Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-10-23
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Several weeks ago, the Prince and Princess Of Wales
attended "commemcration" ct Oxford. The corress
pondent of the London Times whose letter We have Only
recently had an opportunity Of reading 10 our fles
gives full and graphic description Of che event and il
incidents We copy portion Of the letter descriptive
Of the scepes at the shsdonIan Theatre the doors Of
which were opened at half-psss one Though nothing
waste be done until three: 72
within ten minutes after the theatre was opened Il
vas filed with quite many 90 Is would comfortably
hold and the numbers no we're aftersards continually
added made the plce last absolutely ntoerable from
the heat and sitting crowd. OF course, such day
the badinsge and chatting of the undergraduates In the
gallery were ton times more rampant aud boisterous
than ever On these days the sight of white hat sp-
pears TO much the influence the under
graduate mind that . red Gag does on q bull, and
the individuals who unwittingy strayed into the
theatre with these obnoxious articles of wearing APP
pare led wofu lives, and in some cases were fairly
badRered out of the place in storm Of yels One
Fortunate tall anky young man who, to the indiscre
ton OF white and huge blue stock superadded
the aeprayaton of brilliant white hat reduced to
condition of subserviency that was almost pitable Ia
vain he dsferentiay removed the hat and tried 70 hide
m he could not do the with the other portions Of
his drss to which we have alluded and which appeared
to excite even much ire rs the obnoxious hat ITSELF
He had been brought to proper state OF despondency
and dsmay at the pitiless storm Of chat he invoked
and was sinking out when fortunately professor
tered even more unpopular than white hat and all
the walls of undergraduate wrath were poured out on
his devoted head at once Nothing could be heard
amid the astounding Glamour which this divine excited
"a Glamour so hideous and prolonged that the sad
constables of the DIVISION to whom Commemorstiops
were things unknown came into the building at once,
thinking that nothing less than the murder Of Don
could be going forward This naive appearance Of the
ebobbes" as they were called and the puzzled aspect
with which they looked up at the ranks of the yelling
undergraduates IL uncertain whether or net IL was
their duty to stop the noise and restore Order created
shouts of laughter and gave new tnfn to the badi
mage. "Why do you let in that man with his hair
parted 30 |" stake out that chap with the two umbrel
las I" "wont there be when the Proctor sees that
fellow with the white hat| and 30 on and 30 ON and
as the police did look in the direction to which their
attention was called such endless instructions flowed
upon them that they too had nothing for il but
treat ignominously they came. Then there were
cheers Tor the Queen Prince and Pncess-such shouts
Kisses and cheers for Mr.. Gladstone, tumulluous APP
plause for Lord Derby the married ladies', the unmsr
red ladies' the ladies who wish 70 be and will be mar
ried, the ladies' in blue bonnets, the ladies in pink
dresses, and lastly embracing the whole scope Of
the lair SEX zoe ladie, 10 crinohnes. The camor was
dealenipg heat and densey sxaying crowd tearfu
il was perfect academic Pandemoaiun, above and be-
low, every where, in the ampbhealre, where The
ladies' comfortably, though lney couid not cooly,
aud Surveyed the uproarous sceoe around with keen
relish OF Iis unma Cned humor aud banter.
The Archbshops and Bishops, with the great digni
taries OF the college, entered shortly before o'clock,
and fome-such The Bishop OF Oxford and DR.. Carke
the Vice Char cellUr-wsre received with enthusiasm
me merely damned sh liant prase-not .oua enough,
indeed, qnise drown oas too nisses Then, a. g.
Prince aud the Pancess entered and SCENE ensusa
sa.cn wll nlt easily De forgotten BY those VINO wit
messed i. the -nos sssembiage lose, aud the under
graduates arDg their feet with dsAienng che =,
way, ,aps gowns hands erch.fs IN the air stamp
ed their iest the .cstacy OF tnsir entnuasm Till toe
buiioIpg trembed in manner that ~as almost alarm
mig Never since the Tn aTe Was bu l. haye is alls
ecboed and brated - such long, hearty, and aDsv-
luteiy deafsni burst the young Piino advanced
bowng with his usual kindly courteous gsaSe IRON side
side, ana leading his lar young brloe, who mas que
unable conceal the expression OF absolute astOush
in her face at this astounding welcome. With
long experience of these Royal ceptlocs and iestiv-
ties safely venture on saying that have never
yet seen such welcome as was accorded 10 the Pr
and Princess Of Wales in the Sheidonisn Theatre yes
te:dAy. rl
After the cheering subsidized, the Chancellor lord
Derby delivered an grafton In Lain. Degrees were
then conferred on several of the nobility, after which
congratulatory poems were delivered by two under
graduates in which the correspondent says
was perhaps, r. ing thing to address ouch an
semby, and tee confidence Of the young men was by
means restored by the running comments of the
undergraduates in the galleries their cries Of SPEAK
up, Sir" "0h look at his gloves" etc., and the open
smiles with which what meant TO be pathetic Dor
lions of their recals received But there was no
for these gentlemen not knowing the odes they
came 70 recite The first orator 10 dead stop,
Notwithstanding the continued and perpetuslly audible
prompting OF friend hs elbow throughout q whole
poem. TIE second was more unsuccessful. He
fal cred and halted continually add apparently INF sing
some parts of the poem, took h up again ct next line
which came 20 memory, and turning towards the Prn-
cess, SAID, The loving rustfulness of eyes, and
then stopped again. There vas resisting thst was
aprOpos to nothing which had gone before, and seemed
SO much kind OF confidential compliment 10 her Royal
Hghness that there shout OF laughter in which
the Princess could not but oD though she blushed ill
her lace quite gloxed again. Nor did the next line
mend matters, when 10 plantive tone the speaker,
looking up to the undergraduates added, "Oh, bliss
without alloy an appeal 10 which the undergraduate.
nhumany responded, by repeating, "0hl and All and
Ha in tones which could not have had much fleet in
DING the speakers seposssssion. At length the
odes and with this the special Congre CATION
closed, and amid the cheers and shoutings the
Prince and Princess left, and everyone hurried out.