The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-05 00:00:00

—no.--
TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. ,-------_, ~._------.----„,
1859. 1838. 1859. 1858.
• . • • - ,--
X X
Ballymena and Portrush... 35 35 - -
Bedale and Leyburn lO 10 105 76
Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 927 1,120
Belfast and County Down 2O 17 - -
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June 32 32 2,427 2,262
Blyth and Tyne 2O 13 1,368 1,036
Bristol and Exeter llB 117 5,313 5,199
Caledonian - 198 13,314 12,915
Ches.&llolyhead(witliMold) 91} 94 - -
Cockermouth & Workington 8-.... 8 - -
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 246 255
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 197 152
Dceside l7 17 211 178
Dublin & Belfast Junction 56 56 1,161 ' 1,095
Dublin and Drogheda 6.3 03 1,340 1,339
Dub. & Wicklow(in.Kingst ) 401 401 1,195 1,264
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath 174 174 421 646
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,061 851
East Anglian 674 674 838 977
E.Counties,Nrlk.,&E.Union 489 489 23,181 22,069
East Kent l9- --,- 240 -
E. Lancashire(in.Blackburn) 111 105 6,370 5,324
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 2,791 2,713
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western. 1831 1831 6,079 5,907
Great Northern 283 283 22,972 22,914
Great North of Scotland
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(irind ) 229 2034 5,934 5,701
Great Western 466 466 26,705 25,648
[Lull and Ifolderness
fnverness & Aberdeen June. 57 15 551 -
Irish South-Eastern 254 25} 195 190
Killarney Junction
Lancaster and Carlisle (in.
Kendal and Windermere) 100 1001 6,001 5,497
Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 28 289 23,260 20,050
Limerick and Foynes 2 204.
360 93 101
349
Llanel 46, 35
London ly
& North-Western
London and Blackwall 5 v. 1,248 1,253
London & South-Western . 321 287. 12,724 11,701
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 202 18:-. 11,623 10,949
L'derry and Enniskillen
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend.. 4 40 918 859
llan.,Sheffield, & Lineolnsh. 173 1731 10,406 9,178
Blanch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9 q 823 792
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland
Midland G t.Wes tn. of hind 177 177 3,808 3,228
Monkland 52 62 1,466 1,317
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 1,901 2,216
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 2,600 &mu
Newport,Abcrg.,& Hereford 50 43 1,352 1,030
North British (in. Dalkeith) 149 149 4,539 4,272
North Devon 35 33 335 31..5
North-Eastern 7364 720 32,649 30,634
North London 9 9 2,123 2,205
North Staffordshire 233 233 6,885 6,069
North-Western 404 464 - -
N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 104 - - -
Oxford, Wore., & Wolver O4 01 4,115 3,731
Peebles lB 18 104 169
1,841 1,491
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,485 3,410
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 294 294 1,512 1,219
Shrewsbury and Chester.,. 48 48 2,618 2,241
Shrewsbury & Hereford - -
Shropshire Unior 291 2 689 701
South Devon - 2,168 1,904
South-Eastern 3Ol 301, 16,294 16,172
South Wales l7l 171 6,621 6,428
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 3,005 2,568
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 54 54 3,853 3,522
Ulster 52 30 1,403 1,232
Ulverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Neath 254 251 1,328 1,550
Warrington and Stockport l2 12 - -
261
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 233
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall 271 274 664 627
W.Hartlepool Harbr.&R ail. 39 39 3,514 2,781
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 414 352
Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 474 371
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt. 7 7 269 118
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 057 667
Austrian B2B 673 26,323 23,7716
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 264 229 211
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie 1854 140 1,332 917
Dutch Rhenish
Grand Trunk of Canada 879 849 0,044 5,961
Great Indian Peninsula l3O 884 - -
Great Luxembourg 122 38 1,768 808
' Great Western of Canada 294 ' 283 6,172 8,440
, Lombardo-Venetian 285 285 10,357 5,571
Lyons and Geneva 142 107 3,133 1,649
' Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 284 224 6,528 5,597
Maria Antonia' 2l 21 - -
Northern of France 574 574 42,126 40,000
' Norwegian Trunk 44 44 284 200
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn B4l 781 65,368 53,797
Paris and Orleans 922 857 44,031 35,469
Paris and Strasburg 979 838 43,483 34,167
P Royal Daniell 69 69 415 367
t Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,221 1,097
Southern of France 777 773 ;15,092 10,871
West Flanders
IW. And N.W. of France 716 598.,29,7675 25,066

