The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-06 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

DARING ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—Two men, well
known to the one of whom is a convicted thief,
giving their names Richard Conden and James Ryan, were
charged with being concerned with three or four others
in the following daring robbery :

James Bosley, a cabman, said that at 2 o'clock this
morning he was passing through a passage in St. Anne-
street, Westminster, when the prisoner Condon and four
or five other men rushed upon him, knocked him down,
beat him, and took from his pocket a purse containing
1 l.os. After robbing him the whole paity ran away,
and ho followed until he overtook Condon after going a
considerable distance.

Police-constable Baker, 114 B, said ho heard a cry, and
immediately afterwards some men who were running were
pointed out by prosecutor, who came up and complained
of ill treatment and robbery. Witness followed and suc-
ceeded in capturing Conden, who denied all knowledge of
the robbery.

J. Richards, 72 B, said that immediately after the
robbery he saw Ryan running from the direction in
question. Ho called to him to stop, but he would not.
Witness secured him, when ho offered him a shilling to
let him ago. Some time before this he had seen the two
prisoners together.

William Burnett, 285 A, said that he saw Condon in
Great Peter-street, at Ilarlack's last night.
It was proved that when Condon was apprehended ha
said he bad just come from Lambeth, where he had been
spending the evening.

'Ryansaid' he was at the Trevor Music-hall, Unights-
bridge, at the time he was said to have been seen in Peter-
street.

Mr. Selfe remarked that the men had both givou their
address at the same place.
Prisoners were remanded.

TILE DEMONSTRATION IN lIY DE-PARK.

The council of the Reform League having deter-
mined to organise a demonstration in Hyde-park,
especially directed against the Royal Parks Bill,
called upon the working men of London to assemble
in their thousands at seven o'clock last evening. At
half-past six nothing unusual was apparent at Hyde-
park-corner, and at the Marble-arch no large crowds
had collected ; the only thing observable at that
hour was that some few hundreds had collected in
the vicinity of the trees, not far from the barracks,
and that under a clump of trees between that and
the Albert-gate a couple of gaming tables were set
out, and doing a small business. Vendors of fruit
and lemonade and sherbet moved about, and one or ,
two enterprising individuals had established the
popular game of " knock 'em down," but business
seemed very slack indeed. In the barracks were a
large force of police, and the Grenadier Guards
were also in readiness in case they should be called
on. Among the traders were several sellers of
ballads, some of whom established themselves in a
ring, and sang in chorus a song about keeping the
people out of Hyde-park, ending the verse with
"We will have our rights in England. Here they
are, a halfpenny a piece." Some others started the
Reform League songs, and kept up singing till Mr.
Beales came up to platform No. 1. At 7 p.m. pre-
cisely Mr. Beales took his place, and commenced
speaking, and at that time there were not very many
present; but about 20 minutes later the Clerkenwell,
the Fitzroy, the John Bright, and other northern
branches of the League, with their banners and
bands, entered the park by the Marble-arch, and at
the same time the South London, ShorQditch,
Poplar, and Pimlico branches came in by way of
Hyde-park-corner, making also a goodly show of
banners and marching in tolerably close array.
These two accessions to the assemblage raised the
numbers to what must have been a high figure. They
might be estimated at aboveJo,ooo. The Lambeth
contingent marched from the obeli k and halted
at boarded avenue to the llotise of Commons,
where the band played " God save the Qty.!en."
They then swept round Palace-yard, and in front
of the House of Lords, where they loudly groaned;
in Pall-mall, where they responded to the welcome
of the Reform Club with lusty shouts, and evinced
their disapprobation to the members of the Carlton.
In the park there were no doubt a certain number
of roughs, and a little business wag done in the way
of transferring property dexterously, but on the
whole good order was observed. Notices had been
posted on some of the trees, which were as follows:
—" Working men of London,—Preserve peace and
order at the meeting in Hyde Park on the sth of
August." It had been arranged that 10 separate
platforms should be spoken from, the chairmen
being as follows :—No. 1. Mr. Edmond Beales,
president of the League ; 2. Mr. J. Baxter Lang-
ley ; 3. Dr. P. W. Perfitt ; 4. Mr. George Mantle ;
5. Mr. B. Lucraft ; 6. Mr. W. R. Cremer ; 7. Mr.
George Odger ; 8. Mr. R. A. Cooper ; 9. Mr.
William Del! ; 10. Mr. J. Weston. An 11th plat-
form was improvised, at which Mr. Bannister pre-
sided.

