4 SPRING MEETING. 



Diocese obliges me to leave, instead of waiting, as I sliould like 

 to do, for the later proceedings of the day. I was glad to come 

 down here to-day and show my respect for your President, whom 

 I have had the pleasure of knowing for a great many years, as 

 being always anxious to use that influence which his position 

 gives him for the good of those amongst whom he lives. 

 (Applause). I think anyone who came into this Diocese would 

 be utterly wanting in the power of appreciation if he did not 

 desire to follow, so far as he was able, in the steps of his great 

 predecessor, the good Archbishop Benson. To myself it is easy, 

 because I am bound to him by ties of personal affection ; and, if 

 he had not written me a long letter asking me to visit the Eoyal 

 Institution, I should, indeed, be wanting in everything that I 

 hope will distinguish my episcopate, if I had no desire to carry 

 on everything Archbishop Benson begun in connection with 

 this Institution. This Institution must interest any man who 

 has any intelligence. It seems to me the very thing that is 

 wanted, not merely to develop — as I hope we always shall 

 develop in Cornwall — a strong feeling for our own country, but 

 also a desire to fasten ourselves to the great family of men, to 

 know what is being done in other places, and use every means 

 to increase our own knowledge and enlarge our own sympathies. 

 These seem to me to be the two secrets of the real progress of 

 a county. No county would make real progress unless it has a 

 large, wide-spread interest outside its own boundaries, and that 

 seems to me what this Institution seeks to accomplish. The 

 mere fact of my being Bishop of this county makes a demand 

 on my sympathy, for what am I here for except to advance 

 everything which tends to promote the welfare of the county, 

 not merel}^ the spiritual welfare, but the intellectual welfare, and 

 even the material interests of the people — (applause) — and so a 

 great Institution like this, which tends to increase the intellectual 

 energy of the county, must always demand my deepest interest 

 and hearty support. (Applause). 



The following papers were then read : 



"Dame Killigrew and the Spanish Ship," by H. Michell 

 Whitley, F.G.S. 



"Eelicsof the Cornu-British Language," by the Eev. W. 

 S. Lach-Szyrma. 



