is propitious weather and the goodly
company I see around me may be omens of the future of this
institution. The site of this College is all that can be
desired, and I know that its management will be so administered
as to fulfil to the utmost the anticipations of its promoters.
There is now room for 80 pupils within its walls, and when the
new wings are completed it will be capable of accommodating
twice, probably treble, that number. There are, I understand,
two sister institutions abroad--one in Germany, and the other in
France; and after the pupils have completed their studies here
they can avail themselves of the advantages of these
institutions to perfect themselves in modern Continental
languages.

"I am not going to discuss the relative claims on our attention
of the living and dead languages; but I believe it to be most
important that modern languages should form one of the principal
subjects of study on grounds of practical utility. No persons
were ever more deeply impressed with this fact than my late
lamented father, and another man whose name is now celebrated
through England, Richard Cobden. I have travelled a great deal
on the Continent, and I am confident that I should have found my
sojourn in these countries far less pleasant than it was if I
had not possessed a considerable knowledge of the vernacular of
the people.

"I thank you again sincerely for the manner in which you have
drunk my health, and I shall convey to the Princess the deep
sympathy you have evinced for her in her illness, the
enthusiastic affection with which you have received her name,
and your warm good wishes for her speedy restoration to health.
Before sitting down I beg to propose a toast, which I am sure
you will receive with every demonstration of approbation. It is
"Success to the London College of the International Education
Society." With that toast I beg to couple the name of Dr.
Schmitz, whose pupil, I am proud to say, I once was while
studying in the city of Edinburgh."

The toast having been received with great enthusiasm, Dr. Schmitz, in
reply, said he had to thank His Royal Highness for the kindness of heart
with which he had spoken of his humble name, and hoped that the College
so happily inaugurated would have a prosperous issue. The distinctive
feature of the institution was that