he bear himself under these honors? Did his morality break down? Did any of us ever see any symptom of self-conceit in him, or of nurtured vanity? Did any of us ever feel he had cause for complaining of his presuming over him? Never. We have indeed seen his eye, that which his Maker gave him to be used for holy purposes, gathering fire and sparkling with the consciousness of the power of the thunderbolt which he was forging within his bosom for the destruction of his adversary; but when he had launched it, and scatked him, and prostrated him, could we gather from any expression either of word or look, that he took personal consequence to himself for what he had done? (Cheers.)' * * * * * Our attention was turned to America, and dearly as we loved Mr. Thompson, and perilous although the adventure was, we grudged him not to the oppressed of that land. It appeared perilous from the begin ning. In these perilous circumstances, we sent forth our friend; and now that he is with us again in health and life, let us bless God for his preservation. What has he accomplished? We expect much. We had had experience of his talents, his zeal, his fortitude, and of his prudence too. For, notwithstanding the ardor of his mind, and the provoking circumstances in which he managed our own cause, who ever heard an ungentlemanly expression drop from his lips? High as our confidence was in him, he has labored to an extent far beyond our calculation; and far beyond our calculation has been his success. He has kindled a flame in America, it said, which will not be extinguished. This is not the correct representation. He has gone with the torch of liberty throughout its forests, kindling it at a thousand points, and soon it will be a universal conflagration.'

The Rev. D. KING said-'One galling circumstance with regard to slavery in the United States, was, it being so frequently held up BY THE TORIES as an argument against liberal constitutions; and this could never be satisfactorily answered, until immediate, complete, and unconditional emancipation be obtained for the slave.'

On the evening of Jan. 29th, Mr. THOMPSON delivered an address in the Rev. Dr. WARDLAW's chapel, the Rev. Dr. HEUGH Occupying the Chair. In introducing Mr. T. to the meeting, he said—

'Ladies and gentlemen, you are assembled this evening to see again—and that is no small privilege-our well-known friend before you, (cheers) of whom, in his presence, I cannot trust myself to speak as I would were he absent, but whose eulogium it is unnecessary for me to attempt to pronounce in a meeting of my fellow-citizens of Glasgow assembled in this place, the well remembered scene of his former eloquent pleadings, protracted conflicts, and decisive and splendid triumphs. Mr. T. returns to us from the American shores, with his name and his well-earned fame untarnished. He has neither been defeated nor dishonored. He has retreated, not fled, from America. He has retreated, by the urgency of friends, from lawless physical violence; but he has never fled, and, if I mistake him not, he never will flee from any field of fair intellectual conflict. (Cheers.) He never went thither for the purpose of physical warfare, to fight the pro-slavery men with the fist, or the poignard, or the firelock; he went to proclaim in the ears of America, the voice of truth and humanity; and

thousands and tens of thousands of the best and most enlightened citizens of that coun try bear him witness that he has nobly fulfilled his mission; for I am confident, that documentary evidence, of the most unquestionable character, will support me, wher I say, that when brute violence was not interposed against his person, and in every instance in which the conflict was mental alone, his success has not been less signal in America, than at any period of his career in Great Britain. (Cheers.)'

Mг. THOMPSON next went to Edinburgh, and lectured before the Emancipation Society of that city, in the Rev. Dr. PEDDIE'S chapel, to an audience of more than two thousand persons-the admission to the meeting being by tickets, sixpence each. On his appearance, he was 'received with several distinct rounds of enthusiastic applause,' and was repeatedly cheered throughout his lecture. His reception by the ladies and gentlemen forming the Committees of the Society alluded to, was very flattering. Resolutions highly complimentary to himself were unanimously adopted. An eloquent and strongly encomiastic Address was also presented to him, at an Entertainment given to him by the Inhabitants of Edinburgh, in the Assembly Rooms, George-street, on the evening of the 19th February, 1836. It commenced as follows:- Esteemed and Honored Friend This meeting have come together for the purpose of testifying the regard in which you are held by the friends of liberty and humanity in this city.' It was signed, in behalf of the meeting, by ROBERT KAYE GREVILLE, L. L. D. Chairman. Mr. THOMPSON gave a second public lecture in Edinburgh, in Rev. Dr. BROWNE's chapel, and was rapturously applauded as usual.' At the close of it, JOHN WIGHAM, Jr. Esq. was called to the chair, and a series of resolutions were moved by Rev. Dr. RITCHIE, and unanimously adopted by the meeting-among which was the following:

Resolved, After what has been now and formerly stated by Mr. GEORGE THOMP SON, we are fully persuaded that he has in spirit, procedure, and success, exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the Emancipation Society-that by his firmness and prudence, zeal and perseverance in advocating the cause of the bondmen in the United States, he has amply redeemed every pledge given by him to the friends of human freedom, by whom he was deputed-that, amidst obloquy, peril, and physical violence, he continued to persevere, until, by the verdict of transatlantic friends, the best judges in this matter, his remaining longer would, without promoting the cause, have compromised his own safety. We acknowledge the good hand of Providence that has been around him, bid him cordial welcome to his native shore, renew our expressions

of confidence in him as a talented advocate of the liberties of man, and trust that a suitable field may soon be opened for the renewal of his exertions.'

At a subsequent meeting, at which the Lord Provost of Edinburgh presided, Mr. THOMPSON 'was received with tremendous applause,' and the thanks of the meeting given to him, for his intrepid, able and successful services in the cause of Universal Emancipation, and particularly for his arduous and persevering exertions during his recent mission to the United States of America.'