At No. 1 platform, Mr. EDMOND BEALES,. who
was received with loud cheers, said—My friends, wo
are met here to-day in vindication of a right cf
which the Government is seeking to deprive you
most arbitrarly, most vexatiously, and most un-
reasonably. (Cheers.) By the Parks Regulation
Bil', as it is called, but which may be more fitly en-
titled the Parks Prohibition Bill, it is proposed to
enact that no meeting shall be henceforth held in
this or any other park for the purpose of any
political or relig:ous demonstration, or for any,
political, religious, or public discussion ; and any
person taking part in any meeting held in contra-
vention of this enactment is to be guilty of a mis-
demeanour, liable to a penalty not exceeding £lO,
on summary conviction by Mr. Knox or any other
police magistrate, or to be committed for trial for
the misdemeanour. (Shame.) It is difficult to
conceive anything more arbitrary, more un-
precedented—for this is the creation of an
entirely new offence—more unconstitutional,
or more repugnant to the feelings of every
Englishmen not dead to all true independence of
character, and all sense of real political and religious
liberty. (Cheers.) This park has been for centuries
dedicated, more or less, to the use of the public,
cannot be sold or otherwise disposed of or diverted
from such use, is under the management of officers
appointed by Parliament as representing the people,
is maintained at your (the public) expense. Where
is the tight to exclude you from meeting on this,
your own property, as it were, for political discus-
sion, as well as for the thousand other purposes for
which you may now freely meet in it ? One of the
very Ministers who are seeking to force this bill
through an expiring and unreformed Parliament,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, admits the right
of public meeting to be the safety-valve of the Con-
, stitution. (Cheers.) Why then seek to close up
that safety-valve in the quarter in which it can be
brought into operation moat conveniently aud most
effectively, and without an attempt to substitute for
this locality any other equally central and conve-
nient? One of these precious reasens or exemes is,
ersons in
that there is danger of your being disorderly your-
selves or allowing disorderly or riotousthp
tasteful
e
your train, so that there will be risk of
and ornamental flowers and shrubs being tra
.Mices
seeing that led
upon or injured. you were here
of thousands last May without the leaf of a flower
being damaged or the twig of a shrub injured, and I
that the same order and care will distinguish,
trust, your meeting this evening, and that the meet-
ing here last July would have been equally well and
peaceably conducted if the gates had not been ille-
gally and insultingly closed against you, this may
be dismissed as a somewhat insolent and certainly a
very idle calumny. (Cheers.) But then it is alleged
that you disturb the traffic or alarm the neigh-
bourhood by your processions through the streets,
and meeting in such large numbers. Well,
sup-
posing there were any truth or force iu this ex-
cuse, it would not apply to this park alone, but
would In au argument against your meeting anY-

where, and the safety-valve of the constitution would
have to be closed altogether, as is suggested by
that admirable Liberal and patriot Mr. Neate,l
whom the men of Oxford honour themselves by
sending to Parliament. Lastly, it is alleged that if
you meet here to talk politics others will come here
to talk or preach religion. 'Well, why should they
not ? (Hear.) But there remains behind all this
the real but unavowed reason for this obnoxious
bill, namely, the desire of the fashionable world to
have this park reserved for their own especial place
of recreation. (clear.) Well, it is a disagreeable
specimen of class selfidiness ; however, we have no
de ire to intrude unnecessarily or vexitiouily upon
those who dislike our presence ; we have no wish
to meet here except upon rare and particular occl-
sions, when a full. and free expression of public
opinion is more than usually necessary; but we
positively declare our right not to be excluded alto-
gether from meeting in this park at the arbitrary
will of any class or any Government whatsoever,
and without any other sufficiently convenient spot
in this locality being substituted for this; and we
caution all concerned that there may be danger in
atternpJng to legalise or enforce any such unlawful
and unconstitutional exclusion. We arc met here
now in vindication of a right—a right which I have
repeatedly and:openly insisted upon in your behalf,
leaving the Government to disprove it if they
can. We are met here because there is no other so
convenient or central a place for our assembling to-
gether to give utterance to our feelings and opi-
nions at an important political crisis. We are met
here not only to protest against this Parks Bill, but
also to thank the Government for having' assisted
to pass through the House of Commons a very dif-
ferent bill, that for the amendment of the represen-
tation, the Reform Bill of 1867 ; and to urge upon
the Government and all true reformers in the Com-
mons to reject the attempt made in the House of
Lords to deprive that bill of all its usefulness and
efficacy, especially as regards you, the working
classes, by raising the qualification for the lodger
franchise from £lO to £l5, by limiting the number
of votes to be given in what are called the three-
cornered constituencies, or where there are three or
more members for any county or borough; and by
the introduction of voting papers, which is only in
fact a contrivance for facilitating the exercise of
undue influence by landlords and employers, and
rendering bribery and corruption more easy. If we
are to have any change in the mode of voting, the
ballot must be that change and no other. (Cheers.)
The following were the resolutions :—" That this
meeting, whilst it cordially congratulates the
Government upon having assisted in passing through
the House of Commons a large and generous mea-
sure for the amendment of the representation,
deeply regrets that it should have accompanied that
measure by a bill so invasive of the law and consti-
tution, and so hostile to the rights of the people as
the Parks Regulation Bill, or Parks Prohibition
Bill; and vehemently and indignantly protests
against such a bill being made law, and declares its
determination to resist that bill to the utmost."
" That this meeting earnestly entreats the Govern-
ment and all Liberal members of the House of Com-
mons to reject the so-called amendment introduced
by the House of Lords into the Reform Bill raising
the qualification for the lodger franchise from £lO
to £l5, which would render the bill a mere mockery
as regards the working class voters in the metropo-
litan districts and elsewhere ; and also to reject the
so-called amendment introduced by the House of
Lords enabling votes to be recorded by means of
voting papers, as a measure calculated to promote
the exercise of undue influence and corruption, and
to substitute for the same the taking of votes by
ballot." " That this meeting wholly condemns
and protests against the novel, un-English,
and unconstitutional principle introduced by
the House of Lords into the Reform Bill by
limiting the number of votes to which a voter is
entitled in constituencies returning three or more
members to Parliament, thereby completely destroy-
ing the object for which additional members have
been granted to such constituencies, enabling the
minority to neutralise, or, it may be, even gain an
advantage over the majority, and deliberately vio-
lating the ancient constitutional principle of Par-
liament being composed of persons representing, or
supposed to • represent, the opinions and wishes of
the majority of their several communities or constitu-

