The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

THE GOVERNMENT ZEIVRM BILL.

EntnittlatitHA meeting of the Edinburgh Par-
liamentary Bet am Committee was held on Witierelay
evening, to assailer the ministerial plan of Worm. Mr. D i
Itletten, whe presided, desig es II Me
abjestiemeh uated
the measure
ie sue, mettimg of, at preed to do, ati.oo:zr
ow n& of theanthe cosetitemary -td England, by
=ritte 40a. thediellert. The_ preposel to make new
We boughs would, be seal, greatly diminish the
iambi et county nupre, as well as the emetics of new
burghs. Mr. Wtares then gave figures with tolerance to
sewed burghs to Ideal, showing the vales of Immo
while them and the valve of booms ad shops La to the
reteelien it the kenehise is mastitis to 101., the speaker
that If Y Will applisehle to land manly sad DM
beams, ths Oast weld he te Bight al voters • undies&
eif the smellent getters is thends, who would be at
the Wok of *ale lesdkede, slide men occupy ins vitamins
meld st SL err W. a year, and having en income ci 1001.,
would besmihnled. Notting wee stated is the bill about
the velure "Ms burghsif, regukbas Is
belittled nide within
seven mine of esti as . diet chum
of doer mere weerbe mold, the Ore VOW bolo ea-
gle seetiot to buy peoptelp In burgh% esd=wenrw;
=nalamar to -se and weft In thin,
the li se lie bidet lomemebn aid the mist un-
erneWalheml mad have bleu goesseed. Bailie
Bleeleslier seegesei that • pillion to gmellememt spirt tho
bill be adistsd, which wee esseeded by Bailie Rasta, sod
Irma W.
MANOMMITIi:•••A ermdigd oeuvemid by the Laateshire
Boismeed Unlash was bald eh Waiseeday evening. Mr.
Aldermen Cleadobr pensided, esti ell be thought the go-
vernment RAM Bill no se Absalom for the purpose for
whisk it wen World that it would be laughed ar but for
the aimed emivanal canteen t with which it was 'coked ape.
TIM bill Isemomd the in the counties, but, on the
whir hod, B relneed the number of voters—se would be
the ogee to • 01116111dirabis extant la regard to ranee
for &Mk Lesessik• en Odin Menchoster. He
fit attain that es the reading the bill
would he rejected by the house. A new hosts
would be the row* sad he prniemod that that body would
have to morose Mr. RAW, bill, or someibleg very like it;
fur It would be as insult to the country to suppose that a
assjority could be mantel in favour of an adidnistration
whose Edam Bill me such ea abortion or that introduced
ea Monday night. Mr. J. it. Cooper moved : "That the so-
ealled Reform Bill of the present government is • mockery,
a delusion, end an insult to the country; end that we pierce
curettes to support the hon. measlier for Birmingham is his
honest end resolute wide moon to secure the meet extensive
meagere of parliereeetary reform pre ticable." The motion
wee emmoded by Mr. H. Ogden, snpretel by Mr. J. J.
Merriman, and carried unanimously. A peliti .n to Fortis-
meat wee adopted t the bill. A mooed semen( was
held in the In at Chapel, Great Jackson-street; Mr.
J. Whalley i 4 the chair. The Mimosa ma there)
less one thing In the goverment measure he sectored
of end all the rest was so tad that be did not hue.
what to all it. It was seridamory that there was now •
party of politicises pledged toe 101: freadthee he ocuellea—
Mr. Ortlis moved • reeolatiou aßog Hes necosaity for •
large rosseure of parliamastary reform. Hewitt the
wee mumbled to my that Lord Darby's bantling entlinsda
livm The great point will be that retaftg to the rveYalfe
&its-Welke of Inembets to population and property. waa
the very asemeetal a Reform Bill—Mr. blecdonaM sommiled
the resolution, end said he looked upon the government sees-
sure or an insult to the ornetry.—The resolution passed ass-
nimonelyom did also another pledging the meeting to sup-
port
Mr. Bright,
HALADI,ORD.—Ye.tifday Iftirllooll a prelimismy meeting
of WI moils' leading reformers of the district wet bold la
St. George's-hall, at Bradford, la ceder to initiate MOINOIIII
to elicit • deesesstration of popular orates upon the gorses-
meat Helena Bill, which wsa denounced sea detains wad a
ahem.