The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-31 00:00:00

LAST WEEK BUT ONE.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP IV THE AIR, an entirely New Entertain-
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Comedy, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the most talented Forel= and English artistes.
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Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, le ; private
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Open every evening at 8.
Engagement of the talented JULIETTE and JULIA
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Their first appearance in this country on WEDNESDAY
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WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
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Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland.
Success unprecedented of H. PIERROT. the one leg, the
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Admi tance, ls. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra
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Open from 11 a m. till 10 p.m.

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Open every evening with the celebrated ARGYLL BAND.
The Programme this week will include Selections and Ar-
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Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer.
Musical Director, Signor LUIGI CURTI.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

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China Teas as usual at is. Id. per lb. and upwards.—Ware-
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The Directors HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that THIS
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May 1, 1866.

WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOIS RAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab-
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easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, me ,dow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FITNDS
SHIP. arleoaoronreesqtlserted for fitting up the TRAINING
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
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OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
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the COUNTRY ROME. £l,OOO required.
WM. WILLI4IIB, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
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One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
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" Before the century was actually in its teens we believe
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no way in which the country could acknowledge the long
services and brave career of such a friend and benefactor ?"
TiIACKERAY.

The public in general is invited to co-operate in this move-
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Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
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At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts. are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. Tho Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, chilciren, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised. but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will he required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
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in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
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The Reform League Demonstration in the
Agricultural Hall.

