360 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
I entertain for them the highest opinion, and duly appreciate 
the importance of their services. I have seen them perform 
those services with the greatest possible credit to themselves 
in times of peace ; lately I have witnessed their performance 
of them with cheerfulness and zeal, and under great diffi- 
culties, in time of war. (Hear, hear.) I therefore feel deeply 
interested in your profession, and I trust that the College, 
in honour of whose President we have met this evening, may 
continue to prosper and to extend its usefulness from year 
to year. (Loud cheers.) 
The Chairman then proposed “The Army and Navy.” 
The LuJce of Cambridge , in acknowledging the toast, 
said : “ 1 am sorry to intrude upon you again, but having 
been called upon to respond on the part of the army, — and 
the navy, too, I believe, — I venture to return thanks for the 
honour you have done them in drinking their health. I 
have already made one or two observations with reference to 
the army, which will apply to this toast, and therefore I 
need only say that I hope that what my honorable friend 
the chairman has stated is true, that a forty years’ peace has 
in no way led to its deterioration ; and that the gallant 
deeds of that army are as satisfactory to the country as 
were the deeds of the army in former times. (Cheers.) 
I am as convinced as that I stand before you now, that 
whatever duty the army may be called upon to perform, 
however difficult and dangerous that duty may be, it will be 
as well performed as it is possible to be with the limited 
means we possess. An observation has been made with 
regard to the navy with which I entirely concur. I have 
seen the anxiety of the officers of the navy to perform whatever 
portion of duty they may be called upon to discharge, and it 
has often been a source of the deepest regret, that they have not 
been able to do more than they have. But that is a matter 
over which they, as a profession, have had no control. The 
chief brunt of the operations has fallen upon the army, because 
the navy of the enemy, both in the Black Sea and the 
Baltic, has declined to come out of the harbours. (Hear, 
hear.) I am perfectly satisfied that should the enemy this 
summer attempt some new plan, and “ come out,” the navy 
is in a position to give us a good account of its doings. You 
may easily conceive that I look with the greatest anxiety 
from day to day for accounts from the seat of war ; but come 
what may, I have one conviction as strong as any I ever 
had, which is, that the British army and the navy also will 
do full credit to their country.” (Loud cheers.) 
The Chairman : — The next toast is one which I have no 
