muttered by the buyer, meant that the copies were wanted by a bookseller of that name, and his messenger was irate at being charged full price.  Friends from various parts appeared to give a kindly word; a number of the members of the Dialectical Society came in, and many were the congratulations and promises of aid in case of need.  Several who came in offered to come forward as bail, and their names were taken by Mr. Parris.  The buyer that most raised my curiosity was one of Mr. Watts’ sons, who came in and bought seven copies, putting down only trade-price on the counter; no one is supplied at trade-price unless he buys to sell again, and we have all been wondering why Mr. Watts should intend to sell the Knowlton pamphlet, after he has proclaimed it to be obscene and indecent.  At six o’clock the shutters were put up, and we gave up our amateur shop-keeping; our general time for closing on Saturday is 2 p.m., but we kept the shop open on Saturday for the special purpose of selling the Knowlton pamphlet.  We sold about 800 copies, besides sending out a large number of country parcels, so that if the police now amuse themselves in seizing the work, they will entirely have failed in stopping its circulation.  The pamphlet, during the present week, will have been sold over England and Scotland, and the only effect of the foolish police interference will be to have sold a large edition.  We must add one word of thanks to them for the kindly aid given us by their gratuitous advertisement.”

[I may note here, in passing, that we printed our edition verbatim from that issued by James Watson, not knowing that various editions were in circulation.  It was thereupon stated by Mr. Watts that we had not reprinted the pamphlet for which he was prosecuted, so we at once issued another edition, printed from his own version.]

The help that flowed in to us from all sides was startling both in quantity and quality; a Defence Committee was quickly formed, consisting of the following persons: 

“C.R.  Drysdale, M.D., Miss Vickery, H.R.S.  Dalton, B.A., W.J.  Birch,
M.A., J. Swaagman, Mrs. Swaagman, P.A.V.  Le Lubez, Mdme. Le Lubez, Miss
Bradlaugh, Miss H. Bradlaugh, Mrs. Parris, T. Allsop, E. Truelove, Mark
E. Marsden, F.A.  Ford, Mrs. Fenwick Miller, G.N.  Strawbridge, W.W. 
Wright, Mrs. Rennick, Mrs. Lowe, W. Bell, Thomas Slater, G. F. Forster,
J. Scott, G. Priestley, J.W.  White, J. Hart, H. Brooksbank, Mrs.
Brooksbank, G. Middleton, J. Child, Ben.  W. Elmy, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
Elmy, Touzeau Parris (Hon. Sec.), Captain R.H.  Dyas, Thomas Roy
(President of the Scottish Secular Union), R.A.  Cooper, Robert Forder,
William Wayham, Mrs. Elizabeth Wayham, Professor Emile Acollas (ancien
Professeur de Droit Francais a l’Universite de Berne), W. Reynolds, C.
Herbert, J.F.  Haines, H. Rogers (President of the Trunk and Portmanteau
Makers’ Trade Society), Yves Guyot (Redacteur en chef du Radical et du