Our own impression was that at the moment when Mr Gladstone came to the front of the platform not much less than fifteen thousand voices gave strength to the almost unanimous cheer with which he was greeted. There was a small knot of malcontents in a remote corner, who by their early demonstra tions, such as drum-beating, &c, showed their determination to make the meet ing, if possible, a fiasco. But so general was the expression of a different feeling that this small knot became rapidly subdued, and gave little or no interrup tion to the Prime Minister during his long, important, and interesting speech. We were curious enough to inquire, after the termination of the meeting, how Mr Gladstone had been heard by the extreme outsiders, and we were sur prised as well as gratified to learn that very little had been lost, and that the most telling portions had been distinctly heard and immensely relished by the whole of the vast assemblage. Another point upon which we were anxious to get information was as to the character and status of the persons assembled ; and we ascertained, beyond possibility of a doubt, that the vast majority were working men and electors of the par excellence working man's borough of Greenich. These men were inclined to be cold and critical at first, but as the Prime Minister warmed in his admir able speech the meeting visibly warmed with him. At its conclusion, the feel ing had risen to perfect enthusiasm ; and as Mr Gladstone, accompanied by his wife and son, drove away in an open carriage, the working men ran like mad men to line the road upon each side, and to cheer the carriage and its occu pants as they passed rapidly along. It is never very warm on Blackheath in the latter days of October, and Saturday was an October day of the most ap proved intensity. No less than one hundred and seven newspaper reporters sat with clattering teeth under the plat form, and they, in common with the immense crowd, felt that Mr Gladstone had exposed his bronchial tubes to a severe ordeal when he came to the front uncovered, and notwithstanding uni versal cries of '•' Put on your hat," evinced by hie gestures and unmistake able determination to go through his day's work bareheaded. 