The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-28 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE REFORM LEAGUE.

Last night a special meeting of the Executive
Council of the Reform League was held at the
offices, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, for the purpose of
receiving the report of the deputation to the Hole
Secretary, and deciding as to whether the proposed
meeting in Hyde Park on Monday evening flat
should be held there or elsewhere. The meeting
was crowded, and delegates were present from all
the metropolitan branches. Mr. Edmond Bealea
took the chair amid loud cheering.
Letters were read by the secretary from Mr. J.
Bright, M.P. (approving the policy of the League),
and from Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., stating that if the
Hyde Park meeting was persisted in he should with-
draw his subscriptions to the League, and enrol
himself as a special constable. The letter of Mr.
Hughes was received with much laughter.
The CHAIRMAN then entered into a lengthy detail
respecting the occurrences of the past week in which
the League had been concerned, including the depu-
tation to the Home Secretary, paying a high coin"
pliment to Mr. Walpole for the manner in which he
had received the deputation. He then referred to
the unfortunate misunderstanding about the meet"
ing in the park on Monday, which no one regretted
more than himself, and explained how it had pro-
bably occurred. He would not be a party to take
any advantage of that misunderstanding, and if the
Council decided that the meeting in the park should
be persevered in, in the face of the declared deter'
mination of the Government to oppose its being
held by force, if necessary, he for one must decline
to take the responsibility of the disastrous wag"
quences that might ensue. At the same time b°
was decidedly of opinion that a public meeting %OS
necessary to denounce the conduct of the Govern'
ment, and the savage and ferocious conduct of the
ruffianly police. (Cheers.)
Mr. G. DAVIS said as it was admitted on all side
the announcement of the meeting in Hyde-part►
for Monday next was a mistake, and as the almost
unanimous opinion of the Council was in favour of
its abandonment, he would move "That the Reform
League call a meeting for next Monday evening in
the Agricultural Hall, Islington." As the meeting
proposed to be held in Victoria Park had also been
forbidden, this meeting would serve a double par-
pose.
Mr. T. R. TAYLOR seconded the motion, which,
after considerable discussion, was carried by a large
majority, and the details for carrying out the meet"
ing were referred to the Demonstration Committee.
It was announced that the Guildhall Reforni
meeting would shortly be held, the secretary of the
London Working Men's Association, and the see"
retary of the League having each received a suv°-
mons to attend the City Lands Committee to make
the necessary arrangements.
It was also announced that the Holborn and other
branches of the League had resolved to take part in
the open air meeting called in Lincoln's-inn-Field°
on Tuesday evening next by the Working Mali°
Association.

A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
proCeedings at a late hour.

THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—It is Said
that the Ministerial whitebait dinner will take place thin
day week, and that Parliament will be prorogued by royal
commission on the following Thursday.
THE QUEEN'S SELECTION OF NOVELS.—The PP'
verness Courier says We stated lately that her
Majesty had kindly announced her intention of presenting
the Working Men's Club here with a selection of books"-
works of fiction and light literature. As the books wore„
expressly selected by her Majesty, it may be interesting
give a list of them, as sant by Dr. Robertson to Mr. Dlac
dougall, Hawthorn-walk. They are the 'Waverley Nove'''
'Scott's Poetry,' Smiles's Lives of the Engineers,' C°°'
per's Novels' (26 volumes), 'My Schools and Schoobnafv
tors," Hudson's Twelve Years in India,' Grant's Novel
(19 volumes), 'Pickwick' and 'Nicholas Nicklebiff
Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life,' Aytoun's LaYn,°o
the Cavaliers,' Gleig's Life of Wellington,' Scott's Ti "ea
of a Grandfather," Marryat's Novels' (13 volumes), and
Bulwer's Last Days of Pompeii.' The boOks have arrive
and are all strongly bound."
A LADY VOLUNTEER NURSE.—In the cholera
wards of the London Hospital, in a scene of suffer'
ing and death sufficient to try the stoutest heart, a it'clf
volunteer nurse has passed her time since the beginnitg:o
the epidemic, moving from bed to bed in ceaseless egn'is
to comfort and relieve. So very youthful and very fait of
this devoted girl that it is difficult to control a feeling he
pain at her presence under such circumstances. But osa
offered her help at a time when, from the sudden mobil
of cases, such assistance was urgently required, and an"
©d
has she followed her self-sought duty. Wherever the oe°o.
.A"
is greatest and the work hardest, there she is to be And
toiling, until her limbs almost refuse to sustain her. „
the effect of the fair young creature's presence has be -5
that the nurses have been encouraged by her never-faito
energy and cheeriness, so that dread of the disease of
been lost in efforts to combat it. This is an inst4liceed
devotion which it would be an insult to praise-41 °-
only be recordel—kancet.