The Metropolis has not declared in favour of the People's
Charter. The pulse was felt, but it beat calmly ; and is healthful indifference as to this itinerant agitation is a symptom that the disease is at present confined to the extremities. It is because London speaks in Parlia- ment that she is silent in Palace Yard. Only one Member of a Me. tropolitan district, and he the one (we say with regret and respect) whose seat is the most insecure, attended the thunder of the popguns. The coldness with which Mr. Leader was received is a good omen fur rational reform ; for it serves to show the amazing distinction between Hie most radical of those whom the People send to Parliament, and the average opinions of those whom the mob applaud and laugh Mr. Leader, the Member for Westminster, had the gratification sr. hearing Noise!! rated at the thousandth part of the value of Mr. Featgua O'Connor, the rejected of all men.—Montidy Chronicle. [The state. ment that Mr. Leader was coldly received at the Palace Yard meeting, is a simple untruth. He was better received than any speaker Rho preceded him. When be came forward, before he had opened his lips, the cheering was general and hearty. Mr. Feargus O'Connor, by
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force of lungs, (the power of which, in large meetings, all who ever sat in a theatre have witnessed,) perhaps obtained louder applause from a portion of the meeting, than Mr. Leader, who counselled modest. tion ; but the Member for Westminster was listened to with attention and respect, and was repeatedly cheered, in durtng vf his speech. , suspect Mr. Leader's seat is not the most insecure n the Metropolitta district : what does the Monthly Chronicle think of Sir George Da Lacy Evans's ?)
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