Edinburgh, as well as every other considerable place, has refuted
the plea of reaction. A correspondent favours us with the following ac- count of a meeting held there on Wednesday.
" I write merely to tell you that the Edinburgh Political Union has to day held a meeting in the King's Park, about fourteen thousand strong, besides six or seven thousand who went away because they could not hear. The utmost order prevailed, notwithstanding the re- peated assertions of our own magistrates, that the inhabitants of Edinburgh cannot meet without a riot taking place. The speeches and resolutions expressed the firmest determination to obtain Reform and to take nothing less than the late Bill e and the reported delay of three months was strongly deprecated as ruinous to trade, dangerous to the public tran- quillity, and productive of diminished confidence in the Ministry. No- thine. could be more satisfactory than to s'ee men of all ranks mingling, both as speakers and hearers, in the proceedings of this meeting. Some of the best speeches were by operatives, selected for their superior intelligence. The immense crowd listened with great satisfaction and the most perfect decorum, and showed the warmest participation in the sentiments expressed. About five minutes after the last loyal cheer in honour of our excellent King, not a vestige. of the thousands who corn- posed the meeting remained. " Perhaps the finest sight of all was the view from the bottom of the Canongate, of the black mass of people moving upwards, and filling the whole of the Canongate and High Street (to appearance) as far as the Ti-on Church' and still purring in thousands through the Abbey Road, on their way home."
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