Last evening at 8 o'clock a meeting of large di-
mensions was held at the Agricultural Hall, Isling-
ton, under the auspices of the Reform League, a
body which has attained considerable notoriety of
late, and which adopts for its motto and prints on
its card of membership the famous passage uttered
by Mr. Gladstone—" Every man who is not person-
ally incapacitated by some consideration of personal
unfitness or political danger is morally entitled to
come within the pale of the constitution."
Originally the assembly had been convened
and advertised as a grand " Reform and In-
dignation Meeting," with accessories closely
following the American model. On' the day,
however, which preceded thegathering the " indig-
nation" must have cooled, for the word of wrath
disappeared from the placards, and the coming
event was referred to simply as a " Reform League
Demonstration." But even the moderated expec-
tations of the Council cannot have been wholly ful-
filled, for the official programme ran thus :—" John
Bright, Esq., M.P., J. Stuart Mill, Esq., M.P., P.
Taylor, Esq., M.P., J. White, Esq., M.P., Professor
Fawcett, M.P., T. Hughes, Esq., M.P., and several
other members of Parliament are expected to at-
tend." Of the members whose co-operation were
thus predicted, Messrs. Bright, White, and Fawcett
did not present themselves, and no explanation was
offered for their non-attendance. Mr. Hughes, it
was understood, though he did not appear upon the
platform, called in person at the Agricultural-hall,
and explained to the leading members of the League
his reasons for disapproving the proceedings, and
consequently for being unable to take part in them.
Messrs. Mill, M.P., and P. A. Taylor, M.P., were
among those who appeared upon the platform
shortly after 8 o'clock. The Agricultural-hall, as
most persons are aware, is a building of enormous
size, and though its area renders it well-nigh impos-
sible that anything sort of a brass band can make
itself heard from one extremity to the other, it is
admirably suited for the holding of a mass meeting,
such as the conveners of last night's display of num-
bers had in contemplation. The working men were
invited to attend " in their thousands," and means
were taken to swell the number of those likely to
respond to this appeal by the formation of proces-
sions headed by bands of music, which it was ar-
ranged should start simultaneously from different
parts of the metropolis, converging upon the cen-
tral point at Islington at the hour appointed. To
the body of the hall admission was free ; for en-
trance to the galleries forming the ochestra of a
abenoen
fee of is. was demanded ; while for the accom-
modation of a select few, the creme de la creme
a
mong seats upon and immediately
w platformer were
unquestionably were preserved,
th 0 u
sprice s lOs.
each. beneath
There the
pre-
sent, and the bands, as they successively arrived,
brought fresh reinforcements of spectators in their
train, but at no time during the proceedings was the
hall anything like filled. The lines of sightseers--
for auditors they could not be called—along the
themselves in
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overwhelmingdn vgentthue ro6u, s spirits who had looped
inrudmerhs,ercso,nhvuetyead aelliosresrt
gaze detected that the spectators merely lined the
front, and on the ground floor that those at the out-
skirts of the crowd were promenading up and down,
stholeustiedlye
uofnotheeeuhpaileldi.nTrehar of the platform being ab-
menced long before the he
chair, but time did not ha
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- "Auld Lang Syne," the "Maids of
Mby the band with a stentorian chorus. The composi-
tion, however, which was most loudly cheered was
the " Marseillaise," and possibly by mere coinci-
dence—though it may have been design—the most
conspicuous placards in different parts of the hall
were printed on tricoloured calico. " Manhood Suf-
frage," " Vote by Ballot," and " Right of Public
Meeting," were the favourite inscriptions. Among
the principal banners was one exhibiting a likeness
of Mr. Bright, carried in triumph by the Clerken-
well branch of the Reform League. For some time
this occupied a post of honour near the platform, but
when the speaking eeorpteedritcheed,viaeowd,
and
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that the banner inter
be furled like others, the lineaments of "the man of
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ttoh people"
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door.Of
the
constituent somewhat hasty aesl teym
emotionelements
of
the meeting it would be difficult, by a single phrase,
to convey a correct description. To the lower middle
class, or more truthfully perhaps, to the lowest mid-
dle class, the majority unquestionably belonged.
There were, however,
respectably dressed persons in
;
the galleries, and also in the body of the meeting, but
these shaded off into the rougher sort, who mani-
fested their presence very plaini_
ybefore the proceed-
ings had long commenced. The occupants of the
reserved seats in front of the platform were first
dislodged, and the seats and benches—in some
cases the fragments of the seats and benches—were
passed over the intervening heads
to the outskirts of
the crowd. Now and then the mass swayed to and
fro, and alarming surges were made in the direction
table, which had at
outwork of reserved seats,
the turning point of the
yielded very readily
becoming
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first been
me
Nevertheless,ing platform,
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platform,
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the outward transit, aerially, of
children which had been in danger of suffocation from
pressure, the proceedings from first to last, though
boisterous,dpeesa, such as
s f r
were
m the
characterised
by great good humour.
Shortly after eight o'clock the principal members
of the League appeared upon the platform,
their entrance being the signal for vociferous
cheering. Owing to prevailing difficulties of space
and sound, the ordinary mode of taking the chair
proved ineffectual. Mr. Beales accordingly sought
to fix the public attention by mounting upon the
president's table, from which, as from a rostrum, his
introductory observations were delivered. Owing
to the noise which prevailed and the impossibility
of enforcing silence, he was a full quarter of an hour
before he could obtain a hearing. Processions from
various quarters, with drums beating and trumpets
sounding, meantime entered the hall and added to
the confusion, while the hum of voices from the more
distant ranks of the assembly formed an accompani-
ment which never ceased during the proceedings.
When something approaching to quiet was obtained
in the neighbourhood of the platform, the chairman

commenced by paying a compliment to their ‘4 sister
Reformers," who had given them the benefit of their
presence—an advantage which they could not have
enjoyed in Hyde Park. He defended the League,
which had been established to refute the slanders
heaped on the working men, who were at the same
time declared to be unfit for the franchise and
careless about it. The meetings which had been
held in St. Martin's-hall, in the Free Trade Hall in
Manchester, in Birmingham, Huddersfield, and
Primrose-hill showed what the feelings of the
working classes were. They had met in Trafalgar-
square in their tens of thousands, and yet they
were told they did not care for Reform, and it
was then that they determined to meet in Hyde-
park, and they knew the result. (Loud cheers.)
The police, under the shallow, hypocritical pretence
that the meeting would interfere with the amuse-
ment of a few loungers in the park, closed the
gates—as he thought, illegally—against the people,
and what was the result? The railings gave way.
(This version of the affair was received with some
laughter, and Mr. Beales,who strove in vain to make
himself heard more than a few feet from where he
spoke, and who for some time had been addressing
his remarks merely to the reporters, at length fairly
gave in and brought his speech to an abrupt conclu-
sion. ,

