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adoption of a petition to the House of Commons
against the Lords' amendments to the bill, this peti-
tion to be signed by the chairman on behalf of the
meeting. lie declared that Manchester would rather
forfeit its additional member than have this privilege
coupled with such a condition as was imposed by
Lord Cairus's:amendmeut—a:condition which made
it possible that the minority would return not one,
but two out of the three members.
Sir J. GRAY, M.P., in seconding the motion, said
that he could promise -the Reformers of London all
possible sympathy and support from his own outcast
land. (" No, not outcast !") Well, he knew it was
not outcast from the English people. (Protracted
cheering.) Deeply did ha thank them for that re-
sponse. The English people had, indeed, always
shown sympathy for Ireland. But, while the Eng-
lish people had themselves been outcast from the
Constitution, the ruling classes had not only put the
Irish people without the pale but under the carriage
wheels.
Mr. MASON JONES, speaking in support of the re-
solution, described the principle of representing
minorities as a cunningly devised plan for maintain-
ing in the hands of the aristocracy the power which
they had so mercilessly used during the last 200
years. The minority now were not only repre-
sented—they governed. Was it not almost time
that the majority should take its turn? (Cheers.)
lie denied the right of the minority to be repre-
sented at all. The essence of all representative
government was that the voice of the majority
should rule, and it was the duty of the minority, ii
they valued their principle, to try to convert the
majority, as Mr. W. Lloyd Garrison had done in
America on the slavery question (three cheers were
here given for Mr. Garrison), and Mr. Cobden and
the Freetraders at home.
Mr. BEALES, who was loudly called for, alluded to
the admirable speech of Mr. Monk Price, and denied
the assertion of the Times that the Reform League
was torn by divided councils, and had on Monday
made a last desperate effort. lie could only say
that if the obnoxious Parks Bill were proceeded
with they would hold another meeting in Hyde-
park—(loud cheers)—and they might then find it
necessary to pursue a course of proceeding which
would remove all possibility of misrepresentation,
and would not leave the slightest doubt of what
was meant by the men of London, what their
temper was, what their numbers were, and of their
determination to resist this measure. (Loud
cheers.) Ile trusted, however, that a better feeling
would henceforth prevail, and that the Reform Bill,
passed by the house of Commons free from the
amendments of the Lords, would bring about good-
will and harmony among all classes in the State.
(Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to the chairman was passed by
acclamation. The proceedings did not terminate
till nearly half -past 11 o'clock.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1867.

Not the least interesting of the many splendid
entertainments which have been given this season
at the Mansion-house took place last evening, when
a brilliant company was invited to meet the Ministers

of the Crown as the guests of the Lord Mayor.
There were not present, it is true, any of those dis-
tinguished foreign visitors, whose presence alone
rendered some previous occasions remarkable ; but
the events of the Session and the circumstances of
the time made this, the last great banquet of the
season, not an unimportant one. The Earl of
DERBY, happily recovered from his recent illness,
was present to receive the congratulations of his
friends on having so nearly attained that great end
for which all the successive statesmen of the last
few years have been vainly striving. Instead of re-
treating from the Parliamentary campaign with
baffled hopes and disappointed forces, he is able to
point triumphantly to substantial victories won—
to difficulties surmounted and differences reconciled
—to foes converted into friends, or at least into
neutrals, and to the wants of the great body of the
people relieved and gratified. His lieutenant-
general has equal, or perhaps even greater, right to
look back with satisfaction on the events of the year
which opened with anything but hopeful auspices
for the Conservatives. As Lord DERBY happily
said last evening, the political barometer at the
beginning of the session pointed to a "storm ;"
but although he could not say that all clouds had
passed from the horizon, he thought he might
safely affirm that if we have not arrived at " set
fair," at all events the barometer points more to
" fair" than to " change." Of the peat ques-
tion of the year Lord DERBY spoke with a frank-
ness and straightforwardness which were eminently
characteristic of him. Personally he said he
would have shrunk from the labour and responsi-
bility of his position, but he felt it an imperative
duty. " I felt," said the noble Earl, " that there
was a great work to be done, and I felt that, how-
ever unworthy I might be to be the instrument of
doing that work, there was no other person who
possessed the means of carrying to its successful
issue that great work which I saw to be necessary
for the wellbeing of the community." His patriotic
convictions have brought their due reward in the
unexpected success which has attended the efforts
and the sacrifices of the leading Ministers.
In attaining their great end, Lord DERBY said
they had made sacrifices and endured taunts,
but that he believed every loyal Englishman must
share in the hope which he confidently expressed—
that the liberal franchise which had been extended
to the people of this country may find the people
worthy of its exercise, and that in extending the
rights and liberties of the people they had also
extended the strength and security of the institu-
tions of the country. The cheers which greeted
the noble earl throughout this part of his speech
must have given him the assurance that his hopes
were not ill founded, but that, in exerting
himself to fulfil the just and reasonable
demands of the people, he had, so far
from weakening daly constituted authority,
or encouraging sedition, strengthened the reins of
Government and avoided an insidious and increasing
danger. Lord DERBY, in reviewing the proceedings
of the session, expressed his satisfaction that, not-
withstanding the engrossing nature of the Reform
question, other matters of great importance had not
been overlooked. Prominent among these were the
union of our North American Provinces and the
measure for the relief of the metropolitan poor ;
questions very dissimilar in their character, though
not in their consequences, since both will ultimately
affect the well-being of millions of our fellow -
subjects.

