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No. 23,359.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1867.

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lienrm Dethonstratious.

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(Cheers.)

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The resolution was then adopted.
The next resolution, which was the second one

Yesterday there was a Reform demonstration,

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alder the auspices of the Reform League, at Leeds.
t purported to be a gathering of what is termed
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county of York, and probably there were some per-
sons present from the chief towns in the three Rid-

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of Commons after a❑ exciting division, in which the
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ings into which that great county is divided, but the
bulk of the Reformers who assembled were chiefly
from the great centres of industry in the West
Riding. The boroughs of Bradford, Halifax, Wake-
field, Sheffield, Pontefract, and Huddersfield, the
towns of Dewsbury, Keighley, Bingley, Batley, Os-
sett, and their populous neighbourhoods, with the
borough of Leeds and its immediate neighbour-
hood, furnished in the aggregate a very large assem-
blage of both men and women. The day was fine
and sunny upon the whole, though in the morning
the sky was cloudy, and there were some indications
of rain. It was also a holyday, being Easter Tues-
day, and these circumstances, coupled with the long
prepared efforts to make the " demonstration" as tell-
ing as possible by the aid of music, flags, banners,
and other devices of an attractive character for " the
million," rendered the whole as successful as its pro-
jectors could wish. The recent letter of Mr. Glad-
stone, the speech of Mr. Bright at Birmingham, and
the position of the Reform Bill itself in the House of
Commons, all combineno give more than ordinary
interest to the proceedings.

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a defeated party; on the contrary, they had been
the conquering party since last year—(cheers)—
their principles had been gaining victories every day,

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with the Liberals in professions of Reform. House-
hold suffrage was now so popular that the Tory
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people, in order to gain their support for the pre-
sent bill, that it contained the principles of house-

hold suffrage, but it would not do to be too easily

Shortly after 1 o'clock in the afterndon the various
members of the Reform League and its branches, dif-
ferent trades, temperance, and other societies, and
other persons who wished to walk in procession assem-
bled at the front of the Town-hall, and went through
some of the principal streets to Woodhouse-mow, a
fine elevated piece of ground within the north part of
the borough. There was nothing particularly striking
in the procession, and the whole was less numerous than
a like procession in Leels on the Bth of October last.
Most of the flags, banners, and bannerets which had
done duty on the latter occasion did duty on this, and
some of them had a rather tawdry appearance. Some
of the inscriptions about " Manhood Suffrage," " Vote
by Ballot," and the like being gilt paper pasted on
bunting or silk, and having been cracked by having
been folded up or the paste by which they had been
fastened having lost its adhesiveness, they hung in
passing any point
was less h
shreds, making the words not always easy to read. The
time
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than
the n procession e tookbuik
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f the persons walked
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five abreast, and there was on an average about a yard
w
and a half or two yards between each row of per-
sons, including in the calculation the much larger
intervals of space which existed between different
bodies of men or societies. The number of carriages
and other vehicles, and also of horsemen, was less
than in the October procession, and there was cer-
tainly much less enthusiasm displayed throughout
the whole affair.

On Woodhouse-mow there were five platorms, as
at the meeting in October last, and at each there
was a chairman and a set of speakers, the principal
of whom were the same as spoke on the previous

occasion. The speaking from the several platforms
commenced at 3 o'clock. The following three reso-
lutions were proposed and seconded at each plat-
form, and were simultaneously put to the mass of
people assembled, only a very small portion of whom,
however, could hear either the speakers or the re-
solutions. They were adopted unanimously, and
with much cheering :-
1. That this mooting is of opinion that no measure of

Reform will b 3 considered by the working classes as final
which does not embrace registered residential manhood
suffrage, protected by the ballot, together with such a re-
distribution of seats as will place the representation in
accordance with the wealth, population, and intelligence of
the nation.

2. That this meeting rejoices in the progress that the
principle of household suffrage has made in the recent dis-
cussions in Parliament, and earnestly calls on all sincere
Reformers to oppose those restrictive provisions in tho Bill
now before the House of Commons which prevent that
principle being carried out in its integrity.
3. That this meeting expresses its deep sorrow and
humiliation at the present unsatisfactory state of affairs in
Ireland, and urgently presses upon the Government to pass
such immediate measures as will tend to restore propriety
and happiness to that country.
The speeches were chiefly condemnatory of the
present Reform Bill because of its restrictive charac-
ter ; indeed, nearly the whole of the speakers advo-
cated manhood suffrage and vote by ballot. Though
Mr. Gladstone was alluded to, there was no expres-
sion of confidence in him, as he was deemed by the
speakers as not being far enough advanced in his
political creed. It is noteworthy that the several
chairmen, in putting the different resolutions to the
assembly, never asked for a show of hands to the
contrary, and that not more than one-tenth, if even
so large a proportion, of the multitude held up their
hands for the propositions submitted for their ap-
proval. Though the procession was not so great as
at the demonstration in October, the number of
persons on Woodhouse-mow was equally as large, I
or rather larger, but there was ample evidence that
hundreds, if not thousands, of them had assembled
as sightseers, and for a diversion in their keeping
of the Easter holidays. The proceedings throughout
were of an orderly character. No opposition pro-
ceeded from any quarter, not even from the authors
of the following form of petition, which had been
published in the earlier part of the day :
" TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND, &C.
" We, the undersigned, respectfully bailey() that the
agitation for a better representation of the people in your
honourable house has become a public nuisance, not only
obstructive of trade and commerce, but to all useful and
practical legislation, and inimical to the peace and pros-
perity of the country. Your petitioners believe that the
bill introduced into your honourable house by hes Majesty's
Ministers, having for its basis Residential Household Suf-
frage, with personal payment of rates, and other special
franchises contained therein, will satisfy the honest, loyal,
and well-disposed people of this country, and will settle
the question for a long time to come."
The out-door proceedings were over by 5 o'clock,
and the weather remained fine to the last.

