The season for charity dinners and Exeter Hall meetings draws
nigh, and the ordinary Folkmotes for the election of Parliamentary representatives begin to mingle with other meetings of an eleemo- synary or missionary character. From such public proceedings as the return of Lord Goderich, now seated for Huddersfield in- stead of Hull, or the renewed appearance of Mr. Keogh before his constituents at Athlone for reelection as Solicitor-General, we may pass by easy stages through the meeting at Man- chester to deliberate on the reforms which Government ought to carry out in India, to the distinguished assemblage in Willis's Rooms for the purpose of extending Bishoprics in the British Co- lonies. In most of these gatherings there was real business to be performed; and each will have its quota of effect upon the action of the Empire and its Legislature. They are items in the great whole of public opinion at its work.
The publicalso was busy in the welcome of Mrs. Beecher Stowe in and. She has assisted at resolutions passed in her honour under the auspices of Dr. Wardlaw at Glasgow, and has received votive offerings from openhanded Edinburgh ; the worship of Mrs. Beecher Stowe being intended, by some intermediation, to improve the condition of the Black in the United States. If the Negro's emancipation is not accelerated by the process, at all events he is immortalized in a book, and consoled by much platform sympathy.
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