Mr. Beecher'a two speeches did not attain an even measure
of success. At Liverpool, there were rioters in the audience, who would not even permit him to be heard. In London, at'Eveter Hall, on Tuesday night, he :made much the best speech we have yet read of his in this country. It was forcible in its illustrations, and sound in general argument,—perhaps a little exaggerating, the old dislike of the North to slavery, and representing the legal bonds by which it was tied as more unwilling than they were,— but without the terrible magniloquence and weak violence of language which have often characterized his speeches. The name of Mr. Lincoln was, as usual, received by the frightfully over- crowded meeting,—all the audience were admitted by shilling tickets,—with the utmost demonstrations of enthusiasm, so sin- cerely do the English working class appreciate the thoroughly wise and honest purpose and sober shrewdness of that not very brilliant President. The Tories, by the way, are shrieking at Lord Russell for saying that " the numerical majority of this country is pro- bably with-the North." Lord Russell said the strict truth, that the moral influence of England, in her upper and middle classes, is with the South, but the numerical majority with the North. Where in England could a meeting like that at Exeter Hall have been got together to cheer President Davis as Mr. Lincoln was cheered last Tuesday? The Tories .know well that Lord Russell is right.
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