A great meeting of agricultural labourers' delegates was held on
Wednesday in Exeter Hall, to support the extension of household suffrage to the counties, and listened to a speech from Mr. Bright. The meeting, which was to a remarkable degree representative of all divisions of the country, passed resolutions in favour of household suffrage in the counties and of a redistribution of seats, so as to obtain a better representation of the electoral body,—rather a vague pro- posal. The delegates were to a man on the Liberal side in the Turkish question, and entirely supported Mr. Arch in declaring that the vote of the House of Commons on Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions did not express the feeling of the country. They were not, in all probability, say eye-witnesses, aware of all the questions involved, and were possibly as hazy about geography as their superiors ; but they had grasped two ideas clearly, — that the Turkish Government was incurably bad, and that war with Russia meant dear bread.
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