12 JANUARY 1867, Page 2

We trust the project attributed to the Reform League of

hold- Mg a mass meeting in front of Westminster Hall, under colour of presenting petitions, will be abandoned. The design is, we imagine, illegal, and will only rouse the temper of a House which has never yet yielded to menace, and remembers keenly how Chartism disappeared. If a demonstration is needed, which is not certain till the Queen's Speech is out, let it be made by a tremendous exhibition of numbers far enough from the Palace at Westminster to forbid the idea of direct compulsion. To lower the moral rank of the Representative House is only to play directly into the hands of the opponents of all Reform, and its rank would be sadly lowered if its members voted under any suspicion of fear.