Weighty meetings have been held in Leeds, Bradford, and Newcastle,
or rather North Shields, to demand inquiry into the Jamaica proceedings. In Leeds Mr. Darnton Lupton made a very able speech in support of the resolution, which was carried after a little protest from Mr. Arthur Lupton and one other speaker, who thought that it was prejudging the case not to approve of all that Governor Eyre had done. The Bradford resolution was very ably drawn, laying down the principle that precisely so much and no more should be regarded as the right of the negroes under our Colonial Government, as would be regarded as the right of any other of Her Majesty's subjects at home who had suffered under the same circumstances, and demanding strict investigation into the apparent breach of this rule in Jamaica. The Newcastle meeting was unanimous.
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