The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1867-11-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DEMONSTRATION AND INDIGNATION MEET INGS IN LONDON.  At eleven o'clock on Sunday a meeting was held on Clerkenwell-green for the purpose of forming a funeral procession to Hyde-park in honour of Allen, Larkin, and Gould; Mr. Waite presided. Mr. Finlen stated that the Irish working men were at that hour for the most part in their chapels, where they were praying for Allen and his two comrades; they, therefore, could not take part in the funeral procession if it took place in the forenoon. He put it to the meeting whether those present would proceed at once with the demonstration, or wait until three o'clock in the af• ternoon, when the Irish working men could take part In it.  The meeting, by show of hands, decided in favour of proceeding with the demonstration without delay. Mr. O'Callahan, an indiddual who stated to those around the chairman that he had prepared a hearse and four horses to head the procession, but that he had on Saturday evenin,r received a telegram from some friends of liberty in Dublin, telling him not to have any demonstration if possible, addressed the meeting, and said that the Roman Catholic clergymen who had attended Allen and the others had communicated the wish of the families that no procession should take place. As Catholics, they would look upon it as a desecration to have a demonstration over the bodies cf men who had died in peace with God (cries of "You are out of order !"). He begged that there might be no procession, but that they would get up a subscription for the families of the sufferers instead (cries of " Both, both! Mr. Campbell said that the working men of England, Scotland, and Ireland would be knit together by the events which were taking place. The prayers of the poor were as acceptable to God as those of the rich; but the prayers of the poor for mercy in the case of Allen and the other two men were disregarded by the aria. tocracy (groans). He denied that the Catholic Church had any intention of condemning the expression of sympathy for those who diid as they lived moral men (cheers). Were there a hundred men in that meeting Who believed they were murderers? ("No, no.") Mr. Henespey said that the hanging at Manchester proved that the oligarchy had no other way of dealing with the Irish people than that old one of the gallows and the rope (hear, bear). That meeting was a proof that the English people had no sympathy with the bru. tality of their rulers, and that they desired to terminate a system that bad wrought so mach misery for 700 years (cheers). The chairman then called upon the meeting to form Into a procession. Ile asked all present to act as special constables to keep the peace (hear, hear). At half-past twelve o'clock a procession was formed. A black banner, bearing the inscription— " Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn,"  was carried at what was intended to be the head of the procession, but so many moved on in advance of it that it was really in the middle. A band of fifers and drummers played the "Dead March" in Saul. Many of the men wore black crape on the left arm. Some few wore green rosettes. The men were for the most part of the same class as those that formed the bulk of the Reform processions of last year. The college moved slowly and was quite orderly. It was expected that the route of Mford street would have been taken, and some thousands of persons were in waiting there to take part in the demonstration, but at the lest moment he committee directed that the line of Fleet-street and the Strand should be taken.