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effect inucli injustice, and on ^vlluse iidelity life may not 

 unfrequently depend. 



" I thank the members of the College Council for havinfj 

 accepted a task which will, at first, involve much delicate 

 tact, forbearance, caution, and firmness, and the exercise 

 of talents I know them to possess, and which I am con- 

 fident will be freely bestowed in working out the success of 

 the institution committed to their care. 



" I thank the Principal and his staff for their past exer- 

 tions, and I count with confidence on their future labours. 



" I thank the parents who, by their presence, have mani- 

 fested their interest in our undertaking and their wishes for 

 its success, and I especially thank the ladies who have been 

 drawn within these walls by graver attractions than those 

 which generally bring us together at this building. 



" I rejoice to see here the Superior of St. Mary's College, 

 and the goodly array of those under his charge, and T do so 

 for many reasons. 



'' I rejoice, because being not as yet affiliated or in any 

 way officially connected with the Eoyal College, their pre- 

 sence is a spontaneous evidence of their goodwill and kindly 

 feeling, and of the spirit in which they have been disposed 

 to meet the efforts made to considt their feelings in the 

 arrangements of this institution ; a spirit yet further evinced 

 by the fact that the Superior has infprmed me that he is 



