CHAPTER XXIII.

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The National Reform League--Primrose Hill--Trafalgar Square--Sir Richard Mayne's prohibition--The Derby Cabinet--Hyde Park--Another prohibition--Fall of the Hyde Park railings--Agricultural Hall--Bristol--Attacks upon Mr Bradlaugh--Northampton--Luton--Matthew Arnold casts his stone--On horseback at Trafalgar Square--Agricultural Hall again--The Saturday Review and its followers--Hyde Park again--The Government "admonition" served and withdrawn--Mr Bradlaugh's resignation--Its result.