The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-11
p FOREIGN SUMMARY.
RIOT IN HYDE PARK.

FOREIGN SUMMARY.
THE RIOT IN HYDE PARK.
We published yesterday graphic account from
the London Times of the recent great popular de-
monstrations at Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square.
In it is allusion to Mr.. Bn1auT's letter, which
We now lay before our readers
MR. BRIGHT ON TIE PROPOSED MEETING IN HYDE
PARK.
To the Editor Of The Star:
SIR The following letter has been received
from MIR. Bright, NJ. P. viii } u kindly insert
] am, Sir, your obHdient servant
GEORGE HOWELL Secretary,
No, 8 Adelphi-terrace, W. q, London July a.
DEAR sR:-I thank your council for the invita-
ton to the meeting intended to be held in Hyde
Park on Monday next
I cannot leave homo for days to come,
and therefore cannot be in London OH the Esd
inst.
has announced his intention to prevent tho hold
ing Of the meeting. 1t appears from this that the
people may meet in the parks for every purpose
but that which ought to be most important and
most dear to them. To meet in the streets is in
convenient, and to meet iu the park is unlawful
this is the theory OF the police authorities Of the
You have asserted your right to meet on Prim-
rose Hill and in Trafalgar Square. hope after
Monday next no one will doubt your right to meet
in Hyde Park.
If public meeting in public park is denied
you and il mi millions Of intelligent aud honest men
our liberty rest; or is there in the country any
liberty but the toleraton OF the ruling class?
This is serious question, but it is necessary 10
ask it, and some answer must be given to it.
am very respectfully yours.
Mr.. GEORGE HOWELL Secretary to the Reform
League, No. Adelphi terrace, Strand, London.
JOHN STUART MILL ON THE RIOT
Mr.. Jour spvAe~ Mrnr. sr ei.e 90 fene"s in tho
House of Commons:
He thought that noble lords and honorable
gentlemen on the ministerial side of the House
did not fully estimate the extreme seriousness of
the occasion, and the direct consequences which
IHear.] He would not discuss the question as to
the right of the people to meet in Hyde Park;
the Government had the opinion of gond lawyers
to the contrary, and he believed the Government
thought they were acting quite rightly when
they resolved 70 exclude the peoples but he would
add that lawyers we're not all of one mind upon
had not the right to meet in the parks they ought
to have it. [Hear.l He maintained, moreover
to hold the meeting it should have been granted
[hear]; and that if tho pcuplo really believed
they had the right to meet in the park, that be-
lief formed reason under the circumstances for
granting the request ten thousand times rather
than refusing it once. The people were already
in an excited state upon another subject and the
Hthe people were refused the simple requent they
made, conseque1ces sucn as had happened would
have resulted. If the people were not permitted
to meet in the parks, where, he asked could they
meet with less interruption to the traffic or incon-
yehience to the inhabitants Of the metropolis?
Trafalgar Square could not be said to be more
asked whether meeting held in any one Of them
once in every two or three years would cause one-
nary uses to which park was put that was caused
by volunteer review. The Home Secretary had
assured them that he had no objection to the
holding Of such meetings in proper places and
at proper times, but he did not describe what
we're the proper times and places; and already
the newspaper scribes who were supporting
the Government were declaring that no open
air meetings ought to be tolerated in tho me-
tropolis. He advised the Government to adopt
that declaration, and he promised them that
resistance of very different kind from that they
had as yet encountered. Hear, hear" from
the ministerial side OF the House.l Noble lords
and right honorable gentl, man opposite could be
congratulated on having brought about piece of
work last night which would require wiser men
iasn basn bs bney were TO &c Hear It had
country that the necessary cha ngas in the cousi-
tuition OF this country should be made, if possible,
the governing classes ana tho governed. The
present government, however, seemed to be de,
termined, as far as depends upon them, that this
..Oh, oh, aud shear, hear y 1t was well known
that kind Of people existed who could do more
nj mischief in an hour than could be mended in a
present advisers seemed to be sirous OF having
their names inscribed in company with the names
Of those iliustrious mschief-makers. Hear
The Chancellor Of the Exchequer, Mr. D'Israeli,
repudiated with indignation tho ,yiews and mo.
tives attributed to the Government by MIR. Mill,
and maintained that the precautions they had
taken to preserve tho peace were such as any
prudent minister would have adopted, That the
parks were unfit places for political meetings had
been shown by Sir G. Grey and Mr.. Waipole; and,
In illustration he mentioned that in sll the public
parks which had been opened in various provin-
oial towns, it was standing rule that no political
fcation' which had been 80 much blamed, it had
never entered the minds OF ministers that the
he cordially scknowiedgea, would commit acts Of
riot; but they believed that the OF this great
city would take advantage of such an assemb1age,
by the event So far from having an objrc ion t.,
public meetings on any subject, he believed them
to be valuable political satety-valve, and should