'A meeting at which the Prince of Wales was to have presided was held at Grosvenor House yesterday, under the presidency of the Duke of Westminster, to hear the reports of the Executive Committee which had been appointed to collect ideas as to the most suitable memorial to England's great statesman. The result of their deliberation is a suggestion that a series of monuments or memorials shall be erected in the capitals of England, Scotland, and Ireland. They also suggest the erection as a memorial at Hawarden of x building to contain the books of St. Deniol's Library which were collected during the Grand Old Man's lifetime. Sir William Harcourt in moving the resolution said that he did not desire t- see what he would call "the frock-coat sort of stitue" of the kind that did not exactly adorn Parlinment are, but a monument in " broader sense of the word Sir William Mowbray seconded the resolution and spoke of the wonderful manifestation of feeling evinced during the two days' lying-in-siate at Westminster. He thought the memorial should in som+ way perpetuate that. -Ho too objected to the frock-coat type of statue but thought even, that preferable to due
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