The great demonstration against the coercion of Ulster held in
Hyde Park last Saturday afternoon was remarkable for its quality and temper, as well as its numbers. No open-air meeting held in London in our time has been attended by so many prominent politicians and distinguished public charac- ters. The processions, which converged on the fourteen platforms arranged in a semi-circle between the Serpentine and the Bayswater Road, included contingents from the leading Unionist Clubs and the City, but the meeting was emphatically not a gathering of the classes. The rank.and- file of the electorate of the seventy-six constituencies of Greater London formed the bulk of the audience, and the unanimity of the demonstrators was sufficiently shown by the fact that the meeting passed off without any serious disturbance or effective interruption. It was the greatest popular demonstration ever held in London.
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