With each pamphlet was a notice that we would attend and sell the book from 4 to 5 p.m.on the following day, Saturday, March 24th.

This we accordingly did, and in order to save trouble we offered to attend daily at the shop from 10 to 11 a.m.
to facilitate our arrest, should the authorities determine to prosecute.

The offer was readily accepted, and after some little delay--during which a deputation from the Christian Evidence Society waited upon Mr.Cross to urge the Tory Government to prosecute us--warrants were issued against us and we were arrested on April 6th.
Letters of approval and encouragement came from the most diverse quarters, including among their writers General Garibaldi, the well-known economist, Yves Guyot, the great French constitutional lawyer, Emile Acollas, together with letters literally by the hundred from poor men and women thanking and blessing us for the stand taken.
Noticeable were the numbers of letters from clergymen's wives, and wives of ministers of all denominations.
After our arrest we were taken to the police-station in Bridewell Place, and thence to the Guildhall, where Alderman Figgins was sitting, before whom we duly appeared, while in the back of the court waited what an official described as "a regular waggon-load of bail." We were quickly released, the preliminary investigation being fixed for ten days later--April 17th.

At the close of the day the magistrate released us on our own recognisances, without bail; and it was so fully seen on all sides that we were fighting for a principle that no bail was asked for during the various stages of the trial.

Two days later we were committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, but Mr.Bradlaugh moved for a writ of _certiorari_ to remove the trial to the Court of Queen's Bench; Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said he would grant the writ if "upon looking at it (the book), we think its object is the legitimate one of promoting knowledge on a matter of human interest," but not if the science were only a cover for impurity, and he directed that copies of the book should be handed in for perusal by himself and Mr.Justice Mellor.