The country is by no means satisfied with the "
suspension " of the Admiralty Circular about Fugitive Slaves. In a meeting held yesterday week in the Town Hall at Manchester, a Conservative elector, Mr. Richard Haworth, moved for the immediate with- drawal of the Circular, and demanded the steady perseverance in the old policy. The resolution was passed unanimously, after which another elector startled the Mayor by moving a resolution for " the immediate dismissal of any Minister who is alike so ignorant of his duty to the country and so unfaithful to his Sovereign as to have issued it." The Mayor declining to put this to the meeting, the chair was taken by Mr. S. Watts, who put the motion to the meeting, when it was carried by acclamation. On the same even- ing, a similar resolution was proposed and carried with great applause in the Birmingham Town Hall. Nevertheless, we do not quite expect any Minister to retire in consequence of this blunder, though the whole Administration is the weaker for it. Nothing shocks the country more than to find its mind thoroughly misunderstood by a Government it has triumphantly carried to power.
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