Iu referring to the illustrious guests whom the
City of London has lately so warmly welcomed,
Lord DERBY commented upon the courage which
the SULTAN had shown in breaking through all the
tics of prejudice and fanaticism, and determining
to see with his own eyes the civilisation of the
West. He has returned deeply impressed, not only
with the power, but with the happiness of this
country—deeply impressed with the beneficial re-
suits of our free institutions, and, " above all,"
says Lord DERBY, " impressed with the spectacle
he has seen here of the perfect union and harmony
among all the various classes differing in religion
and every other particular under the influence of a
beneficent and liberal Government."

The toasts of the evening would certainly have
been very incomplete without a special compliment
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,whose acknow-
ledgment of it was listened to with the more interest,
as, in returning thanks for the Ilouse of Commons,
he naturally entered at once upon the prospective
changes in its constitution. But the desire for those
changes has not, ashe justly observed, been exhibited
by a want of confidence in the House of Commons,
but from a desire in the country to participate in
the exercise of political power. The community
generally, says Mr. DISRAELI, have considered this
great question with a spirit of candour and calm-
ness almost unparalleled ; and when we look back
not only to the earlier Reform Bill, but to any other
great political controversy in which large interests
were involved, and on which great differences of
opinion existed, we shall acknowledge that he speaks
advisedly. With his usual shrewd and pene-
trating sarcasm, Mr. DISRAELI observed that we
could not expect to disturb a monopoly without
some tumult, and that we had recently been termi-
nating the monopoly of Liberalism. In a similar
spirit to his chief, the leader of the House of Com-
mons, expressed his conviction—a conviction which
he has held in the face of all possible difficulty
and discouragement—that in enlarging the privi-
leges of the people the Tory party had really done
nothing but strengthen those institutions which
they have always professed to uphold—institutions
" the essence of whose force is that they represent
the interests and guard the rights of the people."

One feels puzzled whether to be most indignant
or disappointed at the course pursued by Mr.
BIUGIIT on the subject of Reform. He has long
shown himself most inconsistent, but he really now
has out-lleroded HEROD. It is difficult to under-
stand how he can reconcile to himself the great
difference which he makes in his speeches in the
House of Commons and upon the occasion of his
appearing at public meetings. He must be san-
guine, indeed, if he does not think that others will
find it out, and make their comments upon it. We
expect the secret of his recent hostility to the mea-
sure introduced by her MAJESTY'S Ministers has
arisen from the disappointment he feels at finding
that eclat of his provincial tours will be considerably
diminished, if not altogether done with. He
shrinks from figuring as OTHELLO, with his occupa-
tion gone, and hence he becomes quite beside him-
self with rage and mortification. It is really sad to
see a man of his ability thus waste his powers
of oratory in the utterance of unmeaning censures,
and substitute abuse for argument in dealing with
his political opponents. It is a very singular course
which Mr. BRIGHT has thought fit to take of late,
and there is no justification for his adopting it. If,
however, he sees reason, or imagines that he does
so, for finding fault with anything going on in the
political world, he rushes about the country and sets
to work in sledge-hammer fashion to demolish his
foes. The House of Commons is the proper place
in which to discuss the nature and meaning of the
measures brought forward, and ample opportunities
have been afforded to the hon. member for Birming-
ham for so doing; but no, he choos3i to have his

