In Leeds, again, a meeting was held on Thursday to
denounce this unfortunate Circular, in which Mr. Baines, formerly Member Leeds, warmly assailed the order as the greatest blunder ,Vder made by a Government, and the meeting passed resolutions condemning it amidst great cheering. In London a similar meet- ing. has been held, and Sheffield is about to hold one. Obviously political apathy has not yet got so far as to steel the country
against such reactionary folly as this. The Standard of Thurs- day, at the eleventh hour, devoted an article to reproving the Anti-Slavery Society for its attack on the Government, but as the article only maintains that the Circular had no particular effect at all, so far as it was right, and was quite wrong in its law and its drift On one important point, Mr. Ward Hunt will not be very grateful for the apology.
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