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| Introduction | 11 |
| The Office of Commander-in-Chief | 63 |
| Speech at a Meeting for the Abolition of Slavery, June 1, 1840 | 81 |
| Speech at the Literary Fund Dinner, 1842 | 83 |
| Speech at a Meeting of the Corporation of the Trinity House | 85 |
| Speech at the Meeting of the Society for improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, May 18, 1848 | 87 |
| Speech at the Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society held at York, July 13, 1848 | 91 |
| Speech at the laying of the First Stone of the Great Grimsby Docks, April 18, 1849 | 93 |
| Speech at the Public Meeting of the Servants’ Provident and Benevolent Society, May 16, 1849 | 96 |
| Speech at the Entertainment given by the Merchant Tailors’ Company, June 11, 1849 | 103 |
| Speech on presenting Colours to the 23rd Regiment, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, July 12, 1849 | 106 |
| Speech at the Banquet given at the Mansion House to the Ministers, Foreign Ambassadors, Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, and Mayors of Towns, March 21, 1850 | 109 |
| Speech at the laying of the Foundation Stone of the National Gallery at Edinburgh, August 30, 1850 | 115 |
| Speech at the Banquet given by the Lord Mayor of York and Mayors of chief Towns to the Lord Mayor of London, October 25, 1850 | 118 |
| Speech at the Dinner of the Royal Academy, May 3, 1851 | 126 |
| Speech at the Third Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, June 16, 1851 | 131 |
| Speech at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Windsor, July 16, 1851 | 136 |
| Speeches at the Banquet at the Trinity House, June 4, 1853 | 139 |
| Speech at the Bicentenary Festival of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, May 10, 1854 | 146 |
| Speeches at the Dinner at the Trinity House, June 21, 1854 | 149 |
| Speeches at the Annual Dinner at the Trinity House, June 9, 1855 | 154 |
| Speeches at the Opening of the New Cattle Market, in Copenhagen Fields, Islington, June 13, 1855 | 159 |
| Speeches at the Banquet at Birmingham, on laying the First Stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, November 22, 1855 | 162 |
| Address to the 3rd and 4th Regiments of the German Legion at Shorncliffe, on presenting to them their Colours, December 6, 1855 | 172 |
| Speech at the Opening of the Golden Lane Schools, March 19, 1857 | 173 |
| Speeches at the Opening of the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester, May 5, 1857 | 177 |
| Speech at the Opening of the Conference on National Education, June 22, 1857 | 183 |
| Opening Address at the Meeting in the College of Physicians for the Inauguration of Jenner’s Statue, May 17, 1858 | 193 |
| Speeches at the Trinity House, July 3, 1858 | 195 |
| Speech at Cherbourg, after the Banquet on board ‘La Bretagne,’ August 5, 1858 | 199 |
| Speech on presenting new Colours to the 2nd Battalion of the 13th (“Prince Albert’s Own”) Light Infantry, at Harford Ridge, near Aldershot, February 21, 1859 | 200 |
| Speech at the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Aberdeen, September 14, 1859 | 203 |
| Speech at the Dinner on the Opening of the Clothworkers’ Hall, in the City, March 27, 1860 | 231 |
| Speech at the Banqueting Room, St. James’s Palace, on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the formation of the Grenadier Guards, June 16, 1860 | 234 |
| Speech at the Dinner of the Trinity House, June 23, 1860 | 243 |
| Speech on opening the International Statistical Congress, July 16, 1860 | 250 |
Two editions of the Prince Consort’s Speeches were published by the Society of Arts in 1857; and cheap editions of the same collection have been published since the Prince’s death.
The present volume contains, in addition to the speeches previously printed, a speech made by His Royal Highness at the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Aberdeen, September 14, 1859; and his address on opening the International Statistical Congress, held in London, 16th July, 1860; together with several minor speeches made by the Prince since the year 1857.
This volume also contains some extracts from a memorandum written by the Prince in reference to the office of Commander-in-Chief.