say and to communicate his meaning in language
not exactly fitting for the ears polite of that assem-
bly, and so Manchester is chosen to have the honour
of his explanations.
A meeting was held at the Free-Trade Hall,
on Tuesday, to protest against the changes
made by the House of Lords in the Reform
Bill, and Mr. BRIGHT was of course in full feather.
The folly of the meeting was shown in the first
resolution, which denounced the system of voting-
papers as leading to " bribery and intimidation,"
and urged its rejection by the House of Commons.
How any one can possibly connect voting-papers
with bribery seems almost incomprehensible ; but
there is nothing to which people will not
agree when they are resolved to object. It
is easy to summarise Mr. BRIGHT'S speech
by saying that it was full of bitterness,
and replete with that unfairness of which he is so
great an exponent. He found himself obliged to
say something in favour of the bill, and therefore
he mixed up his approval of the measure
with abuse of those who had brought it forward.
The public will know how to appreciate this for
themselves, however, and will easily distinguish
the real from the unreal part of the affair.
His strictures upon the House of Lords are
quite ridiculous, and even when he has
to allude to the final decision which left the
lodger franchise in statu quo, he now needs qualify
it by saying that they reconsidered the question
with " excuses such as earnest men seldom make,"
and so on. Mr. BRIGHT is quite furious at the very
notion of voting papers being adopted, and there-
fore he devoted a considerable part of his speech to
that topic. He said that he believed the main ob-
ject to be to enable rich men " who possess,
or who may obtain possession of, property in
many counties, to vote in all these coun-
ties without leaving the house in which
they are living." This is a most ridiculous explana-
tion of the affair, and it shows that there are no
very good reasons against the proposition if he is
forced to fall back upon one like this. The in-
fluence of public opinion, which Mr. BRIGHT so
much relies upon, has not worked so successfully
hitherto in many places, for it is a well-known fact
that many, stay away altogether, and do not record
their votes on account of the confusion and rioting
that prevail at the polling-booth.
It was, however, in the consideration of the other
amendment that Mr. BRIGHT came out most
forcibly, and made himself most absurd. He in-
dulged in abuse of the most vehement kind and
character, and confounded his friends with his foes
in his sweeping censure. The arrogance 'of this sort
of thing is really unendurable, and in all pro-
bability Mr. BRIGHT has done great damage to the
cause he wishes to serve by his unwise advocacy
of it. People do not care to be told that
they are knaves and fools, if not some-
thing worse, because they do not say ditto to Mr.
BRIGHT in all he thinks and approves of. We are
not to be forced into conviction against our better
judgment, and we have yet to learn that the height
of freedom is to be deprived of the liberty of judg-
ing for ourselves. Let us listen, however, to
what the oracle said at Manchester on this
subject of the representation of minorities.
It is a proposition " which has been aimed
with a deadly malice at the political power of
the great cctstituencies of the kingdom. I ask
m y countrymen to reject this new and worst device
of their opponents, because it has within it a
principle as, I believe, disastrous and fatal to every-
thing which we mini rehend, and which our fore-
fathers comprehended. Of the true principle of
popular representation, I regard it—l say it here
without fear of whomsoever it may strike--I re-
gard it as the offspring and the spawn of feeble
minds." This last thrust is evidently intended for
the benefit of his friends as well as for that of his foes.
It will be seen that Mr. MILL is in favour of this
hated principle, and many others who share this
opinion are found in the Liberal ranks. Any man
who adopts this scheme must, according to Mr.
BRIGHT, necessarily " shake the faith and lose the
confidence of every true friend of Reform and of
freedom." Can anything be more unfair than this
sort of reasoning ? and can there be a more inconsis-
tent thing for one in Mr. BRIGHT'S position to do than
go about prejudging matters under the considera-
tion of Parliament. By his intemperate language
and arbitrary demeanour he himself shakes faith
and loses confidence—and heicertainly shows us very
plainly that ho is not so much the friend of Reform
as he is the enemy of fair-play. No cause can
certandy prosper which is advocated in the abusive
manner in which Mr. BRIGHT delights ; and in
this speech at Manchester he seems to have
gone back to many of his old errors, and to have
exerted himself to display as much bitterness of spirit
as he possibly could. He said himself at last that
some would think he had used " needlessly strong
words," and they will not be very far from the
truth in coming to that conclusion, but those whose
opinions are worth influencing cannot possibly be
misled by such extravagant language, for it cer-
tainly defeats itself by its intolerance and want of
meaning.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
The Moniteur quotes the following from the
Gazette of Northern Germany :

" The speech made by the Emperor of the French
on receiving the address of the foreign Commis-
sioners of the Universal Exhibition is calculated to
dissipate at last every trace of mistrust of French
policy. At all events we have no right to entertain
any doubt of the sincerity of the pacific manifesta-
tions of the French Government. Besides, we see
that for some days past the French press has resumed
a tone of precise and conciliatory tendency, and the
anxious desire to maintain amicable relations
between Germany and France."
The Emperor will leave Paris to-morrow for the
camp at Chalons. A squadron of the Cent Gudes
have already left for that destination to form the
body guard of his Majesty.
The King of Sweden occupies the Hotel of the
Rue de l'Elysee, No. 4in that street. This hotel,
which belongs to the Empress, is the habitual resi-
dence of the Countess de Montijo, her Majesty's
mother, when she stays in Paris. Should the King
of Sweden desire to renounce his incognito and
appear in State, the Emperor has placed the Palace
of the Elysee at his disposal.
The departure of the King and Queen of Portugal
from Paris is at present fixed for Sunday next, at
nine T)'clock in the evening. Their very faithful
Majesties will stay at Bordeaux on Tuesday, and
then leave for Lisbon by way of Madrid.
The Government candidates for the departmental
municipal elections or general councils have been
very successful. The opposition journals admit the
fact with some reluctance, but console themselves
with the idea that there is a " considerable relative
success" for the opposition candidates as compared
with the results of the same elections for 1861 and
1864. The simple fact is that the policy of the
Emperor and his Government becomes every
day more popular, so that in local as
well as in political matters the people
are convinced that the best way to advance their
own true interests is to give the Government their
hearty support, and to repudiate the abettors of
revolutionary and democratic changes.
The Siecle says :—" Our letters from Austria
announce a very pronounced movement in Hungary
and Gallicia against Russian propagandism.