eucies."

After all the resolutions and votes of thanks to
the chairmen had been passed, the bands played
" Rally round the League, Boys," and the people
passed out of the park, in which not more than a
few hundreds were left by nine o'clock. The de-
parture was as orderly as the entering, and at a
little past ten the additional police were sent to their
own localities. The members of the League who
had come from Lambeth passed round by the house
of Mr. Gladstone, which they saluted with hearty
cheers, and also again halted outside the House of
Lords, where they gave vent to their groans. The
other branches returned quietly to their own quar-
ters, and the streets presented their usual aspect,
there being no unusual throng in the principal
thoroughfares.

KOSSUTIPS ELECTION TO THE

lIUNGARIAN DIET.

PESTII, Aug. 1.

Letters received here from Waitzen give the ful-
-1
lowing account of Kossuth's election to the Hun-
garian Diet, as member for that district :--
" At five a.m. some 60 electors assembled outside
the town, and brought themselves by wine and firing
guns into the requisite state of mind for the im-
portant act. At six o'clock two bands of music
and a small body of horsemen traversed the town,
and were everywhere received with much enthusiasm
by the few persons at that hour in the streets. The
shots and increasing noise at last roused the tardy
sleepers, and at 9 o'clock the electors met in front
of the Town Hall. There might have been been
from 300 to 400 persons present, but among them
were certainly many lads of tender age, and ragged,
ill-dressed men, who undoubtedly were notprivileged
to vote. Very few town electors of any sort made
their appearance.
" When the crowd seemed tolerably complete,
loud cries of Eljen Kossuth' made themselves heard,
and, as no other candidate was put up, the
president of the committee asked whether the elec-
tors would give in their votes or elect Kossuth by
acclamation? The later course being chen,
-Ludwig Kossuth was unanimously proclaimed
member for the district of Waitzen.
shouldmember
had
voters
for this purpose
upon him. The letter agreed upon
daily requested to accept the choice 'that had fallen
ran :
nd '
disatriet of Waitzen has
& 4 Honoured and g in the hope of a
enthusiasm, warm gratitude, rest Patriot —With universal
more brilliant future, the
chosen the first and greatest citizen
him to accept his seat in
land as deputy, and
sacredbet's him
cause, and the welfare
of our Father-
the interest of the
of the country. We trust that by the fulfilment of
this request our poor fatherland may regain one of
whose great heart and magnanimous mind it has so
deprived. With thankful reverence we
long been
ever remain, B:c.'
All the electors assembled signed some 180 sig-
natures, filling the sheets. It was proposed to
forward this letter by a deputation to Kossuth, but
the electoral officials doubt whether the requisite ex-
penses of the journey to Turin could be collected.
The President declared with a sigh that there was
little prospect of so doing in. Waitzen, and the
letter will therefore probably go the ordinary way
of the post.
"'l'o see how large a proportion of the voters had
taken part in the election, inspection of the list for
the 1V aitzen district showed that it comprises 3,800
electors, 2,340 of whom belonged to the surround-
ing country. Of these 96 came to the poll, and
scarcely 100 of the town electors ; upon the aver-
age, therefore, about 5 per cent. It is greatly
doubted in Waitzen whether Kossuth will accept
the seat. Should he not, and in case the Govern-
ment party persist in not putting up a candidate,
Count Alexandra Karolyi, a nominee of the Left,
t likely conic in."