LEEDS, Tuesday Evening.
In the evening there was a public meeting in the
Corn Exchange, which was well attended, but the
room was by no means crowded. The proceedings
appeared to excite less attention than has often been
shown at an ordinary meeting of Liberals in Leeds
at the time of a Parliamentary election. Mr. Baines,
M.P., Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., and Mr. Stans-
feld,spoke at the evening meeting. Each
M.P., who had taken no part in the afternoon
members was received with much ap-
ppo rlf
aotucheseeesd.
these
nhgos
n,
Mr. Alderman CARTER presided, and said that
the present position of the Reform question showed
that the Radicals were the only men still found
standing fast to their colours. He declared that
the Reform meeting held that day on Woodhouse-
mow was the best ever held in Yorkshire.

Mr. KELL, of Bradford, proposed, and Mr. Coun-
cillor GAUNT, of Leeds, seconded, the first resolu-
tion, which, like those following it, was the same
that had been adopted at the out-door meeting.
Isnre
Mr. ERNEST JONES supported the resolution. Ile
gtemporarily the
Commons it might be in-
ferred that he had resigned the £5 rating limit. If
lseaaidderbsyhipM ofr theG la 1; House e
of signin
Mr. Gladstone wanted to lead them in a real house-
hold suffrage campaign they would follow him.
(Cheers.)
Mr. BEALES also supported the resolution. He
denounced the traitors in the Liberal camp. He
said Mr. Bright, at Birmingham, had spoken of
household suffrage and manhood suffrage as being
phantoms, but the explanation of that was that he
meant those suffrages were phantoms before the
eyes of a corrupt House of Commons. It was for
the Reform League to make those phantoms reali-
ties, and it was not idle to say that the temper of
the people on this matter was dangerous, and they

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persuaded. The Ministry might not themselves in-
tend to dezeive, but Sir S. Northcote had said
nothing could be more inaccurate than to call it
household suffrage, and another member of the Mini-
stry had described it as a bill for residential ratepay-
ing household suffrage. (A laugh.) He then proceeded
to examine what this suffrage was, and to compare
it with the present franchise, which he said might be
called a residential ratepaying £lO franchise. It
would be seen at once there was no great difference,
and that the difference was greatlyin- favour of their
opponents. This was the good part of their bill, that
it was not a residential suffrage,but it was given under
certain conditions to all householders, whatever might
be the value of the house in which they lived..So far it
was good, but he could not disguise from himself that
the time for a £6 rental or £5 rating franchise was
now passed. He thanked the Tories and the ,
Go-
vernment for having done. this much—that they dm
not base the franchise on the value of the house in
which a man lived, but upon a far better principle
—the principle that the head of a family should
have a vote. This bill opened the franchise to
700,000 householders under £lO, and so far it was
good. He stated at some length the objections
which are entertained to making the payment of
rates a condition of voting, and urged some other
objections to the present bill, and then said that with
respect to th Liberal party, if they were to have a
leader, was any otl.er possible than Mr. Gladstone ?
Mr. Gladstone had one fault, and with the present
Hons.; o! COmmons he (Mr. Forster) feared it was
a great fault, which detracted from the power which
otherwise his matchless genius and eloquence,
rivalled only. by Mr. Bright, would be sure to se-
cure, and that fault was that he was too much in
earnest, but he believed that was a fault for which
the country would easily forgive him. The impor-
tance of that letter which he had written must not
be exaggerated. He did not interpret the letter as
Mr. E. Jones had done. He should be grieved in-
deed so to interpret it. There might be some calling
themselves Reformers in the House of Commons,
who had more confidence in the zeal, the reforming
zeal, of Dlr. Disraeli than in the proved services
of Mr. Gladstone ; there might be some
Conservative Liberals who had more con-
fidence in the statesmanship of Lord Grosvenor than
of Mr. Gladstone, for the House of Commons was a
large body, and some of them were crotchety, so
crotchety tha'they had greater faith in Mr. Roebuck
than in Mr. Bright. (Cries of " No, no.") But the
House of Commons was a representative body, and,
taught by the experience of political life, when
they found the country in earnest crotchety men
disappeared. (Applause.) Well, the country now
was in earnest, and by degrees the House of Com-
mons finding that out the Liberal party would be-
come more united and more inclined to put their
'aid]. in Mr. Gladstone than they had hitherto been.
:Applause.)
Mr. STANSFELD, M.P., next addressed the meet-

