.

The next morning, Wednesday June the 15th, a Convocation was holden at eight o'clock, in which the Degree of D. C. L. by Diploma was voted to their Royal Highnesses,

The Prince Royal of Prussia,

Prince William of Prussia,

Prince Frederick of Prussia,

Prince Augustus of Prussia, and

Prince William, Brother of the King of Prussia: And also to

His Highness Prince Charles Augustus of Hardenberg, Chancellor of State to His Majesty the King of Prussia: And to

His Excellency Baron Jacobi Klöst, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the King of Prussia to this Court.

At nine o'clock the Chancellor waited upon the Prince Regent at Christ Church, and conducted His Royal Highness in his carriage to the Divinity School, where their Imperial and Royal Majesties, Her Imperial Highness the Grand-Duchess Catharine, with the Princes, Nobility, Ministers of State, the Pro-Vice-Chancellors, Heads of Houses, Doctors, and Proctors, were already assembled, while the rest of the University occupied the places appointed for them in the Theatre.

In a short time the whole assembly moved in procession to the Theatre; the pavement, the floor of the Theatre, upon which the Procession passed, and the whole line extending from the Divinity School to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent's seat, being covered with crimson cloth. A platform covered with the same, the back of which was hung with crimson velvet, was raised in the centre of the rising semicircle, upon which three chairs, superbly fitted up with crimson velvet, gilded plumes, and other ornaments, were placed. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent took the central chair; the Emperor of

Russia that on His Royal Highness's right hand, and the King of Prussia that on his left. Their Imperial and Royal Majesties condescended on this occasion to honour the University, as His Royal Highness the Prince Regent had already done, by appearing in the robes of the Degree recently conferred upon them by Diploma. Two platforms covered with crimson cloth, but less elevated, were extended to the right and left. On the right of the Sovereigns were placed Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, their Royal Highnesses the Princes of Prussia, the Prince Royal of Wurtemberg, the Hereditary Prince of Orange, His Serene Highness Prince Charles of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and other Princes of Royal and Sovereign Houses, who honoured the University with their presence. On the left, immediately next to the King of Prussia, were placed a chair and desk for the Chancellor of the University; and next to his Lordship sat the Lord President of the Council, the Nobility, the other Ministers of State, and Persons of distinguished rank.

The Persons who formed the Procession having reached their several stations in the Theatre, the Chancellor kneeling received His Royal Highness's commands. He then proceeded to the seat prepared for him, and having in the accustomed form opened the Convocation, by a declaration of the occasion of their being assembled, and of the business to be transacted, his Lordship signified to all the Members of the University