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

P .4RL LIMENTARY REFORM.

MEETING IN THE CITY THIS DAY.
A public meeting of the electors of the City of
London was held this afternoon, in the Guildhall,
to take into consideration the propriety of a reform
in Parliament. _ _

At half-past one the majority of those present
seemed to belong to the working classes ; and the
assemblage altogether bore a very different appear-
ance to that which usually fills the Guildhall when
subjects of importance are under the consideration
of the citizens of London.
The chair was taken at two o'clock by the Right
Hon. D. W. Wire, Lord Mayor.
His LORDSHIP, in opening the business of the
meeting, said he had convened the present meeting
in compliance with a requisition, numerously signed,
in order that the electors of the City might express
their opinions upon a subject which was creating
immense interest in the country—he meant that of
the reform of the representation of the people in
Parliament. He trusted that the order of the
meeting, as arranged by the requisitionists, would
not be disturbed. They had arranged the speakers,
and he trusted that their proceedings would be con-
ducted with order and regularity. Mr. Ernest
Jones would now submit the first resolution.

Mr. ERNEST JONES said that although London
had been late to move in the cause of parliamentary
reform, he trusted that good would result from the
great gathering which he then had the honour of
addressing. He stood there not to advocate the
opinions of any particular class, but to help on the
great work of reform. (Cheers.) The resolution
he had the honour of submitting to them was to
to the effect that no measure of reform would be
acceptable to all classes without it guaranteed
to all equal justice. (Cheers.) Mr. Bright
had submitted to them a reform bill, and he
had said he was in favour of manhood suffrage, but
notwithstanding that assertion, he thought the bill
hardly went far enough, as according to its provi-
sions nearly four million men would be kept out of
the pale of the constitution. Why was this ?
Were not these four million men as good as
any of those now before him. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) He (Mr. Jones) did not believe
that manhood suffrage could be fully carried out.
There must be some restrictions necessarily, but he
would not go so far as Mr. Bright, who declared
that the working classes were indolent and de-
praved. (Cheers.) But while he (Mr. Jones) agreed
that a line of demarcation must be drawn some
where, he would not say that the 4,000,000 he pro-
posed to enfranchise were depraved and indolent.
He was not for putting power into the hands
of a mob which would go about from place
to place and turn the elections—(hear, hear)
—but he would give the honest, respectable work-
ing man his vote—a vote ho was as much entitled
to as the greatest nobleman in the land. (Cheers.)
He again said the working classes were entitled
to a vote, though the Reform Bill of 1832 excluded
I,llcm from it. (Hisses.) But what he advocated
was the enfranchisement of the 4,000,000 of the work-
ing classes. He thought they should be protected
by the ballot. (Cheers.) Mr. Bright believed in
the ballot. He (Mr. Jones) believed in the ballot ;
and the working classes believed in the ballot.
Why, then, should not the working man be pro-
tected by it ? Mr. Bright thought that no measure
of reform would be complete without the ballot was
conceded, and he felt that the meeting agreed with
him that any of the many propositions which did
not contain that protection to the honest voter
ought to be rejected. (Hear. hear, and cheers.)
In some of the manufacturing districts the cottages
were built by the employers, and without the em-
ployed agreed to live in them their labour was re-
fused. Was that a state of things that ought to be
endured? The effect of enfranchising the working
man would be to ennoble his feelings and to make
him feel he had a stake in the peace of the country.
(Cheers.) What he (Mr. Jones) wanted, was to
enfranchise the floating population. (Hear,
hear.) He asked the meeting what opposition
could stand against 4,000,000 enfranchised
working men—(cheers)—and if Mr. Bright did not
choose to endeavour to enfranchise these 4,000,000
he would. (Cheers.) In the event of the working
man getting a vote, he hoped it would be a sub-
stantial thing, not an illusion. (Cheers.) The
panacea for the present evil was manhood suffrage,
but he would guard it with this safeguard, that the
elector applying to be registered should have resided
six or 12 months in one district. (Hear.) Then,
with respect to property qualification, what could
be a more noble qualification than man him-
self ? (Cheers.) No machinery, no ship, no palace,
was as beautiful as man. He wished particularly

