The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

THIS DAY.

Full arrangements have been entered into for the engage-
ment of the Grenadier, Scots Fusileer, Coldstream, and
'Royal Horse Guards' bands, for the dinners of the several
companies to-morrow. Besides the Royal Artillery and
other bands in her Majesty's service, that of the lion.
Artillery Company, of which corps his Royal Ilighneu
Prince Albert is Colonel, wilt be engaged for the occasion.

DEATH OF BICKHAM ESCOTT, Eso., LATE M.P.
—This gentleman died on the 'lth instant, at his seat, Bart-
row-manor, Somersetshire. lie was formerly member for
Wiachester, and was a steady and useful member of the
Liberal party.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. :.—The Bremen ship Anso
Captain Raschtr, arrived here yesterdiiy evening on bet
voyage from Bremen for Baltimore. She left Bremerhaven
on Thursday last. Sion after leaving a child four years
old was taken ill with diarrhcea and vomiting, and died is
four hours afterwards. On the same day two adults and
one child were attacked with the same symptoms and died
on Friday, thus leaving no doubt of the disease being cbo-
lera. On Satan] ly night tk eof the crew were taken ills
and one died yesterday morning at 6 a m. ; the other four
are so far recovered as to be able to do light duty. Two
children of the passengers were also taken ill, and arc the
only ones at present labouring under diarrhoea out of 213
passengers and 15 crew. Id. Vandenbergh, the Bremen
`ice-Consul, with his usual promptitude, has convened
such measures to arrest the progress of the malady which
has thus made its r.ppeltance on heard this ship.
WORKMEN'S STRIKE. IN AlthßlC.l.—The engineer,
engaged la running steembuats on or out of the Ohio River
have formed an association, adopted a conatitutioa, slid
agreed on a scale of wags, as l'4lloWl:—First engineers on
side-wheel boats, VA dote. ; ditto stern wheel boat, 12511044
second engineers on all boats, 100 dlls. They sal they
have work only for aim to eight months of each year, and
that the above rates are as low as they can live oa—alrot
that some of the best engineers now receive 17.3 dots.
225 dole. per month. The above scale of prices is resisted,
1 and a strike is the conhquicuce.—Ncte lurk Tr

if OP iRIAL OF THE GREAT EXHIBI.
• ntiN.-...fATUE TO PRINCE ALBERT.

leeterday the Egyptian-hall at the Mansion-house
es- occupied with as influential meeting mumbled for the
".ire, on
,e of csideeing the propriety of getting up mute
~,Lel„nia of admiration and esteem to His Royal High-
prominent part takes by his
t Peace Albert for
the
rto, hietine.s in promoting the succese of the Cheat
Exhi-
of 1951. The chair was taken by the Right Hon.
te M•voit, end on the platting' Refit also the
5,10 p of Oxford, the Provest of Etoe, Captain Sheppard,
Pr. I: pole, Mr. Scott Rue-ell, Profiteer Renwick, Mr. Red-
...ye. 1; A , Sheriffs W• 1118 end Wire, Mr. J. Wilkes, Mr.
V!ittnon Span (Oxford), Mr. J. Wood, Mr. liennoch,
e., Carroll, nu. T. Huth, Munn. S. Morley,
J.
Tote ii, II Miaten, lithe', dec.
lee L.iu MATOS having opened the prouediage,
The Bishop of Ottroati said—The resolution which I rise
o repou to this netting is as follows That the Great
Exldletien of le:4, which comprised the products of the
itjouy of all countries, wila ao event of the reale*
owe/mace to the nations of the world, by enabliag IBM
esierve the relative influence of science, alto ewe
ist.eaal itharacteristies neon production, be forsibig'
mew of a valuaele review of the put, nil by
mslintt a sew starting point for the future promo
of ;reductive isdustry, end givin iiiowe stinsigna."'
It. theaglit it •f great imphat they Mimi*
at the creentecemeet sleuth what suss the real chum*, ef
the., pooseegtag. Ile thought that the resolution did mark
it a, eteeedieg the eape•lieacy of perpetuating in a proper
way.• wet specific feet in the industrial histor7 of the
coven. (Hear, hear.) If they wandered away from the
itheplieity of tit. is project, he sew that a great many objec-
tive' might be urged to it, but if they adhered to it in its
eicop.icity their position was impregnable. (Hear, hear.)
He bsl,sTed that there was great misapprehension abroad
SA to what really was proposed. If they were proposing to
'tact a stave in commemoration of the domestic virtues of
Pricet Albert, who, although young in Teeth, he had now
for • long time exhibited in this country—if
that were their purpeee, he (the Bishop of Oxford)
although nobody more fully appreciated the virtues of
Peace Albert, would hate been no party to this move.
meat. nor stould he bare been one of the Lord Mayor's
company on teat dip. However deserving of such honours
the prince might be. they were such as must wait the ter-
mination of • life ; but, a. he understood, there lIIIS nothing
of the kinil connected with the present proposal. (Hear,
hear) He believed that their object was to fit, try some
permanent memeriel, the recollection of the great newel of
the Bitable= of 18.51. (Hear, hear.) Now, he thought
there were abundant reasons why such • movement should
be made at that time rather than at a later period, end
why rub a movement should be made at all. Ile thought
it should be made now instead of later, because it sum the
natural come that thing., however important, should pees
out of the recollections of men, or that being sees from the
distance of the future should lose, year by year, •
portion of their proper magnitude. It was of the very
astute of things solid, that instead of being borne along
floating on the stream of time, they should sink gradually
beneath its waters ; and, therefore, with regard to this great
fact, if a earenerial were to be raised at all, it should be dose
while the event sought to be commemorated held its true
plate and its proper magnitude in the memories of the
people. (Cheer) Then again, he thought the facts were
such as fully to deserve a memorial. (liege, hear.) Look.
is; at its coon. sin with that achievement which in
human stairs was the noblest, the development of Isamu
industry, and the excitement of productive energy, be
knew of no single fact that deserved better to be recorded
than the name of the Great Exhibition. Lord Balton, in
his " history of the Pursuit of Knowledge," said that
among wise men they slid not give the first place
place to warriors, but reserved it for those who bad
developed the commodities and comforts of men. The
first they nude merely demigods, but the second they ele-
vated to the position of a god. Now the Exhibition of
1851 was • movement which developed the commodities
and comforts of the whole people, nay, of the whole
civilised world. (Hear, hear.) Then, if looked at
in that light, he VW small force in the objec-
tion to the emanation of the proposal from the Lord
Meyer, for when could a proposal to do honour to the'
world's industry come more fitly forth than under the
auspices of the chief magistrate of the City of London ?
(Cheers.) Surely in that place they could most properly
honour the success of productive industry. (Loud cheers.)
Surely the proposal could not come from • fitter quarter
than from • Lord Mayor, who had all along shown a desire
to use his high office is promoting the education, the social
advancement, and eh., moral improtemeat of the
people. (Loud cheers.) Ile held, then, that to com-
memorate the Exhibition and its promoters was
eight, and it was to that the resolution pledged them. In
commemorating the Exhibition it would be impossible
to avoid connecting with it the name of the illustrious
Prince, but in what way would of course be left to the com-
mittee. Of this only he was sure, that the proposal would
meet with a response from all, if it were made clear that
Debase adulation of personal merits were intended—which
the Prince himself would be the first to spurn ; hut such a
memorial as the people of England ought to erect in honour
of a great industrial achievement.
Captain SII•PPARD seconded the resolution, at the same
time expressing his conviction that the success of the Exhi-
bition et 1841 was mainly owing to the exertions and
countenance of Prince Athert. It might be mid that he,
as • member of the commi.sioo, should not have joined in
the present movement, but he felt that to be an additional
reason for attending, and had he wanted any further
reasons he should have found them in the opposition which
had been started to the project on the part of certain sec-
tions of the London press. Further, he couidered that no
where could the project be so fitly originated as at the
Mansion-house, arid under the auspices of the Lord Mayor.
Ile had, therefore, much pleasure in sthondiag the reso-
lution.

