[13] 'Corrected Speech on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,' 1851, p. 28. [14] Sir R. Palmer's speech at Richmond, August, 1868. From the 'Manchester Examiner' of August 24. [15] 'Hansard,' vol. clxxviii. p. 444.--"But I do complain of a Minister who, himself the author of a book in defence of Church and State, when one branch of the Christian Church is attacked and in danger, delivers a speech, every word of which is hostile to its existence when the right time comes for attacking it." [16] Æn. vi. [17] It was, I think, about the year 1835, that I first met the Rev. Sydney Smith, at the house of Mr. Hallam. In conversation after dinner he said to me, with the double charm of humour and of good-humour, "The improvement of the clergy in my time has been astonishing. Whenever you meet a clergyman of my age, you may be quite sure that he is a bad clergyman." [18] Judges, v. 31. [19] Canticles, vi. 4. [20] Since these lines were written I have learned, upon authority which cannot be questioned, that Mr. Keble acknowledged the justice of disestablishing the Irish Church. [21] 'Ed. Rev.', April, 1839, p. 273-6. End of Project Gutenberg's Chapter of Autobiography, by W E Gladstone