The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

The Prince Consort Memorial Fund.

Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the General
Committee appointed at the public meeting held in
January, 1862, to superintend the subscription then
set on foot towards raising a national memorial of
his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort was
convened at the Mansion house with a view to the
final disposal of the fund, so far as they were con-
cerned, in accordance with the commands of her
Majesty, communicated by Sir C. Phipps. The
Lord Mayor acted as chairman, and there were also
present Sir C. W. Dilke, Mr. Tite, M.P., Mr.
Gregson, M.P., Alderman Wilson, Mr. Bodkin,
Assistant-Judge, Mr. Henry Spicer, Mr. Godwin,
Mr. Charles Hill, Mr. Winck worth, Mr. R. N.
Fowler, Mr. H. Ghinn, Deputy Obbard, Mr. S. P.
Low, Mr. Hartridge. Mr. A. Croll, Mr. Goodman,
the Rev. Michael Gibbs, Vicar of Christ Church,
Newgate-street, and Mr. Samuel Brown.
The LORD MAYOR having briefly stated the object
of the meeting, Mr. Goodman, the Clerk of the
Peace, at his request, read the subjoined commußi-
cation, which had been addressed to Mr. Cubbit,
M.P., the President of the Fund, shortly before his
death :
"Balmoral, Oct. 2, 1863.
"Dear Sir,—I have received the commands of her Ma-
jesty the Queen to inform you that her Majesty has ap-
pointed an Executive Committee, through whom it is her
Majesty's intention to communicate her own personal
directions for the carrying out and execution of the national
memorial to her beloved husband, the Prince Consort, and
the Queen has also named trustees (Viscount Torrington,
Sir Alexander Spearman, with yourself and myself) into
whose hands it is her Majesty's desire that all sums collected
either by public subscription or vote of Parliament, should
be paid, and who will hold the funds, subject to the orders of
her Majesty, conveyed through the Executive Committee.
" I am therefore directed to request that you will move
the trustees of the Mansion-house Subscription for the Na-
tional Memorial, to cause the sums at present standing or
invested in their names, to be transferred at the Bank of
England to the account of the trustees appointed by her
Alejesty, to whose account the sum voted by Parliament
has already been placed by the Government.
"Believe me, dear sir, sincerely yours,
"C. B. Pliirrs."
A report from the working committee
read by Mr. Goodman. They stated that they had
next
taken such
held meetings from time to time, and had was
steps as they deemed necessary for accomplishing
b
the duty assigned them. The cant utions received
by them amounted to £54,355 odd,l
and after pay-
mentr of the expenses incurred in advertising, print-
ing, &c., and other disbursements on behalf of the
trustees, they had invested £34,233 15s in the pur-
chase of 5 per cent. East India stock, and £17,000
in 3 per cent. Consols, in addition to the accruing
interest upon those
funds, amounting to £3,009 4s
ld, which had been also invested in Consols, making
a total of £54,242 19s ld, exclusive of a balance of b
£236 Os 9d in the ands of Messrs. Smith, Payne,
anduen
er Co.atl he bankers, to the credit of the fund. The
Committee tee at its meeting on the 26th of
1862
February,
,authorised the treasurer and trus-
tees " from time to time to advance and pay out
of the fund such sum or sums of money as might
be required by the committee of advice nomi-
nated by her Majesty the Queen." In pursuance
of that authority 600 guineas bad been paid to
the architects selected to submit designs for the
memorial, and £43 4s. to defray other expenses,
making altogether £673 45. The committee
had observed with much satisfaction not
only the deep and sincere symPathY expressed by
contributors in their correspondence,. hut also the
large number of smell contributions, furnshing, as
they thought, a convincing proof of the general
sorrow felt by all classes of the community, and of
the propriety of the measures adopted at the Man-
sion- house, for raising a national memorial to cop.
memorate the virtues of the late illustrious pli,ce
presi-
dent,They could not, they said, close their report
with-
out referring to the death of their respected
Gallia, by whom the first meeting
Mr. at th
mamio_house W(l5 convened, which resulted in thee

appointment of the General Comtuittee, and the
adoption of the uneasnros referred to in their report;
and they took that opportunity of marking the high
sense they entertain ed of his uniform courtesy in
presiding over their maetiugs, and the wiirm inte-
rest he took in the progress of the fund.
On the motion of Mr. GREGSON, M.P., seconded
by Mr. BODKIN, the Assistant Judge, it wo; un-
animously resolved theft her Majesty the Queen
having intimated her plea sure that the amount now
invested in the funds be ti .ansferred to the trustees
appointed by her Majesty, Imd to whom the maney
voted by Parliament had already been paid, the
trustees of the fund be an horised to transfer the
sum so invested, in more lance with the Queen's
commands.

