The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-02 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 ss; clover
£1 Os to .£5 lOs ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 Gs per load.
Trade quiet.
OUMBERLAND.—MtIadOW hay, £3 Os to £4 8s ; clover,
41 Os 'to £5 103 Od ; and straw, £1 18s to .£2 Gs per load.
A moderate demand. _ _

WHITECHAPEL.—Moadow hay, £2 15s to £4 5s ; clove!,
XI Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 160 per load.
Trade heavy.

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Gr&at Exhibition was about to be opened in Paris,
and the English workmen, whose skill and industry
would be largely represented there, would be about
the only working men of any nation who did not
possess the franchise. That fact would be recorded
against this country.
Mr. ALFRED ILLINGWORTII (Bradford) moved the
following :—" Judging by the past history and re-
cent conduct of the Tory Ministry, this meeting has
no confidence whatever in their political integrity
and capacity, and regards with suspicion their
attempt to deal with reform ; 'and this meeting
would therefore urge upon the Liberals, both in and
out of Parliament, the necessity of extreme watch-
fulness in order to prevent the passing of a dis-
honest bill." Ile traced the political history of the
Tories during late years, and said that, as they had
up to the present opposed everything that was for
the benefit of the kingdom, so would they oppose
an honest reform by every means in their power ;
nevertheless, he believed the " Lord had delivered
them into their (the Liberals') hands." lie then
ridiculed Lord Grosvenor's letter about the balance
of power.
The Rev. Dr. PARKER seconded the motion, and
said they had recently seen that the English
language was capable of about as much jugglery
as the British constitution, and that a Tory Reform
Bill was merely a tragi-comical paradox ; conse-
quently, as Government proposed to proceed by
resolution, the people would do well to proceed by
dissolution, because he had little confidence in the
present 'Rouse of Commons in the matter of Parlia-
mentary Reform.
Mr. R D. RUSDEN supported the motion.

Mr. JACOB BRIGHT moved :—" That this meeting
would strongly urge upon the Liberal members of
Parliament the necessity of rejecting any compro-
mise which would fail to meet the just and urgent
demands of the unenfranchised, and tend only to
strengthen and intensify the existing agitation."
The Rev. A. HALL seconded, and Mr. M. PRICE
supported, the motion.
Mr. J. B. TORE, barrister, moved:—" That this
meeting is of opinion that no measure of Parlia-
mentary Reform would be satisfactory which offers
less than a household and lodger franchise, with an
equitable redistribution of seats."
The Rev. J. ..A.DDisoN seconded the motion.
All the motions were carried by accclamation,
and the enthusiastic meeting concluded with a vote
of thanks to the chairman.

MEETING AT LEEDS.

A crowded public meeting was held in the Vic-
toria Hail, at Leeds, on Thursday evening, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the pro-
positions for Parliamentary Reform which have
lately been made by the Government. Mr.
Joseph Lupton was called to the chair. Resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted condemnatory of
the mode of procedure pursued by the Government
respecting reform, and declaratory of an opinion
that the Ministerial proposition in respect. of a re-
distribution of seats is unsatisfactory; that it is
utterly inadequate as an extension of the franchise ;
and that no measure which does not give votes to a
much larger number of working men than would be
enfranchised by a £6 rating, or by the bill intro-
duced by the late Government last session, will pro-
mote the real interests of the nation, or satisfy the
just &din of the working classes. Speaking in ad-
vocacy of the first resolution,
Mr. BALNEs, M.P., said he agreed with those
who considered that the great expression of public
opinion which had taken place since the Liberal
party relinquished office had brought about the
present still more promising position of affairs. lie
believed the position of the Government and their
friends was one of vexation the most unbounded at
their infatuated folly last year in not accepting the
Very moderate measure that was then offered to
them. 1% c had now, however, extorted from the
Government an acknowledgment that they cannot
be irresponsible when they bring forward a mea-
sure of such vast importance. The more the Li-
beral party saw of the Government measure the less
it was liked. The 'Government party feel that
it is too much for them to give, and at the same
time know that it is too little for the country to
receive. There is a notorious defection within- the
Cabinet itself. Ile had been assured on very good
authority that the plan proposed by Mr. Disraeli on
the Sunday to bring forward was actually changed
before the Monday afternoon. He happened to be
passing Downing-street on his way to the House of
Commons at the time that numbers of the Tories
were coming out of the official residence of Lord
Derby there, and never did he see such long or such
pale faces. And when he sat opposite to them in
the House of Commons the universal remark was,
" What an aspect of utter dejection there is upon
the Tory party !" In his experience of the House
of Commons he could not remember ever to have
seen an example of such entire confusion in any
great party in the House. In regard to the Liberal
party, he was happy that he could report their
position to be one of union, and, what is better,
of re-union. And he was proud to say that Mr.
Gladstone had conducted the party since the
meeting of the house this year with a degree of
dignity, of courtesy, of patience, and of skilful
management, which nothing could surpass.
The general effect of the Ministerial propositions
with regard to the working classes would be to en-
franchise about 100,000, where the bill brought in
by the late Government would have given votes to
twice that number. The votes given by the fancy
franchises of the Government plan would be given
chiefly to the middle classes. He believed that the
measure would have au effect of disfranchising almost
all those whose rates are now paid by the owners
rather than the occupiers. The passing of such a
bill would not settle this great question. The choice
of the Government was this : they must either bring
in a good bill and split their own party, or they
must introduce a bad one and be turned out of
office. The Liberal party, he could say positively,
would not take a bill embodying the present pro-
ositions.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(This Day.)

