The London meeting called "to support the cause of Turkish
in- dependence against Russia," was held at the London Tavern last night ; Lord Dudley Stuart in the chair. The room was crowded to overflow. The tone of the meeting was decided, but the speeches were not striking. Their common tenour was a condemnation of the course taken by our Ministers, and an evident preference for war. The chief speakers were the Chairman, Professor Newman, Mr. Blackett M.P., Sir Charles Napier, Mr. David Urquhart, Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Trelawney, and Mr. William Newton. Several resolutions were voted ; the first worded as follows- " That the series of Russian aggressions convinces this meeting that there is in the Russian cabinets a fixed purpose not only to subdue Turkey, but to -domineer over all Europe, and extirpate all freedom. We look upon this as the true reason why no diplomatic settlement of the Turco-Russian quarrel was or is possible ; and we lament that the British Government has wasted much valuable time damaged the just cause of the Turks, inflicted upon commerce months of needless depression, and (worst of all) has inspired uni- versal suspicion of the good faith of England, in a vain effort to negotiate with an unscrupulous and violent power, which acted while we talked, and which, if now momentarily appeased, would only have become more danger- ous on some early occasion. ' The other resolutions praised the spirit of the Turks, any attempt to -suppress which, by the British Government, would be "an act of un- paralleled infamy"; ; declared that secret diplomacy ought to be dis- carded; and that Austria ought to be accounted the enemy rather than the ally of England. These resolutions to be embodied in an address for presentation to the Queen.
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