The Reform League and Trades' Unions have finally decided upon
a grand united Demonstration in favour of Reform, to be made upon the 11th pros. After much discussion and some bitter- ness, the question of entrance into the Parks has been postponed for a legal decision, and a plan drawn up by Colonel Dickson accepted on all hands. Under this scheme, four great armies will converge at one o'clock on Trafalgar Square, and thence march by Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Piccadilly, and Regent Street, to the Agricultural Hall, Islington. They had very much better go up Regent Street only, and disperse by Oxford Street. The Clubs have had enough teaching, and what on earth is the use of accumu- lating two hundred thousand mnn in dreary Islington, or creating a crush which may cost hundreds of lives at the doors of the Agricul- tural Hall? It is a display of numbers, not a catastrophe, which is wanted. If Colonel Dickson is to be Commander-in-Chief, he should look to this, and above all, resist the mad suggestion of the Star, to let the men march "loosely," or without military order. They will be trodden down like ants.
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