At the Second Annual Meeting of the Glasgow Emancipation Society, held on the evening of 1st March,-Rev. Dr. WARDLAW in the chair,-it was unanimously

Resolved, That this Society, in compliance with the invitation of many philanthropists in America, and in connection with other Societies in this country, having deputed Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON as their Agent to the United States, to co-operate with the friends of the abolition of Slavery there, in their efforts to awaken their countrymen to a sense of their duty towards more than two millions of their brethren held by them in cruel bondage, express their cordial approval, and high admiration of the power, intrepidity, and devotion, with which, in the face of formidable opposition, unsparing abuse, and great personal hazards, Mr. THOMPSON was enabled, by the grace of God, to pursue, and in a good measure to accomplish the great object of his very arduous mission.'

In London, Mr. THOMPSON gave several public lectures, in all of which he was received with loud applause. At a meeting held in Finsbury Chapel,-WILLIAM KNIGHT, Esq. in the Chair, the following resolution was offered by EDWIN BALDWIN, Esq. :

Resolved, That having heard Mr. Thompson's justification of the course he pursued in America, this meeting is decidedly af opinion, that, in the perilous position in which he was placed, and under the circumstances of great difficulty and trial, he fulfilled his duty as a man and a Christian, and is deserving the commendation of every friend of humanity.'

Judge JEREMIE, in seconding the resolution, bore his testimony to the able exertions of Mr. THOMPSON in promoting the cause in which he was engaged, and to the courageous manner in which he had advocated those principles which he had ever maintained. The resolution was then put, and carried by acclamation.

On Thursday, the 18th August, a meeting was held in Exeter Hall, London,-RICHARD PECK, Esq. late High Sheriff of

the city of London and the county of Middlesex, in the chair,at which, after an eloquent address from Mr. THOMPSON, the following resolution was carried by acclamation, the meeting standing up:

Resolved, That this meeting hail with delight, the safe return of their distinguished countryman to his native land, and respectfully offer him their warm and grateful acknowledgments for his philanthropic and self-denying labors in the United States of America, in behalf of their suffering and oppressed fellow-men."

Having thus shown how exceedingly honorable has been the reception of our beloved coadjutor in the great cities of England and Scotland,-to the utter confusion of his base traducers in this country,- -we must sum up all his labors and rewards, since his return, by saying, that in all parts of the British kingdom, wherever he has travelled, he has obtained the sympathy, applause and co-operation of the wise and good, without distinction of sect or party, in a manner and to an extent wholly unprecedented in the annals of philanthropy. Through his instrumentality, the most tender appeals, the most affecting expostu lations, and the most faithful rebukes, have been addressed by almost every religious denomination in that country to its own in the United States, in relation to the awful guilt of American slavery, and the imperative duty of endeavoring to effect its immediate overthrow. If these have not been received, by the religious bodies for whom they were intended, in good temper and with christian comity in every instance, they have nevertheless made a powerful impression upon the religious community at large, and gladdened the hearts, and strengthened the hands of all the true disciples of Jesus Christ, and him crucified,' in this nominally christian land. If they had emanated from political instead of religious bodies of men,-from those who cherish hostility to liberty and free institutions, instead of those who profess to belong to a kingdom which is not of this world, and in which there are no national preferences nor foreign interests, they would have excited no uneasiness of conscience, created no blush of shame, awakened no feeling of remorse, extorted no tear of contrition: but, bearing upon their form the impress of the spirit of Christ, and manifesting in their

language the intensity of holy solicitude,-and proceeding from the great body of CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS in England and Scotland, with an unanimity of sentiment which overleaps all sectarian divisions, they startle the dull ear of the American Church like the noise of many waters, and cause American oppressors to quake as though the seventh angel had poured out his vial into the air. Yes we assure our trans-atlantic brethren, who are so zealously laboring to effect the speedy abolition of slavery throughout the world, that they are aiding us most essentially in the great work of emancipation among ourselves, by their prayers, their testimonies, and their tears. Let them be stimulated anew to greater exertion by the reflection, that, though they are far removed from the immediate scene of action, and cannot directly participate in its perils and triumphs, their distant co-operation is none the less important-nay, it is indispensable: it is, moreover, fast bringing the strife to a speedy and glorious termination.

As specimens of the manner in which this vaunted land of liberty is frequently alluded to in England, in consequence of her oppression, let the following suffice. At a crowded antislavery meeting held in Birmingham last year, the Rev. Mr. MARSH rejoiced that he stood not now in America, where the professors of liberty would not allow him to open his mouth.' The Rev. T. SWAN forcibly exclaimed

Blessed be God, in their highly favored country, the friends of the Negro were to be found. Britons were anxious that slaves might cease to breathe in any part of the world; they were unacquainted with an aristocracy consisting merely in the color of the skin, AND THEY DESPISED THAT CANTING AND DASTARDLY REPUBLIC ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC, which boasted its love of liberty, and respect for the rights of man, whilst at the same time it held in the most degrading bondage, and shut out from celestial knowledge, from two to three millions of its subjects.' The Christians of Birmingham would not be silent-they would speak out-they would cry aloud, and their voice would be heard in the Senate; it would enter the ears, and he trusted would move the heart of their King; it would go out to the ends of the earth; it would be heard in the islands of the West; it would cause the slaves to rejoice, the missionaries to triumph, and the tyrants to tremble-(cheers)-it would be heard in slave-cursed America, and the PAINTED HYPOCRITES would quail, and be convinced that they required A REVIVAL indeed. (Cheers.) '

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Says the Birmingham Reformer