The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-09 00:00:00

A deputation consisting of the lion. C. Hanbury
Tracy, M.P., Lord Eliot, M.P., Mr. Gordon Robow,
M.P., Admiral Erskine, M.P., Mr. P. D. Hadow. Ad-
miral Sr W. H. Hall, Mr. Henry Bayley, Captain Lovell,
Captain Guthrie, and Captain Weston, had an interview,
yesterday, with the Duke of Richmond, at the aloe of
the Board of Trade, on the subject of the erection of a
lighthouse on the Great Basses Rocks, off the Island of
Ceylon.

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TIIE REFORM LEAGUE AND TILE GUILDHALL
MaLTINO.— A meeting of the general council of theleague
was held last evening at the office in Adelphi-terrace,
Strand • Mr. Edmond Busies in the chair. Mr. 0.
Davis broupbt up a report from the sub-committee ap-
toitibAl to inquire into tho cause of the disturbance crested
at the recent meeting in the Guildhall in support of the
Diehl-hunch Suspensory Bill. The report stated that the
committee had iecertamed from various evidence that 460
ii hail been engaged by the tory agents in the neigh-
bourhoods of Whiteehapel, Westminster, and Deptford, at
the of 2s. (id. each, who had beau placed under the
tomtnrind of three men, named Bennett, Pitman, and
Craig, who took them down to the Guildhall early on the
morning of the meeting and placed them iu different parts
of the hall, with instruct:one to hoot, hiss, and
pliout whenever certain signals were given by any of the
three penons above named, who were stationed on the
pulite m. A man named Harman had made au affidavit
that he was captain over a gang of men thus engaged by
Mr. &molt, from whom tho day after the meeting ho re-
oeivi d 6d. each for the men he had hired. Upon this
nth eavit the committee instructed Mr. Torr, the barrister,
to apply to Mr. Alderman Camton, the sitting magistrate
ut tsuildhull last wick, for a summons against Mr.
Bennett, bet that magi:trate declined to hear the case
. opt in a private loon, a course to which Mr. Tort
would not consent, and the case was ultimately dismissed
en the ground of a technical infinmality in the affidavit.
'I he report wra adopted uud a resolution was agreed to,
inrti tiding the committee to get a new affidavit prepared,
in order that another application should be made by Mr.
Torr for a summons against Mr. Bennett. The remainder
of the sitting was occupied with a discussion on the ledger
franchire, and the best way of getting the lodgers on the
new register.

NATIONAL ORPHAN How.—Thu annual ban-
ouct of tine institution, which took place yesterday at the
Castle Hotel, Richmond, was presided over by the Right
Hon. Chiehmter Forteecue, H. P. who took occasion to
ds-
icribe the rettult of his personal experience of the home,
and proceeded to pond out the history and pro-
gross of the institution fawn the period of its
cou.iinneement. The home had been rendered
capable of ritviving a much huger number of children
than it bad hitherto been enabled to accommodate ; but
unit rtutate y the annual subscriptions wero small iu pro-
portion to the amount required for au-lying on the opera-
tiot a of the in, ttittion, and hence the war nittoe of
matagerrent we:e often ilistioafed by a feeling of anxiety
which was calculated to interfere with their exertions.
he in titrtinn wee Wttn tlarrv.ug of bc:ag pla ud on
Retire and ptrraercet footing, and in that caavlction ho
warmly cen.r:tceded it t the wi :hot of all who
itpptt e fstedit t ratite and I'mpoltr_nce. !dr. Warwlet, the
14+, e.rti y. thin „mixnhrtes robseriptions an:yin:log to
aft., t 511,1.

( ItYKTAL PALACE. ONE 131ITLIANO DAY.—
'lll t S ItnAY,JLL.Y —Athaiasious by saw= ticket', 7,633;
ditto on ry=cnt, 1'.433-W; total, 21,030.