he pleasure of distributing
prizes allow me to offer my most hearty congratulations, and I
trust they may continue to go on as they are doing now. If they
do so they will be successful in whatever profession they enter.
I will not detain you longer, but thank you once more for the
kind reception you have given us this day, and also tender to
the Mayor our cordial thanks for the hearty reception we have
received in our progress through Derby."

It may be added that the invitation to Derby was first suggested by the
Trustees of the Grammar School, who in their petition, sent to
Chatsworth, represented that this school, reputed to be one of the
oldest in the kingdom, was also one of the most poorly endowed. This was
an appeal which at once secured the goodwill of the Prince. Nor has he
forgotten the school. On the 14th of November, 1888, he went to see "the
Prince of Wales's Class Rooms," erected as a memorial of his visit in
1872. In response to a petition presented by the captain of the school,
the Prince obtained from the Head Master a promise of making November 14
a perpetual holiday in remembrance of this visit.

RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

_March 27th, 1873._

On the evening of March 27, 1873, His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, who had in the morning visited several artists' studios, and in
the afternoon went to the House of Lords, presided at the annual dinner
in aid of the Railway Benevolent Institution, at Willis's Rooms. After
dinner and grace the Royal Chairman gave the usual first toast, the
health of Her Majesty the Queen, Patroness of the Railway Benevolent
Institution. The Duke of Buckingham then proposed the health of the
Prince and Princess of Wales; and in so doing took occasion to say that
it was not the first time His Royal Highness had taken interest in the
Institution, and now he had done it the honour to preside at its annual
festival. The toast being duly welcomed, the Prince said:--

"My Lords and Gentlemen,--Although it is very unusual on a
public occasion of this kind for the health of the Chairman to
be given so early in the evening, yet mine has been proposed so
kindly by the noble Duke and so well received, and has,
moreover, been so kindly coupled with that of the Princess and
the rest of my family, that I think it my duty to rise at once
and respond to the toast. The noble Duke has been kind enough to
say tha