The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

REFORM DINNER IN PARIS.

The ational says, " 1,200 electors of Paris assembled
yesterday (t riday) afternoon, at the Château Rouge, to
make a remarkable demonstration in favour of electoral
reform. The spectacle was magnificent. The most
perfect order did not prevent the expression of the
warmest sentiments. We confine ourselves, at present,
to a description of the general impression. It was most
excellent.

" The assembly was constituted after the model of the
central committee of electors, which organized and
directed it with as much zeal as intelligence. The great
majority of the Opposition deputies figured there beside
the representatives of the Paris press and of that of th,
departments. The Marseillaise hymn was executed
by a full band, and was loudly applauded. We
shall after to-morrow give a detailed account
of the orators and their speeches. They were all
applauded lit). an assembly animated. by. a patriotic. fire
such as will ever animate any meeting invoked in recol-
lection of the principles of the French revolution.. M.
Lasteyrie, the elder, a veteran of '89,. and ever. consistent
in his principles, presided. The vice-presidents were
MM. Recurt and Paguerre. The assembly separated
towards 11 o'clock, after a manifestation that must pro-
duce a profound sensation throughout France."
" Eleven hundred and forty tickets for this dinner
were issued," says our private letter, " and only sixty of
that number remained unpresented. The tickets were
strictly personal; no transfer was allowed. The most
rigid scrutiny was exercised to prevent the intrusion of
any but the person named on each ticket. The police
were consequently unrepresented at the banquet. The
doors were opened at five, but dinner was not served
till eight o'clock. A band of sixty musicians were in
attendance, which when the company sat down to table
struck up the Mar3eillaise to the derangement of many
whose enthusiasm suppressed their appetite.
" Out of doors the first notes of the hymn put an end
to the decorous silence of the 3,000 men who sun ounded
the château. 1 say with surprise their silence, for al-
though they amounted to that number, and although the
request of the stewards to have, as usual at public
entertainments, a few Municipal Guards present to pre-
serve order was not complied with, the utmost decorum
was observed by that immense crowd. "La Marseil-
laise" was, however, irresistible. The thousand men
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stanzas, you will admire the constancy and the power
lungs of those who added one cheer more to that for-
midable repetition."
The Commerce states that the following toasts were
given at the electoral reform banquet at the Château
Rouge on Friday :—" The national Sovereignty," b
M. de Lasteyrie ; " The Revolution of July" byj
MM. Recurt and Odilon Barret ; " Electoral' and
Parliamentary Reform," by MM. Paguerre and
Duvergier de Hauranne ; " The city of Paris," by MM.
Serrard and Marie ; " The improvement of the con
dition of the Labouring Classes," by MM. Grizier and
Gustave de Beaumont ; " The Press," by MM. Riglet
Chambolle and F. Degeorge ; " The Deputies of the
Opposition," by MM. Hamelin and Leon de Malleville
11. Armand Marrast, the editor of the National, was
likewise to have spoken, but he was compelled by sudden
indisposition to withdraw before the conclusion of the
banquet.
The whole affair terminated at a quarter past eleven
o'clock, without the occurrence of the slightest disorder.

OVERWORK AMONG THE FaßatEns.---Near Gains-
borough, Lincoln, and Louth, the labourers walk ev,n
longer distances than near Reading. I am informed of
instances where they walk as far as six miles, that is,
12 miles daily, or seventy-two miles weekly, to and from
their places of work. Let us consider tae bare economy,
the mere waste of labour, and what a state of agricul-
tural management is indicated by the fact that such a
waste can have taken place. Fifteen miles a day is the
regular march of infantry soldiers, with two rest days—
one on Monday and one on Thursday; twenty-four miles
is a forced march. The man who expends eight miles
per diem, or forty-eight miles per week, expends to the
value of at least two days' hard labour per week, or one
hundred in the year, uselessly, that might be expended
usefully and remuneratively in production. How different
is it in manufactories, and in some of the mines, or at
least in the best managed and most successful of them!
In some mines as much as 2,0001. and 3,000/. is paid for
new machinery to benefit the labourers, and save them
the labour of ascending and descending by ladders. In
many manufactories they have hoists to raise them and
their loads from lower to upper rooms, to save them the
labour of toiling up stairs, to economise their strength
for piecework to mutual advantage. The Rev. Frederick
Peel. of Gainsborough, informs me, " I have farms
under my knowledge where the labourers, going to and
fro, do not walk less than a hundred miles a week." The
whole of this mileage, paid partly by the farmer and
ownerpartly bbyinlthseelfl,abmounyrebr,e
setan downd inp
to the law o f paroch•lart, eventually, by the
settlement. —Mr. Chadwick's Speech at a Meeting of the
Farmers' Club.
KING'S COLLEGE ITOSPITAL.--Sunday morning
a sermon on behalf of the funds of this institution was
prueeßeenh''sdquaatre,thßelecohmusrbuuhry, of
by the
tGbeeorigieer.thlevAlsabrtoyrrt:
Queen square,
rector, &c. During a most eloquent discourse,
the Re
v. Gentleman stated that the benefit of the charity
annually extended to nearly 20,000 individuals, most of
whom were admitted upon application without sub-
scribers' letters of recommendation, which rendered the
institution one of the most serviceable throughout the
kingd,an. In furtherance of the same benevolent object,
and at the same church, in the evening, a sermon was
delivered by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St.
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