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The Carnival of 1867 has come to an end, and
the season of penance, fasting, aelf-examinationt
and retirement has begun ; and the weather, at
least, if nothing else, "looks like the time." Yes-
terday was as bright with sunshine as carnival-
keeping folks could wish ; to-day the sky, all
Italian sky though it be, is so black that I can
barely see to write at noon. Yes, we are in Lent
and no mistake. But if the spirit of Carnival is
dying out, the spirit of Lent, as may be easily
guessed, is not surviving it. If people will not
dance and laugh, and throw about flowers and
comfits, in the one season, neither will they fast
and do penance and extra church services in the
other. All sorts of things are done in Lent now-a-
days that used not to be thought of in the days
when Leopold 11. was Duke.
But whether in Carnival or whether in Lent, the
real preoccupation of everybody's thoughts is the
elections. Little can be said about them yet—no-
thing as to any prevision worth anything of the
general complexion of the future chamber. No-
thing can set in a stronger light the large quantity
of slowly accumulated experience which has been
needed, whether for evil or for good, to bring our
English system of electioneering tactics to its pre-
sent consistency, than the strangely unbusineas-
like way, as it seems to English notions, in which
they set about a general election here. There is
nothing like organisation—nothing of eager count-
ing up of voice by voice, and vote by vote—nothing
of organisation, little of intercommunication.
Everything seems very much left to hap-hazard.
One practice, which prevails to a considerable
extent, shows very strikingly the strangely unbusi-
ness-like and childish views with which a large
portion of the Italians regard the representation,
and the duties and rights pertaining to it. I mean
the habit they have of electing in some cases, and
endeavouring to elect in others, persons of whom
it is well known there is not the smallest pro-
bability that they will ever go near the chamber
from one end of the session to the other. Thus
Garibaldi was elected to the last parliment, and
will, no doubt, be elected to this, in the first
instance, probably by several different colleges.
But it is perfectly certain that he will never enter
the Chamber of Deputies. lie is elected, they
will tell you, as a protest—a demonstration--1
an expression of opinion. And they cannot
understand that to act in such a childish manner
indicates a total ignorance of or apathy to the
whole scope and object of parliamentary govern-
ment. It is easy, costs nothing, neither a thought
nor a farthing, to shout out some well-known
popular name and put that into the voting urn,
without a thought of the vote lost to the party, or
of the duty of the candidate elected to his consti-
tuents, his party, and the country.

CORK, SUNDAY NIGHT.
Although for the past three or four days nothing
has occurred to disturb the peace of this county,
the authorities have been kept in a perpetual state
of alarm by rumours of intended or actual Fenian
risings. Last night intelligence was received here
at eleven o'clock that a large party of Fenians had
been seen in the neighbourhood of Ballinhassig,
about nine miles from Cork, on the Cork and Ban-
don Railway, and a detachment of thirty men of
the 12th Lancers was despatched in half-an-hour to
the threatened locality, but before their arrival
the Fenians had disappeared—that is, if Fenian'
had ever assembled in the place at all. The
Lancers returned at two a.m. On Friday night
'the garrison in Cork did not number more than 200
men, having been reduced by the detachments sent
in various directions where Fenian' were supposed
to be ; and extreme precautions were observed to
guard against surprise, as it is currently reported
that the rising in Cork is yet to come off. Last night
equal caution was observed. A company of the
60th Rifles is stationed in the Protestant Hall in
the ee nt re of the city ; and a detachment of
Lancers is kept all night at Conway's Horse Bazaar,
near the Protestant Hall. The rent of the troops
remain in the barracks, which are on an eminence
near the city. Patrols of constabulary, horse and
foot, go through the principal streets at intervals.
Yesterday, 700 marines arrived at Queenstown in
the Caledonia, and have been stationed here, part
at the military barracks, and part in Cat's Fort,
which is on the southern aide of the city, the
barracks being on the north. The presence of this
additional force imparted a sense of confidence in
the city, but in the country districts much alarm
prevails. In Midleton, two nights since, the police
and the military force, consisting of one company
of the 67th, were under arms all night, a report
having been circulated that the Feruans intended
to attack the barracks. At Blarney, last night,
the police force was kept up in the same unpleasant
way by a similar report. In Mill-street, in this
county, an attack has been expected every night
since Thursday, and a small detachment of soldiers
have been sent to reassure the inhabitants. The
company of the 60th Rifles, established at Killarney
since the outbreak in that locality, was withdrawn
on Saturday, and sent on to Mallow, being replaced
in Killarney by the detachment of the 16th Foot,
previously stationed at Kenmare. A party of the
12th Lancers is still at Cahirciveen, with some in-
fantry, but it is said that the small detachments
now distributed in the towns in Kerry are to be
withdrawn.

