DEMONSTRATION OF POPULAR FEELING IN FAVOUR OF THE MUNICIPAL BILL.
THE hostility of the House of Peers to the Municipal Bill, which was abundantly proved by their employment of counsel to speak, and of Town-Clerks to give evidence against it, has roused the spirit of the country in behalf of that measure. We mentioned last week that meet- ings had been held, and petitions adopted in favour of the bill in
Manchester, IIalifax, Leeds, Boston, Hull, Tiverton, Bradford, Northampton, And we have now to record similar displays of the national feeling in
The City of London, Rochester,
The Tower Hamlets, Reading, Lambeth, Falmouth, Marylebone Parish, Truro, St. Paul, Covent Garden, Scarborough,
St. Pancras Parish, Dartmouth,
Southwark, Bridgewater, Greenwich, Shepton Mallet, Liverpool, South Molton, Sheffield, Bedford, Leicester, Exeter, Cambridge, Thornton, Lincoln, Weymouth, Nottingham, Lymington, Cheltenham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lewes, Hythe,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Coventry,
Oxford, Lancaster,' Hastings, Richmond, Tavistock, Norwich, Hereford, Poole,
Winchester, Newport, Stockport, Chichester,
Southampton, Stayley Bridge, Preston, Canterbury, Hertford, Gloucester, Worcester, Cork, Maidstone, Edinburgh, Dover, Paisley, Plymouth, St. Andrew's, Bath, Balfron.
We have not room for even a brief report of the speeches delivered at these meetings. A perusal of them convinces us that a feeling is abroad in the land which it will be dangerous for the Peers to disregard. The doing away with Hereditary Legislation is the most common topic of discussion, and meets with general approbation.
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