roadway, which I am
happy this day to open in the name of Her Majesty, add largely
to the beauty and convenience of the Metropolis, the works
connected with them may be expected materially to diminish the
sources of disease and suffering to the inhabitants of this bank
of the Thames. In no public work of this vast capital has the
liberal and enterprising spirit of its citizens and the genius
and resources of our civil engineers been more signally
displayed. I am commanded by the Queen to congratulate you
cordially on the issue of your labours in undertakings which
promise to be so enduring and so beneficent."

Five years before this, on the 4th of April, 1865, the Prince had
visited the great works erected at Barking, in Essex, and thence to the
Erith Marshes to perform the ceremony of starting the great engines
which lift the waters of the Southern Outfall Sewer. In a brief speech
on that occasion the Prince congratulated Mr. Thwaites, then chairman of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, and Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer, on
the completion of an important portion of the great scheme for disposing
of the sewage of London, and purifying the water of the Thames.

WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

_July 16th, 1870._

In the summer of 1870, while the news of impending war on the continent
stirred public feeling, preparations were being quietly made in many a
home and workshop for an international exhibition of art and industry.
The special feature of the display was to be the encouragement of
individual intelligence and skill, every object exhibited having
attached to it the name of the workman, as well as the firm in whose
employment he was, if not exercising his art on his own account at home.

The Prince of Wales kindly consented to open the exhibition, in the name
of the Queen. This was done on the 16th of July, 1870. Having received
an address, giving an account of the purpose of the collection, the
Prince thus replied:--

"Gentlemen,--I thank you for your address, and assure you that
it is with very great pleasure I undertake the duty imposed upon
me by the Queen in opening this Exhibition. The objects proposed
in it are such as cannot fail to meet with the cordial
approbation of all who are interested in the growth of our arts
and manufactures, and who wish to connect that growth with a
corresponding increase of sympathy and friendly r