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The entire of the west of Cork, where Fenianiam
was supposed to be very rife' has remained undis-
turbed up to the present. Some arrests have been
made in this city since Thursday. Four men who
are stated to have been concerned in the attack on
the police barracks at Killmallock were arrested on
Friday on the arrival of one of the trains on the
Great Southern and Western Railway. One of
them attempted to escape, but was pursued and re-
captured. They were all much exhausted,
and suffering from want of food. Yesterday
a man was arrested returning from Carrig-
never. He had some percussion-cape, and
cartridges marked with the letters "I. R. ;"
interpreted to be the brand of the Irish Republic.
To-day another arrest was made. The prisoner
was one of the leaders at Bottle-hill. He was seen
and recognised in the Blackrock-road. He endea-
voured to escape, but was brought up by a shot
from a revolver. None of the prisoners will be
brought to trial at this assizes, and the county
grand jury was discharged on Friday by Mr. Jus-
tice Fitzgerald, who availed himself of the occasion
to express his confidence that whatever measures
the government might consider it necessary to take
for the
.prompt and effectual suppression of the
insurrection would receive the support of the
gentry and trading classes of the country. His
remarks on this subject were loudly applauded by
the persons in court. The learned judge may
safely rely upon the gentry, who are extremely
terrified at the aspect of the insurrection, and he
may count upon the more influential section of the
trading community also, but even amongst small
shopkeepers in this city and in the main towns of
the country there is a large amount, not exactly of
disaffection, but of sympathy for the Fenians ;
and this is shown by the resentment
which the least condemnation of the Fenians
elicits. It is very hard for any public man in Ire-
land or for any popular newspaper to say anything
against Fenianism without incurring unpopularity,
and this is one of the most deplorable circum-
stances in the present state of affairs in the
country.
The state of the counties of Tipperary, Clare,
and Limerick is such as to occasion considerable
alarm. Although there is at the Limerick Junc-
tion, in the centre of the insurgent districts, a force
of 2,500 men, with strong garrisons in the town of
Tipperary and in Limerick, nearly the entire of
those three counties remains in the hands of the
rebels. Accounts received this day from Clare
state that on Saturday a rising was apprehended
in Kilrush, and that Ennis was threatened. The
Fenian continue raiding for arms in the neigh-
bourhood of Ennis. A number of horses were
taken, as well as arms. A company of the 2nd
Queen's was sent from Limerick to Ennis on Satur-
day. Numbers of Clare families have removed in ,1
a state of alarm into Limerick, and the gentry who
remain in Ennis are about having the Club-house
fortified, sandbags being placed in the windows,
and the doors strengthened. No case of personal
outrage has been reported, and it is said the Fenians
pay forwhat they take. At Rathkeale, in the county
of Limerick, a large body of Fenians assembled
on Friday night, and the magistrates sent an
urgent requisition for troops to Limerick, in re-
sponse to which a troop of carabineers was
despatched on Saturday at six o'clock.
At Boher and near Pallas parties of insurgents were
observed on Friday on their way to the Galtees,
to join the main body of the insurgents. In other
localities the insurgents have been seen, and many
houses have been plundered of arms. It is neces-
sary, however, to receive all these reports with
much caution, as the most preposterous rumours
are in circulation, and are acted on very frequently
by the authorities. For instance, it was reported
here a few days ago that three thousand Fenians
were moving on Ballinoollig, and in half an hour
a body of cavalry and artillery was sent to the
spot, where it was ascertained that not a single
Fenian had shown.
In various quarters in Tipperary beyond the
range of the Galtees small detachments of the
insurgents have appeared. It was reported in
Clonmel to-day (as we learn here by a private
telegram) that there is a Fenian band in the
Waterford mountains, and a small flying column
was being organized for pursuit. The Fenians
have, as stated yesterday, disappeared from the
Galtymore mountain, but the general opinion now
is that they have only retired into the mountains to
, the rear of their former position. The mountains
are covered with snow •, the weather is miserably
cold ; the country affords no supplies for a large
body of men ; and how any considerable Fenian
force can continue to exist in such a place is a
marvel to every one. Detachments have been sent
from the Limerick Junction to the base of the outer
hills without meeting Fenians, but no attempt has
yet been made to penetrate into the mountains.

