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Home Department. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
PRESENTATION TO THE REV. J. S. HAYGARTH, PRINCIPAL. 
On Saturday evening last, the 11th instant, the Students 
of the institution gave a dinner in the College hall, to which 
the Principal and Professors were invited, Mr. Peile, one of 
the senior students, in the chair. After the cloth had been 
removed, the loyal toasts given and received as became mem- 
bers of a college owning her Majesty’s charter, and honoured 
by the patronage of H. R. H. Prince Albert, the Chairman 
rose, on behalf of his brother students, to testify, in their 
names, to the affectionate respect they all entertain for the 
Rev. Gentleman who fills the responsible position of Principal 
in the College. In the course of a feeling and appropriate 
address, -whose reception indicated how well it expressed the 
sentiments of all present, the worthy Chairman dwelt on the 
steady and gratifying progress which had hitherto marked 
Mr. Haygarth’ s government; alluding in grateful terms to 
that friendly feeling which embodied itself in all his actions 
towards them as students ; and rejoicing that they had now 
an opportunity of tendering their acknowledgments and 
giving utterance to their sentiments of respect, gratitude, and 
esteem; respect for his position as a Clergyman of the 
Church of England and Principal of the College, — gratitude 
for his uniform kindness and attention in all that concerned 
their interests, — and esteem for one who could so success- 
fully solve the difficult problem of combining the function sof 
the ruler with the spirit and feeling of the friend. The 
Chairman then presented to Mr. Haygarth a handsome silver 
tea service, a portion of which bore this inscription : — 
“ To the Rev. J. S. Haygarth, Principal, 
from the Students of the Royal Agricultural College, 
in token of their gratitude and esteem, 
Dec. 11th, 1852.” 
The Rev. Principal rose to reply. He felt totally unable 
to employ any words which could adequately express how 
he estimated the kind present they had made him ; and, he 
must say, the more than kind, the affectionate way in which 
that present had been tendered; he accepted it with the 
highest gratification — accepted it as an earnest of their good 
