Show QUESTIONS OF THE MA dav mai i REFORM AGITATION IN BRITAIN the reform agitation in britain continues and does not seem to have lost any of its vitality demonstrations have been frequent in all the principal pat pai cities of the united king kingdom dom those in london li have e been unusually imposing and have shown an amount of system arrangement and concerted action ahat that give them a much greater degree of than the gathering together of any number of men in a dig disorderly orderly and promiscuous mass could do the trade societies demonstration str ion lon of the sd Pe december cember last was one of the most remarkable that has ever been witnessed in britain not so much hor for tor for the number collected together I 1 as for the good order maintained throughout ghost the entire proceedings during 0 the time the procession was passing froin froia from charing cross where the varlo vario various s trades assembled and formed in procession to beaufort grounds where the stands were erected from which the addresses were delivered there prevailed the utmost order good feeling and unanimity of purpose to give those who object to the working men the suffrage no chance for asserting their incapability to govern themselves as well as the already privileged class can do that demonstration was not got up by the reform ben len league 9 ue but by the trade societies of london under the direction of mr george fotter potter and the reform league assisted assist edat atit it demonstrations bave have been numerous and great public meetings in the principal towns and cities have been brought together and stirred up almost to the point of enthusiasm by john bright and other leaders of the reform movement the dispatches inform us that an immense gathering of people again joined in a reform procession in london on monday tle the lith epst and that there was not the slightest disturbance on the occasion while a deputation headed by mr bright waited on mr gladstone ex chancelor of the exchequer and were favorably received the question of today to day does not seem to be will vill the desired reform be granted e d but when will 1 it t be granted 2 the indications are that the outside pressure will compel concessi concessions ons ont on the part of the government and parliament at an I 1 early date to the popular will though al it be is very improbable that those concessions will reach the demands made by the reform league and the public men and measures move comparatively slow in britain and few things prove this more clearly than ahe the limited ad vance vanc emde made by this very reform question darlng daring the past thirty or forty years still there is such an amount of popular feeling now being manifested on the subject which ministers and parliament have already recognized by the introduction of several beveral reform bills that it seems likely another step forward will be taken before a great while the dem aam demands ands anas of tile the people now are not so numerous as were those of the chartists somo some years ago but the opinion is reasonable that they shrewdly think if those demands are core cori complied plied piled with the entire measures of reform sought by the chartists will be within their dictation the five points of chartism we believe belleve 5 were manhood suffrage nage rage vote by ballot equal electoral districts annual parliaments Parliament sand and payment of members the measure measures of reform now sought for are manhood suffrage and ad vote by ballot equal electoral districts is really a measure of grave importance as it would tend to remove for one thing that disgrace to british electoral representation pocket boroughs by which onel one person the owner of the borough can nominate and give a seat peat in parliament to any man he may choose no matter how repugnant he might be to the inhabitants of the borough ou 0 h he is said to represent equal electoral districts would not place some insignificant petty borough owned controlled oled and held in the pocket figuratively of one onie of the aristocracy on a semi equality with such a place as liverpool with its vast commerce and half a million of inhabitants As it now is one of these pocket boroughs borough sly sli scarcely known outside the shire shira in which it is located with its one member in the house of commons can exercise just half the influence in a vote that the great town of liverpool with its two members can do the seekers of suffrage storage who are now excl exal excluded eded from it believe that if th they ey can obtain manhood suffrage and vote by ballot they will be able to send men to represent them who will pass measures that vill meet their entire demands vote by ballot they consider would protect them individually from their employers and landlords and ma manhood chood suffrage would give such an overwhelming majority to the reform party that the government would be virtually in their hands this it is deemed would take the power from the hands of a few and give it to the many and for the accomplishment of this the friends of reform and the members of the reform league are unsparing in their efforts to have parliament receive ald and pass such an advanced bill as will meet their wishes if they would be satisfied with a very moderate advance upon the present limited extent of the franchise privilege lege there is little doubt but they could obtain it in a short time but they think and reasonably judging from thelast the past that by accepting such a moderate concession they would be com corn polled in a short time to again organize agitate and get up other reform demonstrations rations and meetings or in other words recommence and do over again the work which they have already done meanwhile agitation acri aryl tation on the subject progresses the people are being stirred up by eloquent and by inflammatory speakers and it i is s not improbable if their repeated and urgent appeals are unheeded when they become accustomed to look with a satisfied eye upon their numerical strength that they in may demand imperatively as a right that tha at which they have petitioned for and have been refused this ts is a revolutionary ige elge and few revolutions would be more important in ultimate results than that which would practically rae rac ti cally caily give the government of britain britain into the hands of her now classes EFFECTS OP A spark spare mr air lewis has found bya by a series serie of experiments and observations with the microscope that the electric spark however produced makes pentagon perforations he has e experimented with mechanically prepared paper the leaves of plants mica raper paper thin g elass glass ass film of egg ac and evari i ably finds a 1 five sided hole bole hole hoie |