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Garibaldi hasnow been put forward in opposition
to Ricasoli as candidate for one of the four colleges
of Florence. He will not succeed in displacing the
Baron. But if the opposition party had any chance
of returning their candidate, what can be more
absurd than returning a man who will never attend
a discussion or give • vote 7 If they have no
chance of 'returning their man, what can be more
foolish than thus to damage by failure the names
of their own friends 7 It seems to me that it would
tend to several useful results in Italy if a certain,
not immoderate, expense were necessarily incurred
by every candidate who goes to the poll. It would
have the effect, among some others, of preventing
candidatures which are mere child's play, and have
nothing serious about them.
Crispi has been put forward by the radicals to
oppose Übaldini Peruzzi in the College of Santa
Croce, one of the four electoral colleges into which
Florence is divided. But although Peruzzi is by
no means so firmly seated in his place as Ricasoli,
and is not at all a popular man, I do not think
that Crispi—who is sure enough of his election in
his own old college—will succeed in displacing him
at Santa Croce. In the College of Santa Maria
Novella, the government party puts forward Carlo
Fenzi, the son of the well-known banker and
senator, as opponent to Signor Rubieri, the late
member for that constituency, who is an indepen-
dent politician, not much connected by party ties
with either of the opposing parties in the state.
In this college the contest is more likely to be a
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students at Valladolid, who hissed their professors, and
also the troops afterwards sent to overawe them, upon
which the soldiers fired, and three or four of the young
men were killed and others wounded. The correspondent
adds:—" The government maintains the utmost reserve
upon these occurrences. From the press we can expect
nothing, for it has not yet regained the right of
speaking. The few papers we have left are obliged
to re-set their matter almost every day after the
inspection of the censor. Reactionary ideas are not even
a sufficient guarantee. A commercial paper, which does
not meddle with politics, has several times been seized
for proposing insignificant refirms in the customs' legisla-
tion. Another paper, political in this case, but as little
liberal as possible, has Just succumbed from the indiffer-
ence of readers, who for six long months have found not a
single piece of interesting news in our journals. Another
paper is to disappear to-morrow, but if the five or six daily
publications we have left were to die one after the other,
their disappearance would scarcely be noticed; for since
last summer there has not been a single paper is Madrid
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claims on its resources.

The Dublin Daily Express of yesterday says the
conclusion to be drawn from the news regarding the Fenian
outbreak during the lest 48 hours is that the numbers of
the " insurgents" have never been at all formidable, inas-
much u the military and constabulary, notwithstanding
• minuteseouring of the country, have not succeeded in
falling in with any number of the rebels. It is also not
unlikely that • considerable number of those who joined

