ople of this great empire. It has
been the special privilege of your Royal Highness to an unusual extent
to visit and personally to become acquainted with other Courts and
countries, and with distant portions of Her Majesty's dominions, and we
rejoice to believe that the valuable experience thereby acquired gives
to all classes of Her Majesty's subjects an assurance that your Royal
Highness will ever be foremost in all efforts to extend true liberty and
civilization, and to develope those free institutions which are the
pride and glory of our country."

To which address the Prince replied:--

"Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,--I thank you for the kind expressions
of loyalty and devotion towards the Queen, the Princess of
Wales, and myself contained in your address. I have gladly
availed myself of the opportunity afforded me, in the fulfilment
of my duties as President of the Royal Agricultural Society, to
visit a city second to none in the Empire in commercial
importance, to become better acquainted with its history, its
locality, and the sources of its prosperity. The wise provision
of my lamented father and of the Queen, my dear mother, has
secured for me at an early age the advantages of visiting the
centres of the world, the most remarkable and the most deserving
of study for their interest and for their development of the
elements of wealth. In admiring, and, I trust, appreciating, the
successful result that has distinguished foreign exertions, I
have also learnt to look with increased admiration on those
wonderful works of human ingenuity, perseverance, and industry,
the products of the heads and hands of my own countrymen, and
especially of those who now surround me. May we all be grateful,
gentlemen, to a superintending Providence, which has blessed
the efforts of our commercial enterprise and the free
institutions of our country,--themselves a pledge of our future
prosperity."

The Prince presided at a general meeting of the Council of the Society,
and opened the proceedings by a brief speech which was loudly applauded.
He also received in his own marquee a numerous deputation from the
Agricultural Society of France. At the close of the meeting the Royal
visitors drove to a station on the Manchester South Junction line, where
a train was waiting to take them to Brough, near Hull, via Normanton;
the Prince having engaged to be at