as a memento of this ceremony, and in declaring this
building open I fervently hope that the influence and teaching
which will go forth from it may tend to improve and to raise to
a yet higher standard the education given in the private and
secondary schools of our country. I declare this building now
open."

The Royal party were afterwards conducted through the building, the
arrangements of which are justly admired. The entrance corridor is wide
and lofty. On one side of it there is a club-room for members, and on
the other the secretary's and clerks' offices. The council-room is large
and handsome, and the lecture-room occupies the whole of the second
story, and is surrounded by book-cases capable of holding 10,000
volumes.

THE MANCHESTER EXHIBITION.

_May 3rd, 1887._

The great Exhibition at Manchester during the Queen's Jubilee year is
too recent an event to need any remark prefatory to the statement that
it was opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on the 3rd of May,
1887. Their Royal Highnesses, who were guests at Tatton Hall, drove with
Lord Egerton through the park to Knutsford, where they stopped to
witness the crowning of the May Queen, and other old English May Day
customs which have been revived in that quaint little town. The Prince
gave the permission asked by the Committee to add the title of Royal to
the Knutsford May Day Sports. They then travelled in a saloon carriage
to Manchester, accompanied by Lady Sefton and Lord Egerton.

On arriving at the Town Hall an address was presented, to which the
Prince read the following reply:--

"It gives me sincere pleasure to be permitted on behalf of the
Queen, my dear mother, to visit the city of Manchester for the
purpose of opening the extensive and interesting Exhibition
which the inhabitants of Manchester have organized with such
admirable zeal and energy, particularly as it is associated with
your congratulations on Her Majesty's attaining the fiftieth
year of her reign. In her name I thank you for your loyal and
dutiful address. It has been a source of much gratification to
the Queen to receive assurance of unfaltering attachment to her
throne and person from all parts of the Empire on the occasion.
The Princess of Wales and I desire to express our admiration of
the noble building which you have provided for the conduct of
your municipal affairs, and we think it wor