herish a lively and affectionate remembrance of the visit of Her Most
Gracious Majesty the Queen to Peel-park in the year 1851, when she
witnessed the assemblage of 80,000 Sunday-school scholars, and listened,
not unmoved, while they sang the National Anthem. This event was
commemorated by the erection of a marble statue to Her Majesty in the
park, which was publicly inaugurated by the late and much revered Prince
Consort, who on that occasion inspected and manifested a deep interest
in the free museum and library in the park. We deeply deplored the loss
of the late Prince Consort, and erected a marble statue to his memory,
in close proximity to that of the Queen, and near the spot where he
stood when inaugurating the statue of Her Majesty."

The Prince made the following reply:--

"Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,--The Princess of Wales and myself
thank you very cordially for your address, and for the
sentiments you are good enough to express towards us. It is very
gratifying to us to have the opportunity of paying you a visit,
and to observe the evidences of the growing wealth and
population which have raised Salford to the position she now
occupies in the Empire. It will be highly satisfactory to the
Queen to learn how deeply engraven on your hearts is the
recollection of the visit she paid you in 1851, and how
cherished and beloved is the memory of my lamented father. On my
own part, I can but acknowledge the kindness of the terms in
which you have alluded to my past years. For those which are to
come I can only say that it will be the one effort of my life
to merit the good opinion of the people I am so proud to call my
fellow-countrymen."

In driving through the park the Royal visitors had been conducted past
the white marble statues of the Queen and the Prince Consort, and those
of Richard Cobden and Joseph Brotherton. Leaving the park, the streets
and ways being everywhere densely thronged, they reached the Manchester
Town Hall, where another address was delivered, expressing joyous
welcome from the loyal citizens, and especially the feelings of
satisfaction at the presence of the Prince, as President of the Royal
Agricultural Society, "believing the same to be an evidence of the deep
interest manifested by your Royal Highness in the success of all
movements which have for their object the advancement of art and science
and the progress and welfare of the pe