The Radical and Socialist Societies threatened a ranch more serious
demonstration for to-morrow, proposing, apparently, to carry the Square against troops who have faced all the best armies of Europe with success ; but on Monday, Mr. Gladstone, aware, as he says, that Metropolitan disturbances would pre- judice the "solemn appeal" which be is making for Ireland, wrote a letter to the " Bermondsey Gladstone Club," stating that although the law ought to be tested and ascertained, "it appears to me indisputable that until a decision can be had, it is the duty of every citizen to refrain from all resistance to the decision of the Executive Government, which is clearly entitled to administer the lam according to what it may be advised is their true construction." Such abstinence "is especially due to the high character of London, and the mode in which the law there is usually applied by the admirable police of the Metropolis." This explicit opinion from the Liberal leader divided the Radicals, though it was not accepted by the more violent, who threatened to carry arms. It was, however, decided at a meeting of delegates to send a deputation to the Square to test the law, but to hold the meeting in Hyde Park.
