22 JANUARY 1876, Page 2

Mr. A. Egerton, Secretary to the Admiralty, made a speech

at the annual soirée of the Conservative Club at Heywood on Thursday, in which he spoke of the Slave Circulars. He thought the first a "mistake," but the Admiralty was not so much answerable for it as the India and Foreign Offices. The First Lord was, he believed, away at the time. The Circular had since been revised, and submitted to some of the highest legal authorities, but as to the necessity for issuing it he would say nothing. There might be complications between India and nations on her confines, and even with other nations nearer home. It was confidently stated, we see, at Manchester, that the original mover in the matter was Lord Northbrook, who wanted to ter- minate some difficulties in the Persian Gull.