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 vas
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 alio
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. Winckworth, Mr. R. N.
Fowler. Mr. H. Ghinn, Deouty 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 subjoinea communi-
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 havo 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 W:e
tional Memorial, to cause the sums at present standing or
invested in their names, to be transferred at the Bank
England to the account of the trustees appointed by her
Majesty, to whose account the sum voted by Parliament
has already been placed by the Government.
"Believe me, dear sir, sincerely yours,
com"rn.ittee was next
B. PHIPPS."
A re port from the working
CThey stated that they had
read by Mr. Goodman.
held meetings from time to time, and had taken such
steps as they deemed necessary, for accomplishing
the duty assigned themi,he3s_
. lcontributions received
54
by them amounted to
odd, and after pay-
ment 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
Consols, in 3 per cent. in addition to the accruing
interest upon those funds, amounting to £3,009 4s
Id, which had bceilialso invested in Consols, making
a total of £54,242 ,
1s ld, exclusive of a balance of
236 9s 9d ;11
the hands of Messrs. Smith, Payne,
and Co. the bankers to the credit of the fund. Tile
Ueneral Committee
_ at its meeting on the 26th of
February, 1862
, ,
authorised the treasurer and trus-
tees " from time to time to advance and pay out
sum or sums of money as might
of the fund such
be required by the committee of advice nomi-
nated by her Majesty the Queen." In pursuance
of that authority 600 guineas had been paid to
the architects selected to submit designs for the
memorial, and £43 4s. to defray other expenses,
making altogether £673 4s. The committee
had observed with much satisfaction not
only the deep and sincere sympathy expressed by
contributors in their correspondence, but also the
large number of smell contributions, furnishinr:, a,
g proof of the general
thought, a convincin
sorrow felt by all classes of the community, and
of
the propriety of the measures adopted at the Man.
sion-housc, for raising a national memorial to
cow_
rnemorate the virtues of the late illustrious Pline
e-.
Chet' could not, they said, close their report
with
,ut referring to the death of their respected presi-
whom the first meeting at the
dent, 31r. Cubitt, by
31ansion-house l'i'M coavehed, which resulted in 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. TrTE, 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. CHARLES
HILL a vote of thanks was accorded to the Lord
Mayor for taking the chair, and the meeting
separated.

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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 Shee 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. Bat there are indirect ways of
conveying desires, that are not offensive in form, and
yet effective in substance. A surmise of the manner
I'n this case will probably not be far from the truth.
n the balanced state of parties the Government is
notoriously dependent for its existence upon a corn-
bination of sectional groups, the defection of any one
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 throru,r;h
the medium of his relative. But for the support
thus proffered ample remuneration is dema:.ded
and exacted. Lord Shaftesbury claims the eccle-
siastical patronage, and possesses it. The fear
of this party may be seen in the wavering speech
and hesitating acts of Lord John Russell in his
treatment of the American question. This was
the party that dictated the rejection of the para-
mount claims of Mr. Serjeant Shee to the judge-
ship, and the ostracism of the Roman Catholic
lawyers by a Government whose profession is
Liberalism, and whose principle used to be reli-
gious liberty. Traced to its source, the cause of
the revival of Roman Catholic disabilities is mani-
fest ; but that which occasions so much surprise
that the Lord Chancellor, usually so firm in his
resolves and so persistent in the maintenance of
thet which he believes to be the truth and the
right, should have permitted the fears of his col-
leagues to sway his own nobler mind, and that ho
.
should have done their bidding contrary t° his
own larger and more liberal principles.
The Times has been silent upon this
most grave
although
matter, but the Daily lelegraph,
Govern-
ent indg-
habitual and very zealous supporter of the
meat, has bravely exercised an independent
Roman Ca--
ment, and denounced the ostracismis
to us
rogtest against the
tholic lawyers in an article which
in this, that, if we were the ildrstiotonpe.
The complaiut
wrong, we do not now
stand
dnbr the public.
of the Prcfession is
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30.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT 1-1
missaryrGeneral Edward Turnbull,---..fieptyssitan Coorn-
Deputy-Assistant Coraruis, from half-pay, be
deceased. eary-General, vice Wrentraore,

AWIIIIALTY, OCT. 29.
Royal Marine Light Infantry Second Lieut. Michael
Al:en blapyltou 13ree to be First Lieutenant, vice Patrick,
deceased.

