Show THE RJ REFORM beform que QUESTION J N AL i ENGLAND w me onne af af the e circumstance s of ote i I 1 I 1 e age ge illustrative of the growing power powe and influence of tb the people in the old world loc occurred curre in london jast month in connection with the reform question tho the government ment bent to the people re retreated abe before fofi them and vare we re forced to t acted in in strict accordance t with law and arder the government i ent threatened to provoke a breach of the peace pea ceby py trying to compel obedience to theli their wishes contrary to lawi lawn law but were compelled to let the people act as they proposed or set law alawat at defiance declared a mo monster n sto ste r ta reform lenorm porm form meeting was held in hyde hide park london hondon ori orl on the 6 ath ili ill of af may i from english papers which come conie to hand we learnt that the them cepil eating epting f rig was viewed by all parties as decisive in its tats character toan extent for the government threatened to prevent gilt its being held and the mem beresf the reform league were as determined term ter mined in ed it should be held it thus became a political contest threatening to involve a physical one and each party viewed its approach 4 with with ith anxiety the members of the reform league announced ced that the nie gie meeting eting would tak ip plate piane mr nir walpole home secretary issued a proclamation forbidding I 1 it t the mee meeting ank 1 it w was as still declared would be bb held the government denoun denounced cOd it a as illegal and arranged measures forar for ar resting the speakers having some P police olice ah and ana a a large nu biber hiber ready placed to pounce pounee upon the meeting 1 but nut buton on the morning of the de moe moa seeing that the people could no t be 66 terrified irita fifty a sullen suilen alid hild quiel luiei obedience t govern government meb t withdrew its unlawful bp opposition position and the meeting was held L special I elal elai constables war were sworn in ln 1 of the re guiar regular police dilce 1 were ab so placed that they could speedily concen at any given point in the park j t troop coops 0 o were held in readiness br breach each of the peace occur but there ther ewa was is bothi nothing ng to disturb the harmony of the I 1 occasion and the police were drawn off before we the speakers had 1 well weli c and fenced with from lonoko 14 t to 0 persons in inthe the park ther there ewas evas was vas no rioting and yea pea scarcely reely un any dis dig disorderly orderly con duct but buthe the op speakers eakers were well attended and a listened to wah with interest pit lit erest there were we re ten fiands erected from pa each i chr caf of which esse were i delivered th 14 demonstration hns has been regarded and ud justly byle friends of f political reform triumph they thes tbt the people paole with law on their bide side rose sup superior eli or to the tha government of their theirl c country try who ylo threatened to td invoke a power fower to crush the propos proposed ead edd dimostra dem ostra fiori of the people independent of law ian and were forced to abandon the position they had assumed bir vir mr sir walpole the home secretary has been beell roughly handled by bythe the press of both pai pal parties ties for lacing placing Government the nt in so ridi ridiculous ef flohs a position and dieg disgracing leing it in the theeres eyes of f the pati nation dil bli while the liberals point I 1 1 t 1 t 1 T I J to I 1 and cotti wn coit I bert of action thab that prevail ed gho ab the vast mass masa beings gatli gathered bred together in ill ay hyde d lark ark on the occa idon this yielding of the tho english go government vern on this point and the legal legai triumph gained over them by the plo people will most moat probably e embolden tbt the latter to put their thein demands oh on government for a satis factory Reform Bill in a m more moro ord oro imperative forni form which tm may makee maker the i seji seti settlement lement of the thie que question much more difficult for parliament |