at centres of population colleges and schools, not only for
promoting the intellectual advancement of the people, but also,
as you have very justly observed, for increasing their
prosperity by furthering the application of scientific knowledge
to the industrial arts. I rejoice to hear that your laudable
endeavours have been duly appreciated, and have received liberal
support from various quarters, and I beg to offer my most hearty
congratulations to the great company of the Clothworkers of the
City of London for their judicious and liberal encouragement of
your College--an example which, I trust, will ere long find many
ready followers. We have inspected with considerable interest
the various lecture-rooms and laboratories over which you have
conducted us, and we have had much satisfaction in acceding to
your request to declare this valuable addition to the science
and art of the country open. I thank you, in conclusion, for
your expressions of loyalty and devotion to the Queen, which I
will not fail to communicate to Her Majesty. I declare the
Yorkshire College now open."

This concluded the proceedings in this part of the day's programme, and
the company then dispersed. The Royal visitors accepted an invitation
from the authorities of the College to luncheon in the Coliseum, which
is a newly-erected edifice affording much larger and better
accommodation than any other building in the town for great public
gatherings. Besides the invited guests, the two tiers of galleries were
overcrowded with spectators. The Marquis of Ripon, who presided, having
proposed the usual loyal toasts, the Prince replied as follows:--

"In the name of the Princess and in my own, I beg to tender to
you, Lord Ripon, our warmest thanks and acknowledgments for the
very kind terms in which you have proposed this toast, and to
you, ladies and gentlemen, for the way in which you have
received it. I am anxious to tender to the mayor, as the
representative of the citizens of this large and important town,
our thanks also for the magnificent and cordial reception we
have met with to-day, one which we are not likely to forget.
This is certainly not the first visit I have paid to Leeds, as I
did so some seventeen years ago, but the pleasure on this
occasion is enhanced in my eyes as the Princess has been able
to accompany me. The mayor a