The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

II AY.

SMITHFIELD—Meadow 11ay, ..£3 Os to .D 1 108 Od; clover,
£4 Os to .£5 15s Od; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load.
Trade slow.

C UNMERLAND —Meadow hay, £3 38 to £4 lOs Od; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 Gs per load.
A good supply.
WHITECHAPEL —Mead OW hay, £3 to £4 lOs Od; clover,
£4 Os Od to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load.
Trade inactive.
New hay is quoted at £2 lOs to £3 15s, and new clover
£3 to £4 10s. per load.

FORTIFICATIONS.—The Fortifications (No. 2) Bill
authorises the following expenditure in the financial year
1867-68 :—On the Portsmouth station, £196,000 ; Ply-
mouth, £149,000; Pembroke, £19,000; Portland, £46,000;
Gravesend, £93,000 for works at Coalhouse Fort, Cliffe
Fort, Shornmead, and Slough Battery; Medway and Sheer-
ness, £75,000; Dover, £5,000; Cork, £12,000; also £150,000
for providing and fixing iron shields, and £55,000 for land
and incidental expenses. The total is £BOO,OOO, which is
to bo raised as ,usual by terminable annuities, not extend-
ing beyond thirty ye'ars, so that this generation is to pay
it.

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OSBORNE, July 31.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Hesse, walked and drove yesterday afternoon, and
her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning
with her Royal Highness.

The other members of the Royal family also went
out.

The Countess of Gainsborough has succeeded the
Duchess of Roxburghe as Lady in Wai ing.

The Sultan and the Wimbledon Review•

The following has been forwarded to us for pub-
lication :•

" Horse Guards, S.W., July 25, 1867.

" Sir,—l have much satisfaction in communicat-
ing to you, at the request of his Imperial Majesty
the Sultan, the gratification which his Majesty
derived at the Review of the Volunteers at Wim-
bledon on the 20th inst., as well from their soldier-
like appearance as from the manner in which they
marched past.

" I beg to add my entire concurrence in the
favourable opinion thus graciously communicated
by his Imperial Majesty, and to express my hope
that it may be conveyed to all who took part in the
movements of the day.—l am, &c.,

" GEORGE.
" The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for War."

" War Office, July 27, 1867.

" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Royal Highness's letter of the 25th
inst., and in reply to express my satisfaction at the
gratification derived by his Imperial Majesty the
Sultan from the Review. of Volunteers at Wimble-
don on the 20th inst., and also at your Royal High-
ness's concurrence in the favourable opinion which
his Imperial Majesty was pleased to express as to
the soldierlike appearance of the Volunteers on the
occasion.—l have, &L,

" J. S. PAKINGTON.
" His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief."

AGRICULTURAL HALL.

At one time we thought that everything that was
possible in the way of illumination and decoration
had been accomplished by the Messrs. Defries, at the
Agricultural Hall, on the occasion of the ever memor-
able Belgian ball ; but fresh wonders have been per-
formed, and last evening the gorgeous and dazzling
scene was immensely heightened by the illumina-
tion of the thousands of ferns and palm trees,
ranged tier above tier on either side the dais. The
lights are so artistically placed that an endless
number of fairy bowers appear in all directions, and
refulgent blossoms spring from amid the beautiful
plants that rise from floor almost to ceiling. The
brilliant scene is effected by means of numberless
tiny coloured lamps of every tint, and thousands of
brilliant crystal prisms, which flash out the splendid
colours of the rainbow in all directions. The scene
produced by this wonderful feat of illumination is
perfectly enchanting, and one is almost forced to
believe himself in the fairy palace of Aladdin,
rather than the Agricultural Hall at Islington.
There is no abatement whatever of any of the
splendour which presented itself to the astonished
Belgians ; on the contrary, additions are constantly
being made which still further heighten the effect
of the grand interior, and myriads of fresh flowers
daily replace those whose beauty has faded. Such
is not the usual manner in which matters of the
sort are generally managed. Decorations once
effected are allowed to remain untouched, and not the
slightesttroable is taken tokeep up the original effect,
because the object for which they were prepared has
been served, but a different system has been adopted
here, and the result is that the concerts have turned
out the most successful entertainments ever presented
to the public. The closing of the Italian Opera
has allowed the services of the leading members
of Mr. Costa's orchestra to be secured, and
the list of eminent vocalists has also been greatly
strengthened. 'We hear of a number of attractive
performances about to be given, the first of which
will be Jullien's " British Army Quadrille"
by the splendid orchestra, the bands of the
Coldstream Guards, Grenadier Guards, and that
of the Hon. Artillery Company. A grand ball is
also in preparation for the English Volunteers,
which, if report is to be believed, will outshine
oven that given to the Belgians.

