17 MARCH 1860, Page 2

Several meetings have been held in the country on the

subject of Parliamentary Reform ; but nothing has happened to excite anything that can be called a general feeling or agitation. In the main, the meetings appear to obey an impulse from some common centre, and have an air of formality about them, quite distinct from spontaneous gatherings. Of course, this does not

much diminish their weight as political facts, but it tends to confirm the opinion that in general. the country is only not in- different ma the subject of Reform.