Before putting the resolution, the LORD 11.11 TOR
nonnced that he had received upwards of 1,000 letters in
rapport of the project, and a list of subscriptions.
The resolution was then put and .`reed to.
The ROT. PROVOST Of ETON rose to MOTO the sewed
resolution That a monument commemorative of the
Exhibition ought to be raised, of which a statue
of his Royal Highness Prince Albert should be a
principal feature, to mark the sense entertained of
the great ability and seal which his Royal Highness
displayed in carrying out that object, notwithstand-
ing the numerous difficulties by which it was remanded."
He said that, as the head of a great educational institution,
he felt happy in being allowed to promote an object like the
present. The Exhibition of 1801 hid been a fact which
no man could expect to see repeated in his life-time, and
therefore the present generation was bound to commemo-
rate its results and the 'airtime of the illustrious Prineo
who had done so much to promote it. Us thought that no
better memorial could be suggested than one which should
indicate the progress of art in this country, and that in
carrying out that ides, a statue of Prince Albert should be
a peon:angst feature.
Mr. S. Mont.ry seconded the resolution (recerentending
the erection of a monument). He said he had always
considered the Eahihition to be a great system of education,
and a striking appeal to the self-rellasoe of the people. The
manner in which that appeal had been answered justified
him in thinking that such en act deserved • memorial, sad
he felt also that such memorial should gratefully recognise
the services of Prince Albert, so as that his children and his
children's children might see to what extent their father and
ancestor had earned the gratitude of the English people.
(Hear, hear.)
WILKSS seconded the resolution.
Previous to pottier the resolution, Mr. BENNOCII read a
:eater from a working man offering shilling subscriptions
from himself, wife, and twenty children and grandchildren.
The list of subscriptions, amounting in all to nearly 6,0001.,
from about 600 subscribers, was then read amidst loud
cheese.
Mr. li.s.vr mentioned in addition that communications
lad been received from nearly all the principal towns of
the United Kingdom, tendering subscriptions, and sug-
gesting that the testimonial should be a national one.
(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and agreed to.
Mr. Alderman Waits, in moving the nest resolution,
observed that as Prince Alziert had been the originator of
the Great Exhibition, it was only reasonable that some
memorial of so great an act should be erected in his royal
highness's
The re.m,a• mei a C. umittee.
Tote see al.cd the resolution. He hoped that
the • xi. -JAL", uu. h' y :lad heard Weald remove the objection.
of the iires9, and th et their project would now go on pros-
perously to a successful issue.
Mr. DAS IN supported the resolution. He was no convert to
the philJeophy w leach laid it down that the man who had done
well by his country should not be honoured until he had
passed away from the earth. Their city, great and opts-
eat as it was, was lamentably deficient in works of art,