The Market opens-with a fair demand. Sales
probably 8,000 bales.

TILE CARTOONS OF RAPIIAEL IN TAPESTRY.--it
was at Arras that the world-famed Cartoons of Raphael
were copied in tapestry. They were painted expressly for
this purpose, and the work was intended to decorate the
walls of the Vatican. Two of Raphael's own pupils super-
intended it, but the weavers appear to have had much more
regard for their own convenience in working than respect
for the fine arts, for they cut the masterly productions
into strips, and when they had done with them threw
them into the store-rooms of the manufactory,
where they were ultimately destroyed in the " troubleus
times" which SJOII afterwards overtook the country.
There were 30 of these cartoons originally ; of these only
seven are now left—the seven that are in the South Ken-
sington Museum. Their pilgrimages were far end wide,
their vicissitudes great, in their early days. They
were carried away by the Spanish army during the sack of
Rome in 1526, and only restored by the zeal and generosity
of the French General Montmorenci. In 1798 they were
carried by the French to Leghorn, and there sold to a Jew,
who had the barbarity to burn one of them to see how
much gold ho could extrac fromit ! Fortunately the ex-
Nrimeut was not so profitut as ho expected, so that the
rest were spared ; and after being repurchased for upwards
of a thousand crowns, were restored to the Vatican—Lady
Scott in "The Queen."

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'Their tßilyaiwlfighnesses Prince and Princess
Christian drove to Ba.gshot Piirk, and honoured
Sir James Clark with a visit.

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The Prince of Wales.

The Prince of \Vales went to the Hou3e of Lords
yesterday afternoon. _ .

In the evening his Royal Highness presided at
the annual festival of the Most Loyal Society of
Ancient Britons, in aid of the Welsh School at Ash-
ford, Middlesex. In attendance on his Royal
Highness were Viscount Hamilton, General Knollys,
and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel.
The Countess of Macclesfield has succeeded the
Marchioness of Carmarthen as lady-in-waiting to
the Princess of Wales.

Lieut.-Colonel Keppel has succeeded Major
Teesdale as equerry in waiting to the Prince of
Wales.

The Prince of Wales honoured Monsieur Desderi
with a sitting for his photograph at Brook-street,
llanover-square, yesterday morning.

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His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for-
warded yesterday, through General Knollys, an addi-
tional donation of 100 guineas to the National Lifeboat
Institution. Admiral the Earl of Hardwicko has also for-
warded to the institution an additional donation of £5O.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge bad
a dinner party on Thursday at Gloucester House, Picca-
dilly.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have
left their house in Pall-Mall for Savernake Lodge, Marl-
borough.

The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., has gone on
a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester at Win"
bolton Castle, Hunts.
The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury had a-
dinner party last evening at their residence in Grosvenor
square. Later in the evening a select circle as.sombled.
The Earl and Countess of Dudley had a Wall
and early party yesterday evening at Dudley House, Park'
lane.

The Hon. Colonel Bernard, M.P., and Mrs.
Bernard have arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckingbanl"
gate.
The Earl and Countess Percy arrived at North-
umberland House on Wednesday, from Albury
Surrey.

Lord Lovat and the Hon. Mrs. Scott Hurray
have left Brown's Hotel.

Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last eVell:
lug his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the garquis
of Sligo, the Earl and Countess of Essex, Viscountess
Holmesdale, Lady Augusta Cadogan, the Hon. Harris
Temple, Lady Egerton of Tatton, General Seymour, C-13;
Mr. F. Courtenay, Lady Tierney, Mr. Millais, 8.A., and
Mr. Pakenham Alderson.