The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-20 00:00:00

The Reform Question.

MANCHESTER, Tuesday Evening.
The annual meeting of the National Reform
Union was held this evening ; Mr. Bazley, M.P.,
in tho chair.

Delegates from all parts of the kingdom were
present.

A resolution was adopted condemning the pro-
posed procedure by Resolution ; and the meeting
further declared that no measure short of house-
hold suffrage with a lodger franchise would be ac-
cepted as a settlement.

It was agreed that a guarantee fund of £50,000
should be raised to meet the expenses of the agita-
tion ; and at the close of the meeting the subscrip-
tions already received were stated to be over £lO,BOO.

NOTTINGHAM.
At a large meeting of Liberals held in Notting-
ham on Monday
night the following resolution in
reference to the Reform proposals by the Tory Go-
vernment was unanimously adopted:—
" That this meeting is of opinion that the Reso-
lutions placed before Parliament by the Ministry are
vague and unsatisfactory, and evidently show the
indisposition of the Government to deal with Re-
form in a fair and liberal spi-it ; and that this meet-
ing folly believes that the time has arrived when the
peace and wellbeing of the country demand the set-
tlement of the Reform question on a broad and
liberal basis."

NORWICH.
A meeting of Reformers was held on Monday
evening at St. Peter's-hall, Norwich, "to adopt re-
solutions in regard to the present most unsatisfac-
tory state of the Reform question, to protest against
the hollow and evasive Resolutions of the Govern-
ment, and also to adopt an address to Mr. Glad-
stone assuring him of the confidence of the people,
and begging him at once to bring a motion before
the House of Commons which shr'l test the sincerity
of Ministers in dealing with the extension of the
suffrage." M :r
-r• J. Colman presidel
Mr. WHITE (a working man) moved—" That it
is necessr ry for the wellbeing of her Majesty's slit-
jects that the question of Reform should be settled
without delay, and that any further factious deal-
in °, with the subject would be prejueicial to the ~
in-
terests of the country.,,
Mr. BARNARD (another working man) sconded
the resolution, which was carried nein. con.
Mr. A. M. F. MoßG.kx moved, " That the man-
ner in which her Majesty's Government are dealing
with the great and momentous subject of Reform,
by bringing forward lave and incoherent Resolu-
tions, is an insult to the intelligence of the nation."
Mr. J. H. TILLETT, in seconding the resolution,
said—Although Mr. Disraeli spoke for three hours
the other night, no one could gather from what he
said what were the Ministerial intentions with re-
gard to Reform. Had Mr. Disraeli been present at
that meeting he would have learned a lesson of plain
speaking, and would have been entbled in much less
than three hours to state in plain terms what were
the intentions of the Governmentupon the subject.
The construction which he (Mr. Tillett) put upon
the Resolutions was that one hal meant nothing,
and the other half meant mischief.
The resolution was carried, as was another ex-
pressing unshaken confidence in Mr. Gladstone, and
earnestly hoping "that he will at once bring a
motion before the Ilouse of Commons which shall
test the sincerity of Ministers, and insure a speedy
settlement of the Reform question."

A copy of the.resolutions was ordered to be for-
warded to Mr. Gladstone and also to the members
for Norwich. .

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for tho admirable manner in which the character of the

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