MEETINGS IN ravoun or THE REFORM BILL.—A meeting of St.
Andrew's, Holborn, took place on Thursday. A meeting of the inha- bitants of Westminster was held at the Crown and Anchor yesterday. Yesterday also, the good people of the City met in the Guildhall, by requisition. Everywhere in the country the utmost gratification is felt from the Ministerial announcement. A letter from Liverpool, dated Wednesday, says-4' The information reached here at half-past two o'clock, by express, and was publicly read aloud in the mercantile-room of the Exchange, to a large assemblage, and was received with acclama- tion...long and hearty and reiterated cheers. Indeed it appears to have given us all new faces, for we see nothing but smiling and shaking of hands in congratulation on the prospects of the happy change that our country
will experience from this wise measure of our beloved Monarch's Ministers."
At the City meeting, the Lord- nayor of cotirse presided. petition
praying the House of Commons to pass the bill, and a re'solution de- claring that his .Majesty's Ministers had amply redeemed :heir pledgee, were unanimously agreed to. Alderman Winchester wish( ad the petition to be delayed until the bill was brought in. At the Crown and Anchor meeting, Sir Francis Brsdett was in the chair. At a parish meeting of the rate-payers of St. Cleraent Danes, also held yesterday, a petition in favour of the bill was pasf:ied by acclamation. A. meeting of the Bishopsgate Ward takes place to-day, called by Alderman Copeland. St. Mary's, Newington, had a petition signed yesterday by a thousand of the inhabitants, and presented in the course of the evening, also praying for the bill. The petition lay or signature only from nine in the morning till three o'clock in the afternoon. Marylebone meets on Monday ; mad meetings are also in progress in St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury, and in the Clink Liberty of St. Saviour, Southwark. Most of the bells of the about-to-be enfranchised districts were pealed on Wednesday. There were. partial illuminations ; and just at the moment that old Lord Carnarvon was pronouncing an anathema on the bill in the House of Lords, a royal salute in honour of it was fired from a barge, manned by the Lumber-Troop, almost under the windows of the House.
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