ing. He took a view of the reform question which
showed that the change of mind in the ruling classes
was startling and extraordinary. Men had been
unwilling not merely to grapple with, but to touch
this question. Now, there was too much willingness
to meddle with it. In order to get out of the way
he found many people not disinclined to say that
Mr. Disraeli having cajoled his own party and
beaten the Liberal party, there was nothing to do
but to pass a bad bill and trust to another agitation
to effect its amendment. Mr. Gladstone's letter had
been interpreted in that despondent View, but he
(Mr. Stansfeld) was glad to be at this meeting and
to protest against that interpretation:; if that was Mr.
Gladstone's view, he (Mr. Stausfeld), as a humble
member of the Liberal party, should feel it his duty
to differ from him, because he was not prepared to
admit the incompetency of the Liberal party.
He was not prepared to make the present
bill equal to what the Liberals themselves
might have brought in, but still it was possible
to make it useful and acceptable to the country.
(Cheers.) Waiving the objection to the ratepaying
clauses, the principle of personal payment of rates
could not be applied with justice to boroughs where
compounding obtained. What was the position of
the Government by having defeated that view ?
They were bound so to apply the principle as that it
should work justly between the compounding and the
non-compounding householder ; but they could not
do so without making their measures so large that it
was questionable whether they would carry it. Mr.
Gladstone seemed to see correctly the Parliamentary
situation, and he therefore abandoned his £5 rating
amendment,because the situation was so changed that
the Liberal party must look at this question anew,
and take counsel together as to what should be done
in committee. His words in his letter were, " I
should then be prepared again to attempt concerted
action for the public good." Those were no uncertain
words, and the right hon. gentleman had used other
language to the same effect. What, then, was the
question Mr. Gladstone called upon all Liberals to
consider ? It was what must be the concerted action,
and what the improvements in the Government Bill,
which should be attempted. He (Mr. Stansf eld) agreed
with Mr. Forster that their clear policy was to unite
as a party on these two points--the two years' resi-
dence clause, which should be modified, and the pro-
posal of Mr. Hibbert, which all were acquainted with.
The hon. gentleman went on to notice an attack made
upon him by the Times, which he sai had ev
id
e
ntly
been in the confidence of Mr. Disraeld i. as the
limes whether there had not been a collusion, or no
ground for an expression which he (Mr. Stansfeld) had
made use of at Halifax. It might be in the power of
Mr. Disraeli to deceive the dissidents of the Liberal
party ; but a certain letter had been brought under
notice by Mr. B. Osborne, which Mr. Spofforth, the
Conservative Parliamentary agent, had written, ask-
, ing plainly, " Will the Government measure or Lord
Grosvenor's amendment best suit the interests of the
Conservative party in your constituency?" The hon.
gentleman asked what could be the meaning of such a
circular as that, and went on to enforce the necessity
for concerted action among the Liberal party. Ile
anticipated that Mr. Gladstone would divide the
house on the two years' residence clause, and the
; Liberal party would degrade it, and pronounce its
own doom if it allowed this illusory measure to pass
without attempting to mould it in the manner sug-
gested by some of the amendments now on the table
of the house. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BAINES, M.P., also. supported theresolution,
and declared his utmost confidence in Mr. Gladstone
as the leader of the Liberal party.
The second resolution was then carried.
: IMr.1Mr. G. POTTER moved, and Mr. DERRICK
seconded, the third resolution, which was adopted.
1 The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

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about 150 gentlemen present, including Professor
Rogers and delegates from London, Belfast, Oxford,
Worcester, Northampton, Derby, Wolverhampton,

Ross, Huntingdon, Leamington, Stourport, Little
Bowden, Bewdley, Stafford, Manchester, Banbury,
and other towns. The Birmingham representatives
included Mr. T. S. Wright, Mr. Alderman Hawkes,
Mr. \V. Harris, Mr. NV. H. Deykin, Mr. Radford,
chairman, and Mr. Bateson, secretary of the Reform
League. The following resolutions were proposed
seriatim, discussed somewhat discursively, and ulti-
mately carried :----" That this Conference, having in
view the present laws of rating, are of'opinion that
the ratepaying clauses of the Tory Reform Bill are
framed to exclude from the register the great mass
of householders who by occupation would be other-
wise entitled to the franchise, and to supply every
facility for electoral corruption, and that the pro-
vision required of from two to three years' residence
creates an insulting distinction between the new
and the present electors." " That the Govern-
ment, by proposing a higher county qualifica-
tion than was proposed by the Tory Bill
of 1859, and higher than was accepted by
the House of Commons last Session, has shown
its determination to oppose at every point the just
demands of the people." " That, in the opinion
of this Conference, it is impossible to secure a true
representation of the people until all the legal
charges attending elections are defrayed out of the
borough and county rates, and all other charges
are declared illegal." (The foregoing was moved
by Professor Rogers.) "That the proposal to in-
troduce the system of voting by papers will have
the effect of promoting corruption among the con-
stituencies of the country." At this stage the
Conference adjourned until the afternoon, when it
resumed at the Committee-room of the Town-hall.