A conversation then to,);'s piece in which the
Lord Mayor, Mr. Godwin, Mr. Hartridge, and
other gentlemen took part,, as to whether it was
desirable or otherwise to continue the Mansion.
House Committee.

Mr. TITS, M.P., asked win a the use could be of
their remaining incorporated after passing a reso-
lution to part with the money. The form of the memo-
rial had been decided upon ; the Government had
handed over the Parliamentary grant, and the
trustees nominated by the Queen
desired
o n
been
et
eo t
nh
athavephi-.
a:
the rest of the money, in order to go
work. What was the use, therefore, of their kee
p
ing themselves together ? The design of m,.G.1
bert Scott for the proposed memorial had
proved, and they had no means of control, either in
point of taste or of execution. Unless, indeed, it
was to collect fresh subscriptions, their continuance
as a committee would be simply an impertinence.
He believed, if they wanted to do so, they might
raise more money. The time might come when the
sum now subscribed would be found all too little,
having regard to the splendour and extent of the
work ; but, as to any artistic control, that was at an
end so far as they were concerned.'
The conversation then dropped, with the under-
standing that they would continue to exist as acorn-
mittee in the event of occasion arising for inviting
additional subscriptions.
On the motion of Mr. I'm, seconded by Alder-
man WILSON, a resolution was unanimously passed,
expressive of the regret of the meeting at the death
of Mr. Cubitt, their late president, and of their high
estimation of his great public spirit and exemplary
life.

At the instance of Mr. GODWIN and Mr. CHARLFM
HILL a vote of thanks was accorded to the Lord
Mayor for taking the chair, and the meeting
separated.

SECONTD

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Mr, Sergeant Shee and the Vacant Judgeship

(From the Law Times of To-day.)
The Lord Chancellor is neither a bigot nor a fa•
natic, but a man of large and liberal mind, having
nothing in common with Exeter.hall. Hence the
surprise so generally felt at the rejection of the un-
doubted title of Mr. Serjeant Shce to the vacant
judgeship: We have reason to believe that the
Lord Chancellor did not in this act upon his own
impulse, but was overruled by other influences. It
is true that the Puisne Judgeships are the exclu-
sive patronage of the Great Seal, and, as a rule, the
Chancellors permit of no interference with this the
most prized of their patronage. Nor is it probable
that, on the present occasion, any direct pressure
was put upon Lord Westbury; indeed, even a show
of it would suffice to insure the rejection of the can-
didate so presented. But there are indirect ways of
conveying desires, that are not offensive in form, and
yet effective in substance. A surmise of the manner
in this case will probably not be far from the truth.
In the balanced state of parties the Government is
notoriously dependent for its existence upon a com-
bination of sectional groups, the defection of anyone
of which would at once place the Ministry in a
minority. Not the least important, alike by its ac-
tivity, its zeal, and its numbers, is the party of whom
Lord Shaftesbury is the leader, and that potent in-
fluence has been given to Lord Palmerston through
the medium of his relative. But for the support
thus proffered ample remuneration is demee:ie.
It
and exacted. Lord Shaftesbury claims the
fear
_
•
siastieal patronage, and possesses ' l
The . speech
of this party may be seen in the wavering ; his
and hesitating acts of Lord John . This was
treatment of the American
the party that dictated the rejectiona to the judge-
mount claims of Mr. Serjeant She
an Catholic
the Roman Catholic .
ship, and the ostracism of
whose profession is
the para-
litthiees cisauof
used to be reli-
Liberalism, and whose principle lawyers by a Governmen.nteipqiueesti°f
gious liberty.
Roman Catholic
so much surprise is,
mani-
fest; but that which
the revival of Traced
Chancellor, usually so firm in his
that the Lord
.Btellt in the maintenance of
resolves and so persistent
be the truth
d:tholircluisracbei
believes to
b have permittedoii uob nobler emfienadr ,8
and the
that which he
aonfdhtilasatc he
right, should
hiscol-
leagues bidding contrary to his
leagues to away
done
and more liberal principles.
larger
own The Times has been silent upon this most grave
should have
matter, but the Daily leleyraph, although an
habitual and very zealous supporter of the Govern-
ment, has bravely exercised an independent judg-
ment, and denounced the ostracism of Roman Ca-
tholic lawyers in an article which i sgratifying to us
in this, that,if we were the first to protest against the
wrong, we do not now stand alone. The complaint
of the Profession is echoed by the public.
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B

