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repeat the observations which have been made as to the good which I believe will be effected all round—not to one class, but to every subject of Her Majesty throughout the Empire—by some such institution as that which we are met here to consider and to discuss to-day. You have all heard from the representatives of the committee on tin's platform the good which they believe it will do to the Empire, and more especially to those at Home. Having lately been in touch with one of our colonies, I wish to say one word, and only one word, because I shall be followed by a gentleman much more capable of speaking on that subject than I am —namely, Sir Charles Tupper —and that is this: that I think this proposal will find a very wide and a very general acceptance amongst our colonial brethren and fellow-subjects. I believe this because it will be a great good to those countries to have the opportunity of showing wdiat they are made of in this great highway of the world's commerce and wealth. They will have, as I believe, from having read the plan, that which they so much value in their homes—they will have space, and they will have liberty ; they will have space to show what they are capable of, and what they have produced; and they will in the space so allotted to them, and subject to certain general rules for the good and the guidance of the institution at large—they will have the liberty of doing within those limits what they choose. This is exactly what they want, and what will do them good all round. This is no question as between one class and another, as will be told to you by my friend from Canada—nor, as one gentleman has suggested here, is the scheme conceived in the interests of those who belong to the moneyed classes. I think one special instance, which I recall to my personal recollection of the proceedings of this year, will show what good this kind of international exhibition of manufacture and of products does, and that instance may be multiplied a thousand-fold in the future—it is only one' —and it is this : I know one of our exhibitors got an order this year from a British manufacturer for no less than £7,000 of raw woods—Canadian woods —which, of course, would be manufactured in England. I think that instance speaks for itself, and, considering how much of that kind of thing we are likely to have in future from a greater knowledge of each other, we may safely say that an Institute such as that proposed will do good to the old country and to all its children around it. I beg now to read the resolution: " That the thanks of this meeting be conveyed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for having suggested a national memorial worthy to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Her Majesty's reign." Sir Charles Tupper, G.C.M.G., C.8., High Commissioner for Canada: My Lord Mayor, my Lords and gentlemen—l have great pleasure in seconding the resolution which has just been proposed by Lord Lome. At this moment I may say, as a colonist, that the heartfelt gratitude of the colonists of all portions of the Empire is especially extended to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. There is no colonist, there is no person who is interested in the colonies who does not know that the great success which has attended the great Colonial and Indian Exhibition, which has just closed, was due in a great measure to the devotion of His Royal Highness as the executive head of that undertaking, and it is an additional claim upon the gratitude of colonists that His Royal Highness has now carried out a design, long since contemplated, of founding a permanent colonial and Indian institution in the heart of the British Empire. I may say that, if during the last fifty years the Mother-country has witnessed a very great and very grand advance in everything that constitutes progress and prosperity, the colonies equally have enjoyed the same. In the great dominion of Canada, in tho great provinces of Australasia, evidences are to be seen of the marvellous progress and prosperity that has attended the glorious fifty years of Her Gracious Majesty's reign, and there is no proposal that could be made that will commend itself more heartily to the people of this country, or to their fellow-citizens throughout the outlying portions of the Empire, than that to perpetuate by a suitable memorial and a suitable monument the gratitude of the nation, whether at Home or abroad, to Her Majesty for the great and inestimable blessings that this Empire has enjoyed during the past fifty years. I feel therefore the special pleasure of having the honour of seconding this vote of thanks to His Royal Highness for having initiated this movement. I believe the movement is one which is not only worthy of the heir-apparent to the Throne, but is worthy of the gracious Sovereign for whom, in the colonies as in this country, there is the most devoted and loyal affection, due to her as a Sovereign from the hour she ascended tho Throne down to the present moment. I have great pleasure in seconding this resolution. The resolution was put to the meeting and carried unanimously. Lord Herschell :My Lords and gentlemen —I have to propose a resolution to which I think there will be no amendment, and that is, " That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor for presiding to-day." It has always been one of the honourable traditions of the Chief Magistrate of the City of London that he has been amongst the foremost to take part in promoting and assisting every work which is likely to benefit his fellow-citizens, and I am sure that you will feel that that tradition is not likely to be lost during the tenure of office by the present Chief Magistrate of the City of London, and that we are grateful to him for his presence to-day, and for the firmness and dignity with which he conducted the proceedings on this occasion. Perhaps I may be allowed, as I have the honour of being chairman of the committee which His Royal Highness was good enough to appoint, to say a word or two, and they will be only two or three words literally, apart from the resolution which I have just proposed to you. I desire first to say this : that if I believed that the institution, which we are about to found, was going to be anything like an empty formality, I should not care to take the slightest trouble about it. It is because I believe that it is likely to be of very great use and importance that I am determined to do what I can to render it any assistance in my power, and if I believed that it was being organized solely for the benefit of the wealthy, I should not care to devote a moment further of my time to it. If its purpose was only to make the wealthy wealthier, and to improve the condition of those who are well-to-do, I should consider that I had a much better use to which to put my time than to take any further trouble about it. My interest in it arises from the fact that I believe it will benefit, above all, the classes who unfortunately have now little or nothing to do, and it is in that belief that I am desirous of seeing it established; and I should like to say one other word, and it is this: that although the seat of