REFORM LEAGUE DEMONSTRATION IN

HYDE PARK.

The ordinary meeting of the Council of the Re'
form League was held last evening at the offices,
Adelphi-terrace, Mr. E. Beales in the chair. The
chief business before the meeting was the consider-
ation of what action should be taken with respect
to the Parks Regulation Bill.
The CHAIRMAN, having reviewed the debate on
Mr. Locke's amendment, said that the result of all
which had taken place was that the people, having
exhausted all other means of showing their opposi-
tion to, and indignation at, this outrageous attempt,
by passing the Parks Bill, to exclude the people
from meeting in the park ; having in vain shown
the utmost forbearance for months in abstaining
from insisting upon their rights, and baying el"
pressed their readiness to assent to any reason-
able compromise, but all in vain, he (Mr. Beales)
could no longer ask the people to forbear from
manifesting their sense of this intended wrong by
their going in larger numbers than ever to Hyde
Park to express that sense. All he asked was that
the people now, as before, would show, by their ad-
mirable conduct, by their lawful and constitutional
mode of proceeding, by not touching even the leaf of
a flower or disturbing a shrub, their immense more,
superiority over those who were now assuming, or
rather usurping, the power in a condemned Parlia-
ment to legislate for them.

Mr. Lucraft then moved, Mr. Merriman seconded,
and it was agreed :

" That the Executive Council be requested to take
immediate steps for convening and rendering effec-
tive a meeting of the people in Hyde Park to pro-
test against the Royal Parks Bill, as an invasion of
the rights of the people to use the public lands as
places of meeting for political objects, and to pro-
test against the so-called amendment of the House
of Lords upon the Reform Bill raising the figure for
the lodger franchise from £lO to £15."

Seven o'clock was named for the meeting on Mon-
day, and it Was decided that the different branches
of the League should meet previously with bands
and banners. The following notice was ordered to
be circulated by handbill and poster :
" Reform League.—' To your tents, oh !
—A monster meeting of the working men and others
inhabitants of the metropolis will be held in IlYd

Park on Monday evening next, August 5, at
o'clock, under the presidency of the Reform League'
to express the public indignation at the Parks Pr°-
hibition Bill, attempted to be passed through an
expiring and self-condemned Parliament; by the
enemies of all popular rights, and also to protest
against the attempt of the House of Lords to rob
the lodger of his franchise. Please distribute these
bills through every workshop, and induce as many
as possible to attend, to preserve to our children the
rights handed down by our forefathers."

Lord Derby has signified to Mr. E. W. Watkial
M.P., the Queen's intention to confer upon him the
dignity
of knighthood as an acknowledgment of his services la
connection with the Intercolonial Railway. A similar
honour is to be conferred on Mr. W. H. Bodkin, assistant-
judge of the Middlesex Sessions.
THE PALE OF TIIE CONSTITUTION.—It is a Sirigg-
lar fact that Park-lane is being widened simultaneously
with the British Constitution. By removing the palings
Hyde-park, the British workman got within the pal°, and
the aristocratic thoroughfare of Park-lane has been ex-
tended in the same degree as the suffrage, by the Gaul"
„
means. It is to be hoped that this happy state of recipro-
cal advantage is symbolical of the harmonious blending °I
classes under Lord Derby's Suffrage Act of 1861.---71/6
Horna.