URIED IN A 'WELL—On Wednesday afternoon
last a fatal accident occurred at the village of Old
Baotou], near Nottingham. About half-past 2 o'clock a
nlan named William Marriott, 61 years of age, was engaged
in removing
bricks from an old well. He had got nearly
to the bottom, and was standing upon a ladder, when he
was warned by the man who was drawing the bricks out
that the sides of the well were not safe, and he had muche
better ascend. Marriott, however, refused to co me nt.
In a few minutes the sides gave way, fell in him,lllrn_,
and
he was completely buried. Au alarm was rioreiend, and
seve-
ral men were speedily engaged in endeavou
g to rescue
could
rescue
before him, but upwards of an hour elapsed his be
and quite dean.
be found. He was then standing erect upon the ladder,

TEE WY STERN STATES.

(From ao Times' Special Correspondent.)
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Oct. 13.

The day har dawned at last—the day big with the
fate of Vallf ,adigham and Ohio. The Democrats
had their " grand rally" on Saturday evening last.
The great muster of the Republicans came off last
night. B: a 4; rally" in this country a monster
torchlight procession is meant, with banners and
music, an d mounted men and triumphal cars, illu-
mination a, transparencies, fireworks, Chinese lan-
terns, mc 'noes, devices, shouts, groans, and hisses,
with ELn occasional scuffle as the actors in the pa-
gean t ry fall in with ill-intentioned spectators hostile
to th inr cause. There are instances on record, lam
tola, when opposite parties held their rally and
couin ter rally in the same evening, and the tug of
we.r from their encounter in the streets was by no
13:1 eans so terrific as people anticipated. But it has
haen,deemed expedient to avoid even the chance of
a collision, nevertheless ; and so an agreement has
been made this time that the friends of Vallandig-
ham should have their grand march on the last
evening but one, and the very last should be left for
the partisans of Brough. To give an unhoped-for zest
to the festivity of this latter party, the arrival of the
Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Chase, contributed in
no small degree. This great man arrived at Columbus
on Sunday morning at half-past two o'clock, and was
received by a vast crowd who were waiting for him
at the station, not withstanding the lateness of the
hour. He came here last evening at five o'clock, and
his progress from the terminus to the Burnet House,
the teatel where he put up, was what was called a
s, perfect ovation," with cavalry escort, warlike
bands, a row nf carriages, a squad of horsemen, and
a crowd'of cheering people. Wherever he alighted
from his railway car, wherever ho set his foot
public or private house,
on the threshold of a
i° Mr. Secretary" was expected to hold forth, and he
disappointed no one. 1 sha.l not write down his
several speeches at full length. I have read them
through, chiefly with a view to spare the reader the
trouble of doing the same: Mr. Chase came to Ohio

ostensibly with a view to favour the election of Mr.
Brough, and to defeat the efforts of Vallandigham's
supporters. "He hardly knew," he said at Columbus,
vbether he even had a right to vote in his own
S4Late," owing to his three years' absence at Wash-
ington. (The crowd at once settled the question for
him with shouts of " Of course you have !" " Cer-
tainly you have !") " But in so grave a contest as
this," he continued, "he could not rest easy in his
place, and he had resolved at any rate to come home
and try." (Voices—" Bully for you ! that is just
lika you !")
It is, however, in the minds of most men here
doubtful whether the Secretary really came to vote
for !mug!), or to canvass for himself. Mr. Chase is
not a native of Ohio; he " was raised" in New
England, and " hails" from Vermont; but he came
to the West very early in life, and has spent his best
years in this State, where he is generally popular,
a'ad where friends and enemies have an equally high
opinion of his abilities and character. Mr. Chase, it
is no mystery to anyone, burns with desire to offer
himself as a candidate for the nest Presidential

election, and naturally enough he was anxious to
keep his memory green among the good people of
Ohio. He is at the head of the Radical faction in the
divided Cabinet at Washington, and his speeches
hero were prompted by the most unrelenting war-

like spirit and in accordance with the narrowest
views of uncompromising Abolitionism. "He had
said at the outbreak of the war that the rebellion must