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the Fenian bands have quietly returned to their homes and
avocations. This has been done by men whose return
to their ordinary employment was almost certain to
insure their arrest. Among the latter are 'linesmen
on the Great Southern and Western Railway, who
were absent from their posts at Knocklong on
the night on which the rails were torn up, and who, of
course, have been taken into custody. The government
have arranged to station immediately six flying columns
of cavalry and infantry at six central points in the south.
These will be ready to move in any direction on the shortest
notion. A special commission has also been resolved
upon, and will be opened at the earliest period allowed
by law. The movement in Dublin, though it still occa-
sions a great deal of disquiet amongst the more timid
classes of citizens, is looked upon by the majority as
thoroughly damped out. The arrests which continue to
be made, and the reports which are hourly circulated,
are only natural at such a crisis and should not be taken
as indicatimore ng an then the spasmodic flicker
ything
which precedes final extinction. On Saturday the tele-
graph wires at Dundrum were cut, and an attempt at the
same time was made to remove some of the rails. In the
•even•ng the detectives succeeded in arresting nine Fenian
assembled in a public-house in Camden-street. In their
possession they found four formidable revolvers. Resid-
ence was attempted to be offered, but the police
showed they were not to be tried with, and
finally, having been reinforced, conveyed them to
Chancery-lane, and from thence to Richmond prison.
Yesterday morning 13 persons, on ar by the
steamer from Liverpool, were detained in custody on sus-
picion of being Fenian& During the day the wane of the
city were placarded with proclamations, offering a reward
from government of 2.10 f. for the capture of " Captain
Dunn, who attacked Kilmallock police-station. Reports
of an alarming nature were in circulation last night. It
WY stated that an attack had been made upon Rahrey,
but having despatched a reporter to the scene, the place
was found to be enjoying its usual repose. It was also
reported that beyond a certainty an attack would be
made upon Mountjoy prison, but up to the hour of
going to press such had not been attempted. It
was, however, stated by the police that bodies of men
were seen proceeding during the night in the direction of
Finglas, the quarter which it was surmised had been
selected by the Fenian for the purposes of a demonstra-
tion similar to that at Tallag t. This, however, like
other reports of a similar nature, was altogether ground-
lees. The only outrage reported beyond the imme-
diate vicinity of Dublin is an attack made on Mountmel-
- lick police barrack, by a man who issued from a public-
' house, and let loose on the barracks the contents of
an eight-barrelled revolver. The police returned fire,
and wounded their assailant, and also accidentally, it
would appear, another man. Several meets have been
made at Kilmallock, Cashel, Limerick, Tipperary, and
other places. In some of the disturbed districts, such is
the unsettled state of mind of some of the population,
that portions of the land are being left untilled. As an
indication of the feeling with which the farmers of
Tipperary regard the movement, it is stated that many of
them have for several nights slept out of their own houses,
from fear of being " premed" by the Fenian,.
In consequence of numerous applications being made
from the south of Ireland to the government for protec-
tion it has been determined to form six movable
bodies of troops, consisting of cavalry and infantry,
as follows :—Tipperery, Flying column, under the
command of Colonel M'Neill, Y.C., 413th Regiment ;
Waterford, Flying column, under the command of Major
Bell, 6th Snit •Cork, Flying column, under the com-
mand of Colonel Oakes, 12th Lancers ; Thurles, Flying
column, under the command of Colonel Raker, loth
Humors • Clare, Flying column, under the command of
Major Irby, 74th Highlanders • Carlow, Flying column,
under the command of Captiin &ottoman, sth Dragoon
Guards. A resident magistrate will accompany each
column, and ample means of will be provided.
These small bodies will be ptspared to move with great
rapidity wherever their envies' may be required, and will
afford much more substantial protection to the loyal and
well-disposed than statiouing additional detachments in
any particular plain.
The Paris correspondent of the MAUR Ezra, writes
—" James Stephens, late head centre, is staying at a small
hotel in this city—the Hotel de Havre--and there is but
little doubt that he is pulling the wires. Why be does
not make an effort to get to Ireland himself is more than
I can tell you, as I am not in his confidence. I know,
however, that his friends here a few days ago foretold
the present rising, and that Stephens declared that he
was not yet played out. James Stephens is accompanied
in his movements by some officers of the United States
service, who are over here, I am told, upon six months'
leave."

intlfitt.

PHILHARMONIC soarry.

This institution commenced its fifty-fifth mown
last night, being the first occasion of the appearance of
Mx. W. G. Caine as conductor shun his appointment in
the room of Professor Bternclale Bennett, who reaignedthe
office last year.
The programme of last night's concert was as follows :
Parr I.
Rymphour in C Minor (No. 1)
Seca eti Aria, .Comania," ! traltimor"
(LI sense*. Mr. W. B. eins
minP
Overture, •• me Naiads" W. Bennett.
Homan:a, " L'ombrosa Dolts Men" (MatUda),
Mira Louisa Prue
Conouto (No. 9), Violin, Harr Joachim

Pk!? H.

D Symphony In (N
uo, " YourqAuolWhites-wager (IA Rehm Beethoven.
de Saba), llio Lodes Tyne mid Yr. W. IL
ammohap Gounod.
Overture, " Les Abeneendes" Cheruhtnl.

