The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-01 00:00:00

life which the great Duke led was never permitted
by him to interfere with that which he owed to those
around him as a landlord and a neighbour. (Cheers.)
It was but right, therefore, that his tenantry should
cherish his memory. It had not been given to him,
or to them, to be with him at Assaye or in the Pe-
ninsula, or the crowning day of his glory at Water- 1
100, when all the genius of Napoleon and all the
gallantry of the French soldiery broke themselves
against his columns in vain. It had not been given
to them to participate in the scarcely less illustrious
scenes of his civil life ; but it must, notwithstand-
ing, be to them a matter of lasting pride that they
had seen and known such a man. (Cheers.) The
more closely the character of the departed hero was
examined the higher would be the admiration which
it must inspire, and he was happy to think that he
had lived to a good old age to enjoy the honours
which he had won. Still, knowing as he did how at-
tached he was to the late Sir R. Peel, and how zea-
lously be supported him, he could have wished that
he had lived a few years longer to witness the close
family union which had taken place between his son
and the present Sir R. Peel. (Cheers.) He was
well aware how great was the affection which the
fathers of those two men felt for one another, and
rejoiced, as they would have rejoiced, in the inti-
mate alliance of their descendants. (Cheers.) In
conclusion, he begged again to give the " Health of
the Duke of Wellington."
The toast was drunk amid loud cheers.

The Duke of WELLINGTON expressed the gratifi-
cation with which he saw around him those friends
with whom he had so long been co-operating in the
endeavour to raise a monument worthy of their
heroic benefactor, adding that, having rejected other
materials, he had come to the conclusion that none
were so well adapted to the purpose which they had
in view as the polished granite which had been
selected. (Cheers.) The noble Duke then gave
" The Health of Sir R. Murchison," observing that
he had accompanied his father when he first landed
in the Peninsula, and had continued to be his at-
tached friend throughout his life. As for himself, he
did not know that he could well refuse Sir Rode-
rick anything, but he must at the same time dis-
tinctly inform him that he could not give permission
to bring his geological hammer tobear on the monu-
ment. (A laugh.)
Sir R. MunculsoN, in returning thanks, remarked
that, so far from wishing to destroy the testimonial
to his illustrious friend, he should have been glad to
have served as the humblest labourer in preparing
the granite for its erection. (Cheers.) He had some
experience of rocks, and he could safely say that
those which composed the monument were likely to
be as durable as the fame of him whose memory
they were meant to honour. (Cheers.)
Sir R. PEELproposed "The Health of the Duchess
of Wellington," and in doing so took occasion tosay
that no man had, during the last 25 years of the life
of the late Duke of Wellington, enjoyed to a greater
extent than his own father the political and personal
friendship of that distinguished man ; nor was there
any one by whom the value of his counsel was more
fully appreciated. There had been many monuments
raised to the memory of the Great Duke, but he
stood in no need of them. He had, by the fame of
his exploits, fixed his name for ever on the page of
history. Still, it was grateful to the feelings of those
he left behind to see so enduring a testimony of the
respect and affection of those who knew him best,
raised as it were at the very threshold of his home.
Count STRZELECKI having responded to the toast
proposed by Sir R. Peel in a humorous speech, the
company separated.

Reform Meeting in Lincoln's•inn-Fields.
A meeting in favour of Reform, convened by the
Working Men's Association, was held last evening
in Lincoln's-inn-fields. According to the original
programme, a procession headed by bands of music
and banners was to have set out from Gough-square
at 7 o'clock, and having marched through Fleet-
street and Farringdon-street, and having been joined
by deputations from Clerkenwell and other places,
was to have proceeded through Holborn and Queen-
street to the place of meeting. This design, however,
was not carried out. At 7 o'clock there were about
150 persons- —men, women, and children—in Gough-
square, of whom not 40 appeared to belong to the
working classes. Mr. Potter, Mr. Baxter Langley,
and one or two other leading members of the Asso-
ciation stood moodily apart. A hitch in the pro-
ceedings had evidently occurred, for no band was
there ready to collect a crowd and lead them off to
the place of meeting amid the enlivening strains of
music. After a delay of about half an hour, Mr.
Potter and his friends, attended by a rather scanty
following, proceeded by the most direct way to
Lincoln's-inn-fields, where a considerable crowd of
the most composite materials had already assembled.
There was a large body of people who were merely
spectators, a consiberable collection of roughs, and
a still larger number of urchins who had poured out
in hundreds, ragged and bare-headed, from the
neighbouring streets and alleys. Before the arrival
of the reinforcements from Clerkenwell, which did
not take place until the proceedings were well ad-
vanced, the working men seemed almost lost amid
the miscellaneous elements of which the motley
gathering was composed. No preparations whatever
appeared to have been made beforehand for the
accommodation of the speakers, but as eight o'clock
drew near a large costermonger's barrow was wheeled
up close to the railings to the east of the Royal
College of Surgeons, and was converted into a plat-
form by general acclamation.
Mr. G. Potter was moved to the barrow amid loud
cheers, and the proceedings were declared to have
commenced.

The CHAIRMAN said they were met not for thepur-
pose of making speeches, but by way of guarantee
that they were resolved to have a large and compre-
hensive measure of Reform. In the House of Lords
and the House of Commons men were found to
slander the people, but the people would return the
slanders twofold. (Loud cheering.) The enemies
of the people had called the meeting of last
night at the Agricultural-hall a " donkey show."
(Laughter.) But they might rely on it they would
have a great many donkey-shows of that kind, for
they would be repeated in all the towns of England.
(Cheers.) The people would rise in their sovereign
strength, and make such manifestations and demon-
strations during the winter as would convert the
`Tory party. The Times had been converted already,
for it saw that it could no longer ignore such de-
monstrations as that of last night. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. UrsnALL moved the first resolution, which
pledged the meeting to " residential registered man-
hood suffrage, equal representation, and the ballot,"
&c., all of which, he contended, were essential to the
freedom of the people. He congratulated his hearers
on the fact that the Times had spoken well of their
' great meeting last night, and had given them credit
for the excellent way in which they had managed it,
but, he added, the Times had done so because it
could not do otherwise.
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The resolution was seconded by Mr. Digs a
painter, who exhorted the working men by their
own exertions, instead of the efforts of others, to
obtain those rights to which they were entitled.
Mr. WALToN, an architect, of Newport, who
stated that he had travelled 200 miles for the pur-
pose of taking part in the Reform demonstrations
at the Agricultui•al-hall and Lincoln's-inn-fields,
supported the resolution. Mr. Walton particularly
wished those engaged in advocating Reform to ex-
tend their agitation and organization to the agricul-
tural districts, which at present could only be re-
garded as the strongholds of the Conservative
party.

—" That this meeting, regretting that the p
Mr. BAXTER LANGLEY. moved the next resoluretisoennt:
Government have not proposed to introduce now,
or at any future time, a measure of Reform, pledge
themselves to oppose the continuance of any Go-
vernment in office that will not introduce and
honestly endeavour to carry through a Reform
bill, comprising a large extension of the franchise,
and a comparative equality of representation." Mr.
Langley commenced by addressing his auditors as
" fellow-roughs," and said that if such a name was
to be fastened upon them because they demanded a
large measure of Reform, he was glad to be included
among those on whom that appellation was bestowed.
A large number of the Tories with a very " pretty
head" in the shape of the bishops prided themselves