The Sun. — 1867-11-25 (London, England)

DENIONSTRATION IN LONDON.  Yesterday morning there was a meeting on Clerkenwell-green for the purpos?. of. organising a procession to Hyde-park, where it bad been arranged a funeral oration should be delivere I by Mr. James Finlan, who has from the first taken an active part in connection with the efforts for the release of the  convicts. At eleven o'clock Clerkenwill-green was well filled with people, although there was nothing like the dense mass which aszeinbled there on Thursday evening. Mr. Fiulan delivered an address. He said the very day appeared to ba in mourning for the unfortanate men (a dense fog prevailing at the time), and throughout the whole of England and Ireland tears were being shed for them. With reference to the suggested procession to Hyde park he wished to know whether it was the pleasure of the meeting that it should take place in the morning or in the afternoon. Of course a large number of the people who were expected to take part in the procession were Irishmen, who, during the morning, would be at mass. His own impression, therefore, was that they would have a better chance of an imposing demonstration in the afternoon. Mr. CAMPBELL wished to ask whether the meeting considered that the unhappy men hanged at Manchester were murderers, and to this there was a loud response of " No." Mr. 2ALLAGIIAN, who wore a black scarf of crape, with a crucifix, and announced that he was an undertaker, residing at Kerisal-green, said he intended to have sent a hearse to head the procession. The reason why he did not carry out his intention he did not explain. The motion that the procession should be formed forthwith was then put and carried almost unanimously. As soon as this was done some hundreds of men fell into rank, and marched along llolborn and Oxford-street to Hyde-park, which they entered by way of the Marble-arch. The great procession, however, as will presently be seen, went by another route. When those who had gone by way of Oxfordstreet and Holborn arrived in the park, they proseeded at once to the clump of trees in the centre, made memorable by the meetings of the Reform League. Between 1,000 and 2,000 people assembled, but Mr. Finlan was not there, nor were there any of the persons who are accustomed to be looked upon as the leaders of the movement. Much dissatisfaction was expressed, and the people began to look upon the whole affair as a hoax. At one time rumour prevailed that Mr. Finlan had been arrested, and indeed every one believed that some serious accident bad happened. Mr. BLIGH, who distinguished himself at the Chartist riots of 1848, rose to address the meeting. He said they were all brothers, whose wants were the same, and whose rights should be the same. As it was, however, there was a different law in every part of the United Kingdom. Consequently, the lower orders, as they were contemptuously called, ought to be more united than they had been. He thought that result was very likely to be brought about by the tremendous blunder the Tory Government committed on Saturday morning. (Cheers.) An indiscriminate act of cruelty had been committed by a tyrannical Government, but that of cruelty would be turned into a blessing, if it secured a union between Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen for the resistance of oppression, and the securing of popular rights. (Cheers.) While they would keep within the pale of the constitution they would wring from the Government justice to the whole of the people. (Cheers.) He could not imagine where his old friend Finlan was, and he feared he was absent on account of differences amongst the committee, which he saw by the papers had taken place. He could not answer, however, for what the papers said, for he know that very frequently they told great- untruths. (Laughter, and hear, hear.) If Mr. Fiulan did not come, according to promise, he would make a point of seeing him that evening, and taking him to task for his delinquency, for it would be a delinquency if he did not attend after bringing thousands of men out on that unfavourable morning. (Hear, hear.) They had come, however, willingly but mournfully, to bewail the death of three honest patriots, men who were in love with their country, men who had mourned for the evils, the wrongs, the murders, the persecutions, the prosecutions of their country, the destruction of its trade, the sweeping away of its manufactures, the imposition of a false Church ; in fact, had mourned over the destruction of that beautiful island called Ireland. (Cheers.) The poor men who were murdered yesterday morning had loved