proved even livelier on September 25th and 26th.  Mr. Bradlaugh lectured there on September 25th to an accompaniment of broken windows; I was sitting with Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy in front of the platform, and received a rather heavy blow at the back of the head from a stone thrown by someone in the room.  We had a mile and a half to walk from the hall to Mrs. Elmy’s house, and this was done in the company of a mud-throwing crowd, who yelled curses, hymns, and foul words with delightful impartiality.  On the following evening I was to lecture, and we were escorted to the hall by a stone-throwing crowd; while I was lecturing a man shouted “Put her out!” and a well-known wrestler of the neighborhood, named Burbery, who had come to the hall with seven friends, stood up in the front row and loudly interrupted.  Mr. Bradlaugh, who was in the chair, told him to sit down, and as he persisted in making a noise, informed him that he must either be quiet or go out.  “Put me out!” said Burbery, striking an attitude.  Mr. Bradlaugh left the platform and walked up to the noisy swashbuckler, who at once grappled with him and tried to throw him; but Mr. Burbery had not reckoned on his opponent’s strength, and when the “throw” was complete Mr. Burbery was underneath.  Amid much excitement Mr. Burbery was propelled to the door, where he was handed over to the police, and the chairman resumed his seat and said “Go on”, whereupon on I went and finished the lecture.  There was plenty more stone-throwing outside, and Mrs. Elmy received a cut on the temple, but no serious harm was done—­ except to Christianity.

In the summer of 1875 a strong protest was made by the working classes against the grant of L142,000 for the Prince of Wales visit to India, and on Sunday, July 18th, I saw for the first time one of the famous “Hyde Park Demonstrations”.  Mr. Bradlaugh called a meeting to support Messrs. Taylor, Macdonald, Wilfrid Lawson, Burt, and the other fourteen members of the House of Commons who voted in opposition to the grant, and to protest against burdening the workers to provide for the amusement of a spendthrift prince.  I did not go into the meeting, but, with Mr. Bradlaugh’s two daughters, hovered on the outskirts.  A woman is considerably in the way in such a gathering, unless the speakers reach the platform in carriages, for she is physically unfitted to push her way through the dense mass of people, and has therefore to be looked after and saved from the crushing pressure of the crowd.  I have always thought that a man responsible for the order of such huge gatherings ought not to be burdened in addition with the responsibility of protecting his female friends, and have therefore preferred to take care of myself outside the meetings both at Hyde Park and in Trafalgar Square.  The method of organisation by which the London Radicals have succeeded in holding perfectly orderly meetings of enormous size is simple but effective.  A large number of “marshals” volunteer, and each