The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-19 00:00:00

HAY.

S MITIIFIELD —Meadow hay, £2 178 6d to £4 58 ; clover,
£3 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to .£2 2s per load.
A fair supply.

CUMBERLAND—Meadow hay, £2 ris 6d to £4 7s 6d;
clover, £3 Os to £5 15s Od; and straw., £1 16s Od to £2 2s
per load. A moderate demand.

WHITECTIAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 15s Od to £4 17s 6d;
clover, £3 Os to £5 17s 61; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per
load. A good trade.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET —This Day.

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The market opens steady, with good inquiry.
Sales probably 12,000 bales.

TIIE REFORM FETE AND BANQUET.

Last evening a numerously attended general meet-
ing of the council of the Reform League was held at
the offices of the. League, Adelphi-terrace, for the
purpose of considering certain propositions which
had been submitted to the executive committee re-
specting the forthcoming reform fete and banquet.
Mr. Acland, in the absence of Mr. E. Beales, the
president, was voted to the chair.
Mr. MANTLE introduced the subject in the shape
of a report from the executive committee, entered
into a full explanation of the circumstances, and
moved that the report be adopted, and that a sub-
committee be appointed to co-operate with the com-
mittee of the reform fete, it being an instruction to
the committee not to incur any pecuniary responsi-
bility in connection with the fete.
Mr. B. LANGLEY, in seconding the motion, ob-
served that he saw plainly that two banquets could
not possibly succeed. Under these circumstances he
thought their better course would be to join in with
the Working Men's Association, and thereby make
the matter a great success. (Bear, hear.)

Mr. GEo. BROOKE said he was a member of the
Working ...lien's Association, and was present at their
meeting the previous night when Mr. Cunnington's
suggestion as to inviting Mr. Beales to preside was
entertained. It was accepted in the most generous
terms. Mr. Potter distinctly stated that he would at
once give place to Mr. Beales, and the meeting cor-
dially responded to his statement in that respect.
There was no question that Mr. Beales was entitled
to that position.
Mr. OLDING also stated that he was present at
the meeting the previous evening, and corroborated
what Mr. Brooke had said respecting it.
Considerable discussion then ensued, and, ulti-
mately,
Mr. BUSK moved an amendment to the effect that
the consideration of the question be adjourned for a
week.

• Mr. WHITFORD having seconded the resolution it
was adopted by a majority of 24 to 3.
The amendment was therefore declared to be
carried, Mr. BROOKE stating that he regretted the
decision come to, as if the matter were adjourned
to next Wednesday it would be too late to do any-
thing in the matter.
The meeting soon afterwards adjourned.

LONDON IN TILE SMALL HOURS.—After 1 o'clock
t' a dead time of the night has come on ; especially when
the season is over, and the streets are still and quiet, and
London is abed and asleep. It is not till daybreak that the
market carts come rolling in, or costermongers begin to
ply their trade, or the street coffee-booths cater for custo-
mers. I once heard this interval of rest called the turn of
the tide—the lull between the ebb and the flow of the great
human current; and I know of no name which expresses
better its strange stillness. People have come home from
parties, the night trains are all in, the morning mails have
not begun to arrive. The whole population of the streets
consists of policemen, houseless folk, and a few belated
wayfarers wending their way homewards. Even the world
of pleasure—the goodly company of the prodigals and the
foclish virgins—has finished its revelry; and if you quit
the main thoroughfares you may walk for ever so long
without encountering any human soul, except a policeman
on his boat. But in the great central streets there is still a
sort of phantom world which rushes as it were to life in
these after midnight hours. Once a Week.
THE NEW PARLIAMENT.---It is stated that Mr.
Richard Lewis, the barrister, and Secretary of the National
Lifeboat Institution, will be invited to become a represen-
tative, in the Reformed Parliament, of one of the Devon-
shire or Cornwall boroughs.