The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-18 00:00:00

The room was crowded, and many were obliged

to go away unable to obtain adr

o platform

we observed, Admit

the Rev. Dr. Vau

Absalom Wat

Bunting, Esq., and a nun

gentlemen

members of th

Athenaeum, with

IBSALOM WATKIN,

ianimously

The CHAIRMAN said he had acceded to the wishes of t
meeting, with a deep feeling of disappointment that no ge:

tleman more infl

atial than himself, had been found to

take the chair. Up to the last moment they expected that
sonic one of those wealthy men, who, in Manchester were

the advocates of liberal opinions, and progressive social ad-
vancement, of national independence and of free trade,
would have appeared on that occasion to sanction, the pro-
ceedings of the meeting. (Applause). They had hoped that

at least one of those who gave such a hearty welcome to the
noble champion of Hungary, who hailed him with such

applause, who listened with such rapture to his eloquent
denunciations of the tyranny of Austria—they had hoped
that some one of these at least would have appeared to take
the chair on that occasion. (Hear, hear). They had been
diasppointed. He had not heard in conversation one and
he had conversed with a great many on the subject—he
had not heard one who did not approve of the conduct
of Turkey, and who did not condemn the conduct of

tussia. (Applause). Why then were not those gentlemen

there that night, and some one more influential than he
ready to take the chair on that occasion ? (Hear, hear).

sidered it was not his duty to take the c

itizen, and as a magistrate of this great community, he felt

.m honour in appointing

Le was doing his duty in taking

(Cheers:

They had been

.ed on high

tions wE

generally taken as confirmed

exciting war. They had no such intention (hear, hea

they all believed that war was a great evil, and they all
believed that peace was a great blessing, and they would not
do anything unnecessarily to excite war, or to deprive them-
selves of the blessings of peace. (Cheers). They had been
charged with impeding the course of government; they did

no such thing ; they furthered the views of government, as
they were explained by Mr. Gladstone, for the. reservation
of the independence of the Turkish empire if possible by
negociation, but if need be by war. (Great cheering).

Mr. ISAAC GREGORY moved the first resolution, which
he prefaced by a long address, in which he contended that
England had a great stake in the question between Turkey
and Russia so far as commerce was (

den had said that he had no interest in this question
tainly he appreciated the services which Mr. Cobden h
rendered to his country and his kind, but though that w,

perfect, and he could not folloiv even Mr.
ver he went. (Hear, hear.) He moved the
on, which was as follows ;—" That the occupa-
tion of the Danubian provinces by the Emperor of Russia
for the purpose of enforcing upon Turkey concessions incon-
sistent with her independence as a nation, is a violation of
the law of nations, against which it is the duty of all free
states to protest ; and that this meetinz desires to express its

Cobden wh

first r€

patrio;ic ardour with which the poop;

)f the Ottoman em-
barba-

.ire have taken up arms to arrest the lava

:ritreal enemy." (Loud applau

SCRUNIZ seconded th

Admiral Sir CHARLES NAPIER, on rising to support the
resolution, was received with several rounds of hearty and
enthusiastic cheering. He said, he begged to thank the
meeting most warmly for the very warm and flattering re-

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