There would be 7,000, at least.

I had taken the precaution to send an Officer to the far end to see how far he could or could not hear me, and he brought back word 'excellently.' So I drove ahead, speaking over an hour and a half, and not losing the attention of my audience for a moment.

Indeed, I felt I had the whole house from the moment I opened my lips.

Of course, it was the greatest physical effort a long way that I ever made, and, considering that it was my seventh address in that 'dreadful' building, and that I commenced with a bad throat, exhausted with the fatigues and miseries of the voyage, and that I had ceaselessly worked at smaller Meetings, etc., all the four days, I do think it very wonderful how I went through it, and I must attribute it to the direct holding up and strengthening of the dear Lord Himself.
"On all hands I think a deep impression was made.

To God be the glory, and to my poor constituents, for whom I live and plead, be the benefit.
"I am tired this morning, but shall get a little rest to-day and a little extra sleep in the train.