The Freeman's Jorrnal says :—" Late on Sunday even-
ing an arrest which is considered to be of a very impor-
tant character, and which may lead to strange revelations,
almost as remarkable as three which were developed on
the escape of Stephens from Richmond, was made in
Portobello barracks. For obvious reasons, we refrain
from giving the particulars which have reached us, but
we may state that a person holding a respectable posi-
tion in one of the public bodies was detected in the bar-
racks we have mentioned, and that on being searched
there was found on him a skeleton key and a pistol. It
has been stated that by means of this key he was enabled
to obtain admission to the barracks through the postern
gate. He was at once taken into custody by the military."

The two symphonies stand in interesting contrast—one
being among the earliest so the other is among the matured
works of its composer. Much interest was felt in the
first appearsnce of the new conductor, who bas proved
by his direction of the concert of last night that he per
much aptitude for the post. He has beg been
known sa • cultivated musician and an excellent
pianist; and with the experience which he will
gain in Ms new position he will doubtless hilly
justify his appointment. Mr. Cueing, in every in-
stance, took the time with sound judgment. His
manner of directing is self-powwowed and calm, yet decided
and clearly intelligible. He will have to enforce • little
more strenuously the necessity for greater contrasts of
piano, which should be readily obtainable from a band of
such excellent instrumentalists as those over whom he
presides. The mesa= thus oonsmenced promises to be one
of gre►t interest—oommisaions having been given for
several new orchestral works, one from M. Gained (the
exact form, we believe, not yet quite decided), an overture
by Mr. Arthur Sullivan, and the completion of Professor
Bennett's symphony, previously produced by this society
with but three, instead of the usual four, movements. A
new work by Mr. Benedict is also spoken of, should his
engagements admit of its completion. Meantime the
Choral Symphony is announced for the fourth concert, on
4gILY 6th.

igrama.
DRUKY-LANE.

Mr. Bayle Bernard's adaptation of Faust, with
all its elaborate musical and scenic illustrations, was re-
vived at this house last night for five nights, previous to
the production of Rot Roy next Saturday, and followed by
an absurdly comic trite, translated from • piece in
the repertory of the Boaffes Parisiewnes, which would
have been better adapted for • smaller theatre. This
sketch is called Wanted—Hatebands for Sir, the adapter
being Yr. Charles Kenny, andis given, we presume, with
very littleof the original musk. The plot is •miming. An old
drum-major, whose wife, • prima donna, gave birth
to six daughters in six different towns in vari-
ous parts of the world where she was starring,
is left with these girls, and is as much troubled as
• " Belgravian mother" would be to And them husbands.
At last a young man is lured into the house ; but, unfor-
tunately, he turns out to be • long-lost son of the drum-
major, and in love with the maid servant. The structure
of the piece allows the six young ladies to dress in
Spanish, A/gerine, Italian, and other dresses, and the
music that is given to us is very lively. Mr. E. Clifton,
who has a great deal of grotesque fun, is extravagantly
droll as the young man. Miss Lydia Thompson is a charm-
ing earns* Mr. Barrett is • ponderous father, and the
young ladies are represented by pretty ballet girls. The
music is arranged by Mr. J. H. Tully.