Mr. WOOLTORTON then came forward, but seeing
the hopeleisne'svof attempting -to- wake his -voice
heard among so many others, wisely contentedhim-
self by reading the first resolution, as follows :
" That the present Government, by assisting to
defeat the bill introduced by the late Government
for the amendment of the representation, and by
themselves indefinitely postponed the whole question
of reform, and finally by their employing the police
to forcibly prevent the working classes from peace-
ably meeting in Hyde Park on Monday last•to com-
plain of the suffrage beingwithheld from them, have
forfeited all claim to the confidence and support of
the country."
Mr. MASON JONES, in seconding the resolution,
alluded to an article which had appeared in the Times
of that morning, which he said was so fair and can-
did that it deserved an answer, and he regretted that
the powerful advocacy of the Timeshadbeen thrown
into the scale against the people. The article asked
why a meeting had been called at Hyde Park. He
would tell the Times. •lt was because the Tories and
Adullamites—(groans)----had slandered the people,
and said they did not want reform. This remark
elicited a cry of " We do," and Mr. Jones declared
they had proved it by going in tens of thousands to
Hyde Park, where they had a right to meet, though
the Government said they had not. The right was
doubted; but the Government, instead of taking
legal proceedings to test it, had recourse to brute
force. The Government shut the gates of Hyde Park,
but were they justified in doing so ? All England
cried " No." The very friends of the Government
condemned the act. Well, the railings were pulled
down, and he rejoiced that they were. (This senti-
ment was received with loud cheers.) When he saw
the brutal use of force on the part of the police
against the people he exclaimed almost in the words
of Oliver Cromwell on another occasion, "The Lord
deliver us from Sir Richard Mayne"—an aspiration
which was received with much applause. Being here
reminded for the third or fourth time by the chair-
man that he would do well to be brief, and having
in vain asked for two or three minutes more, Mr.
Jones concluded by exhorting his hearers to defend,
preserve, and extend the liberties for which their
fathers had bled and died.

Mr. Jones had commenced his speech by stating
that he would make himself heard by every one in
that vast hall, if they would only try to keep quiet,
but soon found that he had overrated his powers. It
would hare required a very Stentor to do what Mr.
Jones was ambitious of accomplishing. The same
perpetual buzz which had hitherto prevailed con-
tinued despite the voice of the charmer. And now the
people at the side and in the rear of the platform, dis-
satisfied with the share of the oratory which fell to
their lot, began to hold meetings on their own account,
and lustily cheered the speakers that addressed them.
Indeed, the vehemence of the applause which came
from these quarters occasionally overcame that
of the principal meeting, and produced a rather
ludicrous effect, as it broke in now and then quite
unexpectedly, and somewhat disconcerted the orator
on the platform in the middle of his remarks. The
resolution, which it would have been useless to at-
tempt to read from the chair, was held up to the
meeting, and was, of course, passed by acclamation.

