Early in the morning of the 2nd, he sat to Mr. Hayter for his portrait in a picture of the Christening. At 8.30 he embarked at Hungerford Wharf, on a steamer, bound for the Thames Tunnel; after visiting which, he went to the Tower of London. At 12 he returned to Buckingham Palace, where he received addresses from the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese of London; the members of King’s College, London; the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; the Prussian subjects resident in London; and the German Lutheran clergy. He also received deputations from the Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society, the Imperial Continental Gas Company; and gave audience to the Prince of Capua, etc.; visited the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth; dined with the Duke of Cambridge; saw the _Merry Wives of Windsor_ played at Covent Garden, and afterwards attended an evening, party at Cambridge House. On the 3rd he was present at the Queen’s Opening of Parliament, then received a deputation from the general body of Protestant Dissenters; and visited the Queen Dowager, Earl of Jersey, the Dowager Duchess of Richmond, the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Wellington; winding up with dining with the Queen. On the 4th they let him go—he paid a visit to the Queen at 9.30, went to Woolwich and saw a review of Royal Artillery, lunched there, visited Plumstead Marshes and the Arsenal, took leave of Prince Albert, and everyone else, and went off to Ostend. About this time was a curious craze, which took strange hold on the people, that London was to be destroyed on the 16th of March, a belief which seems to have been founded on two metrical prophecies, dated respectively A.D. 1203 and 1598, said to be in the British Museum, where, however, I have failed to find them; the former is: “In eighteen hundred and forty-two Four things the sun shall view; London’s rich and famous town Hungry earth shall swallow down; Storm and rain in France shall be, Till every river runs a sea; Spain shall be rent in twain, And famine waste the land again; So say I, the Monk of Dree, In the twelve hundredth year and three.” The other is fathered on the famous astrologer, Dr. Dee: “The Lord have mercy on you all, Prepare yourselves for dreadful fall Of house and land and human soul— The measure of your sin is full. “In the year One, Eight, and Forty-two, Of the year that is so new, In the third month, of that sixteen, It may be a day or two between. “Perhaps you’ll soon be stiff and cold, Dear Christian, be not stout and bold; The mighty Kingly proud will see This comes to pass, as my name’s Dee.”