The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-16 00:00:00

TEI ABOLITION OP SLAVERY IN AMERICA.

A crowded public meeting, oonvened by the
Newham's Aid Society, wee held Let night .in Beater
Hell, to commemorate tbi abolition of dame he the
United Slates of America. Mr. Benjamin Scott, *
Oberberiela of the at, of Landon, occupied the their,
end before opining the proosediegs be required Dr.
Tonilies, the secretory of the society, to reed the or-
stitiational amendment, passed in Gaines is 18th of
Drubber, 18611, by which slavery is for ewer prohibited
thesher the Unioe. The meeting remaird et=t
veilrs this dormer was being reed. Mr
meet, it was moored, had bre rattled by 28
of the 38 Stare of which the Union is rm.
posed. The Chairman thee proceeded to dare se in-
trodnetory address, in the rune of which he deneribed the
abolition of slavery as the grandest event that hat et bre
written up the peas of history. The meeting bed rabid
to do with the cares which bad produced the meant wasb
ere the reamer in which it was serried am. It bed 41.11/. t. 9
der with the reergsences of the great straggle laftia
a mightier bend end a vaster wisdom could be traced then
that of men. (Run, bear.) Slaverywee prodneed sad
destroyed by the sword. No nation aloes orld be belt
reemerge for its ceiling existence, and thesers be 700111
for rerbeinetios being's the two nations.cie*ere
net met to 'releaser bat rather to It
wisbil be Maid the mbar= of Ike
a ortimental sad mot a practical object. Ho
11;i1 ibyaibeowever' hold that opinion, end he tenth
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nailer of sob, end uperithe
keels of the shine be the Dutchcolors& (Hear, bear.)
Seth hthershange of empathy brier Wier uses
peedical weed, ched he rejoiced to have the !wawa p
'a i iss resseek a meshes r this. (Hear, boar.saLsd
awagratotallso AMMO wpm the derreb el ion ,Br
make arbobled to obese on the societies bad
bees tossed to aid the sere Is his brambles trim army
to Wider. (Mar, her ) The rural and other sedelles
bed already eontributed brim& 40,0001. sad 50,0001. foe
thatpurpoon (Hre.)lfeedded, atedeterperiedettheereiga
that beers bed been orsived from several mend eseineess,
expressing rine at being unable to attend, which, although
slavery did not rid In this country, be aoeouipaeireset cd
the whip did, sad the use et tied beennneut thellecm.•
mint lied deprived them of the preemie of many mumbese
et the House of Ominous whose votes were likely to be le
roper OM our wan*. (A high. ) Ns. Handel
Oceans, of Merl, in moving the lint resolatioe, gave en
interesting brount of • recent visit he bad made to the
United States. He had while there bad laterviawe with
Mr. Somme, 0.01101 Great, Goosed Elbereme.anil
Howard, and he bore testimony to the kindly feellegree:=
still enimeed then in their deafer with the treed slaves.
Despite the Wirier whith a Felton if the liaglisk pre
bad der its beet to create, the people oferartad t=
seterteined an affectionate for
lend. (Raw, bear.) There was dy • bright
Introy
in err for Awoke, new th
faree show use urea
pletel 'Wished. be believed,
No
the de.
shed he three se
Ins prosperity with No weeder
than Mr the tide of eedgretion had our erre eat to
reds bar she and it was probable that ie th• earn
of the present at beat a million of would
cock • err beetsyear witithe her bootee. He eoaNpreedee foe
thus tram and heavier retire than arid pbe
famed he say other part of the world. (Hear.) The teemed the
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C meetingo pr
reveres* art
seknowledges that, in the providers et r:ha:crime sod withering curse of chattel slangy—
btrodured by Engird into her trznintlario eolonbs,
and thus porporied by the fundamental reeletation of
the United Seats el Amu ice--bee, by the iment
el the constitntiond amendment, been rembrer
and for ever hereafter peohibited throughout these
Berm Aad this nesting tenders radial inegrebdresee
to the friers of freedom in exurbs upon the ressicie
this gratifying and Areal triumph of the OM. of
eiglreseneeme sod bearnity ; recupshine In thie
megrims essimilseien et the fundamentel lame et
the United States and of Greet Betide s new sad
enduring bond of union between the two natives."
The Bor. Xavier Hall seconded the reedrion, eel
as an inured= of the *swum that preeeffed he memo
garters epos the subject of slavery, he maid be was gravely
told the ether day that a negro had no soul ; thee would
seem I. be the obit la which somnpeopb dimmed the
Jambe gustier, sad them he sdrisid to reed the
graphic descriptions gives by the special earrespon.
isms */ the Doily News host that bland. (Hier, bear.)
