The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-10 00:00:00

THE PRINCE CONSOBT'DIBMO.RIAL.

Yesterday a meeting of the committee engaged
in raising a fund for the proposed national memo-
rial of the Prince Consort was held at the Mansion
House. There were present the Lord Mayor, Mr.
Alderman *Wilson, Mr. Alderman Abbiss, Mr.
George Godwin, Mr. Charles Hill, Mr. William
Humphrey, the Rev. Michael Gibbs, Mr. Goodman,
and Mr. S. Brown. They were occupied for some
time in reviewing their past proceedings, and in
considering how they could still further carry
out the object for which they were embodied at
the public meeting held in the middle of Janu-
ary, at which the movement originated. Nothing,
however, of public interest transpired, ex-
cept the fact that the fund up to yesterday
amounted to £44,240, of which £913 had been
contributed during the last week. Allusion was
made to the adverse influences with which
the committee had had to contend. The de-
plorable calamity at the Hartley colliery occurring
just at the time when the fund was being set on
foot necessarily and unavoidably diverted the pub-
lic mind for a time from the consideration of the
irreparable loss which the country had sustained
in the death of the illustrious Prince, and absorbed
in a work of mercy of the most pressing nature,
what, probably, to a considerable extent would have
been devoted to the work of perpetuating his me-
mory. Again an obelisk, and if possible a mono-
litic obelisk, having by a preponderance of opinion
been indicated as the form which the proposed
monument ought to take, and there being no ex-
ample of the kind worthy of the name in this coun-
try, it has been a work of difficulty to get even
intelligent people to realise first the cost of such an
undertaking, and then the wisdom of expending the
fund in that way. By many it appeared to have
been forgotten that a monolith, though by far the
most conspicuous, was not the only feature in the
design as shadowed forth in the letter of General
Grey Conveying the expression of her Majesty's
personal wishes on the subject, and that a mete-
rial portion of that design might consist of a series
of artistic groups, emblematical of incidents and
features in the Prince's life and character, which
endeared him to the nation at large.
The committee which is now being formed in
connection with the Society of Arts with the view
of interesting the working classes throughout the
kingdom in the proposed national memorial, was
the subject of friendly conversation at the meeting.
The proposed committee was regarded as auxiliary
to that at the Mansion House, and as designed to
co-operate with it in carrying out the common
object.

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ITIIE NEWSPEV.DE.RS' ENEVOIENT
I AND _PROTECTION SOCIETY.

The twenty-third annual meeting of the members
of this society was held last evening at the News
Exchange, Black Horse-court, Fleet-street, Mr.
Kennedy in the chair, for the purpose of consider-
ing and confirming the amended rules of the insti-
tution passed at the last annual meeting, and for
the transaction of the regular yearly business. Mr.
Hoskins (the secretary) read the rules as amended,
which were put to the meeting seriatim by the
Chairman, and declared to be carried, subject to
some verbal alterations. A new rule was then
added, declaring every donor of 10 guineas and
upwards a vice-president of the society. The Secre-
tary then read the annual report, which, having
regretted that so many members of the trade still
held aloof from the society, stated that the annual
subscriptions for the past year had amounted to
£46 25., and the donations to £76 19s. 6d., show-
ing an increase of income over the previous year
of £ll 13s. 6d. The amount thils received had
enabled the committee to add £5O to the in-
vested stock of the society, and left them a ba-
lance on the year of £53 12s. 33. It might appear
at the first glance that the amount of income was
thus more than sufficient to meet the demands of
the society, but it should be recollected that the
amount to be given in relief to pensioners was
limited to the amount received as dividends on the
invested stock, and consequently the number of pen-
sioners can only be increased by the continual in-
vestment of capital. The committee have at present
many urgent applications for election, but cannot
afford them any relief until, by an increase in the
funded property or the decrease of some of the pre-
sent recipients of the fund, they can add to the list
of pensioners. They trust that during the coming
year they may be placed in a position to reduce the
list of applicants. The amount of stock invested
was now £1,875. The anniversary festival was
fixed to take place on the 2d of May, at which Mr.
Charles Dickens had consented to preside. The
report was adopted after a brief discussion.