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26 wish that there may be spread over the land a net-work of schools and colleges, from which will go forth loyal and manly and useful citizens, able to hold their own in industries and agriculture and all the vocations in life. And it is my wish, too, that the homes of my Indian subjects may be brightened and their labour sweetened by the spread of knowledge, with what follows in its train, a higher level of thought, of comfort, and of health. It is through education that my wish will be fulfilled, and the cause of education in India will ever be very close to my heart.

"It is gratifying to me to be assured of your devotion to myself and to my House, of your desire to strengthen the bonds of union between Great Britain and India, and of your appreciation of the advantages which you enjoy under British Rule. I thank you for your loyal and dutiful Address."

On Monday morning January 8th, the Royal visit to Calcutta came to an end with stately ceremonial. At Prinsep's Ghat the Hon'ble Mr. Slacke, Member of Council, Bengal, read an Address of Farewell, to which His Majesty replied in a voice husky with emotion. He said:

"The Queen-Empress and I are deeply moved by the words of your Address. And they are not empty words. They have been amply and visibly proved by the enthusiastic reception accorded to us on our arrival here; and no less by the affectionate demonstrations with which we have, been greeted everywhere and by all classes in Calcutta and its surrounding neighbourhood.

"For the remainder of our lives we shall remember with feelings of pride and emotion the stirring experience of these last eight days ; we shall recall the warm-hearted greeting extended to us on our arrival in your Capital, and the sight of those patient and sympathetic multitudes which had assembled from all parts of the Province to testify their loyalty and devotion to my Throne and person. And I am gratified by the assurances given in your Address that these outward proofs of allegiance and affection reflect the general