A very full special meeting of the Westminster Reform Society
met yes- terday to consider the letter which General Evans lately addressed to " the fourteenth part " of its members. A warm discussion arose, some members proposing a conciliatory coarse; but ultimately the following resolution was adopted by a large majority-
" That this Society is willing to overlook the insulting tone assumed by Sir De Lacy Evans in his letter to this Society, and the indecorum of publishing it in a morning journal before its transmission to this Society; but feels bound to declare, that, while containing mistakes, on one side, on several matters of fact, it assumes, on the other, a position in reference to this Society and the Liberal constituency of Westminster deserving of the strongest disapprobation."
A special Court of Common Council was held yesterday, on a requisition calling the Council to consider how far the Government Public Health Bill is an infringement of principles of local government. A resolution was moved by Mr. Blake, seconded by Mr. Wire, and supported by Alderman Lawrence, Mr. B. Taylor, and other speakers, condemning the bill, though London be exempted; but expressing a desire to see sanatory measures passed which should preserve existing rights of municipal, parochial, and other local representative bodies.
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