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'ness the PRINCE CONSORT.—At. a PUBLI( • ;:".'
MEETING, I,ld in the EGYPTIAN BALL, Mansion , • •
House, on TUESDAY, the 14th January, 1852, i• /- 41, ' irk • ,
", 04, _
The Right Hon. WM. CUEITT, the Lord Mayor, in the N. /: EtN\ osc, ~i-Ihmk„l‘A cis—%
Chair,
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The following resolutions were unanimously carried :

not show the common humanity of t.
measure of instituting a medical commission to exa-
mine the camps, and, if possible, check the progress
and ravages of disease ? Why was it that, when the
Government had control of the whole line of trans-
portation from the Carolinas and Louisiana to the
depots at Manassas and Centreville, and could have
bought sugar in New Orleans at 3c., it permitted
our army tcksuffer for months for rice, sugar, and
molasses, and winked at the practice of buying
sugar from the sutlers at 40c. a pound ? Why is it
that to-day the Government reeks not what it reads
and tolerates habits of intemperance among officers
end the disuse of regimental drills in our army on
the Potomac ? All of these acts of omission and
negligence, which have contributed to the demo-
ralisation of on: army, might have been avoided.
It is not too late to repair them. We are firmly
convinced that the reform of the condition of our
army, with a wise and firm hand, and the holdirg
out of rewards, not to avarice or idleness, but to the
true patriotic enthusiasm of our country in the pro-
spect of an active military policy and of a share of
military glory, will provide the best security for re-
enlistment and the most successful stimulant to vo-
lunteering. We are firmly convinced that no other
measures will restore the spirit of the volunteer
and enthusiasm of the country."
From Venezuela we learn that Paez was still in
power, but that Monagas had taken possession of
two or three towns.

Moved by th Lord Bishop_of LONDON, seconded by Colonel
WILSON :
"That this meeting, deeply deploring the irreparable loss
the ceuntry has sustained by the lamer), ed death of his late
Reyal highness the Prince C nsort, whose powerful and
ulated mind, and great abi i ie , have tor more than
20 years been mice sing), devoted to improving the condition
of the hu her classes, and to the developm, nt and exten-
sion of cience and art, and to the judicious education and
tra'n eg of the Royal Fami,y, is of opinion that a lasting
Memorial sh, uld be erected, commemorative of his many
Virtues, and expressive (f the gratitude of 'he people."

