At ta.it there are signs that the scheme for commemorating the jubilee year" of tlio Queen's reign by the ornctioii of an Imperial InStituto ia beginning to emerge from tho embryonic state in which it has hitherto luiu concealed. The complaints which found their way into tho prut* about thn state of uncertainty in which the public wero kept in regard to the outlines and details of tho method by which the Prince of Wales proposed to invite his fellow subjects to celebrate the jubilee year of his mother's roigu appear to have produced a good result. Within the last few days tho Imperial Institute ban been a prominent topic of conversation, and it would seem that the Prince has at length begun to seriously bestir himself in the matter. A week last Sunday, at th« invitation of his Royal High ness, the whole of the executive commissioner!) of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition met together in the Princo of Wales' private rooms at the exhi bition, when this subject was fully discussed. The Princo entered into a good many detailed explanations upon the matter, giving tho commissioners to understand how groatly the Queen and himself wore interested in the jubilee memorial, and how ear nestly they hoped that the colonies would co-operate towards ensuring the success of the same by allowing their Government and, if pos sible, their private collections to remain in England to constitute the nucleus of the Im perial liiKtituto. Ho then informed tho meeting that he had appointed a committee of a few per sonal friends to consider and report upon the general aspects of the Imperial Institute scheme, and to draft the outlines of its basis. Before the meeting separated the Prince warmly thnuked the colonial and Indian repre sentatives and tho executive commissioners for their generous contributions and their general assistance in promoting tho welfare and success of the exhibition, and said that he was convey ing the Queen's thanksj to them together with his own. He also informed them that the ex hibition would close on the 10th inst. without auy kind of ceremony. A PRINCELY SABIIVTIMHIEAKKB. It has of late become a frequent habit with the Prince of Wales to hold meetiugs connected with tho business of the South Kensington Exhibition on Sunday, as he did in tbG case of the meeting just referred to. 