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 occupying the boards of Old Drury, Mr. Paulton and I thought we would try what sort of audience we could have at the Sadlers Wells Theatre, capable, from the great size of the stage, of holding some 2,400 persons. When we arrived there, the place was completely filled, and in the attendance was a great number of ladies. Mr. Lawrence Heyworth, of Liverpool, having been called to the chair, opened the business, and took a broad general view of the question, in its political, moral, and religious aspects. Mr. Paulton very effectively answered the fallacy that a low price of provisions was attended by low wages, and showed that land in Russia, Austria, and France, paid a much greater share of the general taxation. He was loudly cheered throughout his speech; and I found, when I began to speak, that he had prepared the audience to be very favourable to me; and I certainly never saw a more enthusiastic meeting. Mr. George Wilson, making way to the back of the stage about the middle of the proceedings, heard a tumult within, which led him to conclude that the chartists of Finsbury had overpowered us, and were triumphing in consequence, and he was greatly relieved when the scene was completely before him. From this meeting I could judge that the various assemblages in large rooms and halls throughout London, under the direction of the Metropolitan Association, had not been without their fruits.

The fifth weekly meeting was held in Drury Lane, April 12th, Mr. George Wilson in the chair. In the course of his address he said:—

"During the last week some little diversity has taken place in this agitation. We observe that the enemy have had their meetings. There has been a county meeting in Buckinghamshire. (Laughter.) It was called a county meeting, but certainly no member of the counts was present on the occasion. The Duke of Buckingham (hisses and laughter)—the farmers' friend—(renewed hisses)—declined to have anything to do with it, and the only distinguished orators were that most excellent, but certainly most misguided peer, the Earl Stanhope,