N° 21.703

PRICE ...4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

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it will be found that these are all the prizes they
will or. can gain for =an enormous expenditure.
Wherever the water is deep enough for their large
ships to get within range of the hasty and insuffi-
cient seacoast defences of the South, they can cer-
tainly batter them down and land their troops.
But then will end their barren glory. Whenever
they attempt to march a column into the land it
will inevitably come to grief. The causes are easily
seen. The seacoast can never furnish a sufficient
basis of operations for an efficient attack on a State
in arms, unless the whole power and force of the
nation that makes it is employed in the adventure.
If the North could give up its whole line of land
operations, take all its armies of the Potomac, Mis-
souri, and Ohio in vessels and transport them to
the shores of Carolina, they might make with
success the inroads they have planned. But we need
fear nothing from columns of 10,000, 15,000, or
20,000 Bull Runners when they leave their vessels
even for a distance of two miles. In no part of the
Southern country, even if they could make such
descent unknown and unheralded, would they find a
land so destitute of men as to become their prey.
We may be content and happy when we hear of
similar efforts, from the rational assurance that they
will arrive at parallel catastrophes. The fear that
some minds entertain of the Northern fleet, and the
consequences of its operations in the South, are not
less without foundation than the security or indiffer-
ence which the firstaccount of its sailing received were
without justification. That fleet can do mischief
to the villages of the coast, but is without power to
inflict a vital or even a disabling wound upon the
Confederacy itself. It will cost the Northern Union
many millions of money, and many a fine ship ; it
will ravage a half-dozen small towns, and cause some
good cotton to be burnt. But whenever the popular
outcry of the North forces the generals who have
charge of it to risk an advance of the smallest and
mildest sort in any part of the interior country, we
will have our revenge, and our enemies will get the
reward of insolence and cowardice. The troops sent
on this expedition, and borne by the transports at-
tached to it, are, like all the troops in the field, raw
and undisciplined. Now, here, as elsewhere, when-
ever the untrained volunteers of the South meet the
untrained volunteers of the North, with an equality
of numbers and commanders, the defeat of the lat-
ter may be assumed as a certainty. The repeated
trials and proofs of this war leave no possible doubt
of the individual superiority of the Southern man
over the Northern man in a personal combat, and
this superiority is still the only element in the
battles fought between the two nations. This is
our security against the fleet and army which oper-
rates this winter on the Southern coast. It is also
our perfect and absolute defence for the present
against the great force collected along our Northern
frontier. So long as the armies of the Union and
of the Confederacy are both composed of recruits
we stand in no danger, and need entertain no appre-
hensions. The dark hour of our trial has not yet
come. It will come whenever M'Clellan has sue
ceeded in converting his Yankees into the involun-
tary machines known to the military science as
regiments, brigades, and divisions. This is the end
that he proposes to himself. This is the secret of
his long delay. This is the work of his hands and
his head at this moment. He may succeed in ex-
ecuting it completely. The most cowardly indi-
viduals of the most unwarlike race, when long sub-
jected to a rigid and methodical discipline, can be
amalgamated into bodies which act with the
certainty and insensibility of combinations of
iron and brass moved by steam and direc •
ted by one human hand. There is no reason to
suppose that the people of the United States are
exceptions to the rule that holds good with Hindoos
Muscovites, and Malays. Their separate pol-
troonery can be overcome by the power of military
organization, and then the courage of our segre-
gated soldiery—however noble—may be broken like
the wave on a mass of stone. Here lies the true
danger of the future. While the North relies on
discipline we trust still to individual superiority ;
and, however brilliant the results that the last has
hitherto gained, and may still secure, it will be
found in the end as inefficient on the American
Continent and in the 19th century as it has ever
been in all other ages and all other lands."
The same paper of the 2d gives a dismal account
of the condition of the Confederate army on the
Potomac :

Moved by Lo;d STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, SCCOTIded by
WESTERN WOOD, , M.P.:
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EDITED EY LADY CAROLINE ELIOT.
Now ready, 1 vol., with an Illustration, as., bound,
WHAT CAN IT BE
Or, The Fact Family Travelling Incognito.

" That the memorial recommended should be of a monu-
mental and national cha'•r+cter, .nd that its design and mo e
0' execution be approved by her Most Gracious Majesty the
Queen."
Moved by Baron LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD, M.P., seconded
by the Hon. GEORGE DENMAN, M.P. :
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Edited by Lady CAROLINE ELIOT.

Hurst and Blackea, 13, Great Mariborough-street.

" That committees throughout the United Kingdom be
formed to raise subscriptions for the proposed memorial, and
that all her Majesty',, subjects be invited to subscribe."
Moved by HARVEY LEWIS, Esq., M.P., seconded by P. LE
NEVE FOSTER, Esq.:—

" That a committee be formed, consisting of the following
noblemen and gentlemen, to carry into effect the foregoing
resolutions, with power to add to their number, and that the
-Right Hon. the Lord Mayor be President of the same and
Treasurer of the fund."

Moved by the Earl of_COVENTftY, seconded by SAMUEL

MORLEY, EBGI :

" That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor for convening and presiding
over the same."

President—The Right Hon. WM. CUBITT, Lord Mayor.
COMMITTEE
Th eR ight Hon. an cl R ight ev.
the Lard Bishop of London.
The Right Hon. the Liird
Stratford de Redcliffe.
Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T.
The Earl of Coventry.
Lo.d G. Gordon Lennox, M.P.
L Ord Elcho, M.P.
The Hon. G. Denman, M.P.
The Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P.
The Hon. J. S. Wortley.
Sr Moses Montefiore, Bart.
Sir Morton Peto, Bart., M.P.
Sir Thos. Phillips.
Sir E. A ntrobus. Bart.
Sir C. Wen'worth Dilke, Brt.
The-Very Rev. Dr. Millman,
Dean °f St. Paul's.
The Baron L. de Rothschild,
Mr. Alderman Copeland, Kr-
Mr. Alderman Wilson.
Sir F. G. Moon. Bart., Alder-
man.
SirJ.MusFirrove,Bt., Alderman
Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P.
Mr. Alderman Rose.
Mr. Alderman Phillips.
Mr. Alderman GabrieL
Mr. Al erman Mecht.
Mr. Alderman Besiey.
Mr. Alderman Dakin.
Mr. A:der.nan Finnis
Mr, Alderman Sidney, 31. P.
Mr. Alderman Lawrence.
Mr. Aid. man t'. J. La% rence.
Mr. Alderman Hale.
Mr. Alderman Abbis..
G. J. Cockerell, Esq., Sheriff of
London and Middlesex.
W.H.Twentyman,Esq.,sheriff
of London and Middlesex.
hn Alger, Esq.
N. Alexander, Esq.
W. Angers- ein, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Baring. Esq , M.P.
Joshua Bates, Esq., M.P.
W,‘ • H. B iikin, Esq.
Rev W. Brock.
S. Butler, Fs M.P.
Thos ambers, Com-
mon. Sergeant.
With power to add to their number.

