An " indignation " meeting summoned to protest against the
conduct of the House of Lords in throwing out a bill which the House of Commons has so frequently passed as it has the Bill for legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister, was held on Tuesday, at St. James's Hall, when its promoters found that by professing to express 6 indignation' they had attracted a good many young persons who are more indignant against the House of Lords and the Throne, than against any particular act of the Peers. Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P. for Bristol, and most moderate of respectable Radicals, could not get out two moderate sentences without interruption, and was quite out of his element. A red flag with Republic' on it was waved from the gallery, and only after some time torn down and destroyed by the heroic efforts of a virtuous crusader on the wife's sister question, who abhorred the thought of constitutional innovation, and the meeting was a complete failure, almost as many voting for the suppression of the House of Lords as for a solemn sermon to them on the im- proper exercise of their rights. Mr. Morley will learn from this not to be precipitate in asking for the public expression of Indig- nation,—which it is not in his nature to feel, and which he no doubt only intended to express by way of oratorical metaphor. The invitation to be indignant attracts Reds as a honey-pot attracts flies.
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