The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

racy, but he maintained that if they were obscure
and few, that fact made it only the more incumbent
on them to speak out boldly what they felt on this
gregt matter. M the American poet of freedom

" They are slaves who will not choose
" Scorn and hatred and abuse,
" Rather than in silence shrink
" From the truth they needs must think;
" They are slaves who will not be
" In the right with twu ur three."
(Cheers.) He was there to contend that the cause
of the South was the cause not of freedom, but of
the most degrading and hateful slavery which the
world had seen for a thousand years. In proof of
this proposition Mr. Hughes proceeded to sketch
the public career of Mr. Jefferson Davis, " the re-
presentative man," as he called him, of the Southern
rebellion, beginning with the education at West
Point and going on to his advocacy of repudiation
in Mississippi, and his support both of the exten-
sion of slavery to the territories, and of the mopen-
iug of the African slave trade. There had not been
a single act of his life that was not opposed to the
sacred cause of freedom. Having next referred to
the political conduct of Vice-President Stephens
and. Mr. Mason, author of the Fugitive Slave Law,
and to the decision of Judge Tanney in the Dred
Scott case, Mr. Hughes challenged any friend of the
South to point out any singe leader of the Confe-
deracy who was not over and over again pledged to
slavery. He then endeavoured to account for the
bitter feeling of America towards England by quot-
ing a passage from the same article in the limes,
to which he had already adverted, in which, after
speaking of the humbug of the Northern people in
pretending to care for emancipation, the writer said
" Mr. Cassius Clay himself would sink in his own
estimation if he thought his neighbours could ima-
gine he was a real emancipator for emancipation's
sake." Such statements as that was enough to
make any people bitter towards us. A more unjust
and wicked libel than that was never put forward
by an English gentleman. Mr. Cassius Clay had
no doubt said many foolish things about this coun-
try, but what was his personal history ? Born in
Kentucky—a slave state—he went to New England
for his education. There he made use of his eyes,
and discerned the marked contrast between the
condition of a country in which slavery existed
and one where that abomination did not exist.
When he returned home he resolved to put an
end to the evil state of things there, so flit, as
he was concerned, and he emancipated every slave
he had in the world. ` (Cheers.) Nor was that all,
he went about Kentucky, one of the most noto-
riously rowdy States, where a man must go, as
it were, with his life in his hand, and he lec-
tured against slavery, on one occasion being vio-
lently attacked and left for dead on the floor of his
lecture-room. Yet that was the man against whom
one great newspaper had used the language he had
described. (Hisses.)
Mr. M. FIELD claimed the right to move an
amendment characterising the emancipation pro-
clamation as unconstitutional, vindictive, and dia-
bolical, and affirming that the recognition of South-
ern independence would ultimately secure freedom
to the negro. This amendment was received with
a perfect tumult of groans and hisses, and its pro-
poser was obliged to abandon the attempt to finish
his speech, which he read from a manuscript half
concealed by his hat.

The meeting was next addressed by the Rev.
NEWMAN HALL, who strongly supported the reso-
lution ; and the amendment, having been seconded
was put to the show of hands and negatived. The
original resolution was then carried by an over-
whelming majority.

Mr. P. TAYLOR, M.P., then moved the next re-
solution, viz. :—" That in the election of President
Lincoln, and in the principal acts of hie adminis-
tration—the prohibition of slavery in the district of
Columbia, the recognition of the republics of Hayti
and Liberia, the concession of the right of search
for th 3 suppression of the slave trade, the scheme
of compensated emancipation, and the proclamation
which inaugurated the new year—this meeting re-
cognises successive triumphs of anti-slavery senti-
ment in the United States; rejoices in the prospect
thus afforded of friendship between England and
America, as well as of liberation to the enslaved ;
offers to the Government and to the people of the
loyal States the assurance of fraternal sympathy in.
their noble struggle, and requests the chairman to
communicate this resolution to his Excellency the
American Minister." (Cheers.)
Mr. J. M. LUDLOW seconded the resolution, to
which an amendment condemning slavery, but de-
claring that England's treatment of her own poor
disqualified her from remonstrating with America
on that subject, was proposed by a rev. gentleman
whose name was not included in the pre-arranged
programme of speakers, and who was constantly
interrupted by loud and general marks of impatienoe.
Several gentlemen on the platform attempted to be-
speak, a fair hearing for him, but the meeting was
still clamorous, the hour was growing late, and the
obnoxious dissident had to content himself with
getting his amendment read to an unwilling audi-
tory by proxy.
Mr. GEORGE BROOM seconded the amendment,
which was put and negatived, and the resolution
was tarried with all but entire unanimity.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

Two minor meetings were held for the same pur-
pose in other parts of the building, with the like
result.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

A very small supply of English wheat was on sale hero
to-day in poor condition. The trade, however, was in a
sluggish state, nevertheless, dry samples supported pre-
vious rates.

11;;;;ii;; of fel-64;n wheat on the stands was moderately
extensive. Generally speaking, wales progressed slowly,
yet no change took place in prices, compared with Monday
last.

Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request on former
terms.

Malting barley mus very firm, and its value was fully
supported. Other descriptions met with a slow sale at
late rates.

Malt changed hands slowly at former rates.
The oat trade was firm, and prices were well supported.
The supply on offer was small.
The demand for beans and peas ruled far from active at
late currencies.

Most kinds of flour moved off slowly, yet prices ruled
firm.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt, Oats. Flour.
English.— 420 2BO 1,260 1 310 1,660
lriSh
Foreign 11,550 12,890 1,290 f 470 Naas
8,70 brls

NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL.
Full average supplies of town and country killed meat
are on bale at these markets. Sales, generally speaking,
progress slowly at our quotations,
Per Sib. by the carcase.
salad
Inferior beef .. 2 6 2 10 Middling mutton 3 8
sdsd
4 2
Middling do. • . 3 0 3 6 Prime u 0 4 4 4 6
Frirne large do. 3 8 3 10 veal, 3 6 4 6
Do. small do. .. 4
0 4 2
Large pork .... 3 6 3 1, Small pork
~ 4 0 4 6
Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 u 6 Lamb

BOROUGH HOP.
We have to report an inactive market both for home-
grown and foreign hops. In prices, however, no quotable
change has taken place since we last wrote.
Mid and East Keats
Weald of Kents
Sussex . Bos to 150 s „
Bavarian
1 American 9ss to 112 s „