Excerpt from The Platform, Vol. 2 of 2: Its Rise and Progress Parliament and Reform Proposals; Distress awakens the Platform; The Birmingham Political Union; Its first meeting; The system of Parliamentary Representation; A -siou of William IV; The General Election of 1830; The French Revolution of 1830; The results of the General Election; Popular sympathy with France; Comparison of 1830 with 1792; The Duke of Wellington's Speech on Reform; Lord Grey Prime Minister; Meetings for Reform; The Times and the Platform; The King on Reform; The Platform on Reform; The Annual Register's Criticism on the Platform; The Reform Bill; The Platform and the Bill; The Defeat of the Bill; The First Ministerial Manifesto; The General Election of 1831; The last of Old Sarum; The Agitation in Scotland; The Reform Bill again introduced into Parliament; The Platform and the Lords; Lord Brougham's Speech in the House of Lords; The rejection of the Bill by the Lords; Popular indignation; Midnight Deputation to Lord Grey; The Bristol Riots; The Political Unions; The National Political Union; Political Union organisation; Government Proclamation against; The Reform Bill again introduced; Platform Speech by the Prime Minister; Meeting at Birmingham; The final Crisis; The Platform triumphant About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.