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Positivists and 1M. PS. and with Socialists on the periphery.
There was a sprinkling of meetings in the provinces.
In Birmingham Arthur O'ttoill again convened a meeting.
Birmingham Pocitiviato not on 15th Ycbruary, but the Liberals
appear to have been divided. Birmingham Liberal Association
was criticised for not puttin ; pressure on the Government,
and at a small peace meeting on 27th February, a Liberal
was inclined to sympathies with the Government "who to a
large extent had boon forced into the pocition they were
now in. "
(2)
A Liverpool meeting against the were organised by
local miniature and Liberals, was addressed by Henry
Richard.
(3)
In Leicester a meeting at the end of
I4arch was partly promoted by J. Page Hoppe a Unitarian
minister and Liberal.
(4)
Manchester Peace Society
members arranged a meeting at Eccles on 13th April.
A small meeting of about twenty people was held in
Edinburgh, and a petition against the war was started, which
(1)
,, _1 inch m Dri1V Pont, 14th, February 1885.
(2) Ibbi4928th February 1885"
(3) The Timdre1 16th February 1885.
(fir) firninpun Daily Fasts 30th March 1885.
(5) P. O. f/3S4O, Egypt, domestic and various April 1885,
resolution cent to the F4O. 16th April 1885
(5)
(1)