Mr. MILL, M.P., was then announced to support
the resolution. The friends of the hon. member upon
the platform were loud in their manifestations of
applause when he rose to speak, but those in the
body of the hall, even within toler able hearing dis-
tance, were evidently unacquainted with the per-
sonal appearance of the hon. member for West-
minster, for one of their number, under the full
conviction that he had gained an insight into what
was coming, led an encouraging cry of " Bravo,
Mills !" The chairman pressed the hon. member to
address the meeting, like the other speakers, from
the table ; but the offer was politely declined. Mr.
Mill doubtless felt it to be questionable whether in
the universal clamour any advantage of position
would enable him to make his utterances audible ;
certain it is that beyond the reporters' table, and
not even to all who were there collected, did his
meaning penetrate. The hon. member said the vast
multitude assembled in that hall proved that the
cause of Reform would not suffer by the meeting
being held within doors instead of in Hyde Park.
His objeet, however, was not to talk to them about
Reform ; no words of his were needed to stimulate
their zeal on that point ; their presence that even-
ing was a sufficient answer to those who supposed
that such appeals were necessary. Reformers had
been much attacked for holding these large meet-
ings, because it was said that they were inconsistent
with discussion. But discussion was not the only
use of public meetings; one of their objects was de-
monstration. (At this point the address was in-
terrupted for some minutes by a violent lurch of
the main body below in the direction of the plat-
form, which seemed in danger of being carried by
storm. An appeal from some of the principal
members of the League restored order, but
not till two or three gentlemen had been
propelled bodily to within a few feet of where Mr.
Mill was standing.) The hon. member proceeded=
The best way to show strength sometimes was by ab-
staining from employing it. And until the legal
right of the people to meet in parks was decided the
League had done wisely to abstain from pushing their
claim. The chairman, a lawyer, did not doubt the
justice of that claim ; it had merely been withdrawn
under protest. (Interruptions.) An opportunity
had been promised of settling the question by the
decision of a judicial tribunal, and until that deci-
sion was given the question had better remain where
it was. (The soundness of this advice was unques-
tionable, but just at that moment the crowd mani-
fested a disposition to do anything but remain where
they were, for a further and more violent surging in
the direction of the platform took place.) It was true,
the hon. member continued during a momentary lull,
that without abandoning their Tight the Crown might
have permitted the use of the parks for a single
meeting. A request to that effect had been preferred;
it would have been a wise and generous act to have
complied with it ; but this was refused, and the con-
sequence was—(The meeting was not destined to
hear more, for a fresh invasion of the platform took
place, and the aspect of affairs at the moment was
will defend you, Mr. Mill," " Our friendseeog will
of m
e
so threatening that although there were cries of
steady again in a minute," " This is ti
felt
and not of children," &c., the hon. member
hopeless to persist in his address, and retired atonce
s inboe
hall. it
from the
this A
episode,sh odrutriinnt:rvw
ilcohf
theen votifraeiunraecrs tion
followed of
mass meetings might have gained some useful hints
had they heard the hurried consultation 'which
took place between some of the gentlemen on the
platform. One was for sending a few of ‘4 the

" That a petition, signed by the chairman, on be-
half of this meeting, be presented to the House of
Commons, praying for the appointment of a com-
mittee to inquire into the conduct of Sir R. Mayne
and the police under his orders in forcibly prevent-
ing the working classes from meeting in Hyde-park
on Monday, the 22d of July inst., and likewise their
conduct in ejecting persons from the park and other-
wise
maltreating them on that and the two follow-
ing days."

He denounced the Government of Lord Derby,
which he charged with illegal conduct, and declared
that the people were determined to enforce their
right of public meeting. The Tories told them that
they did not care for Reform. They were there
to show that they did. The Tories told them they
should not meet in the people's parks. The people
told the Tories that they should. (Cheers.) The
resolution called for a committee of inquiry into the
conduct of Sir R. Mayne and the police, who must
not be the masters of the people, and whose duty
was to keep order, not to destroy it.

Mr. VINCENT seconded, the resolutiou„w
arrival of another batch of Reformers,-.