Begird the rosesse which had
iced the negro in Americo,
needed~
slat hie sieffeeines, and glorified in Ms mated
(Gbeere.) Br. J. W. Probin and Professor Lome Levi
spoke in rapport of the resolution, and after it hid been
Laoom the chair sod unanimously adapted, Dr. 80l-
New Tort, aimed the privilege of befog allowed
redur it on behalf of his fellow ooustrywhen.
Now that the gnat struggle was over there ought, he sei4
to be es rivalry between the two nations except that el
doing good. (Hear.) Let each reeolee to do right, and it
would be quite impossible for any politic:re to embroil
the two nations In war. (Hear, hear.) No ler than four
osYlioss of slaves bad bre freed, and there was no act more
ambulated ismer the bonds of anion brume Begked
sad the United States than the efforts the former
was making to help the released slave. (Hear, beer.) Dr.
Hugh As proposed, aad Dr. Brock esoobled, another
resolution as follows "That whilst ibis meeting
ofin its warmest congratulatior to all who Ws bees
faithful to the are el freedom in tlis time of conflict and
tie), it is deeply impressed with the err of reepondbility
whin from sueors. All put experience has shown that
the eleetr of the system of slavery
_remain long after the
time of legal emancipatioe, both in the disabili-
ties of the freedmen, and is the spirit of osale
in their former oppressors. And this miring would
nlarma....,itte strong conviction that the sealer,
and persistent efforts of the true friends of
17seribra if possible, be mon than ever needed to toad-
cede led Principles, to whir wrongs, to Wire the neces-
sitous, to protect the defenceless, to an for the
the inane, sad the aged, to instruct the ignorer, to=
industrial training, and to remiss the utmost vigilance so
that the peace of society may be preserved, and that neither
prejudise, nor a domineering class of any bed
may mar the work of emancipation, or prevent its toll
beret to mankind. This meeting, therefore, cordially
approves the objects of the British sod Foreign Freedineeb
Aid Soeieey, and pledges lie energetic support." Like
thseVj ag esior:in it was carried unanimously, and the
at en advanced hour of the evening,
alter valise tilers Or the chairman, and ortribrag to
the feeds al the society under whose auspices it had
seembled.

RILIOIOI3II LIBIZTT Ain/ TRI New PAILLIAXENT.
'lcor:assentlest writes—Yesterday morning a large party of
gentlemen interested is the a:tendon of religiose liberty
assembled at the Cltaring-oross Hotel, it the invitatios of
the ocenmittess of the Liberatton Society sod of the
meting deputies, for the purpose of conferring upon the
ecclesiastical questions hiely to Le dealt with in parliament
deriog the weasel esesioo. Among does patent wane
Sir 11. Pete, Bart., M.P., who presided ; Mr. Reines, M.P.,
Mr. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. Hardcastle, iL P., Mr. Mares.
X.P., Mr. Miall,Rev. N. Allow, Rev. W. Brock, Rev. J.
Bee Brown, Mr. W. Edwards, Mr. Cloortenld, Rev. N. Hall,
v. Dr. King, Mr. Chas. Bea, Rev. Dr. Boras, Rev.
3. Stoughton, Mr. J. Heywood, Mr. Carvell Williams„
C. SbeOesid Mr. Torberville, and the Rev. W.
The 'reties was cd • emildsotsal kind, bat it may be seated
that among the subjects which mimed atteatiou
were the Church Rate Abolition Bill, the Qoaliecation for
Offices Bill, Mr. Oolsridge's and Mr. Bonverie's Bills
relating to University Tests, the Parliamentary Oaths Bill,
Sir John Grays motive on the Irish listablisitmentt and the
Irish Education question. In regard to nearly all the points
mooted great unanimity prevailed, and a determination was
exprethed to afford the warmest support to thole members
of the He... of Commons wbo have undertakee the we-
duet of natarares calculated to advance the priaelples of
religious equality. We may add that the second reading rid
the Qoalitication for Offices Bill is ixed for Wednesday, the
BHA February, the seeped reading of the Church Rate
Abolition Bill for March the 7th, Sir John Gray's Irish
Church motion for the 13th of March, and Mr. Ooleridee's
Oxford Tests Bill for the 21st March.
