A public meeting was held in St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, on March 14, of persons favourable to the scheme of Emigration, proposed by the National League. There was an exceedingly numerous attendance, the vast hull being filled by an audience mainly composed of the working classes. The Mayor presided. Sir George Grey was the first speaker, and the following report of his speech is given in the Examiner and Lon don Review of March 19

Sir George Grey, K.CB., was received with loud applause. He said Under any circumstances I should have felt embarrassed at having to address so numerous an assembly in tbe centre of this great commercial em porium. But there is a circumstance which renders more interesting to me my position upon the present occasion, for I look opposite to me, and I see there standing as a silent witness of the past the statue of one of tbe greatest statesmen that England has ever known. (Loud applause.) I look there, and I know that this subject which we are met to night to discuss occupied his heart and noblest aspirations. I know that, however much upon some occasions his opinions may have gone wide and varied from those of many of bis countrymen, no man more deeply loved the British nation or more deeply prized the honour of the British race (cheers) ; and, with your leave, I would this night for some few minutes—passing as it were out of the present and trying to disembarrass our minds of those questions which now press upon us —go back some six-and-twenty years from the present time, and read to you some pas sages from a letter written by that great and eminent man at a time when a crisis pre vailed something like that which now exists. I speak of the late Earl of Derby—(loud cheers) —a name known and cherished throughout this empire. 