The following BANKRUPTS
A
the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
Charles Newton, farmer, Ramsey
Robert Clabon Harris, druggist, Aldershot
Henr-
y Defries, gastitter, 11a:di/ley-road
"WILL A. Layland, currier, Bermondsey
Geo. Selby, butcher, Pittield-street, lloxton New-town
Edward Kingsnorth, farmer, Ore Sussex
Thomas .1-Inghes, draper, Larches Oreton, Salop
Antln,ny Eccles' coal proprietor, Wigan
John W. Oldland, tailor, Leicester
William J. Griffiths, shoemaker, Dudley
Francis Marsh, tailor, Chelsea
William Wood, general merchant, Cornhill
\Vm. Witham, grocer, Lower Marsh
Jjoohhnn I;vid
. Cnarrra,stsi, druggist, Hullmberraerchant, Basiol,hall-street
Benjamin Clowem, butcher, Ilanley Paddington
Richard Pickering, livery stable-keeper,
Thomas G. Law, tailor, Liouthwark

. appointment of the General Committee, and the
' adoption of the measures referred to in their report;
and they took that opportunity of markiitg the high
sense they entertained of his uniform courtesy in
presiding over their meetings, and the wa.rm inte-
rest he took in the progress of the fund.
On the motion of Mr. GKEGSON, M.P., s econded
by Mr. BODKIN, the Assistant Judge, it was un-
animously resolved that her Majesty the Queen
having intimated her pleasure that the amount now
invested in the funds be transferred to the trustees
appointed by her Majesty, and to whom the money
voted by Parliament had already been paid, the
trustees of the fund be authorised to transfer the
sum so invested, in accordance with the Queen's
commands.
A conversation then took place in whieth the
Lord Mayor, Mr. Godwin, Mr. Hartridge, end
other gentlemen took part, as to whether it was
do-sirable or otherwise
to continue the Mansion
House Committee.
Mr. Tim , M.P., asked what the use could be of
.
their remaining incorporated after passing a reso-
lution to part with the money. The form of the memo-
rial
dheadd
obveee
rn dtehcei d cpdaur
Parliamentary grant, and the
trustees nominated by the Queen
desired to have
the rest of the money, in order to go on with the
lwork. What was the use, therefore, of their keep-
ing
themselves together ? '!'he design of
either:Ar in
Gil-
bert Scott for the proposed memorial had beenap-
proved, and they had no means of control,
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 thighs
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

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Tr.S WESTERN STATES,

( 'tom the Times' Special Correspondent.)
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Oct. 13.

The d ay has dawned at last—the day big with the
fate of Vallandigham and Ohio. The Democrats
had the dr "grand rally" on Saturday evening last.
The grt eat muster of the Republicans came off last
night. By a " rally" in this country a monster
torehli, ght procession is meant, with banners and
music, and mounted men and triumphal cars, illu-
minations, transparencies, fireworks, Chinese lan-
terns, mottoes, devices, shouts, groans, and hisses,
with an occasional scuffle as the actors in the pa-
geantr y fall in with ill-intentioned spectators hostile
to the it cause. There are instances on record, lam
told, when opposite parties held their rally and
counter rally in the same evening, and the tug of
war from their encounter in the streets was by no
means so terrific as people anticipated. But it has
been 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 shouit4, have their grand march on the last
evening hzt one, and the very last should be left for
the parasans 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 E.mall 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, notwithstanding the lateness of the
lour. He came here last evening at five o'clock, and
his progress from the terminus to the Burnet House,
the hotel where he put up, was waat was called a
" perfect ovation," with cavalry escort, warlike
ad of horsemen, and
a squad rhe alighted
bands, a row of carriages,
eve
a crowdo "
f cheering people-
wherever he set his foot
on the threshold o
from his railway ciara,
public or private house,
"Mr. Secretary" Bras
expected to hold forth, and he
Be.
I shall not write down his
disappointed no
several speeches at full length. I have read them
through, e—
-1,;-e fly 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, tensibiy
and to defeat the efforts of Vallandigham's
supporters. "He hardly knew," he said at Columbus,
4, whether he even had a right to vote in his own
state," 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 cantest 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
like you !")
It is, however, in the minds of most men here
doubtful whether the Secretary really came to vote
for Brough, 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,
and 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 next Presidential
election, and naturally enough be 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
here 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 doll. 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." Tha 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 slaves to-day in the rebel

