The Sun

Popular Demonstrations against the Use
of Faneuil Hall for the Queen's Jubilee:

BOSTON, June 20.-The strongest popular
demonstration that ever took place in Boston
was made to-night. It grew out of a public
remonstrance against the use of Faneuil Hall
to-morrow by British-Americans for a Queen's
jubilee celebration. Five thousand people
packed the square around the old hall for four
hours to-night to voice their indignation against
the disgrace which they declared was to be put
upon the Cradle of Liberty and the city. At
midnight the meeting is still in session, and it
proposes, if possible, to devise some scheme for
averting the plans for to-morrow's gathering.

The agitation has had a peculiar record and
culmination. The Queen's admirers applied
two weeks ago for the use of the hall for the
day of jubilee, and the Board of Aldermen
granted the request unanimously without giving
the matter a thought, for Faneuil
Hall has always been thrown open to
every body of citizens who applied for it
and paid the customary fee. Certain labor
leaders and anti-English sympathizers raised
a protest before the next meeting of the Board
and applied for a reversal of the permit. The
Board appointed a committee of three, with
President Donovan, a stanch Democrat, at its
head, to hear the remonstrants. There was a
lively hearing, at which the Queen and her
Government were scathingly denounced, and it
was urged that such a use of the Cradle of
Liberty would be the greatest outrage which
the cause of freedom could suffer in this city of
the Puritans. President Donovan expressed
himself at the hearing strongly in favor of
granting the application of the British-Americans
on the ground of fair play. He held that
the hall was, above all things, free for the use
of any body of American citizens who complied
with the regulations. It had been frequently
used for great public meetings held on behalf
of the Irish cause, at which the Queen had
been denounced without measure. He saw no
reason why opposite sentiments should not be
expressed within its walls by other American
citizens.

The committee reported to the full Board in
favor of adhering to its first action. The Board
this afternoon, by a tie vote of six to six, refused
to reconsider the granting of the permit.
Meantime the remonstrants applied for
permit for the use of the hall this
evening for the purpose of expressing
their indignation. The Aldermen granted
this permission.

The crowd assembled
in front of the hall at 7 o'clock. When the permit
arrived it was found to be defective, not
bearing the Mayor's approval. This increased
the crowd's indignation, and a meeting was
organized in the square in front of Quincy
Market. The Hon. P. J. Doherty of Charlestown
presided, and he made a fiery speech in
denunciation of the Aldermen and of the
British-Americans and of the British Government.

Meantime Fire Commissioner Murphy found
the janitor of Faneuil Hall and persuaded him
to open the doors. Another meeting was organized
inside, with John Boyle O'Reilly as
Chairman. The hall was soon packed by all
who could get inside the walls. The meeting
outside was also continued. Father McKenna
followed Mr. O'Reilly, who made one of his
most impassioned speeches, conceived on the
spur of the moment and full of fire and denunciation.
The meeting adopted resolutions
condemning the action of the city authorities
and deploring the disgrace to the cause of liberty
which such a use of the Cradle of Liberty
entailed.

There were a score more speeches,
and at
midnight the meeting appointed a committee
to drive to the Mayor's house at Forest Hill,
and beg him to veto the permit for the use of
the hall by the British-Americans.

The committee
has gone on its mission.