LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 150, 29 June 1867, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

The inteligence received via Panama was iv great measure anticipated by the arrival of the Suez Mail, which, in fact supplied us with news four days later than that brought by the Eakaia. We 'give some of the most important items: — London, May 10. A grand Reform Demonstration took place in Hyde Park on the 6th instant. It numbered at least one hundred thousand persons, embracing gentlemen, working - men, roughs, women, and children. The Government first prohibited the meeting, and then announced that it would make no attempt to suppress it, but all the troops in London aud its vicinity were kept under arms, and a large force of police was concealed in a secluded part of the Park, and vehicles were kept in waiting to convey them -to auy point in case of riot. Eifteen separate meetings were organised out of the vast assemblage, at one of which a woman spoke in favor of female suffrage. Most of the revolutionary speeches were loudly cheered by the crowd. The police, wherever they made their appearance, were looked on with disdain aud contempt. The entire press of the city denounced the •course pursued by the Government. In the House of Commons on the evening of the -9th instant, members were •engaged in debate on the subject of Mr. Disraeli's compromise amendment to the •original Derby Reform Bill. Mr. Gladstone, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered a powerful speech against the amendments and in opposition to the Government policy. He said the Government bill was a shadow, trans■parent, and simulating pretence of a measure for the extension of the franchise, and he despaired of its ever being made a good or beneficial one by amendment in the House. Mr. John Bright delivered a speech-, in which he declared that the Derby bill was the most unjust and offensive measure ever submitted to the Commons of England-,

Mr. Roebuck and Mr Disraeli defended the Government bill and plau. The debate closed after the speech of the Chancellor of Exchequer. Strangers were then excluded from the House and the division taken. When the doors were opened it was declared that the vote was for the Government bill thus: — For Government, 322; against, 256. Majority for Government, 66. The announcement of the result was received with loud and protracted cheering from the ministerial benches.