The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-20 00:00:00

MEMORIAL TO THE PRINCE CONSORT.

The committee appointed by her Majesty to
carry out this national object having failed in their first in-
tention of making the principal feature of the memorial to
consist of a monolithic obelisk, acid having communicated
that failure to her Majesty, the Queen suggested a reference
to the leading architects of the day for their opinion on the
subject. Her Majesty's suggestions were conveyed to Sir
Charles Eastlake in the following communication from
General Grey, dated Osborne, April 19, 1862 :—" Her
Majesty's wish is to leave the committee quite free to
recommend whatever may appear to them to afford the
best hope of a satisfactory result ; and she would merely
throw out as a suggestion whether the opinions of some of
the foremost architects of the day might not be advents-
geously taken as to the means of combining the groups of
statuary mentioned in my letter to the Lord Mayor (among
which, of coarse, a statue of the Prince would be prominent)
with some other design."
In obedience to this suggestion the committee applied to
the following architects on the subject, viz.:—Mr.
President of the Royal Institute of Architects ; Pro-
fessor Donaldson ; Mr. Smirks and Mr. Gilbert Scott, both
Royal Academicians ; Mr. Peonethorsie, the Architect
to the Office of Works ; Mr. P. Hardwick, jun., and
Mr. Dishy Wyatt. These gentlemen met Sir Charles
Eastlake at the Palace at Westminster, on Thurs-
day last, and fully discussed the whole subject. They
pealed a resolution undertaking the duty, but declined in
the fullest manner to receive any pecuniary recompense
whatever for their services. They requested Sir Charles
Padilla to communicate this resolution to the committee,
and then adjourned to Thursday next, to meet at the In.
stitute-tooras to examine into all the questions submitted to
them, and to report upon them.

The Countess d'Apponyi will give her first ball
at Iltandoe Home on the 12th of June.

Lord and Lady Aveland entertained at dinner
on Saturday evening, at their residuum In Selasave-aquiue,
the Earl and Connteaa of Rosebery, the Earl Annealey,
Viscount and Viscountees Stratford de Radcliffe, Lord and
Lady Carington and the Hon. Miss Carington, Lord and
Lady Overdoes, Lord and Lady Lyndon, Lord and Lady
Harry Vane, Mr. and the Hon. Mot W. Rose, Sir John
Ramadan, Sir David Daudet', Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and
the Hon. G. H. Heathoote, M.P.

Lord and Lady Rokeby and the Ron. Miss
Nastiest arrived at Montagu House last evening, from the
Cent:isnot, for the sesson._ _ .

Lady overstone will give her first assembly this
evening at her residence in Carlton-gardnn. . . .

Lady Louisa Tenison gave her second dancing
party tart evening at her residence in Cireerenor•etreet.

We (Herald) are sorry to say that letters have
arrived from Florence, confirming the report which reached
us some time ago, of the illness of the Hon. C. S. S. Han.
bury Lennox, one of the members for Leominster ; but the
latest accounts state that the hon. gentleman, after having
been confined to his bed for some time with fever, is slowly
recovering, and may be expected in England as soca as his
strength will allow him to traveL
It is rumoured in the law courts that another
inquiry will be opened forthwith in reference to the state of
mind of Mr. W. F. Windham, of Felbrigg MIL The pro-
ceedings, it is said, will be promoted on this occasion by
Lady Sophia Giubilei, the mother of the young man. His
eccentricities are said to have developed themselves in so
extraordinary a way as to render another inquiry imperative.

. .
Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald has postponed hie
motion on the affairs of Mexico from Thunday next till
" an early day."
On the 30th Mr. White will call attention to the
present state of our relations with China, and more •
resolutios.

On Friday Sir M. Pato will call the attention of
the &ureters of State for the Home Department to the
punishment awarded in sweat cam of personal violence.

Mr. Maguire, on Friday, will call attention to
the existence of markets and increasing distress in the western
and south-western astride of the county Cork ; to ask the
Chief Secretary for Ireland if by attention has been directed
to the oonnition of these localities ; and, if so, whether he
hoe taken any steps himself, or advised any steps to be
taken, with a view to their immediate or prospective relief.
M. Fechter ham made his last bow to the audi-
ence of the 1./Mosses 'Theatre. On Saturday night be played
Hamlet there for the last time.