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comprehensive speculation or minute 
attention, all these, advantages are 
accumulated in Paris, 
In, the physical and male raectaceal 
sciences, M. Buckland is the present 
Professor; the varied exuberance of 
his natural and acquired endowments 
is rising to high distinction in the 
spacious and diversified fields of che- 
mistry and comparative anatomy. 
As to the interior regimen of the 
eolleges, the students appear to me to 
enjoy a reasonable liberty. In the 
inornings we see a number of then 
pass aud repass into the city; the 
evenings allow of numcrous prome- 
nades and cavalcades in the vicinity. 
Their confinement appears to be re- 
Suicted to the hours of instruction. 
At present there are nearly 1100 
students in the university, lodged in 
the nineteen colleges and five halls. 
The charge for boarding is about 100/. 
sterling perannum. Protestants only 
are admitted to study at Oxtord. 
The costume of the students differs 
but little from thatof the fellows and 
heads, of colleses.. It consists in a 
sort of short robe. of black stuff, open 
" before, and with hanging sleeves. The 
head is covered veithi: a black cap, and 
a, silk band-string of the same colour. 
The, young noblemen, peers, or sons 
of peers, lave distipcet places in acade- 
mical ceremonics ‘and at church, and 
their costume prevents them from be- 
ing confounded With other students. 
"Lhey wear a violet-coloured silk robe, 
decorated with gold lace, and the cap 
is’ ‘also violet-culoured, with a band- 
string of gold. All the students ap- 
pear in the streets, as well as in their 
colleges, habited in the costume of 
their respective grades. 
The. city altogether affords a sin- 
gular aspect to a foreigner, who will 
not readily enter into the conception 
of so large a number of gothic build- 
ings concentrated within the same 
precinct. On his arrival hy the Lon- 
don road, he passes over a noble 
bridge, and scon after enters a very 
broad. street, almost hemmed in with 
colleges... The first on the right is 
Magdalen College, facing the Botanic 
Garden; other transversal or. streets 
crossing it-are more or less provided 
with similar establishments. 
The college in highest) repute at 
Oxford, and coutaining the greatest 
number of students, is Christ Church. 
Its buildings, raised and constructed 
so as to ineludc four large courts, are! 
Account of the University of Oxford. 
_Gothie chisel. 
‘digs. 
FDec. Ff, 
of a magnificent description: one of 
the courts is 260 feet in length, and as 
many in breadth. ‘The church serves. 
for a cathedral to the diocese, and does 
honour, by its architecture, to the 
Cardinal Wolsey was 
a benefactor to this college; the grand 
entrance was erected at his charge, 
though not completed till 1682. The 
portal or front gate is surmounted 
with a tower, in accordance with the: 
style of architecture in college-build- 
Its clock every evening, at ten 
minutes past nine, strikes 161 times, 
—this being the number of studenis of 
Christ Church: it gives warning that 
the gates are going to be shut. 
‘The Grand Refectory of this college 
contains the portraits of sev eral. bene- 
factors to the establishment, and also 
of certain students that by their supe- 
rior talents were promoted to offices 
and dignities of high rank. The last 
portrait of this description is thatof Mr.. 
Canning. In thecollegeis a very fine 
library, and a cabinet of anatomy; but 
the gallery of paintings may be ranged 
in the class of mediocrity. 
Whenever the king comes to visit 
the university, Christ-church College 
claims the honour of receiving and 
lodging him. Henry VIII. was enter- 
tained here in 1533; Queen Elizabeth 
in 1566 and 1592; James I. in’ 1605; 
Charles I. was there several times 
during his reign; and the Prince Re- 
gent (now George 1V.) ‘was a visitor 
in 1814. 
Oriel College is entitled tova due 
degree of consideration and literary 
celebrity, It was founded: by King 
Edward II. and has been successively 
augmented by the donations and en- 
dowments of individuals. The present 
Provost. is Dr. Coplestone, ancient 
Professor of Latin Poetry, and author 
of severa! treatises on subjects of lite- 
rature and ‘political economy, which 
are much esteemed. 
Travellers that visit Oxford, gene- 
rally make it a point to inspect the 
chapel of New College, allowed to be 
the finest in the university. It is de- 
corated with different pieces of sculp- 
ture, that were long ‘concealed under 
a thick layer of mortar; and were only 
discovered in’ 1695.. The chapel was 
handsomely repaired in 1789, 'The 
communion-tabie is ornamented with 
beautiful bas-reliefs, by Westmacott, 
representing the Salutation of \the 
Virgin, the Nativity, the Descent from 
the Cross, the Resurrection and Ascen-. 
sion. 