flourish of trumpets, the swaying of the multitude
in front of the platform, and a second attempt on
the part of some to carry it by storm or to escape
from the crush created such confusion that for some
time his remarks passed unheeded. The chairmen
and other leading members of the League exhorted
the people to keep steady, and Mr. Bradlaugh
threatened one or two whom he had his eye on with
something unpleasant for disturbing the meeting.
When order was partially restored, Mr. Vincent
energetically_ denounced Lord Derby and Mr.
Disraeli, and declared, amid loud cheers, that the
Reformers would never rest until they had Mr.
Gladstone back again.
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR, M.P., was the next speaker.
He said that the enemies of Reform had now learnt
that the people cared for Reform and would not give
up their right to meet in the people's parks. Just
as when Joshua marched round Jericho and the
trumpets sounded the walls fell to the ground, so,
when the people assembled round Hyde-park the
railings fell, as it were, at a breath. The Tories
were much the same now in England as they were
in Jamaica last year. He would illustrate the dif-
ference, such as it was, by a sum in the Rule of
Three. As the latitude of Jamaica was to that of
Hyde-park, so was the fate of Mr. Gordon to that
of Mr. Bright. The Saturday Review, the most
truculent of the Tory organs, had said that for a
fortnight London had been in the hands of the dregs
of the people, but it would not be long so, because
steps would be taken to prevent it ; but it should be
remembered that the stopping'of Reform meetings
had caused the fall of a dynasty in France, and
though that would not be the case here, yet the
nobility ought to look to it, for they had many
privileges to lose, and a measure of Radical Reform
would come even faster than they looked for.
The resolution was then put as before, and
agreed to.
Colonel DICKSON, in moving a resolution calling
on the meeting to support the League by contribu-
ting to its funds, denounced the members of the
Government, with the exception of Mr. Walpole,
whom he declared to be a good, kind man, and
almost a woman in heart, and who was, he believed,
going to leave the Ministry. He dwelt on the
merits of their chairman, Mr. Beaks, who was
ready to lay down his life for the cause, and de-
clared that he was quite ready to submit to a similar
i martyrdom.

The resolution having been seconded, was
passed.
Mr. BROOKES having moved and Mr. J. R. TAY-
LOR having seconded a vote of thanks to the
Chairman, and cheers having been given for Mr.
Bright, ➢lr. Gladstone, and Mr. Beales, the meet-
ing was declared to be at an end, and in a few
minutes the various processions, with banners and
bands of music at their heal, were on their way to
their respective quarters.

On the part of the authorities all display of force
was avoided, and the people attending the meeting
were left entirely to themselves. Two occurrences
only were reported in connection with it. Mr. G.
Hunter Mantle, in the act of marshalling the pro-
cession of the Clerkenwell branch, had his attention
directed by a pull at his watch-chain, and a youth
named Frederick Crockwell was captured as the de-
linquent. Henry Johnson, aged 17, was made
prisoner inside the hall, and charged with stealing a
silver watch, the property of Thomas Cooper. The
loss of another watch, value £5O, was reported as
having occurred immediately outside the Agricul-
tural-hall, but in this case the thief was not dis-
covered.

DEMONSTRATION IN VICTORIA PARK.
When the Council of the Reform League decided
some few days ago upon holding a reform meeting iu
Hyde-park last evening, a meeting of a similar cha-
racter was then determined upon in Victoria-park.
The intended gathering in Hyde-park being based
upon a misapprehension which had arisen at an in-
terview between a deputation of the League and the
Home Secretary was abandoned as soon as the mis-
take was discovered, and at a subsequent meeting
of the Council of the League it was determined to
hold a grand demonstration at the Agricultural-hall,
and to request the chief movers in the Victoria-
park meeting to sacrifice their own particular as-
sembly for the general benefit. The Tower Ham-
lets Reformers, however, were determined to assert
their right to meeting in the park, and the League
would seem to have reconciled itself to circum-
stances, and, like the Government, if compelled to
refrain from giving actual assent to the proceedings,
to have abstained from any decided opposition.
Throughout Sunday afternoon and evening men were
busily engaged in distributing bills, informing the
public that the meeting appointed for the following
evening would be persisted in, and large bills an-
flouncing the same facts were posted throughout
the neighbourhood. The meeting was to have been
held near the orchestra in the second park at seven
o'clock, and as the afternoon passed away it became
evident that there was very little chance of the
business of the evening being interfered with. Not
a policeman was to be seen near the spot, and partly
might be
perhaps owing to this circumstance, and partly pos-
sibly arising from the counter-attraction at the
the pro-
thing like excitement. Soon after seven
aggon, and
movers of the meeting arrived on 'e
enthusiastic
Agricultural-hall, there was a total absence of any-
thing
met with an uproarious and somewhatd
to the platform
reception. . They at once adjourned
d w speedily occupied.
space 'immediately roun
ranged perhaps from
The number of those present
rmileed to play, and.the
2,500 to 4,000, and though from which the band iso
boys and youths among the crowd,
expected, many uagelicutlsiteor e were, as
the assembly appeared to be almost exclusively
of the working classes. The
composed
working
men had been invited to come in their " thousands,"
and to show that it was possible for them to
Preserve order, and it is certain that they were
better able to fulfil the latter injunction than the
former. Indeed, a powerful speaker could have
made himself heard by all present if si
lence had only
been preserved, but as there was no such powerful
speaker among those who delivered addresses the
usual result followed. Those immediately within
the range of the speaker's voice listened attentively
enough ; those in the immediate neighbourhood
cheered anything and everything indiscriminately,
and the remainder occupied themselves in laughing,
talking, pushing, and, occasionally, quarrelling.
Mr. Davis, who was selected by acclamation as

