The readers of Ministerial or Tory journals only, will take
a f dee impression as to the state of public feeling in this country. The Ballot meeting at Stroud was scarcely noticed, although attended by 1500 of Lord Josue RUSSELL'S constituents, and therefore possessing importance independently of the numbers and respectability of those who attended it, or the arguments of the speakers. A paragraph of twenty-one lines, in an obscure corner of the paper, was all that the Courier could afford to the dinner on the anniversary of the acquittal of HARDY and his com- patriots. The extracts in two of our pages from the speeches of Mr. C. DULLER, MT. PARKES, and Mr. HARVEY, Will enable readers to judge whether the proceedings deserved to be slurred over with as little ceremony as a police case of inferior grade. The announcement by Mr. Haevey, that lie will introduce a bill in the next session for Ballot, Household Suffrage, and Triennial Parliaments, required some notice ; but even the bare fact is not stated. The dinner of the Flintshire Reformers at Holywell fares still worse in the columns of the Ministerial journalist : fifteen lines was all he could devote to it. Of course not a line is quoted from the speech of Lord DINORBEN, though his Lordship is one of the most influential Liberals in the West of England. But then, he avowed himself a convert to the Ballot, and an old advocate of Household Suffrage. The care taken by the Courier to suppress the reports of these Liberal meetings, is not less symptomaiic than the open hostility of the Globe, of the Ministerial intention to discountenance the mea- sures for giving effect to the Reform Act. Had Ministers resolved to abandon their Whig-Tory policy, gladly would such meetings have been cited as proof of the national determination to improve
the representative system ; and they would have been studiously brought into notice by the organs of the Government. The prac-
tice of suppressing evidence of the dissatisfaction of the Liberals, must fortify the suspicion that no means are in contemplation foe removing the cause of discontent.
