ND SOUTHDOWNS AT SANDRINGHAM 298
SION COLLEGE 301
COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION OF 1886 303
THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE 310
THE LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM 315
THE COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS 318
THE MANCHESTER EXHIBITION 319
THE LONDON HOSPITAL NEW BUILDINGS 321
DEACONESSES' INSTITUTION AND HOSPITAL AT TOTTENHAM 324
THE FREEMASONS AND THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE 325
THE SHAFTESBURY HOUSE 327
CONSECRATION OF TRURO CATHEDRAL 328
NEW COLOURS TO THE OLD 46TH REGIMENT 330
THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION OF 1888 332
SIR BARTLE FRERE'S STATUE 337
NEW GYMNASIUM IN LONG ACRE (OF Y. M. C. A.) 338
THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTE FOR GIRLS 340
WEST NORFOLK HUNT 344
AT BLACKBURN 345
THE ANGLO-DANISH EXHIBITION 347
GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, HOLLOWAY ROAD 349

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SPEECHES AT ROYAL ACADEMY BANQUETS 355

ROYAL BANQUETS AT THE TRINITY HOUSE 377

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC 391
NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MUSIC 391
FOUNDING THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC 394
THE COLONIES AND THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC 403
INAUGURATION OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC 408

INDEX 417

THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

As the record of Public Speeches in the following pages does not begin
till 1863, it may be well to give a few dates and incidents of previous
years in the life of the Prince of Wales.

He was born on the 9th of November, 1841, at Buckingham Palace. From
Windsor, to which the Court removed on the 6th of December, the Queen
wrote next day to King Leopold, "We arrived here safe and sound, with
our awfully large nursery establishment,