sincere thanks, and also the thanks of the
Princess of Wales for the kind way in which her name has been
alluded to to-day.

"It would have been a gratification to me on any day to come to
this college and present the prizes to the successful
competitors, but as this day is your jubilee day, your fiftieth
anniversary, it makes it still more interesting to me to come
here to-day and give away the prizes. After all that has fallen
from the lips of your Principal, and after perusing, though I
admit somewhat cursorily, the annual report, but little is left
for me to say; but all those who take an interest in the success
of this college will have every reason to be satisfied with the
state of the college, and with the report which I hold in my
hands. Everything connected with this institution is on a most
satisfactory and excellent footing.

"In these days, when education is so much thought of, and when
meetings in every part of the kingdom are continually taking
place for the purpose of getting still higher standards of
education, it is naturally difficult for institutions of old
date to keep up with the times; but I do not think or fear that
this college will have any reason to fear competition from
others, as it already stands as one of the second or third great
educational colleges in the kingdom. The prizes which have been
given to-day for the different subjects in this list embrace
nearly every possible subject of education which may be of use
to those young men who are going out into the world.

"This college justly claims to be one which has done very much
for the higher education of men; and it affords me, and I know
it affords also the Princess of Wales, great gratification to
learn that it will be extended also towards the education of
women. This year, since the Principal and the Council received a
memorial signed by various distinguished persons, they have very
wisely adopted that memorial, by enabling women already to
receive education by way of listening to lectures from
distinguished teachers and professors in this college.

"It has been already stated that some of our children have
received education from some of the professors of this college.
It is very gratifying to us that such has been the case, and we
have every hope that they will derive benefit f