The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-04 00:00:00

OXFORD COMMEMORATION,

OXFORD, JUNE 2 —Yesterday evening an opportunity
was afforded for the promenade in the Broad Walk, that
immemorial custom of Show Sunday. The walk was
crowded with the elite of the university and city, the under-
graduates forming the bulk of the promenaders, while the
attendance of ladies, elegantly attired, added much to
enliven the scene. Amongst the latter was Madame Jenny
Goldschmidt Lind, who was, we much regret to say, driven
from the promenade by the impertinent curiosity of some of
those present, chiefly, we believe, boys, whose behaviour on
this occasion was so annoying to the fair songstress, that
the undergraduates, to protect her from such rudeness,
formed a barrier across the broad walk in front and behind
the party she was with, and thus guarded from further
annoyance she left the Meadow.
To-day the weather was most delightful, and many were
the excursions round the environs of Oxford, and not a few
down the river to Nuneham, the seat of Mr. Harcourt,
M.P. At twelve o'clock Worcester College gardens were
the grand attraction, where, in a monster tent, upwards of
a thousand of the elite partook of a splendid dejeuner, given
by the Apollo (University) Lodge of Freemasons, the occa-
sion being the presentation of a magnificent piece of plate
to W. W. B. Beach, Esq., of Oakley Hall, Hampshire,
M.A., of Christ Church College, P.M.P. Pro S.W.G., and
twice Worshipful Master of the Apollo Lodge. The testi-
monial consisted of a very elegant group of figures, being
five feet in circumference, and weighing 500 ounces.
The chair was taken by Brother Captain Bowyer, Pro-
vincial Grand Master of Oxfordshire, who was supported
by the Vice-chancellor, the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord
Skelmersdale, Lord Vaughan, Lord Lincoln, and the Earl
of Coventry.
The following are the distinguished individuals on whom
it will be proposed to confer the degree of Doctor in Civil
Law, by diploma, on Wednesday next, at nine o'clock, viz ,
the Prince Regent of Baden and Prince Frederick William
of Prussia.
The comemoration will be honoured by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, D C.L., their Serene Highnesses
the Prince Regent of Baden and Prince Frederick William
of Prussia, the Chancellor, the Earl of Derby, who will
arrive early on Wednesday, to join the procession at the
hall of Worcester College, and from thence proceed in
procession to the theatre in company with the following
distinguished noblemen and gentlemen, on whom the
honorary degree of D.C.L. will be conferred, viz. : —His
Excellency Musurus Bey, Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ; the Right Hon. the Earl
of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.8., one of her Majesty's Princi-
pal Secretaries of State ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin
and Kincardine, K.T. ; the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton ;
Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.8., K.C.H.; Rear
Admiral the Hon. Sir A. Saunders Dundas, K.C.B. • Sir
Henry Holland, Bart., M.D., F.R.S. ; Major General Sir
Colin Campbell, G.C.8.; Major General Sir W. Fenwick
Williams of Kars, Bart., R. A., K.C.B. ; Major General Sir
Harry D. Jones, R.E., K.C.8., Governor of the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst; Dr. Sandwith ; and Dr.
Barth.