the president 'for the evenin,
of toadying to the Governmf
would probably have learnt
people were determined to i
of public meeting in the parks,
for non-attendance from Mr. Butler and _.
Ayrton, the two members for the Tower Hamlets.
Mr. Butler assured the promoters of the meeting
that he was with them in heart, though he might
possibly be absent in body, and Mr. Ayrton pleaded
business in the House of Commons affecting his
constituents. After exhorting those present to
show by their conduct that evening that they could
not be stigmatised as the roughs or as the scum of
London, he called upon
Mr. COMPTON, who, in moving the first resolu-
tion, expressive of a determination to procure for
the working classes by every constitutional means
that franchise to which they were justly entitled,
advised his hearers to take all they could get—to
accept any instalment with pleasure, looking with
confidence to further concessions.

Mr. BRISTONVE, a working mason and builder, in
seconding the resolution, regretted the indifference
which was exhibited generally by the working
classes towards Reform, and advised his audience Co
adopt as their motto, " Manhood Suffrage and no
Surrender."

Mr. DUFFIELD moved a resolution attributing the
disturbance in Hyde-park on the previous Monday
to the " unconstitutional and uncalled for" inter-
ference by the Government with the meeting which
had been appointed in the park for that evening.
The resolution also thanked the Council of the
Reform League for " the firm and dignified man-
ner in which they bad vindicated the right of public
meeting." In proposing this resolution Mr. Duf-
field was convinced that the Government could
not have acted in a manner more 11,--ly to promote
of Reform hid if liiiiilavourable instead
of -nos-we to the question.- The Government " had
written its own: condemnation with a policeman's
staff dipped in the blood of the people." He
thought it would be advisable for them to show
the country and Her Majesty that they had not
the slightest confidence in the Derby Government,
and that the present Ministry could not by any
'possibility receive any sympathy at their hands.
Mr. JONES, in seconding the resolution, regretted
that Mr. Gladstone could not follow the example
of Oliver Cromwell and clear the present House,
replacing the gentlemen now in the west by some
men of sterling ability, of whom numbers were to
be found in the east.

The compliment paid to the Council of the
League was acknowledged by Mr. Baxter Langley,
but about this time a cry of police was raised, and
the greater portion of the meeting vaulted over the
railings with a promptitude which rendered it
rather doubtful whether they intended to fight
or run. The alarm, however, was a false one,
and.'the crowd returned to listen for a few minutes
longer, when the meeting was brought to a con-
clusion. All the speakers advocated a quiet and
orderly behaviour, and it is but due to those who
took part in the proceedings to say that there was
not evinced the slightest disposition to mischief or
disturbance. A small procession was formed for
the journey to the Agricultural Hall, but the ma-
jority of those present strolled about the park until
the hour of closing the gates, when they left for
their respective homes.

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