States."
That, however, is precisvly the whole matter at
issue. Mr. Chase is quite sure that the war is to be
pursued without respite, and that whether by war
or peace slavery has c)me to an end ; but such he
knows very well are not the unanimous views of
the nation, nor of the Cabinet of which he is
a ra.amber. The election of Ohio will, I have little
doubt, terminate in a triumph cf the Republican
party, 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
of moderate men in all countries to be, above all
things, " governative," to go with the Government
through thick and thin, to identify the ruler's
ae with that of the country, and to look upon all
seceders and seceders' friends as traitors, conspire-
tore, and public enemies. In the minds of many of
these worthy citizens the American Union was
where its banner floated on its Capitol—at Wash-
ingtuuiaaullefiiance to Washington was loyalty to the
Union
and C, harl a
eston:ever wrong Washington might be,
wrong side, right, the latter put itself on the
it
pealed to artas itiptt itself out of the law when it ap-
pealed a rebel standard, and fired
upon the Federal
eolThese views and feelings
among all Americans,
are yet strong enough
upright
aeons people
and especially among these
shrink from a vote
vabenple of Ohio, to make them
,bY putting Vallandigham
at the head of their State wieuld create and organise
an official and legal oppo,li
rtoiseU against the Washing-
ton. Government and give
;ever, in the main,
in the State. They are not, dangerous dualism
satisfied with the policy of the
itsYfodtiegusted with
nay, they are, many of them, simasobingten Cabinet;
power
sulrle schemes
poonid be en-
its past conduct and alarmed at
will
aiwevaer, they
bay they think that the menthinel?
into
dured by those who raised
think that their redress is and
their own hands, and they await Mr.LinYcosi be in
his colleagues at the next Presidential election,
when when the question of war and slavery, of 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 not reflect that the
work of emancipation, confiscation, and 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 titre be irreparable, and in the
meanwhile they are willing to give Government the
longest tether; they strengthen it by their staunch,
however reluctant, support, and will prolong Val-
-laladigham's exile until such time as Vallee digharo's
, lelive may be debated on the hustings without fear
of _ ..
weaseaing by division an Executive which will
then be on the eve of its legal and natural downfall.
Democratic
bocyr_th,.eose considerations, I believe, that Ohio, a
4L
ytatte, has been led to give that day a
RepublicanMr, Chase dide'
not limit himself to the exposition
of the general political views by him attributed to
the Government ; lee also, threw out very broad
hints in vindicationashailed of his management of the fin-
ances. He w
t Columbus with " How
are you, Greenback ?”
thoughta and "Bully for you, old
Greenbacks." and he
acknow-
ledge the compliment bya few words on the cur-
he would
rency. " We were in the habit," he said, e of trac-
ing our evils to a peculiar institution
he had endeavoured to do something towards
but
removal of those evils by another peculiar
the
institu-
tion to which they had been pleased several
times
refer. (Laughter and cries of ' Hurrah for Green_
to
backs:) He thought he might felicitate himself,
and them too, that the currency was certain not to
break so 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 tl. should
be so shaped as to secure to that labour s just re-
ward." The same ideas were developei at greater
length in the speech delivered by . Chase at
Mozart Hall in this city. I can hard': 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 1561,
cause no trifling uneasiness to thinking people
throughout America, and chiefly in the West, and
shake their trust in an apparent prosperity arising
apnpyl y
rise, d eifnr atyheed
price by a
of
from the artificial demand created by the war, and
paper
met by an artificial
a
currency. The whole system is hollow at the core,
ndsu
these people think,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 Vallandigbam
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
:if 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, &c. 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 against 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 can keep up the game for the
whole period, if 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 damage, to heal financial
and social wounds with that confidence and alacrity
which characterise these happy tiilers of a virgin
soil. But should a year do nothing or too little
for the close of these civil hostilities, should Octu
ber, 1864, find the country more or less in the same
position as it is in October, 18b3, the hepub-

Beans and the Abolitionists would be at a fearful
discount, and the people would vote for a "peace
man," were his name M'Cfellan, or Buell, or Sey-
mour, or even the '•traitor," Vellandighem. 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 i❑ their readers' eyes. The Southerners
under Bragg are encompassing Rosencranz in front
and rear, and straining every nerve to cut 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 ?