The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

THE WEST RIDING REFORM DEMONSTRATION

ON MONDAY.

(From the Leeds Mercury of to-day.)
The arrangements in oonnexion with the reform
demonstration on Woodhouse Moor on Monday, and with
the meeting to be held in the Town Hall in the evening of
the same day, are now nearly completed. From the
enthusiasm which appears to be shown at the meetings
now being held in all parts of the West Biding, and the
expressed intentions of the working men, there an be
little doubt that the gathering will be one of great dimen-
sions. The railway companies have refused to grant
special facilities for travelling to Leeds ; and it is under-
stood that from several towns at a distance, and it may be
inferred, from all close at hand, those intending to take
part in the demonstration will march in procession with
bands and banners, each body being swelled by others
at various points on its route. Bradford, Dewsbury,
Cleckheaton, ho., will furnish prooorions ; Pudsey, Stan-
mingley, Parsley, and Brumley will unite in one procession ;
and Morley, Churwell, Beeston, and Rothe* in another.
Permission has been given by numerous manufacturing
arms to their men to take holiday on this occasion. At
the request of the Central Committee the mayor of Leeds
has made arrangements for the preservation of order in
the town, and has sanctioned the route to the moor which
they proposed the procession should take.
Its expected that if the weather should prove ans.
picious Mr. Bright will visit the moor during the pro-
ceedings here.

At the evening meeting, Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Forster,
M.P., Mr. B. A. Leathern, Mr. Beaks, Mr. Ernest Jones,
Mr. G. Potter, and others will speak. Mr. Standsld has
informed the committee that he will be unable to attend.
The chair will be taken at 7 o'clock in the Victoria Hall,
b Mr. Alderman it. M. Carter, the president of the Leeds
Suffrage Association. The lame resolutions as
those which will have been discussed on the moor will be
submitted, with the exception of the latter part et the
second resolution, in place of which a brief tacker will be
presented to Mr. Bright.
In making their arrangements for the demonstration the
central committee thought it advisable to send to the
Right Hon. It. Lowe, M.P. for Caine, the following
letter:

" Leeds, October 2,1966.
" To the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P.
" Sir,—You are perhaps aware that the working men of
West Yorkahire are arranging fors reform demonstration
to be held in Leeds, on Monday next, October 8. At a
meeting of the committee of management in the Leeds
Town Plainest evening, it was unanimously resolved—
`That the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P. for Caine,
and the Right Hon. Edward Hormuz, M.P. for
Stroud, be invited to visit Leeds on Monday next, to
witness the reform demonstration by working men of
the West Riding of Yorkshire.'
" The committee, in passing this resolution, are actuated
by a desire that you and Ur. Herman shall have an oppor-
tunity of judging the character of the working men of
West Yorkshire. According to present indications, there
will be a muster of upwards of 100,000 men next Monday,
nearly the whole of whom are bons fide workpeople, in the
receipt of weekly wages, and who are at present excluded
from voting for members of parliament. It is calculated
that no less a sum than 60,000!. or 70,0001. will he the cost
of this great meeting to those whom you have stated are
unfitted and have no desire for the franchise.

" The committee can give you the fullest assurance that
you shall have fair and peaceable opportunities of mixing
with the unenfranohised of this district: and they believe
that, if you accept this invitation, you will, when the next
reform bill 00111811 before the House of Commons, be in a
position to speak of the working classes as a body, with
leas bitterness than hitherto has been your custom.

" I am, sir, your obedient ;errant,
"K. M. CARTER, Cbairman,
and Alderman of the Borough of Leeds."

A similar letter has been addressed to Mr. Horaman,
M.P., but up to the present time no answer bas been re-
ceived from either of these gentlemen.
As showing the importance which the country at large
attaches to this demonstration, we may state that it will
be considered necessary to provide at the evening meeting
accommodation for no leu than fifty reporters.

WORKING MEN'S MEETING AT THE FREE-
TRADE HALL, MANCHESTER.

Last night a meeting ,of working men was held
in the Free-Trade Hall, Manchester, in connection with
the Social Science Congress The chair was occupied by
the Earl of 814AF-reset:ay, 8.G., president of the con-
gress, and amongst those present wu Lord Brougham.
Lord Ileoentirtm, on rising to address the meeting, met
with a perfect ovation, the whole of the audience standing
and cheering in the most enthusiastic manner. He said
I assure you it gives me the greatest possible satisfaction
and pleasure to see this vast assemblage of the working
men of Lancashire brought together upon the present
occasion. I say of the working men—my fellow-work-
inen—(cheers)—l have been for seventy-two years a hard
working roan—(loud cheers)—and the habit is too old to be
changed now, even if I had time to form new habits. The
pleasure I have in meeting the working men depends upon
my confident belief in their virtue., their talents, and their
industry, and that upon no account, and at no time, is
there the slightest risk of their abusing the confidence of
their countrymen. (Cheers.) I ought to begin by stating
what indeed would be better said at the close of the
very few words I shall address to you, and that is
that my confidence and belief in the virtues, in the
abilities, and in the industry of our working classes
is founded upon my own experience, and my own
observation, even where it was beyond my own expe-
rience, of their conduct. (Cheers.) I am sure of one
thing, that whether they differ from others or agree
amongst themselves, their differences and their agreements
will be according to justice and order and law. (Hear,
hear, and applause.) The workman has a perfect right to
refuse to work unless for so much wnges—(hear, hear)—
and the employer has a right to any, " You shall have as
little as I find it convenient to Five you, or as I am
enabled to offer." The one has a right to refuse to work
unless fur the payment which be demands, and the other
has a right to refuse to employ a workman except on
certain terms, but ro man has a right, either work-
man or employer, to interfere with other people. The
workman has no right to say to another workman,
" You shall not work except at a certain price ;"
and the employer has no right to say, " Yon shall
not work unless you lower your wages as I require." They
have a right to do so themselves, but they have no right to
insist upon others joining them. Every one has a right to
take his own ,curse, either as a workman or es an em-
ployer, but no one has a right to say to another, " You
shall take this course ; I insist upon your joining me."
That would be combination, and would be illegal. His
lordship concluded by wishing all prosperity to the work-
ing men of Lancashire. Mr. G. IV. Hastings, Mr. T.
Hughes, M.P., General Neal Dow, Mr. Dudley Field, and
Lord Shaftesbury afterwards addressed the meeting.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

BATT RTAT, OCTOBER 0, 8 A.X.

SHARE LISTS.-(THIS DAY.)

Oxs o'Own.

The dealings in the railway market to-day are
not very numerous, but the tone is firmer,
o • chiefly to re-purchases by previous
for a fall. Caledonian stock has
risen 1 per cent. • and South Eastern, Great
Eastern, Great Northern A, and London, Chat-
ham, and Dover, to 4. The other leading lines
are unchanged, but show a favourable tendency.
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 124 to 1254 ;
Great Western, 52 to ; London and North
Western, 1171 to ; Midland, 1201 to 121; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 1234 to ; Caledonian,
1234 to 124, ex div. ; South Eastern, 64k to 654;
Great Northern, 114 to 115 ; ditto A, 126 to
127 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 174 to ;
Great Eastern, 28,4 to 29 ; and North British, 41
to 42.
Foreign and colonial railway shares are quiet,
at the closing prices of yesterday. East Indian are
quoted 102 to 103 ; Lombardo-Venetian, 164 to t# ;
and Grand Trunk of Canada, 191- to 1.
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