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The resolution was then put and carried by acclamation.

W. EVANS, Esq., IMP., moved the last resolution, expres3-
ing the satisfaction of the meeting at the advance of education
among the emancipated negroes, and to assure' them of the
earnest interest thQ meeting took in their welfare, and to ex-
press the regret and indignation at the conduct of the British
Mining Associations in becoming the purchasers of slaves in
Cuba and the Brazils. The Hon. Gentlemen having expressed
his disgust at the conduct of the British slave-holders in Cuba
and the Brazils, sat down amidst loud cheering,

G. W. ALEXANDER, Esq., in seconding the resolution, ex-
pressed a hope that Brazil and Cuba would be excluded from
the English market, and vindicated the course pursued on that
question by the Committee of the Society.
The resolution was then carried unanimously.
A GENTLENIAN on the platform proposed a vote of thanks to
the venerable Chairman, who had been forced from indisposi-
tion to quit the meeting, and whose place had been taken by
Mr. J. T. Gurney.
Mr. ASHWORTH, in seconding the motion, said that the
feeling of the meeting had been so clearly expressed in answer
to the statements of Mr. O'Connell, that he should not trouble
them any furthers; he merely wished to explain, that he had not
come to ask any sympathy for his neighbours in Lancashire.
He came there to express ti;eir sentiments. The present was a
struggle between class interests and the people. The Lancashire
people askei for no protection whatever ; all they asked for was
lair play.—(Cheers.) The class interests were those of corn,
sugar, and timber ; and when they saw this trinity of monopo-
lists all suddenly converted, and giving utterance all at once to
their Ansi-Slavery sympathies, he thought they had good reason
to suspect the grounds of such a marvellously sudden conver-
sion.—( Loud cheers. )
The vote of thanks having been carried by acclamation, the
meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC' JOURNALS.

FR33i THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The most extraordinary doctrine put forth
by the official justification of the Horse Guards,
of its abstinence from all interferenee with Lord
Cardigan, is found in that part of Mr. Macaulay's
speech in which he laid it down as a fixed principle,
which ought not to be departed from, that no officer
should be removed from the service unless he were guilty
of some specific offence against the Articles of War,
and cognizable by court-martial ; and that if this rule
were not observed, men of spirit and honour would be
unwilling to enter the service, as the tenure by which
they held their commissions would be rendered inse-
cure. The argument founded by the Right Honourable
Secretary on the high purchase-price of their commis-
sions, the interest of which would be found nearly equal
to the pay they received, is at once got rid of by the
practice of selling, as well as buying, commissions,
which prevails. Lord Cardigan may have steered clear
of any palpable violation of military law. The Ar-
ticles of War were framed with a view to the preven-
tion and suppression of ordinary offences ageinst the
discipline and subordination of the army ; and they
have been found in the general sufficient for the accom-
plishment of the objects proposed by those who framed
them. It remained for Lord Cardigan to set decency
at defiance—to violate decorum, and to subvert disci-
pline, and yet to entrench himself within the letter of file
Articles. The high-souled honour of a soldier scorns to
stoop to the low level of a practitioner of chicane: To out-
rage the spirit of rules which the good of the service re-
quires to be held sacred, and to meet the allegation that lie
has so outraged it—not in one or two instances, but repeat-
edly and grossly—with the technical plea that the framers
of the articles so violated omitted to specify the par-
ticular acts of outrage of which ha has been guilty—
may comport with the notions of propriety and
professional duty cherished by Lord Cardigan, but
we fain hope, would be scouted with the scorn they
merit by every other officer in her Majesty's service.
Respect for public opinion, unsupported by which no
branch of the executive can be administered with effi-
ciency—an opinion indignantly and all but universally
expressed by the organs of public opinion without re-
spect to party—renders it imperative upon the autho-
rities at the Horse Guards to comply With the demand
for a general inquiry into the conduct of Lord Cardigan,
as Commanding-officer of the 11th Hussars. If they
have so far committed themselves by their past refusals
to institute such inquiry, then let them convey to him
an intimation that it is expedient he should " sell out."
Thus the obnoxious, because injurious Lord Cardigan,
will obtain the price of his commission, and the army be
relieved frotu the odium which his unprecedented pro-
ceedings have tended to fix upon its acknowledged repu-
tation for the possession of those qualities which consti-
tute the gentleman and the soldier—the lack of which
has, in the person of Lord Cardigan, shown that it is
possible to be both a Peer and a Colonel, without having
the urbanity of a gentleman, or the keen sensitiveness of
honour which characterises the solder.
COURIER.—The Bill introduced by the Duke of
Argyll; has no reference to the question which has arisen
out of the Strathbogie question. It is altogether a very
silly affair, into which the worthy and well-meaning
Duke has been led by the cunning Non-Intrusionists—
we might say, the unprincipled, without using too strong
language. 'We just ask any man of common honour and
honesty to observe, that Mr. Candlish, for example, after
having declared patronage to be " anti-scriptural"--
after having, in the Presbytery of Edinburgh, asserted
that " the greatest sin" which the last General Assem,
bly committed, was to sanction this system in Mr. Glad.
stane's new church at Leith—and after having piously
rejoiced that by the difficulties which had overtaken the
Church, God was
providentially conducting, and con-
I fining her to the Wiping away of this great' sin :"=--
after all this, the same Mr, Candlish—this would-be
teacher of youth in the University of Edinburgh, tells
the Duke of Argyll, in a letter which his Grace read to
the House of Lords, that for the sake cf the peace.
of the Church he and his friends, who agree with
, him as to the sinfulness of lay patronage, are yet con.
tent - that it should remain, and that, of course, tiny
themselves should taste of its good things when they
came their way I Can want of principle go further ?
~pANDAR-Ministers expect to. obtain 700,00)1.
from Brazilian and eutA swy pgs. the cwt. proposed