The meeting of Parliament has taken the interest out of
most of the public meetings of the week, and the speeches of Members to their constituents, but we must mention the great workmen's meeting at Exeter Hall on Wednesday. It was so numerously attended, that half those who wished for entrance were compelled to hold a supplementary meeting in Trafalgar Square. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Mundella in a most decided speech, in which he denounced the idea of England being dragged into this cruel war, and described Lord Car- narvon. as the watch-dog in the Cabinet, and carried with enthusiastic unanimity the following resolution :—" That this meeting protests against England being dragged into an European war, especially for the support of a Government which has been proved by the experience of centuries to be cruel, corrupt, and oppressive, and the upholder of slavery and the slave-trade ; believes that no true British interests are likely to be imperilled by the overthrow of such a Government, and will sustain to the utmost of its power those honest and upright statesmen in the Cabinet who are sincerely in favour of neutrality." Be it observed, these workmen were Londoners, and that it is only in London that any serious doubt as to workmen's opinion on this war still lingers.
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