This was one of the most remarkable sights of the country so far.

There were over six hundred men coming six abreast, falling and stumbling and pushing, shouting and firing pistols.

It sounded like a cavalry charge and the line seemed endless.
The whole thing was most theatrical and effective.

Then we went to the annual dinner of the Palmerston Club, where I made a speech which was, as there is no one else to tell you, well received, "being frequently interrupted with applause," from both the diners and the ladies in the gallery.

It was about Free Trade and the way America was misrepresented in the English papers, and composed of funny stories which had nothing to do with the speech.