The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-10 00:00:00

The West Riding Reform Demonstrator,

that at least 100,000 persons were present on the
Moor during the afternoon, while many thousands
The Leeds Mercury says it isreasonable to conclude
more witnessed the procession through the streets.
Many persons, it adds, whose calculations may be
adopted with some confidence, have made an esti-
matepaper thus
high
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Moor
describes
n asth
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n e on t
when the same
proces-
sion arrived :
" As the time wore on, and 2 o'clock, the hour at
which the van of the great procession was expected
to appear at the corner of the Moor, approached,
the spaces immediately in front of the platform be-
came more and more densely crowded, and had the
appearance of five great semicircles of spectators ex-
tending for many yards, in front of each other, and
touching each other with their far spreading wings.
Beyond these bodies, and on the portion of the slope
that may be regarded as the hollow of the slope run-
ning through its length, there were for a long time
comparatively few people, and at no period of the
afternoon were they so closely packed here as they
were lower down. The ridge of the slope, however,
vied with the neighbourhood of the platforms in the
fnx wag envered
rate, after the procession began topour over it on their
way to the platforms. Passing across the table land
of the Moor, one could not fail to be impressed
even more with the vastness of the grand total of the
most moderate estimate of the demonstration, for
this great space was covered with a crowd certainly
by no means close, but, from the very capacity of
the place, of huge dimensions. The great bulk of
it was gathered at the two points, which, as "we have
said, were from the first selected by a vast number
of spectators ; the others were either wandering
towards the west side by the Moor or were careless
where they took up a position, and so remained pre-
pared to be wherever circumstances should place
them. At 2 o'clock, with great punctuality, the
music of the bands were heard in the distance, and
the first banner of the procession appeared over the
brow of the slope shortly afterwards. From that
time even until 3 the host contihued to pour down
towards the platforms, the uninarshalled who
awaited them breaking up, easily and without dis-
order, into two masses, between which they passed
to the various positions that had been assigned them.
The line was, however, preceded by a carriage which
contained Mr. Beales, Mr. E. A. Leatham, Mr. Ald.
Carter, Mr. Alderman Tatham, and Mr. It. Kell,
which bore those gentlemen straight down to No. 3
in the centre of the line of platforms, amidst loud
cheers from ten thousand throats. They were fol-
lowed by the first portion of the procession, who
bore down on the same point and soon swelled the
crowd assembled there to huge dimensions. On the
procession rapidly swept down the slope, like a broad
mountain torrent, and broke up into streams that
now bore us away, now to the far left, now to the
right ; in the various channels that seemed in their
unvarying regularity to have been formed by them
through the long course of time the throng grew
ever denser. The arrangements were of the most ad-
mirable description, and though the numbers were
so great, there was not the slightest confusion, and
the stream poured along without the slightest break
or the least inconvenience either to the proces-
sion, or the masses that hemmed it in. Nor was
less remarkable the patience and the quiet good
humour which the crowds before the platforms
exhibited in waiting for the commencement of the
platform proceedings. At length there seemed to be
somewhat of a lull in the advancing line ; though
their banners still floated gallantly in the breeze
they seemed to be fewer in number, and many were
of opinion that the end was at hand. Whether that
was so or not, Mr. Alderman Carter, amidst loud
cheers, at length opened the business of the day at
No. 3, and soon at all the platforms the orators were
busily engaged."

NEW LIFEBOATS.—The people of Bristol and
Clifton and Cheltenham have recently presented to the
National Lifeboat Institution the cost of two lifeboats and
their equipment, including transporting carriages. Tho
Oholtenham lifeboat, which is 32 feetlong, aad which is to
be stationed at Burnham, on the Somerset coast, was to be
publicly exhibited at Cheltenham to-day. Tho boat was
to be named by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, and afterwards
launched into a lake in the neighbourhood of the town.
The Bristol and Clifton lifeboat, which is of the same di-
mensions as the Cheltenham boat, left London to-day
for Bristol, whero it is to be publicly shown on Saturday,
and whore, like Cheltenham, most extensive preparations
are being made to give a hearty welcome to the boat of
mercy. Tho presentation will take place at Clifton, and will
be made by Mr. Commissioner Hill. This boat will after-
wards be named by Miss Florence Hill, and launched into
a lake at Clifton. This boat is to be stationed at Los,ie-
mouth,
a dangerous point on the Scotch coast. It should
bo added that the Bristol and Clifton lifeboat fund owes
mainly its origin to the Histrionic Club of those places.
Bristol had previously given the institution the cost of a
lifeboat, which is named the "Albert Edward," after the
Prince of Wales. It is stationed at Padstow, on the shores
of the Bristol Channel, where last winter it saved during
a fearful midnight storm 17 lives from the wrecked barque
Juliet of Greenock.

TILE LATE HARRY GRINSIIAW.—We are in-
formed that the accidental assurance company with which
this unfortunate young man was assured, as mentioned by
the correspondent "Argun,"
was the Railway Passengers
Assurance Company, of 61, Cornhill, London, with whom
he had effected a policy against accidents of every descrip-
tion for £l,OOO. This amount will therefor° be payable