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

THE P.RIIV GE CONSORT MEMORIAL.

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 bas 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, :did that a mete-
rial portion of that desigli might consist of a series
of artistic
ntilegzps, emblematical of incidents and
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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