On Monday a Conservative meeting was held in the grounds
of the Lewisham Conservative Club, numbering several thousand persons ; and at Earlestown, in Lancashire, a very much larger Liberal demonstration was held, addresses being delivered at three platforms. On the same day, .again, at Pegswood, near Morpeth, a great Liberal demonstration was addressed by Mr. Burt, M.P.; another, at Whitby, was ad- dressed by Sir Joseph Pease, M.P.; another, at Hebden Bridge, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was addressed by Sir Matthew - Wilson, 31.P.; and a magnificent demonstration at Bolton was addressed by the Indian Under-Secretary, Mr. Cross, by Mr. Charles Russell, M.P., and by others. On the whole, the Liberal meetings outnumbered the Conservative far more overwhelm- ingly than the Liberal majority in the House of Commons would give any conception of.
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