The following programme of the proceedings of the Leeds Re-
form Festival, which is looked forward to with great interest in Yorkshire, is published in the Leeds Times of this morning- " The proceedings at the great meeting on Thursday next will commence at four o'clock precisely ; when the Chairman of the Association, J. G. Marshall, Esq., will take the chair. The speakers will then follow in something like the following order. The Chairman will state the objects of the meeting, and in- troduce Joseph Hume, Esq., 31.P., to speak upon the Condition-of-the-people question, the state of parties, and the necessity for political movement and pro- gression. Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P., will handle the difficult but most important topic of the Suffrage, and develop the means by which a union of Liberals is to be effected on this point. In this he will be supported by Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., who will consider the subject in its more general bearings. As Mr. Collins of Birmingham is understood to have ac- cepted, conditionally, the invitation of the Leeds Association, it is probable that a discussion may originate at this stage of the proceedings, which cannot fail to prove of the deepest interest and importance. If any thing can be ac- complished towards reconciling conflicting opinions on the knotty question of the suffrage, this great meeting will not have been without its effect. The speakers who most probably will follow, will be J. A. Roebuck, Esq., T. Dun- combe, Esq., M.P., Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P., W. Sharman Crawford, Esq., W. Williams, Esq., M.P., (Coventry,) Dr. Bowring, Colonel Thompson, W. Ewart, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. The various topics of progressive reform will be fully considered, as well as the means by which a union can be accomplished between the middle and the working classes. On the following day, a meeting of the leading men who will be present from Ireland, Scotland, and all parts of England, will be held in the Rotunda of the Cloth Hall, to devise the best means of carrying on the movement, and of extending Parliamentary Reform Associations throughout the United Kingdom. It is probable that a central body will be chosen to diffuse and extend information on political subjects of all kinds, and to operate upon public opinion by every legal and constitutional means.
"The public dinner, which will take place on Friday evening, will be very numerously attended. The speakers are expected to be—Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., T. Gisborne, Esq., M.P., Honourable C. Langdale, M.P., W. Wil- liams, Esq., Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., Sir W. Molesworth, M.P., Sir George Strickland, M.P., Dr. Bowring, H. C. Marshall, Esq., Hamer Stansfeld, Esq., P. A. Taylor, Esq., Dr. Epps, John Gully, Esq., E. D. Davenport, Esq.," &c.
From the Leeds Mercury of the same date it appears that there are to be two meetings on Thursday- .. Two great Radical meetings are to be held in Leeds next Thursday—that of the friends of Household Suffrage in Messrs. Marshall's mill, and that of the friends of Universal Suffrage on Holbeck Moor. At the former there is to be accommodation for 8,000 persons, who are to be admitted by ticket : it is simply a meeting for speeches, as it is not hought quite safe to move resolutions, lest amendments should be carried. Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Connell, Sir William Molesworth, and other leading Radicals, are to be present. The Chartist meeting on Holbeck Moor is got up as a rival display ; and great pains have been taken to bring Chartists, not only from all parts of Yorkshire, but from more distant places, even from Scotland, to make a grand demonstration in favour of Universal Suffrage and the Six Points. The Chartists have also se- cured a considerable number of sixpenny tickets for the meeting at Messrs. Marshall's mill ; and Mr. Collins, of Birmingham, has applied for permission to speak at that meeting, with a view to recommend Universal Suffrage as pre- ferable to Household Suffrage. He is to be allowed to speak, but not till the close of the meeting."
The Kentish Mercury of this day says in reference to the approaching Canterbury eleetion—," The enthusiasm of the Liberal party in Mr. Wilson's favour increases daily. His straightforward and evidently sincere declarations on politics, have infused zeal into many who be- fore were inclined to be lukewarm ; and, together with his excellent per- sonal qualities, have had the effect of uniting firmly what threatened at first to be a divided party. The requisitionists to Lord Albert Conyng- ham are now all embarked in Mr.Wilson's cause. And he combines with the support of all Lord Albert's friends, that of those Reformers who at the last election polled plumpers for Mr. Villiers."
The Liberal party in Dover are about to give a public entertainment to their representative Mr. Rice.—Kentish Mercury.
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