| Show THE GREAT REFORM demonstration IN LONDON the crisis is passed and I 1 respectable london has drawn a long breath partly of relief partly of amazement the workingmen have demonstrated that they do feel an interest in reform and that they can walk in procession without breaking windows pillaging shops or mobbing gentlemen the reform league have a right to be proud of this result the arrangements forthe for the procession were nearly perfect the different societies found and kept their places in the line with the precision of a military drill at noon the order yas was given en to move forward the procession filed out of st jamess park in three columns the central and much the longer due bue one six abreast there were very few political banners in the line in their place however some of the trades carried emblems of their peculiar pursuits thus the gas meter makers displayed upon a carriage a number of elegantly constructed meters and other portions of gas apparatus the shoemakers carried upon a pole an elegant spring sided boot having benea beneath tb it the inscription its the wearer who feels where the shoe pinches bari barf the bakers bore aloft a loaf of bread la belled belied the staff of life and the glass workers carried guns and bayonets staffs and balls formed of different colored glass still more alarming to persons of weak nerves and perhaps quite as little in place in such a procession as this were four red flags the poles surmounted by caps of liberty which were borne at the head of the fourth division consisting exclusively of the branches of the reform league the order of the day was admirable yet hardly a dozen of the police force was visible along the entire line of march their place was taken by a police of the people consisting of about ab outten ten thousand members of the societies she the london papers say with antoni astonishment ciment that there was less disturbance than on the lord mayors day that the procession behaved much ketter better better than the house of commons is wont to do at the delivery of the queens speech the rule was for theme the men n to march on silently keeping time to their several bands nearly all of which play played edwith with marked excellence until they were opposite the reform when caps and hats were lifted and a hearty round of cheering I 1 given in no instance was hissing or hostile demonstration heard it was a sheer good tempered resolute display and nothing bothi ng occasioned dmore more outs outspoken boken surprise from the lookers on than the quiet regularity of the proceedings and the comfortable well clad figures figured of tie tle the men the dense crowd of spectators for an english and london crowd were exceedingly cee well behaved roughs boughs were scarce and quiet one incident of the day deserves mention while the procession was forming 1 a private brougham driven by a mud splashed coachman passed through pall mall uail and the whole length of the tho crowd it contained the duke of edinburg and two other gentlemen his royal highness kept himself well back in his corner and passed through his loyal and subjects both and unsung As to the number in the procession estimates as usual vary widely probably the most moat trustworthy I 1 is that which places the tha number at fifty thousand of the addresses it is unnecessary to speak mr bright was nob not present the first of the resolutions adopted ad opted reads as follows that this meeting enters its solemn protest against an and its denial of the charges of venality ignorance drunk ennes sand ind indifference to reform brought against the working classes during the last sessions of parliament and hereby declares that no iao reform bill falling short odthe of the principles of registered residental manhood suffrage an ardd arid i d the ballot will be satisfactory to the people or accepted as a final settlement of the reform question it is significantly said in one of the london papers that during the assembling and for formation matton mation of the procession tere telegrams grams with reference to the aspect of affairs were dispatched at intervals from the authorities in the metropolis to the queen at windsor castle evening post SEVENTEEN of the 8 signers g ne rs of the de cl of Inde independence pende ce including both adamsey and mr lur jefferson were of welsh descent |
