The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-08 00:00:00

THE PRINCE CONSORT MEIIIO.RIAL.

Yesterday again, at 3 o'clock, the Earl of Derby,
the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Cubitt, Lord Mayor, and
Sir C. Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy,
the noblemen and gentlemen composing the com-
mittee of advice nominated by the Queen to assist
her Majesty in the choice and mode of execution of
a design for the proposed national memorial of the
lamented Prince Consort, held a meeting on the
subject in the Council-room of the Fine Arts Com-
mission at the Palace of Westminster.
The brief notice of their preliminary meeting
which appeared in The Sun of Monday has resulted
in a number of communications being addressed to
the committee by the owners and lessees of granite
quarries in various parts of the country, relative to
their respective capacities to yield a monolith of
adequate grandeur for the proposed memorial. A
perusal of these tends to dispel the notion, which
had been previously entertained in some quarters,
that the search for a single stone of the requisite di-
mensions in this country would be attended with in-
calculable difficulty. One of the letters affords infor-
mation of a very remarkable character on this sub-
ject. The Ross of Mull Granite Company state that
they can supply a monolith of red granite larger than
any known column inexistence. The obelisk fron tin g
the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, they say, is the
largest one in Europe, measuring 93ft. They state
that they can exceed that by at least 7ft. in length,
and with a corresponding excess in diameter. This
stone, said to have been hitherto unnoticed, is re-
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been discovered in the Tormore locality, and, what
is still more remarkable, to be already quarried on
three sides. It is described, moreover, as lying just
at the surface of the ground, with a fine open field
in front on which it could be rolled out and
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feet at the base, and only 4 foct at the top; its
height being 93 feet. Besides this letter, there is
also the one which appeared in our impression of
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Thursday last, to the effect that in the granite for-
mation between Penryn and Helston, monoliths can
be shown at this moment of several thousand cubic
feet, perfectly sound and without a single defect.
Yesterday
These are but two examples, among many others, of
the information which has been elicited on the
subject.
the committee was chiefly occupied in
the consideration of the enormous difficulties with
which the operations, first of quarrying a monolith
of the desired dimensions, then of transporting it to
its ultimate destination, and finally of rearing it,
would be attended. Assuming, for which there is
reason, such a stone at a rough calculation to weigh
armwsome 600 tons, a ton being a horse load, a faint idea
may be formed of the prodigious labour and risk of
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monument. _

THE FATAL FIRE AT NEWINGTON.—An inquiry
into the circumstances attending the death of Emma Gay-
nor, who, as alleged, Lost her life by fire on Wednesday
morning last, as already reported in our columns, was held
last night at the Newington Workhouse, by Mr. William
Carter, coroner for East surrey. The jury at once returned
4 verdict of Accidental death,