The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-21 00:00:00

The Reform League.

The Executive Committee of the above League met at
their rooms, 8, Adelphi-terrace; Strand, on Friday evening
East. Edmond•Beales, Esq., President, in the chair.

The minutes of the last meeting having been read, with
some amendments, and confirmed, correspondence was
read from Poplar, Plaistow, Wakefield, Glasgow, and Lei-
cester.

The PRESIDENT read the answer which he had received
from Mr. Gladstone to the address of the Committee of the
League ; and it was resolved that the address and answer
be sent to the papers.'

Mr. GEO. ODGER reported the results of a deputation to
a large branch of the Cordwainers' Society, Chiswell-
street, Finsbury-square. The deputation, consisting of
the Secretary and himself, was most courteously received ;
and after they had.explained the principles and objects of
the Reform League, a resolution was carried unanimously
to subscribe £5 to its funds. It was further resolved that
a branch of the League be formed, and a numerous and
earnest committee was elected for that purpose.
A vote of thanks being given to the deputation for their
attendance, they expressed themselves highly gratified
with the results of the interview, and withdrew.
Resolved :—" That a cordial vote of thanks be tendered
to the President for his very able letter in vindication of
the Council, and urging a unanimous and energetic sup-
port of the objects of the League."

It was also resolved :—" That steps be taken to orga-
nise the holding of a series of public meetings in the un-
dermentioned towns in the vicinity of London ; and that
arrangements be made for the attendance of members of
the Executive Committee at such meetings. The towns
being as follows :—Brentford, Staines, Uxbridge, Croydon,
Richmond, Watford, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, and
Romford.

After the transaction of some routine business, the
meeting separated.

THE REFORM LEAGUE AND THE CHANCELLOR

OF THE EXCHEQUER.

Sin,—The Executive Committee of the Reform League
desire to offer you their very sincere congratulations upon
your being chosen to represent in Parliament the great
manufacturing and agricultural interests of South Lanca-
shire.

Without wishing to deprecate the value of the peculi-
arities, which, rich with the many precious' memories of
early distinction, and of the struggles, triumphs, and
friendships of youth, as well as of more mature renown,
united you closely and affectionately to Oxford for so many
years, and secured to you to the last the fidelity and sup-
port of most of those whose own eminence could give lustre
to their choice, the committee cannot .but feel that the posi-
tion of Representative of a larger and more popular con-
stituency, the title of Representative of the People, in
whom you have so cordially avowed your trust, best be-
come the statesman, whose name is for ever identified
with the cause of commercial, financial, and political
progress ; and they fervently thank the blindness of party
for giving up to the nation one of the most gifted and large
hearted of her sons.

Rejoicing in the assurance that your past career is the
best guarantee for tho truth and worth of your future
patriotism, relying upon the national sympathies, genuine
love of freedom, and spirit of lofty independence, which
have hitherto nerved your eloquence and animated your
labours to reduce the burdens, and promote the material
welfare and prosperity of our country, the committee look
with confidence to your aid for the prudent working out
of any further just and needful reform, and the accomplish-
ment of what may most effectually tend to develope, unite,
and harmonise the energies and interests of all ordors in the
State, by the removal of invidious class distinctions, and
the extending the area of the constitution until it shall,
not in theory only, but in practice, embrace all within its
pale, or, at least, all who cannot be clearly shown to be
unfit to enjoy the privileges and exercise the rights of
citizenship.—With heartfelt congratulations, I have the
honour to be, sir, on behalf and by order of the committee
of the League, your very humble servant,

EDMOND BEALES.
Office of the Reform League, 8, Adelphi-terrace,

Strand, London, W.O.
To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.

Hawarden, Aug. 10, 1865.

Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of the obliging
letter which you have addressed to me on behalf of the
executive committee of the Reform League. And I sin-
cerely trust that this and any other proof of the indulgent
judgment which is formed by my fellow-countrymen of the
characters and acts of public men may serve as a new en-
couragement to the steady performance of duty during
whatever may remain to me of political life.— I have the
honour to be, sir, your most obedient and faithful servant,
W. E. GLADSTONE.
Edmond Beales, Esq.

A SERIES OF ALMANACKS, ONCE THE PROPERTY
OF SCHILLER, the poet, in which he had made numerous
manuscript memoranda, has been recently republished in
Germany. One entry is to the effect that, in August, 1799,
he wrote a letter to It: B. Sheridan, who was then tran-
slating " Pizarro." The conjecture has been made that
the lion. Mrs. Norton, who possesses most of her distin-
guished grandfather's correspondence and papers, also has
that letter.

DR. ARNOLD'S HOUSE.--The old house at Lale-
ham, where Dr. Arnold lived with his pupils before
his election to the headmastership of Rugby, and which is
mentioned by him with such affection in the letters pub-
lished in Dean Stanley's life, has just been pulled down,
and the Earl of Lucan, who has purchased the advowson
of the living, is about to erect on the site a parsonage
which hitherto has Ir)t been among the emoluments of the
living.—Guardian.
THE LOVES OF THE CHIMPANZEES.—The Zoologi-
cal Society has just received a male chimpanzee.
The introduction of the stranger to the female in the gar-
den was an amusing fact. The two creatures rushed into
each other's arms, like stage lovers. They kissed each
other; then the male chimpanzee• patted the female's face,
danced round her, took her round the waist, as if he were
going to waltz, when they expressed their joy by dancing
and bowling in ludicrous concert.—Athaucum.