MONEY MARKET

AND
1051MERCIAL tIqTELLIGENON,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

At the weekly meeting of the court of directors
of the Bank of England no alteration was made in
the minimum rate of discount, which still remains
at 2 per cent.

In the general discount market there is rather
more inquiry, consequent upon the near approach
of the fourth of the month, but the rates remain

unaltered.
A small sum of gold, representing £7,000, was
taken to the Bank of England yesterday.
The Guiding Star, from New York, has brought
about £35,000 in specie. The Oneida, from Brazils,
has arrived at Lisbon with £14,328.

The directors of the Anglo-Italian Bank have
determined to recommend the payment of ss. a
share for interest, which is at the rate of 5 per cent.
In consequence of .the unsatisfactory state of the
Italian currency, they propose also to return a
portion of the paid-up capital.
At a meeting of the City Discount Company
(Limited) held this day the directors recommended
that out of a balance of £4,859 11s. 3d. a sum of
£5OO be written off preliminary expenses, a divi-
dend of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income
tax, or 3s. a share, be declared ; and the balance,
amounting to £1,496 16s. Bd., be carried forward
to the next account.
At the meeting held to-day of the London and
County Bank the report was unanimously adopted,
and the usual dividend declared at the rate of 6
Per cent., with a bonus of 5 per cent., together
equal to 22 per cent. per annum. The net balance
'of profit amounted to £96,525, the dividend and
bonus will absorb £89,444, leaving £7,081 to be
carried forward. The dividend and bonus is pay-
able on the 12th instant, free of income tax.
Messrs. J. H. Schroeder and Co._have announced
the dividends due the 15th August on the Bay of
liavana and Matanzas (Cuba) Railroad.
A notice has been issued by the Bank of England
that, in order to prepare the dividend due on the
10th of October, 1867, the balances of the several
accounts in the following funds will be struck on
the night of Monday, the 2d of September, 1867,
viz.:---New £3 per cent. Annuities, Reduced £3 per
Cent. Annuities for thirty years, Annuities for terms
of years, and India £4 per cent. Stock. On Tues-
day the 3d September, the above-named funds will
be transferable without the dividend due on the
10th October next. Bank Stock Books will be
closed on Wednesday, 11th September, and re-
opened Friday, 11th October.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
t'° this day, are in round figures as under :
Gre
1867. 1866.
islo_a t Western ..._83,274 85,323

orth Western
SoT-

'uth Western

lirightOn.
Midland

..,133,204 130,861

... 32,594 31,018

... 26;662 26,510

... 57,642 51,430

mouth Eastern 33,521 31,310
great Northern ... 43,338 42,485
I,ra.neashire and Yorkshire... 50,727 48,637
istol and Exeter... ... 8,740 8,440
North Eastern . . 76,172 72,818
lianchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ... 21,651 20,413
Great Eastern 39,491 39,134
:Northo British 30,557 29,963
ldc'n, Chatham, and DoTer 15,906 14,672
Metro
Great
pohtan 4,551 4,033
Southern end Western of Ireland... 11,059 10,232
Glasgow
and Great Western of Ireland ... 5,263 4,440
'"aggow and South-Western ~. 11,683 12,284
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are in most in-
stances very favourable. On the North-Western
there is an increase of £2,343; on the South-
Western of £1,576 ; ox the Brighton of £152 ; on
the Midland of £6,212 ; on the South-Eastern of
£2,211; on the Great Northern of £853 ; on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire of £2,085 ; on the Bristol
Rod Exeter, of £3OO ; on the North Eastern, of
3,354 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
Of £1237 ; on the Great Eastern of £357 ; on the
North British of £594 ; on the London, Chatham,
und Dover of £1,234 ; on the Metropolitan of
£5lB ; on the Great Southern and Western of Ire-
land of £827 ; and ou the Midland and Great
Western of Ireland of £823.
At the meeting held to-day of the English and
Australian Copper Company, the report for the six
months ending 31st December last was presented.
The directors stated that it was necessary to impress
upon the shareholders at each half-yearly meeting
that the statements laid before them are an estimate
only, framed with the utmost attention to correct-
ness, but liable, of course, to be modified by the
°Perations of the subsequent six months. The pre-
Sent statement showed an estimated profit of
£5,678 for the half-year, reduced to £3,788 by
over estimate of copper on hand June 30, 1866,
and by restoring the small amount required to
make up the last dividend. This will be sufficient
pthe payment of an ad interim dividend of Is.
.r
urtshare after paying interest at the rate of 5 per
to the reserve fund, which at this date amounts
to £11,382.

