the success of the International
Fisheries Exhibition, it had been thoroughly removed long before the end
of the season drew near. The popular interest had been shown from the
beginning, and the number of visitors exceeded all expectations. The
total number of visitors was 2,703,051. The daily average of visitors,
including Wednesday, when half-a-crown was the price of admission, was
18,388. The financial result was sure to be satisfactory when such vast
numbers had been attracted.

On the 31st of October, the day appointed for closing, Mr. Edward
Birkbeck, M.P., Chairman of the Executive Committee, read to His Royal
Highness the President an address, presenting the chief statistical and
other official reports of the undertaking. One novel feature was the
report on "the fish dinners" supplied with the co-operation of the
National School of Cookery. No less than 209,673 dinners were supplied,
at sixpence a head, and with satisfactory pecuniary results.

A Report as to the work of the Juries having been presented by the Duke
of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales thus replied to the address of the
Executive Committee:--

"I have listened with great pleasure to the Report of the
Executive Committee.

"Her Majesty has followed with much interest the success which
has so signally attended this Exhibition, and I have had the
gratification of receiving, this morning, a telegram from the
Queen, begging me to inform you of these sentiments, and
likewise to express Her Majesty's fervent hope that lasting
benefit to the fishing population may be the reward of those who
have shown so much interest in the welfare of this Exhibition.
And it is as much a matter of satisfaction to my brothers as to
myself to have contributed towards the success of an enterprise,
respecting which, at the outset, nothing was certain but the
heavy responsibility of those who had engaged in it.

"I am well aware that Her Majesty's Government, the Governments
of Foreign Countries, and of our Colonies, through their
respective Commissioners, and the various public bodies and
private persons to whom you have alluded, have afforded most
valuable and indeed indispensable aid to our undertaking; and I
desire to add my own thanks to yours for their very important
assistance.

"But it is just that I should supply the only deficiency which I
observe in your Report, by pointi