22 JUNE 1912, Page 16

PORTUGUESE SLAVERY AND BRITISH RESPONSIBILITY.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—I trust you may be able to find space for the enclosed announcement. In view of our alliance with Portugal con- siderable importance attaches to this meeting.—I am, Sir, &c., TRAVERS BUXTON, Secretary.

Denison House, Vauschall Bridge Road, S.W.

A public meeting to consider Portuguese Slavery and British Responsibility will be held by the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society in the Westminster Palace Hotel on June 26th at 4 p.m. The Right Hon. Lord George Hamilton will pre- side, and the speakers include Mr. J. St. Los Strachey, Mr. W. A. Cadbury, Mr. T. E. Harvey, M.P., and the Rev. J. IL and Mrs. Harris.

The meeting is supported by the Right Hon. Lords Courtney, Weardale, and Peckover ; Sir T. Powell Buxton, Bart,, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir A. Pease, Bart., Messrs. Joseph Rowntree, Roger Fry, Eugen Sandow, and many members of Parliament, including the Right Hon. Sir A. Spicer, Bart., Sir J. Jardine, Right. Hon. Thomas Burtt, Right Hon. J. W. Wilson, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and Mr. Arnold Rowntree.