The debate which followed was exceed ingly interesting. Mr Lowe followed the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and criti cised the course of the Government in a vein of mingled satire and indignation. Mr Bright, who was very hoarse, declared the proposition to proceed by resolution to be unworthy, and urped that a Bill should be brought in immediately. Mr Walpolt having spoken, Mr Ldng* complained that Scotland was neglected. Subsequently Mr Gladstone [criticised the propo-itions, and the debate was adjourned to Thurs day.
The threatened reform demonstration of Messrs Beales, Dickson and Co. came off on the 11th instant, and reached its culminating point at the Agricultural-ball, Islington, just as Mr Disraeli was exalting himself at the expense of bis party in the House of Commons. It was admitted on all hands not to have been half so imposing as the Trades Union gathering in Decem ber; the management was inferior, and the numbers'much fewer. Noae besides partisans of the league, who are naturally anxious to exaggerate its exploits, claim more thai 15,000 or 16,000 persons in the precession.
