A proposal has been made, from an official quarter, of
a purpose to -which the Exhibition Palace, or a portion of it, may now be ap- propriated, as a memorial of the works of industry which it has enshrined. The local Committee of the Exhibition for Bolton yes- terday adopted resolutions, suggesting that the gratitude and admiration universally entertained towards Prince Albert should be recorded by the erection of a column and statue in bronze, at the centre of the space now occupied by the Palace, or in some other appropriate site ; that if the Palace be removed, so much of its materials should be purchased as would suffice to rear, in one or other of the new Parks for the People, a 4#1tilding to receive the specimens, models, drawings, engravings, printed booki, manuscripts, 8coa., relative to the Exhibition, which it is desirable to preserve,-that building to be open gratuitously to the public, and the salaries of officers to be defrayed from the surplus fund obtained by the Commissioners; and lastly, that the site and dimensions of the Crystal Palace itself be marked in Hyde Park, by placing at each corner of the site monoliths of granite, bearing deeply-incised inscriptions recording such leading facts of the construction, opening, and existence of the building, as shall be deemed interesting to future generations,—the mo- noliths to be made suitable for the bases of statues emblematic of the four great divisions of the Exhibition or the four continents which con- tributed to them.
The visitors to the Exhibition and the sums received, since our last reckoning, have been as follows. The increase is marked.
Numbers. Receipts.
Saturday, September 13, .... 16,273 .... 11444 5s. Monday, „ 15, .... 60,469 .... 2935 0 Tuesday, V) 16, .... 62,622 3009 9
Wednesday, „ 17, .... 52,757 .... 2551 1 Thursday, „ 18, .... 58,600 .... 2810 1
Friday, 19 21 488 2927 2 6d.
It is stated by an Oxfordshire journal, the Banbury Guardian, that the Solicitor-General, Sir W. Page Wood, has intimated to his legal agent in Oxford his determination not to accept the appointment of Vice-Chan- cellor.
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