Mr. Bright made a speech at the Reform demonstration held
at Birmingham on Monday, which was unusually moderate. He - attributed the immense advance in the Tory offer mainly to the Reform meetings, including the one which destroyed Hyde Park railings ; showed that Mr. Disraeli's Bill gave household suffrage only in eight great towns and twenty-one small boroughs ; declared that it would not add 100,000 names to the Register in England an Wales ; expressed the fullest confidence in Mr. Gladstone, but added that those who possess votes must,be considered as much as those who desire them. The great objects of the speech were to clear away the impression that Mr. Gladstone offered less than- Mr. Disraeli, and to stimulate the people to reject the Tory Bill as a whole. The demonstration was considerable-60,000—and the audience hearty, but we are told that the response to Mn Gladstone's name was, at first, scarcely as warm as usual, and that the explanation about the "hard line" was really required.
