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The Meeting on Saturday Evening.

On Saturday evening, the Subscription Rooms was again croweded to excess, to hear Mr Douglass, so intense was me interest excited hv theTroSeSis of the previous evening The Rev. F. Bishop nLnoseTthaW Henmngs, Esq. father-in-law of the late lir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the friend and associate of Wdberforce should take the chair.

The Chairman opened the proceedings by reading a letter from Lord John Russell to Sir T. Buxton, dated many years back, strongly denouncing any encouragement to slavery. He contrasted this with Lord John Russell conduct in bringing in the Sugar Bill which he hoped every one in the room would oppose. Mr. Douglass said, that as he understood there was some fear of misapprehension as to the Wesley an sermon be had endeavoured to represent to them last night, he should this evening draw their attention chiefly to the religious aspect of slavery in America, in order to satisfy them that the picture had not been overdrawn, and that he was only desirous of showing them the difference between a false and a true profession.

In the course of his remarks he read a variety of advertisements, all including an acknowledgment or avowal of the connexion between slavery and the different religious bodies in the United States. In one the public were informed that a gang of ten negroes highly recommended would be sold, said negroes being the property of the Independent Church! On another occasion, the will of a highly evaugelical lady had been proved, by which she bequeathed one-fourth of her