PROCESSION OF THE PARISIL DELEGATES TO ADDRESS THE KINCL—The wetness
of the day took greatly from this show ; which, we may remark, would never have been thought of, had it not been for the idle and non- sensical remarks of the Lords and Commons about the lukewarmness of the people, and the argument attempted to be founded, by Lord Wharn- cliffe more especially, on the alleged thinness of the meetings which took place in the interval between the first reading of the Bill in the Upper House and its rejection. The procession was composed of delegates from the parishes of St. Luke's (Middlesex), Clerkenwell, Paddington, St. Pancras, Marylebone, Islington, and St. James's, Westminster. The various detachments, with the exception of the St. James's delegates, who joined at Hanover Street, arrived from their separate places of meeting at the Regent's Park about twelve o'clock. Half an hour later, they began to move forward, taking the direct road down Regent Street to Pall Mall. The line extended about two miles; the files were on an average six men deep. An evening paper says that the number of indi- viduals in the procession was not short of 300,000; which would give fir each file about two inches and a half! From as accurate an estimate as we were able to form, the number was rather under than over 12,000 ; this is allowing the extreme length of the line to be two miles or there- abouts, and each file to occupy four feet and a half. And when we take into account that the procession neither consisted nor was meant to con- sist but of a small portion of the parishes that made it up—their repre- sentatives merely—and add the uncomfortableness of as wet and disa- greeable a day as has frowned on the metropolis since the Bill was thrown out—(the only had weather from the time of its introduction has been experienced since Friday) we shall not be surprised at the fewness, but rather at the greatness of the numbers that turned out on the occa- sion. Agreeably to a recommendation of the St. James's Parish Re- formers, the whole of the shops in Regent Street and Bond Street, and of nearly all the streets and lanes leading to either, were shut. The shops in the New Road were also shut. There was not the slightest rea- son for this in the crowd ; for we never saw Regent Street more per- fectly quiet than on the occasion, and the other streets were nearly aban- doned. The procession was loudly cheered in its progress towards the Pa- lace, and it frequently cheered in turn. At Longhorn Place there was some hooting, in consequence of the vote of the Bishop of Bath and Wells ; but not the slightest disorder, nor tendency to disorder, was manifested during any part of their progress by the members of the procession. When the column reached the Palace, the different detachments drew off to various rendezvous, in order to take from the accompanying crowd all occasion of mischief; and no sooner had his Majesty's gracious acceptance of the addresses been signified to the detachments in St. James's Square by the county members, Byng and Hume, than they and their companions set out on their return to their respective homes. The windows of the Mar- quis of Bristol's house, in St. James's Square, were broken by a handful of idle boys, whom time members of the procession were the first to drive away ; and the attack upon the Marquis of Londonderry, of which so much has been made by his nominee, Mr. Arthur Trevor, did not take place until a considerable time after the whole of the procession had retired.
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