The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-23 00:00:00

Taz REFORM BILL

PROPOSED MEETINGS IN THE METROPOLITAN
BOROUGHS.

The correspondent of a contemporary writes :
" We metropolitan electors boasted, last election, that we
bad sent to parliament • body of liberal members unsur-
passed for earnestness and ability, sad that tiers was not
amongst them either a tory or a temporiser. Well and
good. Now is the time to test their metal. These
gestlamen and their eonfideatial eminittees an sow
remit with all the machinery of political action.
Mr. Onselau, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Lawrence. and
Baron Retbschild have not. I images., ilia:outlined their
asnasetioa with the Liberal Registration Ageociatioo of the
Clay of Linden ; they have not, I presume, booms' less
earnest lathe cause of reform ; let them sall • mestiag
forthwith, enders the sanction of the old City to the bill.
The state of political feeling in the Tower Hamlets is well
known ; let Mr. Ayrton sod Mr. Butler appeal to their
reastitusits for fresh authority and 'attractions.
Neither Alderman Lusk not Mr. ild*Cullsik Torres, would
have had the ghost of a chance for Fiosbury, area against
snob candidates as Mr. Cox and Mr. Wait', bad they not
spoken out boldly for reform ; let them speak out again.
As for Marylebone, I fancy Mr. Thomas Chambers re-
gards Reform very much as he regards %dramatises—
' be is rather inclined to be • believer io it ; sad, at any rate,
Mr. Harvey Lewis may safely be credited with the earneatoess
that perhaps is wanting in the egregious Deputy-Recorder.
Ia Lambe* Mr. Thomas Hrtgbasove may safely reales, vein
be tree to his itatatedents, sad will erre the electors to
work heartily in support of a measure which adds headman
of thousands of Englishmen to the electoral roll ; whilst
Mr. Doultoe is too &mach • liberal to say him nay. In
Southwark, Mr. Layerd, who is • reformer in office, sod Mr.
Locke, wbo laws. of the most penis* of our metropolitais
members, are sure to he true to their duty ; but the electors
ought to call them out at once. if only to show that the
, borough is to have a voice on this great qnestios. Green-
wah, when I knew it half -s-dozen years ago. bad a hoot of
' meta in it who never walled fir governmental encourage.
ment before they asked for reforms political, and achieved
by their owe energy reforms social ; the old machiasey
eansot have got quite out of gear so swiftly ; sod both
Alderman Salomons and Sir Charles Bright would be
ready sposgh to join vigorously in the move-
mint. One other metropolitan oonstitaneocy re-
mains to be considered—i diode to Westadestsr,
Now, I imagise that Mr. John Stuart Mill—although he is,
as Mr. Lowe says, " a little too clever for the House of
Cosautone*—as at present oonstittited—will readily come
forward at a public mooing. when his owastitosats ask him
sad his oolleagas. I should not be at all emptied were
the captain to owns for ward in the house, as be did upon
the hustings, as a thorough reformer; only it will be as well
for the managing men in Westminster be give him the op-
portunity of doing so at once."

THE WEST RIDING.
It Is mid that arrangements are being made to
bold a great meeting in the West Biding to support the
goverment &dorm Bill. Nearly all sae liberal mire.
Dare beloeging to both divisioes of the riding have given
their cordial aseset to the object of the meeting. The
Star has rams to believe that the course taken by Sir
Willi►m Hutt, in reference to the Reform Bill, has excited
groat dissatisfaction among his constitnects of Gateshead.