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The following Address to her Majesty, adopted by the Academy on 

 the 16th March last, was read : — - 



" To the Queen'' 8 Most Excellent Majesty. 



''May it please Your Majesty, — We, your dutiful and loyal sub- 

 jects, the President and Members of the Eoyal Irish Academy, humbly 

 approach your Majesty with our heartfelt congratulations on the attain- 

 ment of his majority by his Royal Highness the Prince of "Wales. 



We desire at the same time to express the joy with which we hail 

 the prospect of his entering into an alliance sanctioned by your Ma- 

 jesty's approval, and holding out the fairest promise of domestic happi- 

 ness. 



" In thus undertaking the duties and responsibilities of manhood, 

 his Eoyal Highness gathers round him the lively sympathies of all 

 classes of your Majesty's subjects. 



''Incorporated for the promotion of Science, Polite Literature, and 

 Antiquities, our Academy devotes itself to studies, many of which have 

 only an indirect bearing upon the interests of social and political life. 

 But its Members cannot fail to recognise the close connexion which sub- 

 sists between the prosperity of the whole nation and the welfare of our 

 most gracious Sovereign and her royal house. 



" We earnestly pray that your Majesty may be spared through 

 many years to see his Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales pursuing 

 the wise and virtuous course which the instructions and example of 

 your Majesty and his illustrious father have taught him to tread ; and 

 that your Majesty may thus find in him a solace and support under the 

 cares incident to your exalted position as ruler of this great Empire. 

 *' Royal Irish Academy^ March 2nd, 1863." 



Eead, the following letter : — 



" Whitehall, April 9, 1863. 

 " Sir, — I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal 

 and dutiful Address of the President and Members of the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy on the occasion of the Marriage of His Eoyal Highness the 

 Prince of Wales; and I have to inform you that her Majesty was 

 pleased to receive the Address very graciously. 



" I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 



" (Signed) G. Grey. 



" The President of the Royal Irish Academy.'''^ 



The following Address to the Prince of Wales, adopted by the Aca- 

 demy on the 16th March last, was also read : — 



'^ To his Royal Highness Alhert Edward, Prince of Wales and Earl of 

 Chester, Earl of Dublin, Sfc., Sfc., Sfe. 



" May it please yotjr Eoyal Highness, — We, the President and 

 Members of the Eoyal Irish Academy, respectfully entreat your Eoyal 

 Highness to accept our hearty congratulations on the occasion of your 

 attaining your majority. 



