The Anti-Slavery Society met to-day in the great room at
Exeter Hall. The interest attached to the meeting was great beyond all for- mer occasions. Not less than nine thousand tickets of admission were issued ; -one-third of the holders of which, of course, could barely find space in the Hall. The chief speakers were Lord SUFFIELD, Mr. CUNNINGHAM of Harrow, Mr. BUXTON, and Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL. Master STEPHEN was in the chair; the Duke of Gsou- CESTER being too much engaged to attend. We notice the meeting not in reference to its immediate object, so much as in regard to the sym- pathy displayed by the audience with the great question on which all minds are at present engaged. The greediness with which every allu- sion to the circumstances of the day was caught up was extreme. O'CONNELL having, in the course of his remarks, happened to say, in reference to the Committee on Slavery there, that he had no great re- liance on Committees of Peers, the hall rung again with the cheers, which werelpeated and prolonged for several minutes.
At the it/eating of the British and Foreign School Society, on Mon- day, we perceived a similar spirit prevail ; and allusions to the Reform Bill, which were made very slightly and indirectly by two of the speakers, were echoed with the same heartiness by the audience. We wonder if the new Chancellor of the Exchequer would dare to call these "brawling clubs."
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