in the chapel of Buckingham Palace, on the 22nd of June. The ceremony
was unusually superb.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Cambridge, his Royal Highness Prince George, her Royal Highness
Princess Mary, his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, his Serene Highness the Prince
of Leiningen, his Grace the Duke of Wellington; the Belgian, Portuguese,
and Prussian ministers; the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,
Lord John Russell, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
Sir Charles Wood, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of
Carlisle, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, Sir William Somerville, and others
invited to the solemnity, assembled in the old dining-room, at the
palace, at six o'clock, the royal family being conducted to an adjoining
drawing-room, and were conducted to seats in the chapel.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of
Chester (clerk of the closet), the Bishop of Oxford (lord high almoner),
with the Rev. Henry Howarth (rector of the parish of St. George,
Hanover-square), the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley (resident chaplain
to her majesty), the Rev. Lord Worthesley Russell (deputy clerk of
the closet), and the Rev. Henry George Liddell (chaplain to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert), assembled in the room adjoining the old
dining-room, and took their places at the communion-table. The
Archbishop of Canterbury commenced the baptismal service, and on
arriving at that part for naming the child, the Countess of Gainsborough
handed the infant prince to the archbishop, when his royal highness was
named Arthur William Patrick Albert.

The queen, the prince, and the royal personages then passed up the
grand staircase to the Throne-room, where her majesty was joined shortly
before eight o'clock by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester.
The remainder of the company continued in the Green Drawing-room. The
queen wore a dress of white, watered, and brocaded silk, with a broad
flounce of Honiton lace, trimmed with white satin ribbon. Her majesty
also wore a diadem of emeralds and diamonds, and ornaments of emeralds
and diamonds to correspond. From the ribbon of the Most Noble Order of
the Garter was suspended a most splendid George, set in brilliants; the
ribbon itself was confined on the left shoulder by a diamond clasp.
The queen also wore the garter as an armlet, the motto