The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-31 00:00:00

During the sitting of yesterday a very efi: rata
and general protest, in which the Lord Mayor con-
curred, was made among the members of the com-
mittee, and especially by Mr. S. Morley, Mr. J. A,
Smith, M.P., and the Rev. W. Rogers, against the
committee, with the funds at their disposal, under-
taking to relieve ordinary distress, the relief of
which properly devolved upon the poor law orga-
nisation, and against any part of the fund going to
ease the poor rates. They contended that they were
a committee to mitigate Furely exceptioird, as dis-
tinguished from ordinary, distress in the ag;.;regat%
and especially exceptional distress among the lab,,nr..
ing classes bordering both sides of the river, -‘ here,
from a number of concurring causes, the de:..titattion
twhaes
duanyp rtil•ic,t:t‘dienn tsce,
instances o
tecilicl
nat h "or -se of
ceotii)
Ai
flees
had been expressly Unned to make appl' dons to
share in the fund at the disposal of the Lord
Mayor's committee, and that little or no local effort
had been previously made, even in subut•ban neigh-
bourhoods with a considerable infusion of wealthy
inhabitants to relieve the exceptional distress. A
case in point was furnished in West Kensington,
where the rates are only 7i-d. in the pound, as com-
pared with ss, and even Cs. in the pound in some of
the poorest districts of the metropolis. A small de-
putation from West Kensington attended yesterday
to ask for a grant, but the committee unanimously
and emphatically declined to entertain the application.
The committee yesterday made the following
grants :—To the Tower-hill district, £3OO ; St.
Mary's, Newington, £lOO ; St. Mary's Whitechapel,
£2OO ; the Haggerstone Soup Kitchen, £27 ; a dis-
trict in Saffron:hill, £25 uuder special circum-
stances; Lambeth (waterside..diatrict), £2OO ; St.
Thomas, Charterhouse, 1.50 ;---Ceist.cterss- Soup
Kitchen, Clerkenwell, £3O ; and the German House
of Mercy in Victoria-park, £25. •

The Pi oposed Reform League Demonstration

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.

The adjourned meeting of the delegates from the
branches of the Reform League, and from the Trade,
Benefit, and Temperance Societies, was held last
evening at the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, Fleet-
street, Mr. Edmond Bealcs in the chair, for the pur-
pose of receiving a report from the Executive Com-
mittee on the programme for the day's proceedings.

The CHAIRMAN, after expressing his pleasure at
seeing so numerous a meeting of delegates, read the
programme as proposed by the committee as fol-
lows :—London was to be divided-into five districts
as follows—No. 1. All societies in the west, west
central, and central districts to assemble in Trafal-
gar-square. No. 2. Those in the south, south-
western, and south-eastern in the Birdcage-walk,
St. James's Park. No. 3. Those iu the north, north-
eastern, and north-western in Leicester-square. No.
4. Those in the east and east central in Russell-
square. No. 5. Composed entirely of the Temper-
ance Societies, in Lincoln's-inn-fields. The whole
of the societies to be at their respective district
places of meeting at 1 o'clock, and the first division,
or Trafalgar-square district, to leave that place pre-
cisely at half-past 1 o'clock, en route for the Agri-
cultural-hall, the other divisions falling in the ranks
in their due order. The route is to be as follows :
Trafalgar-square, Pall-mall, St. James's-street, Pic-
cadilly, Regent-street, Oxford-street, Portland-
place, Park-crescent, Euston-road, Pentonville-hill,
Islington-road, Agricultural Hall. The procession
from Trafalgar-square will be preceded by carriages
containing the deputations from the Northern Re-
form Union, the Irish, Scottish, ,and Provincial
Branches of the Reform League, the Northern Re-
form League, and the Working Men's Association,
each deputation being accompanied by the banner of
its society. Provision is made for those bodies who
have signified their intention of coming into London
by railway to assemble in St. James's-square, and
to join the first division as it passes along Pall-
mall. The meeting at the Agricuturall-hall is to
cDminence at six o'clock, and accommodation will
be provided in the hall and amphitheatre for 20,000
pereans, and in t.LP! follerie;,,' for 12,000. The ad-
mission to the hall is to be by ticket, charged 10s.,
55., ls., Gd., and 21. each. The speeches are to be
made from one platform only.

At the suggestion of several of the trades' dele-
gates, who desired that their respective trades should
march in one Compact body, it was arranged that
each trade might assemble in whatever locality it
pleased, provided it proceeded when it formed to one
or other of the districts abovenamed.

On the motion of Mr. CASTLE, seconded by Mr.
BANN, the programme as recommended by the,com-
mittee was unanimously adopted.
Colonel Dickson was appointed as marshal of the
procession, and Messrs Bradlaugh and B. Langley
as deputy-marshals.
It was also resolved that the President of the
League prepare an address for presentation to Mr.
Gladstone, M.P., and that it be read to the delegates
for adoption at their next meeting.