A meeting of Anti. Slavery Delegates from various parts of
the- United Kingdom was held on Thursday, at Exeter Hall. Soon after ten o'clock, the great room was completely filled. The chair was taken by Sir Eardley Wilmot ; and on the platform were Sir George Strickland, Sir Chiles Style, Mr. Baines, Mr. Rundle, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Ord, Mr. Guest, and several other Members of Parliament. The chief speakers were Sir Eardley Wilmot, Mr. Jo- seph Sturge of Birmingham, Mr. Bowley of Gloucester, Mr. Ander- son of Glasgow, Mr. John Burnett, Mr. Pease, Mr. O'Connell, Sir George Strickland, and Mr. Villiers. The speeches consisted chiefly of statements of the cruel manner in which the Apprenticeship system was carried into effect in the West Indies; and of appeals to the British people to exert themselves to procure the entire and immediate abolition of slavery, which in fact was more intolerable under the Emancipation Act, as it is called, than under the old laws. Resolu- tions to this effect were passed by acclamation. Regret was expressed at the loss of Mr. Fowell Buxton's cervices in Parliament; and a good deal of disappointment was felt at his refusal to concur in the object of the meeting. In a letter to Mr. Sturge, read at the meeting, Mr. Buxton intimated doubts as to the prudence of the course the Abolitionists had adopted.
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