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

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

GOODWOOD RACES.- THis DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

GOODWOOD STAx
sto 2 agst Special
7to 2 agst Black Prince
4 to 1 agst Midia colt
Bto 1 agst La Fortune
No other change.

GERMANY.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
FRANKFORT, July 31.
Civil Commissioner Midai is about to proceed to
the headquarters of the army of the Blaine.
BERLIN, July 31.

Burgomaster Midler, of Frankfort, arrived here
lad night, and will remain in Berlin until the ar-
rival of the King and Count Bismarck. He was
received to-day by Count Eulenburg, Barons
Werther and Von Heydt, and Herr von Savigny.

THE FRANKFORT CONTRIBUTION..
VIENNA, July 81.
The contribution imposed by Prussia upon the
City of Frankfort has been reduced to 15,000,00i1f1.,
of which 6,000,000 have already been paid. Con..
sequently 9,000,000f1. only remain to be eou-
tributed.

MUNICH, July 31.
The Prussians continue their advance upon Upper
Franconia.

Mr. Gladstone and the Reform League.

TO THE EDITOR.
11, Carlton House-terrace, S.W.,
July 30, 1866.

Sir,—Mr. Beales, obligingly requested to see me
on Saturday, when he placed the following letter in
my hands. It is forged.
In it I am made to declare that I sympathise with
the Reform League, and that I was ready to take
part in their projected meeting ; and the writer, who
is an adept in his art, guards against discovery by
deprecating a reply, and appears in the person of nay
son, lest if he had written in mine the false hand-
writing should be detected.

I request you to be so good as to publish the let-
ter, since it is only by publication that I can defend
myself and others against similar fabrications, and
the delusions they are intended to produce.

Will you further oblige nie by returning the
document, which is in original.
I have the honour to be, sir, your very faithful
servant,

W. E. GLADSTONE.
11, Carlton House-terrace,
July 26, 1866.
(Strictly private and confidential.)
Dear Sir,—My father requests me to say on his
behalf that while he sympathises with the Reform
League he cannot but feel that the cause which it
espouses is likely to suffer through the lawless
conduct of some who care nothing for Reform,
but are only too glad of a pretext to indulge in riot
and disorder. If you can arrange, "on the ground
of general convenience," that your proposed meeting
for Monday next shall take place on Primrose-hill
instead of in Hyde Park, you will adopt a plan
which will sift the " roughs" from the Reformers,
and give an opportunity for some real friends of
Reform to appear as independent supporters of
your League. lam authorised to state, that not
only my father, but some other influential
friends of the people will address the meeting,
if assembled, as herein suggested, on Primrose-
hill. Please do not answer this letter, as it
may be convenient to be able to repudiate the idea
of any correspondence having taken place between
the Council of the Reform League and members or
supporters of the late Government. If you think
your cause will gain by admitting Parliamentary
supporters as virtual members of the Reform
League, speaking to the people out of doors as of
them and with them, you cau readily make the re-
quisite change in your programme for Monday next.
—Yours faithfully, W. H. GLADSTONE.
Edmond Beales, Esq.

LONDON GAZE I TE. Last Evening.

WHITEHALL, JULY 28.

The Queen bas been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
unto Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Sir Hugh Henry
Rose, G.C.8., G.C.5.1., General Commanding her Majesty's
Forces in that part of the said United Kingdom called Ire-
land, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by
the name, style, and title of Baron Stratlinairn, of Strath-
nairn, in the county of Nairn, and of Jhansi, in the East
Indies.
OSBORNE, JULY 26.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
knighthood upon William Bovill, Esq., M.P., Q C., her
Majesty's Solicitor-General.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 30.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieut. W. G.
Stirling, Royal Horse Artillery, to be an extra Groom in
Waiting to her Majesty.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 23.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
William Gifford Palgrave, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul
at the Ports of Soukhoum Kale and Redout Kale.

INDIA OFFICE, Jurr 27.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Benson Max-
well, Knt., at present Recorder of Prince of Wales's Island,
to be Recorder of Singapore.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Hackett,
Esq., late Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, to be Recorder
of Prince of Wales's Island.

CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 28.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Eye—The-11L.djerge William Barring-
ton, of No. 19, Hertford-street, in the county of Middle-
sex, in the room of Sir Edward Clarence Kerriscn, Bart.,
who has accepted the office of Steward or Bailiff of her
Majesty's Manor of Northstead, in the county of York.
JULY 31.
College of the Holy Trinity, Dublin—John Edward
Walsh, LL.D., her Majesty's Attorney-General for Ire-
land, in the room of the Right Hon. James Whiteside, who
has accepted the office of Lord Chief Justice of her Ma-
jesty's Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland.