It was garrisoned by police, drawn up in serried rows, that could only have been broken by a deliberate charge.

Our orders were to attempt no violence, and we attempted none.

Mr.Cunninghame Graham and Mr.John Burns, arm-in-arm, tried to pass through the police, and were savagely cut about the head and arrested.

Then ensued a scene to be remembered; the horse police charged in squadrons at a hand-gallop, rolling men and women over like ninepins, while the foot police struck recklessly with their truncheons, cutting a road through the crowd that closed immediately behind them.

I got on a waggonette and tried to persuade the driver to pull his trap across one of the roads, and to get others in line, so as to break the charges of the mounted police; but he was afraid, and drove away to the Embankment, so I jumped out and went back to the Square.