The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON: SATURDAY, OCT. 24, 1863.

After donning with the utmost grace and cor-
diality the more ornamental trappings of his high
and august position, the Heir Apparent to the
throne of these realms is now assuming the more
serious duties hitherto discharged (the whole em-
pire knows how nobly !) by his illustrious father.
Conspicuous among the many self-imposed, or at
a Y rate readily accepted, responsibilities of his
x°Yal Righness the late PRINCE CONSORT, pecu-
arly conspicuous
his Royal. amongst them, was the position
Highness occupied as President of the
Society or Art To that important office his Royal
Highness the princeau of WALES, it will now be per-
ceived, has
:d ed. The circumstances under
which this too
than merely honorary office
has been
accepted h
in every point
of
~,,Y. his Royal Highness, are
profoundly interesting.
An interval has elapsed
lamented death or icii ' it is true, since the
PRINCE CONSORT, during Whitiarinitirihvai interval tnbheeesesa dutiesdie-
late thee_
of President of the Society of
charged up to the time of his d
vioe.pre oldest, most
late Mr. TOOKE, one of the R 'have
also, by the
Society's
respected, and most gifted
onepon the death
th:pecial hope
sidents.
from the first, the Society recognised u Yet,
of the PRINCE CONSORT that the one
they could cherish, would
veryp. one
they have but just now had the hap
seeing actually realised. Meaning by thus'easthe
of
instant aspiration of the members that his ;ate
Rlyal Highness the Prince Consort Might be
succeeded, as soon as a fitting time should have
elapsed after that great national calamity,by his
eldest son, his Royal Highness the Heir Apparent,
That fitting time has now in truth elapsed. The
recent death of Mr. TOOKE, the Society's late vene-
rable President, has afforded the council of the
Society the opportunity to which they had long
been looking forward. Of that opportunity the
members have at once with loyal eagerness availed
themselves. While doing so, they have by
their every allusion to his Royal Highness's
father, held up before the Prince of WALES
the very model or pattern of what such
a President ought to be. "The Council can
never forget" says their address to his Royal
Higline.-4, e the obligations .
of the society to your
illustrious
father, who, for a period of eighteen
years presided
over its proceedings with so much
advintags, not only to the society, but to the coun-
try at large.
'l`h,, establishment of international
eelibitious, and the
c:aapreheneive designs for
i
connecting education
aeience and art with pro-
ductive industryiwere
among
endeavours of his Royal
Highness
the many thoughtful
to promote the
'
welfare of his; adopted
country."
the the address closes with the
prAnd further,
a no less just and reasonable
esosiioliictioonf
on their part than the following.
I e
believe office that your acceptance of this e council
e will be a
means of enabling yoar royal highness to promote
and extend the enlightened views of your lamented
father for the advanc2ment of arts and ruaunfue.
and the benefit of her Majesty's subjects." Remera_
Bering, as the whole nation does, so very vividly,
and so very gratefully, how distinctly out of hie