Two O'CLOCK.
a According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
ay, the French Rentes were 69f. 07c. Firm.
,4"vices from the Tyne report that the screw
steamer Norfolk has left the dock laden with 1,351
'tonsb of rails consigned to Russia, this shipment
reing part of the contract at present being exe-
.4ted by the Consett Iron Company for the Rus-
man railways.
f General depression is observable in the market
sOtt the English Funds, and, indeed, throughout the
I,°ek Exchange. There is scarcely any business
rt Progress, and values consequently exhibit weak-
ti:. Consols are now 93i 94 for transfer4and 94
account ; the latter quotation showing a de-
°f nearly 4per cent.
tThe
eve Threes are 931 f ; Reduced Annui-
ilf„'3l, ; India Stock, 218 ; ditto 5 per Cents.,
5 "-a ; ditto 4 per Cents., 99f ; and ditto Enfaced
Per Cents., 1021
he rei—a
8 Stocks, in most instances, show increased
cli:Tese• Italian 5 per Cents., 1861, have de-
wc.,e" 4-, to 48} ; Spanish Passive 1, to 211 211 ;
.4 4e Greek Bonds have advanced 1, to 13 f ; the
%jail Loan Scrip to I 1 prem. ; and the Chilian
°an Scrip to 2f 1f discount.
Pitnlerican Securities are also flat. United States
Ilir-,"ventY Bonds have receded 1, to 721 ; and
--ow Shares to 76i 77.
reAtlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
Mortgage steady at 26 28 ; and the Consolidated
°ds at 22 23.
Artgage Bon
very moderate amount of business has been
etit
Ivitared
„ into in the Railway Share Market, and
rtes. one or two exceptions prices show less firm-
-41,•
Great Northern have declined Brighton
1,;,114,,il Ild Great Eastern and South-Eastern each ;
vre Midland have improved I, and North f
of foreign and colonial lines are without change
oilnportance. Great Luxemburg are dealt in at
pe,.°l, East Indian at 108 f, and Great Indian
uinsula at 1074.
Bank shares remain very inactive. London and
or:Lnaluster have declined to 99f ex div., and
111 tal Bank
Corporation to 421.
Miscellaneous and Finance Shares are dull, hut
atev
70 uY ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. are marked
Vicc; National Discount Company 111, and
r°3- of Egypt's Mortgage Loan 67f.

AIINING MARKET.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
verb
dull.
)/11Siness in the Mining Share Market continues
elliverton West Chiverton, Prince of Wales,
are a , Moor, Great Tor, and North Treskerby
Cations ` ankle flatter. Annexed are the current quo-
•
erton Moor ...... 5 sf,
Cl
Jlotales Gold ..... 41 5 ta:t Basset
Amalgamate 6 61
zaeset ............ 11 16
86t Caradott ......... 5 51
E t Lovell ......... 61 7
Est
.........
Tr,aet \Viaeal Greuville
reat Laxey ...... .. 15
„,,s.t Wheal Vor ... 161 116 161 Valley . 4&
Aort4 Crofty ... .... 31 3i

