The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-19

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are earnestly requested to meet the
Committee Mt the Middlesex Arms,
Clerkenwell Green, on Saturday
evening, at 8 o'clock, to assist them
in carrying out the great meeting on
Monday next; also to make arrange
mcnts for holding a national demon
stration in Hyde Park. Friends in
tho provinces will please communi-
cate with the chairman as above"
Yesterday afternoon, Sir Richard
DIayne, the Chief Commissioner of
Police, placed himself in communi-
cation with the managers of the Bee
Aire newspaper, the special represen-
tativc of the working classes in the
London press, and very courtcously
informed him that the police autho-
rites would be compelled, in future,
to prevent out-of-door meetings az
late hours in reference to reform, in
badly selected localities, VIII,
large assemblagc of people interfere
with the comforts of the residents or
the traffic of the streets. Sir Rich
ard Mayne stated that he had re-
ceived complaints from various quar-
pSAo upCh Viz SuUJSCt
In the House of Commons, on
Thursday, the Goth June, Mr.. Bail
lie Cochrane (Honiton) asked if the
attention of the Home Secretary had
been directed to All advertisement of
a meeting to be held on Monday next,
in the vicinity of the House of Par
Lament. He wished to know if it
was legal to hold such meeting and
make speeches calculated to create
disturbance. Such meeting having
been announced, lie thought some
notice ought to be taken of it.
Sir George Grey said that he had
not seen the notice referred to, but
he apprehended it was unlawful to
hold any meetings likely to create a
disturbance, and there was q special
statute prohibiting meetings with q
view to intimilating Parliament.
He would attend to the matter.
London iS,r7', 23M uh.
LONDON MoBs. the House of
Commons, yesterday. attention was
called, not too soon, to the proceed
ings which have recently disrraced
the neighborhood of the Houses of
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town. On several occasions, lately,
Palace-yard and the entrance to West
minister Hall have been occupied by
disorderly people, who have been al
lowed, by the police, to insult and
menace members of Parliament going
to and returning from their duties.
der the directions of one or two
eaders acquainted with the persons
the members, these people have
.lot only hooted and shouted ut every
member who is unpopular with their
instigators, but have followed some
in violent and threatening manner.
A few days since Lord Elcho was
assailed by n number of these ruff
ans, while engaged in the Queens
service as an officer of volunteers.
He was followed by them with threats
and eXccrations, and was only saved
from violence by the presence Of a
number of gentlemen who accompa-
MED him to his house A few days
after Mr.. Lowe was subjected 20 Il
similar outrage. But Wednesday
evening brought these lawless pro
cecdings to their full height. Any
one who was in the neighborhood Of
Trafalgar Square and Pail Mall about
9 o'clock would have found the way
crowded by persons Of the lowest
class, and have heard great deal of
shouting and cheering from the en-
closure of the square. This was a
reform demonstration, which we
learn was made hy the Holborn and
Clcrkenwell branches of the Reform
League. Why Holburn and Clerken-
we'll could not demonstrate" in
their own neighborhood, but must
come to Trafalgar Square for the
purpose, does not appear; but at
any rate there they were, blocking up
the thoroughfare in front of the
National Gallery, as sorry specimens
Of the British reformer as could well
be imagined. Everybody knows
what a London mob is. An undue
proportion of that indescribablc class
of metropolitan youth of whom it is
difficult to say whether they are men
or boys, are to be found ut every such
gathering, whether it be m ilnmina-
ton, an execution or u reform do
monatration. When the crowd had
passed resolutions censuring the Go
vernment for resigning, and ccusur-
ing the Tories for succeeding them,
the real business of the evening
began. The first visit was to Carlton
Gardens, where the ladies Of Mr..
Gladstone's family accepted the honor
OF an ovation. Then the mob invad-