ssion of the slave trade, and, later, I
had the good fortune to have his services during my journey to
India in 1876. The last, but no means the least, important of
Sir Bartle Frere's duties was as Governor-General of the Cape of
Good Hope and Lord High Commissioner to South Africa. There is
much more that I might say, but the facts are known to history,
and I will, therefore, in conclusion, merely express my thanks
for having been asked to perform this ceremony, and remind
those present that, on this very day four years ago, when the
late Sir Bartle Frere was laid to his rest, the procession
passed by the spot where the statue now stands."

NEW GYMNASIUM IN LONG ACRE.

_July 6th, 1888._

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor, opened the new
gymnasium connected with the Central Young Men's Christian Association,
on the 6th of July, 1888. The gymnasium is in Long Acre, in what was
formerly the Queen's Theatre. The King of Sweden and Norway, Lord
Aberdeen, President of the Gymnastic Club, Mr. J. Herbert Tritton,
President of the Young Men's Christian Association, Lord Charles
Beresford, Lord Kinnaird, the Earl of Meath, the Bishop of London, Lord
Brassey, Lord Harris, and other distinguished persons were present. The
Bishop of London offered a dedicatory prayer. The Earl of Aberdeen read
an address, in which it was stated that the Young Men's Christian
Association, which had its head-quarters at Exeter Hall, was founded
forty-four years ago, and had at the present time nearly 4000 affiliated
branches scattered throughout the Colonies and the civilised world
(seventy-seven of which are in London), with an aggregate membership of
250,000. It formed a rendezvous for young men, and a centre for the
development of a strong, healthy, religious life among them. In recent
years the value of athletics had been more fully recognised, and the
Committee of the Central Association had availed themselves of that
valuable adjunct in the work. The Exeter Hall Gymnasium Team having won
(in open competition) the 200-guinea Challenge Shield and Gold Medals
offered by the National Physical Recreation Society, it would be deemed
a circumstance of the utmost honour by the recipients to have received
their medals at the hands of the Prince of Wales. Moreover, the
Gymnasium was able to supply voluntary teachers who instructed children
and others of the poorer classes in the ex