&MIT FOB THZ EitCOI7KAGEMINT or THIS Flint
Airs.—Lest evening this society held its second converse.
nose of the semen at the Exhibition of Female Artists, in
cosdaierstrest, when there was • very numerous attend-
&ice, the ladies Preyonderatieg. The proosediop were
opened by an *dams by Mr. F. T. Hailstone, President of
the Society of British Artiste, " On the Cultivation of the
Mee Arts by Women,' which excited 000siderable lette-
rset. • sassalsoeous concert followed, coadothed by
Moon A. Gilbert and Benthardt, and in which Mesdames
A. Gilbert. Andrea, Banta Lee, Foshroice, and Mews.
Miranda sad Leonard Walker took part. The seeming
west off most satisfactorily.
Tan Ism Enucanott Quitnrwir. —The Cork
taassimer nays :—"We have moon to believe that the
didlisallina with rasped to the settlement of ties question
of university education have lima satadactorily emovel.
and that as armagesteith lase been some to that meets the
approval of the catholic bishops of Irelehtl."
approval .1 the estholie Mehegie of Irelaliet'
[A.d.srtfsslms.tj—lioWYerAY'a Prus.—Winterly
Denevhseles. —Whams =or ',Weber they maim tile
not or wrest : we desinentsearriserV
taw In Mods oliChuosso trams be
b'ood mast be freed from teepee= carbon sad
taineel,ts by mese parlelY Ring medicine like Hollowareadj neer leryMinta
sot tt cleanse the circulaion: but ust to ev
areas the MM imposed epos tt by Qat laid Vries ft bee
beeeme lest eleggisk. these Mile premed siegnaticsa,
=land are the beet regulators sod preservatives et=
I=lbilammatiose. freitatioos, and aisorasioss
aserbed irlialiirs hem the system. they call It by theiz
1111eperitive notice, and strengthen it b 1 theft toots virtues.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16.

LONDON is almost as famous in the world for the
copiousness and the curious variety of its charities
as for the extremes of wealth and misery which
meet in its thoroughfares, and make two races of
its population. Foreigners who come over to
contemplate with awe, if not with envy, the pro-
digious movement in the East, and the coarse
but comfortable prosperity in the West of this enor-
mous capital, shudder at the wrecks and havoc of a
civilization which has the splendour and the honor
of a battlefield. But while they deplore the terrible
anomalies and contrasts of a society crumbling
under the weight of its wealth, and covering
abysses of misery and desperation, these visitors
are struck by the inexhaustible abundance and
Irrepressible ardour of our innumerable volun-
tary associations and organizations, mostly
under aristocratic patronage, for the relief
of human misery in all its shapes and
shades. It might occur to a harsh and grudg-
ing criticism to ask how much of the immense same
annually subscribed by the comfortable classes for
their unfortunate fellow-creatures is really saved
from the process of collection and distribution, and
how much of the vast surrounding ocean of mi-
sery it absorbs. It might moue to a more cynical
observer to liken the undiscriminating vehe-
mence of some philanthropists to the im-
patience with which an epicure, just sitting down
to dinner, throws a dole to an unsightly beggar
at the window. But it is surely wiser not to
analyse too closely the motives of all this
profusion and excess of charity. After all, when
one reflects that as yet there has been found
only one PIABODY in the commercial
capital of the world, it is perhaps not so very
proud a thought that hundreds of Englishmen,
with their thousands at the bankers', are always
ready to put their hands in their pockets,
and pay out a 51. note for deserving or unde-
serving oases of distress. Really there is no
danger in these latter days of the British Dyne
forgetting the Lazsaus at his gate. What is
called society, to distinguish it from mere man-
kind, is far too seliconsciom, too sentimental, and,
in the vile slang of the day, too sensational to
leave the sores of Lszsatus to the dogs to lick.
Now-a-days, philanthropy is become a mode, a fop-
pery of fashion, we had almost said a manly and a
womanly sport. Society, sick of its amusements, and
even of its religious dissipations, instead of drawing
down the window blinds on the painful spectacle of
famished savagery, invites it in, or "tries it on,"
as it might a costume for a bal masgui. Human
misery is become the condiment of luxurious ennui ;
a new stimulant for the exhausted curiosity and
conversation of the salons, if we are to judge
from the entertainment in Great Queen-street,
on Ash-Wednesday evening, when a select party
of what are facetiously described as the "young
" Bedouins " of the streets, or, in plain English,
of starving homeless lads, who have got into the
scrape of life, they know not how, and have no
way out of it but the gutter or the gallows,
were invited by tickets to oome and eat a meal for
once, and amuse the givers of the feast with their
biographical experiences, and then be dismissed to
the dark arches again with fourpence each and a
blessing. Such is the latest or newest phase of
charity in London—somewhat eccentric, perhaps—
somewhat after the manner of an " entertainment "
—but, it must be confessed, a very ingenious and
exciting mixture of the most subtle and refined
self-indulgence with the finest disdain of practical
beneficence and utility.