to guard them against accepting any instalments
of reform. Instalments were shams, and if they
were to be content with them he felt confident that
would be the only thing they would ever get.
(Cheers.) Therefore he wanted no instalments.
The working classes were now, after some difficulty,
on the first step of the political ladder; but if they
were satisfied with Mr. Bright's bill, that would
throw them off, and then all the work would
have to be done over again. He for one
would oppose such a sham and single-
handed he would take the field against it. (Cheers.)
He felt sure he could not be accused of cowardice
--(cheers)—and he knew full well the working
classes were no cowards; and if the meeting ap-
proved, they would take the field together against
Mr. Bright, and bid him stop his bill, as it did
not go far enough, and at the same time tell him
they meant to have reform in earnest. He would now
take the opinion of the meeting with respect to his
view of manhood suffrage, and he called upon those
in favour of his resolution to hold up their hands
(The whole of those present did so amid loud cheers).
He was sure he should receive such a response as
that, and he felt great pleasure that his lordship
perceived that the meeting was unanimously
sly
in favour of manhood suffrage. (Hear, h
With respect to the agitation about foreign inva-
sion, he looked upon it as pure delusion.
He did
not think for a moment that foreign potentates
cared much about invasion. Their chief object ap-
peared to him to be to cut each others' throats.
(Laughter and cheers.) After a few other obser-
vations, Mr. Jones concluded by formally moving
this resolution :—"That no extension of the franchise
can be considered satisfactory that does not secure
a just share of political power to all classes of the
community." (Loud cheers.)
Mr. P. TAYLOR said he felt great pleasure in
seconding the resolution. Ho was going in a short
time to Newcastle, and it would afford him great
satisfaction to tell the people there of the noble
manner in which London had done its duty. (Cheers.)
The Loup MAYOR then put the resolution to the
meeting, and it was carried amidst loud cheers.
Mr. WHITEHURST, of the Ballot Society, said he
came forward at that moment to break through a
rule that had been laid down for the guidance of
the meeting, viz., that only a certain set of speakers
should address the meeting, and only a certain set
of resolutions be submitted. (Cheers.) He
did not come forward, as some might sup-
pose, to ask the meeting for a resolution in favour
of the ballot, because he knew full well that in the
Guildhall of the City of London he should be sure
of receiving an enthusiastic approval of it. He came
forward to assert his right to address the meeting,
and break through a rule which was (
worthy only of
Cheers.)
France and other despotic countries.
The motion he wished to make was, that the thanks
of the meeting be given to the Right lion. the
Lord Mayor for his kindness in calling
and pre-
siding over the present meeting. (Cheers.)
Mr. E. JONES felt it an honour. to second such a
resolution, and he called upon the meeting to adopt
it with three cheers. lie then put the resolution to the
meeting, and declared it carried, immediately after
which three hearty cheers were given for his lord-

ship.
The LORD MAYOR said he thanked them for the
manner in which they had received the resolution.
and haTing congratulated the meeting for the