Harry Chester, Esq.
Henry Cole, Esq., C.B.
R W. ('rauford, Esq., M.P.
A. A. Croll, ESQ.
Geo. Cubitt, Esq., M.P.
W. Dent, Esq.
Jno. Dillon, Esq.
P. Le Nev, Foster, Esq.
R. Esq,
J. Griffith Frith, Esq.
' Mr. Deputy Fry.
Rev. Michael Gibbs, M.A.
W. Gilpin, Esq.
Henry Gbinn, Esq.
G. Godwin. Eb.q., F.R.S.
P. Graham, Esq.
•4 Gregson, Esq., M.P.
Russell Gurney, Esq., QC.,
i Recorder.
T. Hankey. Esq., M.P.
Wm. nartridge, Esq.
Chas. Bill, Esq.
W. ti owes, Esq.
Wm Humphery, Esq.
Harvey Lewis, Esq., M.P.
S. P. Low, Esq.
J. C. Macdon,,ld, Esq.
Kdw . Alarjoribanks, Esq.
Chas. Mills, Esq.
G. Moffatt, r sq.. 11. P.
Saml. Mo,ley, Esq.
W. Murray, E-q., M.P.
J. T. Norris, F,sq.. M.P.
Mr. Deputy Obard.
R. N. Fhillipps Esq.
Henry ober a, Esq.
Abei ,-mith, f sq., M.P.
S. G. Smith, Esq., M.P.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Thos. Sopwith, Esq.
James Spicer, 1' sq.
W. Sportiswoode, Esq.
W. Tite, Esq., M.P.
Sir .Tas.
Richd. Westmacott, Esq.,
R.A., F.R.S.
W. Foster White, Esq.
Thos. Winkwnrth, sq.
West rn W od, Esq., M P.
John Wood, Esq.
C. White, Esq.

The Right 'Ron. W.
Cubitt. Ld. Mayor £lOO 0 0
The Society of Arts.l,oso 0 0
The Governor and
Company of the
Bank of Engl nd 500 0 0
The Rio, Nona is.
Palmerston.. .. 100 0 0
The kt, lion. Earl
Russell 100 0 0
The Marquis Clan-
ricarde. i‘ .P. .. 50 0 0
The Marquis Bread-
albane, tt.T. .. 105 0 0
Lord Str •tford de
kedeliffe, G.O 8...
The I old Bishop of
London • •
The Lord.Blehop of
Exeter .. 100 0 0
Alessrs.Baring• Bro-
thers and Co. .. 210 0 0
Are: tys N. M.Roths-

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£55 0 0
Sir H. M. Cairns,
M.P. • • 52 10 0
Sir Frannie Gold-

