POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
The great meeting in the Guildhall yesterday must be added to the list of Metropolitan demonstrations. It was not very successful. There was great uproar. Mr. Ernest Jones was refused a hearing. When Baron Rothschild presented himself the cries for "Rothschild" lasted ten minutes, the shouters not knowing that he was before them and vainly essaying to speak. Throughout "the meeting was of the most riotous description ; " and it ended abruptly. The Lord Mayor presided over this tumultous gathering. The speakers were Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Peter Taylor, and Mr. Sergeant Parry. None of the City Members were permitted to speak. The resolutions submitted are supposed to have been carried. They condemned the Government Bill.
The most important fact connected with this meeting was the absence of Lord John Russell. A letter was' read from him in which he said he thought he had better reserve his opinions for the House of Commons., but in which he distinctly objects to the disfranchisement of freeholders, the voting papers, and the exclusion of the working classes from the suffrage. Within the last two or three days, an idea has been decidedly gaining ground, that Ministers will probably modify their Reform Bill, not im- possibly by a very complete method as well as to a considerable extant. Should they do so, they will, of course, give much satisfaction to some of their most earnest friends ; while their conduct is watched with no un- friendly solicitude, we know, by some thoughtful and independent Liberals.
A rumour of another kind has reached us, but not affirmed with so much confidence. It is, that in order to prevent the advantage offered by a success to the extreme section of the Liberal party, and to main- tain as Conservative a state of affairs as possible, Lord Derby will avoid a defeat on the 21st by some previous step, and that the late Liberal leader in the House of Lords will probably be "sent for," in the expec- tation that his position will peculiarly enable him to rally round him the most influential Liberals, such as Sir James Graham, Mr. Sidney Her- bert, Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Newcastle, and other statesmen of the same stamp.
Lord Rosalyn has accepted the office of Under-Secretary for War, vacant by the resignation of Lord Hardinge. Lord Rosalyn is a Major. General in the Army, and has been twice Master of the Buckhounda.— Times.
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