, and at the same time the
greatest pride, to be among you here to-day. It is a matter of
pride, ladies and gentlemen, to be connected with this
Principality, and it has afforded me the greatest pleasure to
accept the invitation of the Chairman and Directors of the
London and North Western Company to inaugurate this new harbour.
It is not the first time, as you are aware, that I have had
occasion to come to Holyhead. Seven years ago I had the pleasure
of inaugurating your breakwater, which I am glad to see is now
successfully terminated and is of the greatest possible utility.
The sunshine we have enjoyed to-day may be taken as a good
augury for the success of the London and North Western Railway
Company in their new undertaking. This undertaking has cost them
a very large sum of money, but it will, I am sure, be of the
greatest benefit to commerce, and will tend to make the Holyhead
route still more than it is a connecting link between England
and Ireland. Before sitting down I have a toast to propose,
which I feel sure you will drink with the greatest pleasure; it
is 'The Health of the Chairman, Mr. Moon, and Success and
Prosperity to the London and North Western Railway Company.' I
also desire to declare the new harbour open."

Both on land and water there were many loyal demonstrations; and
gentlemen representing all the leading railway companies, French and
Irish, as well as English and Welsh, were entertained by the Directors
of the London and North Western.

The opening sentences of a leading article in the _Times_ on the
following day, form a tribute due to the Prince for his part in the
ceremony:--

"The representative duties of Royalty in this country are heavier than
the private functions the hardest-worked Englishman has to perform. Only
the other day we were recording the part played by the Prince of Wales
in an ecclesiastical pageant in Cornwall. On Wednesday he was
introducing a foreign Sovereign to the Corporation of London. Straight
from that ceremonial he had to take flight across the island to open
formally the new harbour at Holyhead. In these scenes and a hundred like
them a Prince's functions cannot be discharged satisfactorily unless he
be at once an impersonation of Royal State and, what is harder still,
his own individual self. He must act his public character as if he
enjoyed the festival as much as any of the s