Mr. Mundell& held a second meeting in Sheffield on Monday,
which was attended by 3,000 persons, and was a great success, the rowdyism displayed at the previous meeting having disgusted the electors. The points of his speech were the magnitude of the liability nominally undertaken by the British Government in Asia Minor, the excessive influence exercised by the agricultural interest over the measures of Government ; the necessity of enfranchising the land ; and an exposure of the great increase of expenditure caused by the Tory Government. In 1873 the expenditure was about 171,000,000, and it had now been raised to 181,000,000, not including /3,500,000 of supplementary estimates. Mr. Mundella derided the idea that at increase of population diminished the pressure of taxation, say- ing that on that principle, as defended by Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, the man who paid £.2 a head more for each fresh child paid no more when he had five children than -when he had four. It is evident that the Members for the great boroughs intend to make next Session a grand attack upon the extravagance of the Govern- ment.
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