Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-16
An Episode of the L0ndOn RiOI-An
ArisIOcratic Radical.
ILondon Cor. Cincinnati GAzette.I

lLOndOn Cor. CINCINNATI G3ZeIte.
Oze of the most singular episodes of the
riot was the appearance on the stage of
IN aristocratic radical. When the Re-
formers procession had left for Trafalgar
Square, a gentleman of strikingly hand
some appearance, and apparently between
sixty and seventy years, drew up in a
handsome cab, in Great Cumberland
street, which is Immediately opposite to
the Marble Arch. As he stood on the
foot board of the cab and appeared anx-
ious to speak, Il large crowd of persons
gathered around him, and were not disap-
pointed. He said he had come from the
country to the meeting with the greatest
possible delight for the purpose of bearing
his testimony to the greatness of the Re-
form principles which the leaders of the
present movement desired to promote.
He was now seventy years of age, and
was an ardent Reformer before most of
those who surroundnd HIM were born.
Cheers. He had been a magistrate
in the reign of one Queen and two
Kings, and at the Bristol riots he
had expressed his sympathy with the
people, which he was now most anxious
to repeat. He cared nothing for the Wal
poles or the Pakingtons, who were for
puttingdown the voice of the people; for
he was higher in social position than they.
He was the son of a peer, his soR-in-law
was a peer, and all his family belonged to
the aristocratic classes. With their thous-
andsupont thousands a year were they afraid
of the intelligent working classes of
England? Not a bit of it; on the contrary,
he was prepared to grant them all the
political and social privileges they could
desire. [Cheers
Loud cries arose on all sides for the
time a large number of persons were lis
tening from the adjacent houses, Gen. Sir
De Lacy Evans, the late member for
Westminster, being among the number.
The speaker, after some little hesitation,
said, "Oh, 1 am not afraid of my name.
I am the Hon. Charles Hugh Clifford, son
of the late Lord Clifford, and uncle Of the
present peer" The announcement was
received with enthusiastic applause.
A person in the crowd exclaimed, MAY
I ask you, right Hon. sir, why, as you are
such a big man, you do not open the park
gates to US poor people" Laughter.
Mr.. Clifford said he wished he had the
keys of the park in his pocket. If he
had he would most assuredly let the peo-
pie in. Cheers. He commended that it
was tyranny Of the worst kind to refuse
the working classes the small measure of
Parliamentary Reform for which they
were now asking, more particularly rs it
had been clearly proved that every branch
Of human industry had improved-arts,
science, manufactures, agriculture-in
proportion to the advancement of the
working classes. Hear, hear One Of
his ancestors was Lord High President of
England, and from him he had derived
these liberal views (the first Peer, it may
be mentioned, formed one of the celebrated
Cabal administration. The a~ristocracy
OF England depended upon the people Of
England, and unless the political privil-
eges Of the people were extended the
aristocracy must inevitably fall. Loud
cheers That principle, as a Liberal
aristocrat, he most firmly maintained. He
would now ask them, one and all, to take
off their hats and give three hearty cheers
for the Queen, whose throne, as her Ma
jesty knew full well, rested upon the voice
and the affections of the people.
The appeal was most enthusiastically
responded to, and it was followed ythree
cheers for Mr. Gladstone.
Mr.. Clifford then drove off amid the
hearty plaudits of the large mass of per-
sons who listened to him, and who then
went toward the park,