Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

THE REFORM MOVEMENT.

MEETING AT BOLTON.—A public meeting was held at
Bolton, on Thursday evening, to consider the question of
Parliamentary Reform. The Mayor occupied the chair,
when a series of resolutions wore adopted, declaring that
the laws which regulate the representation of the people
in parliament require amendment, " and that the exclu-
sion of the great body of the working classes from the
parliamentary franchise is a grievous injustice, and has
prejudicial effect upon legislation, and upon the adminis-
tration of public affairs." A second resolution declared
in favour of the ballot and triennial parliaments ; and a
third gratefully recognised Mr. Bright's valuable services.
The whole proceedings passed off with the greatest
unanimity.

GL ASGOW. —A Reform Conference is announced to be
held at Glasgow on the 23rd inst. It will consist of
delegates from one hundred towns and villages in the
west of Scotland. The Glasgow Reform Committee have
adopted a very cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Bright,
coupled with a strong expression of their determination
to support his measure.
MR. BRIGHT, M . P., AND HIS REFORM BILL . A
letter has been received from Mr. Bright in reply to a
vote of thanks lately forward.ed,by the Glasgow Reform
Committee, in which the hon. member says :—" I hope
there will -be cordial union among all classes of Re-
formers in favour of my bill ; nothing but this can
give us a chance of success. The conduct of the friends
of a more , extended suffrage than I propose gives me
great hope that we shall have no division in our ranks,
for this is essential to the success of • any measure of the
least value. A bill which is equal in its concessions and
restrictions—which views all classes of the people as
citizens entitled to equal consideration before the law—
is one which appeals powerfully, and I hope it will not
appeal in vain, to the great population of your City."
THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN SURREY. —The Reform
meeting at Dorking on Thursday night is a great and
significant act. That a town hitherto decidedly Con-
servative in its tendencies, should be one of the first in
the county to get up a demonstration in favour of
Reform—should pass resolutions in favour of a radical
change in our representative system, and should applaud
'sentiments in unison with that change, is a circumstance
which may well be marked as being of more than ordi-
nary interest.— West Surrey Times,
PETERBOROUGH. —Au association has been formed in
this city to watch the Reform Bills introduced into
Parliament ; and it is intended in a short time to convene
a public meeting of the inhabitants.
REIGATE. public meeting is to be held here on
Wednesday evening next, in the Town-hall, to take into
consideration the position of the borough with regard to
the new Reform Bill.
PADDINGTON. -On Tuesday a special meeting of the
vestry of Paddington was held at the vestry hall, in the
Harrow-road, Paddington, pursuant to a requisition, for
the purpose of considering " the propriety of presenting
a petition to Parliament, praying that the parish of Pad-
dington might be separated for all Parliamentary pur-
poses from the parishes at present united with it, to form
the borough of Marylebone ; and that the parish of
Paddington might be made a separate borough, and that
such borough might have a representation of its own in
the Commons House of Parliament." A petition in
conformity was adopted.
GREENWICH E LECTION. —The returning officer, F.
Chapman, Esq., has fixed the nomination to take place on
Monday next, at 11 o'clock, at the hustings fronting St.
Alphege Church, Greenwich, and the election will take
place on the following day at the polling booths of Green-
wich Woolwich, and Deptford.