North Treskerby 1
Prince of Wales...sls Od 5f 6s
Providence Mines --
South Condurrovv... 11s 13s
Tincrof t ... 111 121
West Chiverton 62/ 65
West P. of Wales
Wheal Basset ......
Wheal Buller
Wheal Chiverton 7 7i
Wheal Grenville
Wheal Seton 1071 1121

iIItITISII PLAIDS TWO O'CLOWE.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS
° Itr tieutdonsols . : .... ....mum...." 94 —°'
4e(41111t7 diug. eiiittotiolimal ..... too 94

3 per Cent. Reduced 931 1
New 3 per Cent 931 I
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873
annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Doped Sea Telegraph), Aug.,
Marcn.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO
Do £5OO pm
Do. £lOO & £2OO - pm
Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 2lBl
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent.., Oct. 1868

Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5 per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
A,istrian Bonds, 5 per vt:r.“-.. 1859
3razilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 11 per Cent., 1852-58-6 U
Do. 1863
Do. 5 por Cent., 1865 —
Do Account 74i
Do. £lOO Bonds
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Guinan 6 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cent —
00. 6 per Cent A .
Da. „ B
Do. „ 1867
Do. „ Scrip, £5O paid — dis
C s 3, mbian, 6 per Cent.
Juba, 6 per Cent.
Danisn 3 ner Cent., 1825 , —•
Da. 5 r Cent., 1864.

J. o pei
D nubian Principaliti ja, 7 per Cent
Do., 8 per Cent., 1867, paid-up Scrip —
B tuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
e:gyptian 7 per Cent
Do. Second Issue
Do. £lOO Bonds B6
Do. Do. 1864
Do. £lOO Bonds Bl
Do Government Railway Debentures —
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent
Italian 5 per Cent 1865

Do, Account .. —
Do. Maremmana Railway —
3,l.3xicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1863 --
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French —
Yontevideau 6 per Cent. . —
Vloorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 3 per Cen

June.
pm
pm
pm

Do. Deferred
Do Land gsfan-ants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account
Do 44 per Cent, 1865
Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41. per Cent, 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3
tiussian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St
Do 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pm Cont., 1859
Do 5 per Ceat., 1862 .......................
Do. 5 per Cent., 1861 ..................... .
Do. Anglo-Dutch 1866 B7
Do. do £BO paid — prn
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent ...
Do Acc4iunt
Do New Deferred
Do. Account
Do Passive
Do Account
Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup.
Do Account
Curkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account s7i
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent, 1865
Do. Acount 3Ol 30
Do 6 per Cent., 1865
D 1 por Cent. Guaranteed
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian n per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch •‘:-4. per (:Ant. Ex. 12 Guil.,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French llentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
3 per Genf. 1831, Ex. 251.
Do. Account 484 1.
TWO O'CLOOK.
Consols, Money 93g 44
Do. Account, August 8 94

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7 —This Day

The market opens with rather better feeling at
yesterday's rates Sales probably 10,000 bales.

A SYMPTOM OF THE SEASON.—The Right Hon.
the Speaker gave his Sessional dinner to the principal
officers and clerks of the House of Commons last evening'
The following were present : —Sir Denis Lo Merchant.
Lord Charles Russell, Sir Thomas Erskine May, Mr,
Henry Ley, Mr. Rickards, Captain Gosset, Mr. Howard
Mr. Frere, Mr. Pal grave, Mr. M. Rose, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr
Charles Pall, Mr. Postlethwaite, Mr. Collins, Mr. Hearn,
Mr. H. B. Mayne, Mr. Marriot, Mr. Bull, Mr. Eales,
Lieutenant-Colonel Forester, Mr. Broom, Mr. Glyn, Mr.
E. Loy, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Conroy, Mr. Stone, Mr. Austin
Leigh, Mr. Webber, Mr. Ferguson Davie, Mr. Milman, Mr.
Molyneux, Mr. Laughton, Rev. Dr. Merivalo (chaplain),
and Mr. Alfred Denison (private secretary).
The Bishop of Gloucester has given notice that
he will mcvo the rejection of the first clause in the Banns
of Matrimony Bill on Friday. This clause declares the
legal time for the publication of banns to be after the second
lesson, and its rejection will be tantamount to the defeat of
the measure.

