Econlib

The Library

Other Sites

Front Page arrow Titles (by Subject) arrow 34.: The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park [5] 2 AUGUST, 1866 - The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868

Return to Title Page for The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868

Search this Title:

Also in the Library:

Subject Area: Political Theory
Collection: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

34.: The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park [5] 2 AUGUST, 1866 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868 [1850]

Edition used:

The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868, ed. John M. Robson and Bruce L. Kinzer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

About Liberty Fund:

Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.


34.

The Reform Meeting in Hyde Park [5]

2 AUGUST, 1866

PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 184, col. 1905. Reported in The Times, 3 August, p. 4, from which the variants and response are taken. For the meeting alluded to, see No. 31.

mr. j. stuart mill presented the petition adopted at the meeting in the Agricultural Hall, complaining of the exclusion of the public from Hyde Park on Monday week, and praying the House to institute an inquiry into the conduct of the Chief Commissioner of Police,1 and of the Police generally.

Major Stuart Knox2said, he would beg to ask the honourable Gentleman,awho he understood was connected with the Reform League,aWhether a letter which appeared in that morning’s paper from Mr. Beales was genuine;3and, if so, whether he can inform the House who thebpublicbleadersmentioned in it were?

Mr. J. Stuart Mill: Sir, cI can assure the honourable and gallant Gentleman that I have not the slightest objection to give him any information which I can command in reply to his question.c Sir, I am not in the least degree authorized to make any communication to the House on behalf of the Reform League, of which I am not even a member; and I beg to refer the honourable and gallant Gentleman to those who are members, and particularly to Mr. Beales himself. (A laugh.)

[1 ]Richard Mayne (1796–1868).

[2 ]William Stuart Knox (1826–1900), Conservative M.P. for Dungannon.

[a-a]+TT

[3 ]A letter purporting to be from Beales to the committee of the Athenaeum, whose property had been damaged during the commotion, was published in The Times, 2 Aug., p. 5; on 3 August (the day this debate was reported), a letter of 2 August from Beales to the editor repudiated the earlier letter as a hoax (The Times, 3 Aug., p. 3).

[b-b]TT popular

[c-c]+TT [in the third person, past tense]