On Tuesday we find that five great meetings were held
on the Rejection of the Franchise, one large one at Bolton, addressed by Mr. Chaplin, and one small one at Helms- ley, in Yorkshire, on the Conservative side; the other three in strong condemnation of the Peers. Mr. Chaplin asserted that "the career of Mr. Gladstone and his col- leagues in Ireland had been one of infamy, bloodshed, and crime," for Mr. Chaplin does not scruple at the coarsest defamation. At Helmsley, if we may judge by the report, Lord Feversham was as mild as Mr. Chaplin at Bolton was scurrilous. At Failsworth, a suburb of Manchester, a meet- ing called by the Co-operative Societies was largely attended and enthusiastic in its support of the Government. In the Odd- fellows' Hall at Lincoln, on the same day, there was a largely.. attended meeting of the representatives of Liberal Associations, held to make arrangements for a great popular demonstration at the end of September. But the largest, probably, of the Tuesday meetings was that at Tredegar, in Monmouthshire— unless the Conservative meeting at Bolton equalled it in numbers-.-where many thousands assembled to protest vehe- mently against the action of the Lords. The mining populations all over the kingdom are Liberal almost to a man. On Wednes- day, there were three Liberal meetings at Kendal, Guildford, and Glasgow ; and a Conservative meeting at Basingstoke.
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