TEE METROPOLITAN DISTRESS FUND.—Yolterdsy
the Relief Committee met at the Mansion-house, the Lord
Mayor presided in the chair. The financial report of Mr.
Ball, the caahier, was presented, from which it appeared
that during the past week the contributions received from
the public to the distress fund amounted only to about
371. As a matter of course, this small contribution made
only a slight variation in the state of the financial state.
merit published last week. It may, however, be well to
repeat that the financial account yesterday submitted to
the committee stood thus:—The total amount received
from the opening of the fund till yesterday was 14,505/.115.;
the total grants up to yesterday, 12,330/. ; expenses paid,
2501.; reserved for contingences' 200/. ; making • total on
the debit aide of 12,730/. ; leaving • balance to be
disposed of to the amount of 1,7251. lla. Of
this the sum of 1,000/. was awarded to the deputation
attending from the East London Central General Relief
Committee, who attended yesterday to wake their fifth
application, though the district bad already been allotted
4,2501. The deputation urged the continuance of severe
distress in those districts, and the probability of ita con-
tinuance. An application from the ?dile-end soup kitchen,
recommended by Mr. Charrington and others, was met by
a grant of 25/. The following applications were refused,
on the ground that they came too late to be met, especially
in the reduced state of the fund :—From the Spitalfields'
soup kitchen ; from the district of St. Paul and St. Philip,
Stepney, which had already received 8001. ; from St.
Thomas, Stepney ; from the Holy Trinity, Lambeth; and
from Ratcliif•lnghway. Before the committee rose, • sug-
gestion, made by the Lord Mayor, to the effect that the
committee should be specially called on Monday to con-
sider, seeing the reduced state of the funds, what course
should be pursued either as to closing or continuing their
duties, was adopted, and the committee adjourned to
Monday next. 1
LONDON DIOCESAN LADIES MlSSlON.—Yester-
day afternoon • meeting of the ladies forming this asso-
ciation was held at London House, St. James's-square, on
en invitation issued by the Bishop and Mrs. Tait some
days since. There were present the Countess Grey, Vis-
countess Sydney, Lady Susan Smith, Lady Emily Dundas,
the Hon. Caroline Lyttelton, Lady Wood, Mrs. W. E.
Gladstone and Miss Mary Gladstone, the Hon. Mrs.
Stuart Wortley, Mrs. Agar Robartes, Mrs. Pole Carew,
Mrs. J. B. Lee, Mrs. C. Buxton, and others, in all about
• hundred._

REFORM MEETING IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.

Last night a crowded torch-light meeting was
held in Tratelgar-square, under the auspices of the Reform
League. It had been announced that the apace at the
rear of the column would be illuminated by means of the
lime light, and some disappointment was manifested at
this part of the arrangement not being carried out. The
proceedings otherwise were characterised by great enthu-
siasm, notwithstanding that, they were for the most part
carried on under a drenching shower of rain. Mr. Edmund
Bedes, chainuan of the League, presided, and in his opening
address explained that, as the rights of the people were
not yet secured, that body had determined to continue
their agitation until the country was thoroughly satiated
in the matter of reform. Already its exertions bad pro-
duced a wonderful change in the views of the governing
Pawara, who had begun to talk of household suffrage, but
that involved a principle which might be construed in
different senses, and unless it was carried out pure and
simple, and accompanied by a lodger franchisei it would
not satisfy the just demands of the people. It must be
free from every description of counterpoise, a result
which he was not prepared to see accomplished by any
tory measure, and therefore the people must continue to
agitate until parliament conceded them their just rights
as embodied in the principle of registered residential
manhood suffrage, protected by the ballot. (Cheers.)
Dr. Perfitt moved the first resolution, as follows :
" That any measure of parliamentary reform, although
based upon household suffrage as now reported of the
government plan, will be inefficient and unsatisfactory
as regards the just and full representation of intellect
and labour, unless such suffrage be made substantially
identical with residential manhood suffrage, by the right
of voting being given to lodgers equally with all other
occupiers, whether as owners or tenants of homes, or
parts of houses, unaccompanied by any ratepaying or
other restrictive condition., end be also protected in
its free exercise by the ballot—the period of residence
in no ease to be required to exceed six months."
Mr. Mantle seconded and Mr. Bradlaugh supported the
resolution, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. Leno
proposed and Mr. Lucraft seconded the next resolution,
which was also carried by acclamation, viz. "Th►t this
meeting emphatically denounces and calls upon the unen-
franchised millions resolutely to oppose all attempts which
may be made in parliament, by means of plurality of
votes, cumulative votes, or other similar contrivances, to
give a preponderance to property or wealth in the matter
of the franchise, and thereby infringe the principle of
political equality, and perpetuate the system of class re-
presentation, whilst affording fresh encouragement to the
practice of bribery and corruption, and the exercise of
undue and vicious influences. This meeting therefore
earnestly invites the working classes, and all true re-
formers throughout the United Kingdoui, to support the
Reform League in continuing its energetic and valuable
labours on behalf of the rights of the people until the
victory is obtained by the unrepresented being placed in
the full and free exercise and enjoyment of the elective
franchise." The third resolution condemned the employ-
ment of volnnteers in suppressing or interfering with
political meetings or demonstrations, and the crowd, after
tinging the reform chorus, quietly dispersed.