be put down, if in doing it we had to come to the old
revolutionary standard, and 1,000 dols. for a break-
fast," He now "considered the rebellion as virtual'y
subdued. The enemies have large armies in the field,
but ours are vastly stronger." The war was not of
the Federals' own seeking. For his own part,
although averse to slavery, he would at all times
have avoided and discountenanced all interference
with Southern institutions ; but the war once begun,
"when President Lincoln thought fit to issue his
Proclamation, he said amen with all his heart."
"Either that Proclamation was a great monstrous
sham and imposition in the face of the whole
,world, or else that Proclamation was an effectual
thing, and there are no BlalirtiB to-day in the rebel
States."
That, however, is precisely the whole matter at
iesne. Mr. Chase is quite sure that the war is to be
ptrsued without respite, and that whether by war
or peace slavery has c')nie to an end ; but such he
hnows very well are not the unanimous views of
the nation, nor of the Cabinet of which he is

a member. The election of Oaio will, I have little
doubt, terminate in a triumph of the Republican
pa: Ay, for a great many whose ideas are purely
Democratic, a great many who are weary
of the war, afflicted by the present, anxious
for the future—a great many whose sympathies
are with the Southerners, who do not wish for
immediate, unconditional, and violent abolition,
and who do not think the subjugation of the
South on these terms is either possible or desirable
—a great many, in short, who think and privately
talk like Vallandigham, will this day vote against
Vallandigham, because it is the instinct of the mass
o.f moderate men in all countries to be, above all
t"governative," to go with the Government
through thick and thin, to identify the ruler's
cause With that of the country, and to look upon all
seceders and seceders' friends as traitors, conspira-
tors, Baia •
worthy
enemies. In the minds of many of
these
where rte banner
citizens the American Union was
floated on its Capitol—at Wash-
ington; allegiance to Washington was loyalty to the
Union, and
and Charleston right,
wrong Washington might be,
wrong side, it
put itself
the latter put itself on the
pealed to arms, tuatftsslf out of the law when it ap-
upon the Federal Zed a rebel standard, and fired
These views and coin
among all Americans, are yet strong enough
upright andingennoes I:enod especially among these
shrink from a vote which te of Ohio, to make them
Putting Vallandigham
at the head of their Statoes,iwtiYoottuld Create and organise
an official and legal opp
tog
the Washing-
ton Government and give rise
a dangerous dualism
in the State. They are not, however,
t Cabinet;
he main,
satisfied with the policy of the avashiiugt ta
.ou
nay, they are, many of them, simply di. gustedwit
its past conduct and alarmed at its
future e
but they think that the men in powcr sbotZlrn
be es ;
dured by those who raised them into
power, theye
think that their redress is and will always be in
their own hands, and they await Mr. Lineal, and
his colleagues at the next Presidential electiu2,
when the question of war d slavery, or State'
rights, of personal and local freedom, will be decided
by the collective suffrage of the nation. They do not,
perhaps, consider that many of the questions will
have found their practical solution in the vicissi-
tudes of the war long before they are called upon to
choose a new Executive; they do nounhet that the
work of emancipation, confiscation,
devastation
in the South, and of usurpation in the North, is
going on blindly, recklessly, while they are devising
a distant remedy. They are confident that the
mischief will at no time be irreparable, and in the
meanwhile they are willing to give Government the
longest tether; they strengthen it by their staunch,
howeverl reluctant, support, and will prolong Val-
., 'ie_glnam's exile until such time as Vallendigham's
'WS may be debated on the hustings without fear
of weakening by division an Executve which will
then be on
It i 5 by
thane
eve of its legal and natural downfall.
econsiderations, I believe, that Ohio, a
Democratic
State,vot has been led to give that day a
Republicett
e.
Mr. Chase did not limit himself to the exposition
of the general political;healso views by him attributed to
the Government
threw out very breed
hints in vindicetion of his
c,management of the fin-
ances. He was hailed
at
art; you, Greenback ?" and ,olumbas with " How
" Bully for you, old
Greceebee'ee ?" and he thought he would acknow-
ledge the compliment by a few w-,
he said, " of trac-
ing on the cur-
rency. " We were in the habit,"
ing our evils to a peculiar institution (slavery); but
he had endeavoured to do something towards the
removal of those evils by another peculiar instittue
Con to which they had been pleased several times to
refer. (Laughter and cries of ' Hurrah for Green
becks.') He thought he might felicitate himself,
and them too, that the currency was certain not to
break co long as anything in the nation remained

