Vie Vrobintes.
About five thousand persons, according to the Morning Chronicle, assembled in spite of a heavy fall of snow, in Clayton Square, Liver- pool, on Wednesday, to address the Queen "on her firmness during the recent Ministerial crisis." Among the leaders on that oceeeloe, we recognize the familiar names of Wallace Currie, Baaneker, Bolton,
Colonel Williams, Earle, Ottiwell Wood, Egerton Smith, and Walmes- ley. The address was:describe‘,1, by Mr, Brancker, who was placed in
the chair, as one " 'winch neither praised the former conduct of the
PIV2.1Stry nor otherwise," The meeting perhaps deplored, with him, that the progress of Reform had not been so rapid of late years as it
ought to have been : it was to be hoped it would be now otherwise. In seconding the address, Mr. Wahnesley spoke in high terms of the Queen,—by no means in the same strain of her Majesty's Ministers.
It was now supposed that finality and bit-and-bit reform were to be abandoned, and that hencelorth more prompt and energetic measures would be introduced : but he should be wanting in candour to them and justice to him-
self did he conceal the opinion that nothing short of Vote by Ballot, House- hold Suffrage, and- Triennial Parliaments, with equal privileges to our bre- thren in Ireland, could give satisfaction to the masses, and again unite the great body of Reformers in a firm and energetic support of the Administra- tion. Nor would less searching measures give that meed of justice to which the people were entitled. (Loud and protracted cheering.) " Nine times nine" were given for the Queen, and the meeting sepa- rated.
The Manchester Town-Council, after a protracted debate, adopted an address to the Queen, expressing admiration of her resistance "to an unfeeling and odious attempt to induce her to abandon the friends of her youth ;" and beseeching her Majesty to call to her " councils liberal and enlightened statesmen, who are honestly desirous to ad- vance in the career of improvement, and to govern for the welfare of the community."
Similar addresses to the Queen have been signed by many persons at Bristol, Rochdale, and Gravesend.
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