The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-17 00:00:00

7HE REFORM LEAGUE.

The following letter was read at the exectit,l%;:
meeting of the Reform League at their viree'''
meeting on Friday evening last :
" Mortimer, Reading, June 11, 1867'
o
" To the Secretary of the Reform Leag
bu‘tioSnirro tlhne
ue. .
I
to doubt that the popular movement,
replyfunds toof yt ue
League
uulea.r st end
is i
ma
pcossn
so effectively
and at the same time eon'
ducted by the two combined
associations, has been
hooldersm
the main instrument in turning the present h
of power from the
opponents of the limited Refor
Bill of last session into the advocates of household
suffrage and something more. I say of something
so legally and peacefully
more, because the lodger franchise plainly inter-
dicts and must in the end break up the restrictive
principle of the present bill.
" The plagiarist of Reform may call its real
authors obsolete incendiaries and spouters of stale
sedition,' but this is only the expression, in lan-
guage habitual to the servant of an oligarchy in
speaking of the people and their leaders, of the
speaker's consciousness that the measure which
bears his name is not his own.
" Agitation ought of course to cease as soon as its
object is secured. But organisation will still be
necessary 4to complete the victory and reap its
fruits, to defeat whatever of stratagem and subter-
fuge may still lurk in a bill originally compounded
of those elements, to get the new voters on the
register, to stimulate them to the exercise of their
right, and to send up, with their aid, a renovated,
purified, and more national House of Commons.
" The head of the Tory Government seems, from
his last speech, to have borrowed from the geni3
imagination of his friend and guide the patriotic
idea of perpetuating class government on a neW
basis by decoying the working men, who a fel.
months ago were being reviled amid the vociferous
cheers of the Tory party, into an alliance with t.ll
Tory oligarchy against the middle and commercl_ad
class ; but I trust that, however zealously I-Tat
Derby may act his new part, it will be found t'
he has once more misunderstood the people, ar be
that the Government of which he is de,stined
n.
t 1 0
the involuntary founder will not be the G°vei.o,l
meat of any class or of any sinister confedera.o
of classes, but a Government of and for the NO
nation.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" GOLDIVIN S3LITII•

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A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at l'';:"
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasurf, in
_Downing-street. The Ministers present were the
the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Ilarlborou,o'
theper by'
Leid Earl of Malmesbury, the Right lion. Gathorne liarYl
Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pahlrig-
ton.
, Sir S. Northeote, the Chancellor of the Excbecillai
0
the Right II I
on. -I. T. Corry, Lord J. INlanners, Lord Nat' 1
and the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole.
1 1 1 HE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE. —The Memorial Dir
o atique, on the authority of a letter froin. Trieste!
.Empress,v
dated 11th inst., states that the condition of the
Charlotteof is somewhat improved. Considering the docistra
issue
Maximilian,
the struggle so long maintained by the Eratelei,
her
gh t it most prudent not to conceal from
the medical adviser of the Empress, lir' tof
thou Earl et
her the fac bio
husband's captivity, and even allowed her to kno"',ll-0
lifewas threatened. The latter suggestion was rode Nerril 1
toexpress purpose of exciting a reaction sufficiently' v°`° . up
revive the illustrious patient from the state of prtratto. ,
in which she had sunk for some time on account Nisen
ruce of intelligence from Mexico. The effect t ass
the Empress appeared suddenly to recover all her le
cool
of intellect ; she declared that the Mexican nation it;
not be capable of so odious an act as to raise a 11,lird°1.°6
with $°
hand against a prince who had devoted himself ,a
muchth self-denial to the regeneration of the countrs', '_ur
vegii;rtallinicEaalnßnymEese\ai,ssnlseEcaletvnhdte:NrEeensmiiigptlnh:Draeor had maintained 1' i s 11'3.1'1°0
unsullied.
;li i 1.(1-
, 'w in Hyde Park, to be held by her Majesty un 3° t','iuti
tEtEophrn.ApEreKse.__CTliahrelo.intte;rl.l:Loy
i,hy in July, is likely to be the grandest affair of the "i, t
witnessed in London for many years. All the troop ta_l'a
can be conveniently massed together will be assembled,
~.
besides a large force of Artillery from Woolwich thc f°ll°,oo
lugof corps will probably be on the ground: —Seven regial'ato,
cavalry—namely, the Ist Life Guards (Blues), istii3 ...
4th Dragoon Guards, 3d and 15th Hussars, and 17t4 d 3°Ll
cars; fourteen battalions of infantry—namely, 2,1 313,r ,et
battalions Grenadier Guards, Ist battalion o°l4-15,""be.!tt-
Guards, and 2d battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, 1-s'l4l,
!alien 18th Royal Irish, 43d Light Infantry, 44tb, i), Iv
56th, 65th, and fBth Light Infantry, 70th and 72ud Ifgrge
lauders, and 80th Regiments. A Royal pavilion 00 a
be
scale scale will be erected, and altogether the review Will 1,0
event of the season.—Army and Navy Gazette.
~z- ..--At
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'SrA,,°6 ar
a meeting of this society held last Saturday, Lord
Tre",-,4..
l"n the chair, the following were proposed and elected -1' " t
lows of the society : —G. M. Waterhouse, Thomas /Ve6,l
James Vsi`if" ..
Charles Hockin, Miss Hart, Henry Partitt,
Vivian, Mrs. Mark, Miss' Ergland, Peter B. ShtickeYl - r'd
Moscrop, Mrs. Roberts, Henry Jackson, and Sir 11°11111
S. Erriugton.