he wards. Unfortunately,
the institution was not so flourishing financially as it ought
to be. The ordinary income was L2000 a year less than was
required to meet the expenditure. It was also most important
that the hospital should be enlarged. The freehold of the
surrounding property had been obtained from the Duchy of
Cornwall at an expense of L3000. Several years ago that great
philanthropist, Lord Shaftesbury, presided at a dinner in aid of
this charity, when a sum of nearly L3000 was raised. If the same
amount could be made up that evening all who were interested in
the institution would be deeply gratified. Mentioning that since
the foundation of the Hospital as many as 400,000 children had
been relieved, His Royal Highness said that patients were
received not only from all parts of this country, but also from
the Continent, and medical and surgical treatment was afforded
them gratuitously. The report of the Hospital Saturday Fund
stated that the institution stood among the first for efficiency
and economy.

Before concluding his speech the Prince of Wales proposed the health of
the Lord Mayor, who is by virtue of his office President of the
institution. Mr. Kestin, the Secretary, read a list of donations and
subscriptions which, including 100 guineas from the chairman, exceeded
L2000.

AT KING'S COLLEGE.

_July 2nd, 1881._

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Princess, distributed the
principal prizes of the year at King's College, London, on the 2nd of
July, 1881. The Rev. Canon Barry, D.D., the Principal, received the
Royal visitors, and at the opening of the proceedings, said: "it will
always be a day in the annals of the College to be marked with a white
stone, when the Prince and Princess of Wales had come for the first time
among them, and on the jubilee day of the institution." After the
distribution of the prizes and decorations, the Prince acknowledging a
vote of thanks for his presence, proposed by the Duke of Cambridge, and
seconded by the Bishop of Gloucester, said:--

"Mr. Principal Barry, Ladies and Gentlemen,--For the very kind
words in which the illustrious Duke has proposed the vote of
thanks, the kind way in which it has been seconded by the Bishop
of Gloucester and Bristol, and the cordial manner in which you
have all been good enough to receive this vote, I ask you to
accept my most