The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-10 00:00:00

MEMORIAL TO irrqLATE ROYAL HIGHNESS

'lei litiNCR CONSORT.

A special general meeting of the Society of
Ana, very numerously attended, was held at their house in
the Adelphi on Friday last, convened for the purpose of
receiving a report from the council in reference to their
vote of 1,000 guineas to the fund now being mind for a
memorial to the Prince Consort. The chair was taken by
Mr. J. G. Fart's, and the following report was read
" The council have thought it right to vote • sum of
1,000 guineas towards the erection of the memorial to their
late lamented President, his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort. In order to give the fullest effect to that vote,
the couocil have called a general meeting of the society,
that all its members may participate in the act. The
council is confident that the society at large will eagerly
confirm the appropriation of this money to the object of
commemorating the rare virtues of a Prince to whom
this society, above all others, owes so much—not
only fur the great impulse given by his Royal Highness
to the progress of arta, manufactures, and commerce, but
' for the increased social status which his enlightened in-
fluence has contributed to confer on the lenders of industry.
If facts were requisite to impress members with the sense
of gratitude for the remarkable services of the Prince to
this society, they would be found in the following state-
ment: —ln 1843, the year of his Royal Highness's election as
president, the number of subscribing members was 319 ;
their payments, 7241. ; and the deficit on the year 2981.
At the time of his death the number of members wee
2,454, the society had formed a uniut. of 300 institutions,
extending its influence over the United Kingdom and the
colonies. Its income had increased to nearly 5,5201. It had
paid off large incumbrences, and it has upwards of 13,0001.
hmiled pperty."
The CH ro
AILIAN moved that the report bo received and
adopted.
The motion, having been seconded by Mr. J. Scorr
Ruasur., F.11..8., was earned unanimously.

GLOUCESTER ELECTION.

GLOUCESTER, SkroanAL

The old electioneering spirit in this city has
been suddenly revived in the expectation that the writ for
the election of two members for the city, which has been
so long suspended for venal practices, is about to be issued.
An attempt bee been made to reconcile the two parties
(who me very nearly balanced here), se that one of each
party should be chosen, and a coolest be avoided, but at
present no such arrangement has been carried
out, two liberal candidates being in the field.
These are Mr. J. J. Powell, barrister of the Oxford
circuit, and a native of Gloucester, and Mr. C. Berkeley,
wood sou of Lord Fitshardinge, both of whom have just
issued addresses to the electors, it being rumoured that the
writ will be moved for next Tuesday. Mr. Berkeley, in his
address, declares his political sentiments to be "those which
have so often associated the name lie bears with the electoral
annals of Gloucester" (liberal), and he expresses his concur-
rence with the policy of the government, as carried out in the
Treat affair, eddies that he shall, if elected, give to Lord
Palmerston a steady but iudependent support. MX. Powell
also promises W " give an independent support to the go-
vernment of Lord Palmerston." As to reform, he says that,
reverencing the wisdom with which our constitution has
been framed, he trusts that " DO conservative will be found
more anxious than he is for its preservation, and no radioti
more desirous for the reformation of any abuses which may
have crept into it." Mr. Potter, partner of the late mem-
ber, Mr. Price, it is understood is to be the conservative
candidate.