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the Kev. Ch. H. H. Wright, Belfast, Bampton Lecturer elect ; and 
the Key. Mr Metcalfe, Senior Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford. 
The festivities of the 5 th were opened with salvos of cannon 
from the castle and peals of bells from the cathedral, and the streets 
were early astir with crowds already in evening costume. By nine 
o’clock the side aisles and tribunes of the transept of the cathedral 
were filled to overflowing with gaily dressed ladies. The procession 
formed in the upper hall of the Carolina Bediviva — the University 
Hall — which is a handsome structure built on a fine site overlooking 
the city. It then wound its way slowly down th3 beautiful avenue 
of limes called Odin’s Grove to the cathedral, headed appropriately 
by the students with their guests from the other Scandinavian 
Universities, with the appropriate banners of the thirteen nations 
into which the Upsala students are divided; followed in order by 
representatives of the Universities and learned Societies of Sweden, 
Iceland, Copenhagen, Helsinfors, and Christiania; representatives of 
the Parliaments, the officials of the University of Upsala, the 
Charter of its foundation being carried by the Secretary of the 
Academy; State Councillors and Knights of the order of the 
Seraphim; and other civil, military, and Court functionaries, 
members of Parliament, and the Honorary Doctors, the rear being 
brought up by the municipal and other authorities of the city, and 
by all the other not included in the above. When all were seated, 
Professor Sahlin, the rector, went out to receive the King, Crown 
Prince, and their suite. The cantata composed for the occasion by 
Mr Charles D. de Wirsen was a striking feature of the day’s 
festivities. A Latin service having been performed by Archbishop 
Sundberg, the Lector welcomed the Deputies in a Latin oration, 
and thereafter the Deputies presented the Addresses in the inverse 
order in which they had joined the procession. A speech from the 
Eector and the concluding part of the cantata brought the ceremony 
to an end about 2.30 p.m. 
At 3 p.m. a dinner was given by the University in a large hand- 
some hall, specially built for the festivities in the Botanic Garden. 
The King presided, and covers were laid for 450 guests. By far the 
best speech on the occasion was the King’s, in reply to the toast of 
his health, proposed by the Hector. He urged the advantages of a 
scientific and classical education to even the poorest of his subjects ; 