-
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Payne held an
investigation last evening at the Edmonton Union, Ed-
monton, into the -circumstances of an accident on the
Edmonton and Enfield branch line of the Great Eastern
Railway, by which • man named William Wheatley,
aged 40 years, lost his life. Joseph Kitchener, a labourer,
said that at about a quarter to 11 o'clock last Thursday
morning he saw two men with a trolly coming along the
single line of rails, from Edmonton to Enfield. The
trolly, which is a sort of truck on four wheelie, was laden
with timber. The men appeared to be in a great hurry,
and they were pushing it on from behind. They were
going towards Edmonton station, and they suddenly
stopped near the " Brook bridge." Witness then saw the
down train from London coming down upon them. The
men instantly began to unload the trolly, and they pulled
the wood off it. They then caught hold of the trolly,
and tried to get it off the line, lifting the wheelie
at one end of the trolly off the metals. The men were
very much flurried. Before they had time to get the whole
of the trolly off the train came up, and the engine struck
the trolly and knocked the wheels off it. The trolly struck
the deceased, and he was thrown underneath the last car-
riage of the train. The train was then stopped, and the
deceased was picked up. After a good deal of evidence
the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death, and
the jury consider that there is blame attached to the rail-
way company in not having sufficient men in each gang, in
order that a signal man may be appointed to each gang;
and they think that there win an error of judgment on the
part of the foreman Fisher in taking the time of the ap-
proach of the down train from the man under him ; and
they are of opinion that the accident would not hare
occurred if there had been • signal-man to the trolly ; and
they are of oieinion that the company should take more
care, to see that the rules in their books are carried Mt"
TEE LATE ACCIDENT AT BILADFORD.—ANOTHER
DEATH.—Mr. 0. Caygill, one of the sufferers in the late
accident on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at
Bradford, expired yesterday.
CRYSTAL PALACE. —Owl RHILLING DAY.—
MONDAY, MARCH ii.—Admiriocia en payment, 470 ; ditto.
by mason dame, 647. Total visitors, 1,117.

BRADFORD AND THE REFORM Qucarfox.—A
meeting has been convened by the Mayor of Bradford (Mr.
W. Brayshaw), on an induentially signed requisition, for
this evening, in St. George's-ball, at Bradford, to con-
sider the position of the reform question. Mr. W. R.
Forster, M.P., is expected to be present.
REFORM MEETING AT LIVERPOOL.—At a meet-
ing convened by the Liverpool Reform Association, held
last night at the Theatre Royal (Mr. J. C. Evart presid-
ing), the following resolutions were adopted. It was pro-
posed by the chairman and seconded by Mr. H. Y. Thomp-
son, "That a household suffrage in boroughs and a 10/.
dqualification in counties would form a satisfactory and
urable basis of settlement." Mr. .1. .1. Stitt moved
"That existing circumstances demand a more comprehen-
sive measure for the redistribution of seats than that sug-
gested by Mr. Disraeli on the 25th February, and that
such measure should include provisions for more largely
increasing the number of representatives of the large
centres of population and industry." The motion was
seconded by Mr. R. Trimble. Mr. W. Rathbone, jun.,
moved "That stringent measures for the repression and
punishment of bribery at elections are essential to a real
representation of the people, and that no proposals for
that end will be satisfactory which do not include a ma.
chinery for local courts of immediate inquiry into the
conduct of elections, and do not provide that, when can.
didatm have been convicted of bribery, the other candi-
date whose conduct is proved to ham been pure shall be
returned." Mr. J. It. Jeffrey moved, and Mr. Geo. Melly
seconded, "That this meeting expresses confident* in Mr.
Gladstone as leader of the liberal party in the House of
Commons to obtain for just principles of representative
government their utmost practical development."
ROYAL LONDON MILITIA. —This retriment is
under orders to assemble at Finsbury on the 13th of May
for twenty-seven days training under Colonel Wib-011.
The recruits are to assemble on the 29th of April for f tar-
tw n days' preliminary instruction under Captain I the
adjutant.