unbroken. This struggle was to end in the com-
plete supremacy of free labour, and of the institu-
tion founded upon it, in a general policy that should
be so shaped as ,to secure to that labour just re-
ward." The same ideas were developed at greater
length in the speech delivered by ►is. Chase at
Mozart Hall in this city. I can hardly say, how-
ever, that his words carry conviction into the mind
of many of his hearers. The unlimited issue of
paper money is a financial operation scarcely re-
quiring any transcendent genius on the part of its
author. Admiration would rather be due to the
people which puts so boundless a confidence in it.
For the rest, the appalling scarcity of labour, the
doubled and trebled price of provisions and of all
the necessaries of life, the mad extravagance of the
classes enriched by the war, with gold at 1564,
cause no trifling uneasiness to thinking people
throughout America, and chiefly in the West, and
shake their trust in an apparent prosperity arising
from the artificial demand created by the war, and
met by an artificial supply, defrayed by a paper
currency. The whole system is hollow at the core,
these people think, and any rise in the price of gold
seems to the Western merchants the harbingers of
the " grand crash that is to come."

OCTOBER 14.
The election is over, and the public peace has
not been for one moment disturbed. I walked from
one polling shop to the other yesterday morning and
evening, visiting all the 17 wards of the city. A
posse of from a dozen to a Score of policemen were
stationed at the door of each of these places ; but
they sat down idle and listless, and all their task
was limited to a little lazy chat and harmless chaff
with some of the bystanders. I saw no crowd any-
where; voters dropped in one by one, and interested
persons on both sides took care that the operations
should be conducted in all fairness and legality.
The public authorities nowhere interfered. I saw
soldiers nowhere ; nowhere Irish bullies armed
with formidable shillelaghs ; nowhere any attempt,
I will not say to force, but even to solicit a vote.
The positive result is, of course, not yet wholly
known at this early hour. But there was, even
yesterday, not the slightest doubt as to the issue of
the contest. The most sanguine Democrats avowed
their expectation that the voters for Vallandigham
would not exceed 190,000 ; while the Republicans
would poll 220,000. The organs of this latter party
contend this morning that their majority in the
home vote alone will exceed 50,000, and by adding
the suffrages of the army it will give them a balance
of no less than 100,000.

Unless I am greatly mistaken, however, the Re-
publican party and the Government have little
cause to congratulate themselves on their too easy
victory, even though it is simultaneous with their
success in Pennsylvania, and follows close upon that
of Maine, lowa, &e. So far as my most careful and
unprejudiced observations can enable me to form a
judgment of men and things in this Western part
of the Union, the better class of citizens, no less
than many of the lower orders, are weary of the
war. They are unwilling, as I said, to proceed to
any extremity of opposition which may seem like
rebellion againfSc. the Government ; they think it a
matter of duty and honour to uphold the Adminis-
tration such as it is, because the country, in their
opinion, requires united and untrammeled action ;
but, for the rest, they are weary of the war, they
are dissatisfied with the manner in which it has been
managed, they are indignant against the tendency-
which has been given to it ; they wish for a com-
promise with the South ; they wish for peace, with
Union and Abolition, if it can be contrived, but, if
it turn out impossible, without either,
Mr. Lincoln and his friends have a whole year
before them. If they caa keep up the game for the
whole period, :1 they can carry the war to a happy
termination, or bring it at least to the verge of a
happy solution before their time is up, the people
will be with them, They will thank them for the
preservation of their blessed Union; they will not
upbraid them with the desolation of the South ;
they will strive to repair damaze, to heal financial
and social wounds with that confidence and alacrity
which characterise these happy tillers of a virgin
soil. But should a year do nothing or too little
for the close of these civil hostilities, should Octo-
ber, 1864, find the country more or less in the same
position as it is in October, 1803, the Repub-
licans and the Abolitionists would be at a fearful
discount, and the people would vote for a "peace
man," were his name M'Clellan, or Buell, or Sey-
mour,-or even the "traitor," Vallandigham. That
the present position of the Federal armies is not
the most enviable we may easily infer, in spite of
the unwearied efforts of the Washington press to
throw dust in their readers' eyes. The Southerners
under Bragg are encompassing Rusencranz in front
and rear, and straining every nerve to cat off his
communications. Nothing is said of the movements
of Burnside, who has put himself into contact with
his colleague, without apparently being able to
bring him relief. Meanwhile Lee, who was to be
driven to Richmond and there compelled to sur-
render, is beating.the Federals to the very shores of
the Potomac. At Charleston Gilmore and Dahl-
gren are amusing themselves with Greek fire; and,
in the West, General Blunt's Staff of 80 persons
fell into the hands of the rebels, who cut them to
pieces; and the mere brigand bands of Quantrell
and Co. suddenly muster up into an army, to the
terror and desolation of Missouri. Is it any wonder
in such a state of things if gold rises to 1564 ?