three o'clock
On Tuesday evening the Canadian preachers announced that their next day services would be held at the People 's Palace , in the East End . But I fancy that , among the packed thousands who attended _ The Citizens ' _ first public meeting at the Albert Hall on Wednesday afternoon , many came under the impression that they were to hear the Canadian preachers . The man of all others in England most fitted for the office , presided over that first meeting , in full review uniform , and wearing the sword which had been returned to him by General Baron von Füchter , after the historic surrender at the Mansion House on Black Saturday . The great little Field Marshal rose at three o'clock and stood for full five minutes , waiting for the tempest of cheering which greeted him to subside , before he could introduce John Crondall to that huge audience . Even when the Field Marshal began to speak he could not obtain complete silence . As one burst of cheering rumbled to its close , another would rise from the hall 's far side like approaching thunder , swelling as it came . It seemed the London public was trying to make up to its erstwhile hero for its long neglect of his brave endeavours to warn them against the evils which had actually befallen .