THE NEW DEAN OF CIIESTER.—The Rev. Dr.
'Towson, formerly head master of the Liverpool College,
was yesterday formally installed. into tha deanery of
Chester.

ASSAULT BY TRADES UNIONISTS.—At Sheffield
on Tuesday Thomas Dean and Henry Dean, brothers, file-
cutters, were charged with having assaulted Thomas Tim-
perley, a file-cutter. The assault arose out of a long
standing dispute with the union at Messrs. Turton's
works. The complainant was accosted, as he alleged, by
the defendants and another man on the road. Ile stated
that from words they proceeded to violence—tore his hair,
destroyed his umbrella, and chased him into a house where
he took refuge. The bench fined defendants 40s. each and
costs.

The Liverpool Albion gives currency to a rumour
that a servant girl, living near Liverpool, has unexpectedly
come into a fortune of £200,000 by the death of a relative
in one of our colonies.

THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA.—We understand that,
although Sir William Coghlan's plan for operations to be
undertaken with a view to offoctiug the liberation of the
prisoners in Abyssinia has been adopted by the ttovernment,
the command of the expedition will probably be intrusted
either to Sir William Staveley, now commanding a brigade
at Poona, or to Colonel Merewether, the political agent at
Aden.—The Owl.

MISSING Smr.—The Samuel C. Grant, from
Baker's Island for the United Kingdom, was spoken on the
9th of February, in lat. 11 N., long. 31 W., and has tot
since been heard of.

SHEFFIELD, July 31.—An aggregate meeting of
trades unions was held this evening at Sheffield, to pass
resolutions expressing abhorrence of the trade outrages.
The resolutions were adopted by the meeting, which con-
sisted of less than 300 persons.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. -The Hamburg-
American Company's screw steamship Germania, Captain
H. F. Schwensen, from Now York on the 20th of July,
arrived off Cowes early this morning, trans-shipped mails,
&c., for this port, and went on to Hamburg. She brought
18 passengers for Southampton and Uavre, and 90 for
Hamburg ; $70,000 for France, $17,200 for Hamburg, and
a large cargo, including 525 bags of coffee, 155 bales cotton,
and 525 cases of tobacco. Fine weather was experienced
on the voyage, with southerly and easterly winds. On the
30th, in lat. 49 40 N., long. 7 58 W., the Germania spoke
tho barque Apollo, bouud west, and six miles west of the
Eddystone she passed the Bremen barque Batavia, bound
east.

NATIONAL REFORM UNION.— A meeting of the
executive was held on Tuesday night in the Council-
chamber, Gladstone-buildings, Manchester; Mr. R. D.
Rusden, the tress I ror, occupying the chair. After the
adoption of the minutes, and the transaction of the
routine business of the company, a spirited conversation
took place respecting the prow° sings in reference to the
Reform Bill in the House of Lords or. the previous night.
A strong feeling was expressed that the Government had
shown a gross breach of faith by the course which it had
pursued in raising the .E 5 copyhold qualification to £lO,
and iu altering the qualification foi the lodger franchise
from £lO to £l5, in opposition to the recent decision
of the House of Commons. It was felt by the committee
that the bill, as passed by the Commons, was already
limited enough, without being mutilated, and made more
restrictive, by any action of the peers. Cu the termination
of the conversation, the following resolution was proposed,
seconded, and carried ;—" This committee regrets to learn
that the House of Lords, in committee last night, passed
resolutions calculated to restrict the franchise proposed in
the Government Reform Bill, which is already limited and
unjust in its provisions; and this committee would urge
upon the House of Commons to reject the said so-called
amendments, and any others which may be prop .sed, de-
signed to render the bill more narrow and partial thati at
present."