A Newcastle paper reports that this was the first
occasion on which Mrs. Ashton Dilke had appeared in public since
her husband's death, and tears glistened in many eyes as the men
who were his constituents welcomed her among them once more. Some
miners walked twelve miles to hear her and twelve miles back after
the meeting, who had to go down the pit at 3 o'clock next morning.
Some could not get in, and pleaded piteously for an overflow
meeting. "We have come a long way to hear Mistress Dilke; do bring
her." Some women after hearing Miss Tod said: "She's worth hearing
twice, is that," and insisted on following her to the overflow
meeting.

LONDON, ST. JAMES HALL.--Three days later there was a great meeting
presided over by Sir Richard Temple G. C. S. I., and addressed by
Mr. W. Summers, M. P., Mrs. Fawcett, the Rt. Hon. Jas. Stansfeld,
M. P., Mrs. Charles McLaren, Mr. Woodall, M. P., Mr. J. Rankin, M.
P., Miss Tod, Mr. J. R. Hollond, M. P., Viscountess Harberton and
Miss Jane Cobden.

[560] The result is as follows:

No. of Inhabited Estimated No. of
Houses. Women Householders.
ENGLAND AND WALES.
Boroughs, 2,098,476 340,746
Counties, 2,733,043 390,434
----------4,831,519 --------740,180
SCOTLAND.
Boroughs, 329,328 54,888
Counties, 409,677 58,525
--------739,005 -------113,413
IRELAND.
Boroughs, 129,837 21,339
Counties, 784,571 98,034
--------914,108 -------119,373
-------
972,966

[561] Signed by Eveline Portsmouth (Countess of Portsmouth), E. P.
Verney (Lady Verney), Florence Nightingale, Anne J. Clough (Newham
College), Clara E. L. Rayleigh (Lady Rayleigh), Selina Hogg (Lady
Hogg), Anna Swanwick, Julia Camperdown (Countess of Camperdown),
Mina E. Holland, (Mrs. John Holland), (Lady) Dorothy Nevill,
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Helen P. Bright Clark, Jane E. Cobden,
Elizabeth Adelaide Manning, M. Power (Lady Power), Louisa Colthurst
(Dowager Lady Colthurst), Frances E. Hoggan,