Bart.. —31:1". 100 0 0
Fred k. D.Goldsmid,
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Sit George 52
toorve T,Smart 5 5 o
Rev. W. G. II aw-
tayne 1 1 0
Hunt and Roskell 20 0 0
Negretti and %am-
bra 10 10 0
Thomas Page, E ;q. 10 10 0
Hon. Geo. ~.enman,
M. P. .. 10 10 n
Charles Hill, Esq... 10 i 0 0
W. Foster White,
14:sq.. 10 10 0
Peter Graham, Esq. 10 10 0
Joseph Causton,
Eb.. 10 10 0
Fredkq. Beslev, Esq. 10 10 0
T. William Helps,
Esq.. .. 10 10 0
Harvey Lewis, Esq.,
M.P. .. 10 10 0
Charles Cand ,Esq. 10 10 0
SamL .regson,Esq.
M.
Edwd. Jas. Jerome, 55 0
H. G. Bohn, Esq.., 55 0
Joshua Gallworth,
Itc q„ 5 5 0
George Godwin,
Esq., F.R.S. .. 5 5 0
Robert Broadwater,
Esq.. .. 55 0
Predk.Woodthorpe,
Esq., Town C'erk 2 2 0
R. N. Philipp9,Esq., 2 2 0
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C. Grlmwade, Esq.. 5 5 0
John Wood, Esq... 6 5 0
W. A. :-haw, Esq.. 6 5 0
Mr ,erjeant Payne 5 5 0
Mr. Deputy Obbard 5 5 0
J. W. Butterworth,
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Gisborne Molineux,
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White and Co, .. 25 0 0
Thomas Ratley,
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William Dent, Esq. 10 10 0
J. W. Gilbart, Esq.,
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Sir C. Wentworth

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thy.," 210 0 0
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keßsrs. Coutta and
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August G-ldstald, _ _

" The present condition of our army is a cause of
severe and painful anxiety. The courage of our
troops is not abated, the eagerness for the fray is
not relaxed, and yet demoralization is creeping in,
we fully believe, from the insane and reckless
neglect of the Government to sustain and to culti-
vate the spirit of our soldiery. There is too much
drunkenness among the officers on the Potomac,and
too much vacant idling among the men. We are
informed as a positive fact that in the majority of
the army on the Potomac the practice of regimen-
tal drills bas fallen into complete disuse. This
alone would be sufficient to demoralize any army in
circumstances such as ours. The drill is not only
essential for schooling the soldier, it fulfils other
vastly important and essential purposes. It de-
velopes and educates the physique, fortifies the sol-
dier against disease, and, what is perhaps the most
important moral consideration of all, gives him oc-
cupation for a portion of his time each day, and
protects him, at least measurably, against the can-
ker worm of the army—ennui. What can be pre-
d:cted but utter demoralization for an army whose
condition is that of tens of thousands of metylving
in utter idleness, grovelling in their tents, with no
other occupation than what is afforded by the
greasy pack of cards that is the inevitable inmate of
every tent, or the yellow-covered novel, whose
wretched and perhaps filthy entertainment has
more than once gone the rounds of the company ?
We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the
army is becoming a name of terror and dread
in the minds of our citizens. The newspapers are
still filled with advertisements of bonuses for sub-
stitutes, although the War Department has adopted
a rule restricting the number of substitutions to
one in each company. The rates paid for substitutes
are enormous. We are informed that they average
from 200 dols to 250 dols, and we have been told of
a recent instance where 1,500 dols was paid for the
prompt procurement of a substitute to take the
place of a private suddenly constrained to leave the
army. Evidences stare us in the face of the unwil-
lingness of men to accept the life of famine, dirt,
and vacant idleness in the army. Richmond is filled
with soldiers who have come out of the hospitals,
or who have got here on some pittance or other,
naap-
plying for discharges, and striving an
in all sorts of ways to get out of the arindy. w.
rigltgli was
s
but a few days ago that a soldier u
discharged
rather
dfrom
one of the hospitals here committed
than be constrained to return to the army.
There is no unwillingness among our young
men to serve their country. There are
thousands who would willingly go with
their lives on their sleeves to battle with the
ls to the
in
tc
the h m
enEmy, and to attest a devoted and courageous pa
triotism, but who dread betaketo
va
vacancy,
a themselves
idleness
,
apa. This is the restraint upon volunteer-
wrecead, half-fed life of dirt,
volunteer-
ing. The Government will in vain essay to remove
it by a bounty law for re-enlistments—the provi-
sions of which, by the way, for c impany reorgani-
sation has already, we understand, proved a fruitful
source of intrigue and demoralisation in our army
—without other measures that will reach to the root
of the evil, The authorities at Richmond may
assure themselves that, as long as the health of the
army is neglected, and it is maintained in its dirty,
sluggard condition, the drills neglected, the half-
rations of commissaries winked at, the rowdyism of
officers passed over, and the vacancy and idleness
of a a defensive policy' held out as rewards to
volunteering, the army will not be filled
and replenished but from few classes of
our people. Why was it that when our soldiers,

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