from both press and people.

_The New York Tribune_, under the heading of GREAT GATHERING OF
THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK, said of their Metropolitan meeting: The
Women's Grand Temperance Demonstration at Metropolitan Hall last
evening, was a most brilliant and successful affair. The audience
which assembled on that occasion to welcome Mrs. Bloomer and her
assistants in the cause of Temperance, was almost as large and
fully as respectable as the audiences that nightly greeted Jenny
Lind and Catharine Hays during their engagement in that hall.
Good order was observed throughout the evening, and earnest and
hearty applause was frequent. The only hissing evidently intended
for the speakers was when Mrs. Bloomer reviewed the sentiments of
Hon. Horace Mann relative to woman; and then the plaudits came to
her rescue and triumphantly sustained the speaker. The audience
was a smiling one; some smiled at the novelty of the occasion;
others with admiration; the latter, judging from the twinkling of
eyes and clapping of hands, were in the majority. While some
evidently writhed under the application of the lash for their
disregard of the principles of temperance; others enjoyed the
rigor of the infliction and manifested their satisfaction by
applause.

The _New York Evening Post_ said: The first meeting of the
Women's Temperance Society was held last evening in Metropolitan
Hall. There were about three thousand persons present, a large
proportion of whom were ladies. It was the first time that an
audience in this hall was to be addressed by women, and the
novelty of the occasion doubtless attracted a large number who
would otherwise have been absent. The proceedings, however, were
conducted in the most orderly manner, and the speakers apparently
felt themselves as much at home with their hearers, as if they
were merely a private company. They were listened to with much
attention and frequently applauded. Altogether, the meeting was
very successful and would compare most favorably with any that
has ever been held in the same building.

The proceedings were commenced by Mrs. Lydia F. Fowler being
appointed President, and Miss Mary S. Rich Secretary. Prayer was
offered by Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, after which Mrs. Amelia
Bloomer was introduced amid warm ap