A speech from a certain Radical statesman, who could probably be induced to attend, would command the attention of the press.

For the sake of preliminary trumpetings in even so humble a journal as the 'Belwick Chronicle,' Mutimer put himself in communication with Mr.Keene.That gentleman was now a recognised visitor at the house in Highbury; there was frequent mention of him in a close correspondence kept up between Richard and his sister at this time.

The letters which Alice received from Wanley were not imparted to the other members of the family; she herself studied them attentively, and with much apparent satisfaction.
For advice on certain details of the approaching celebration Richard had recourse to Mrs.Waltham.He found her at home one rainy morning.
Adela, aware of his arrival, retreated to her little room upstairs.
Mrs.Waltham had a slight cold; it kept her close by the fireside, and encouraged confidential talk.
'I have decided to invite about twenty people to lunch,' Richard said.
'Just the members of the committee and a few others.

It'll be better than giving a dinner.

Westlake's lecture will be over by four o'clock, and that allows people to get away in good time.