that Mr Bradlaugh, whenever Thomson was the subject of conversation between us, always spoke of him in the tenderest and most affectionate terms. Even when, as I understand, he had been compelled to part company with his unfortunate friend, no word of censure or complaint ever passed Mr Bradlaugh's lips in my hearing. "The kindness which Mr Bradlaugh had shown to poor Thomson was shown in a modified degree to me too. I should regard myself as one of the most ungrateful creatures living if I ever forgot the kindly help and sympathy I received from him in a most trying period of my life. For many months during this period, when I was begging some brother man to give me leave to toil, I breakfasted at his house nearly every morning (and a breakfast was a matter of some consequence to me then), in order to learn what had come of inquiries which he was day by day making on my behalf, inquiries which eventually resulted in a service of the highest value."] "DEAR BRADLAUGH,--The enclosed from Taylor. I send it to you knowing no other way of getting at Thomson, and wishful not to throw over any one spoken kindly of by you. But for myself I would not stand a second utter neglect of this kind. However, it rests with Taylor. "After some trouble about Thomson, he might at least have written to me in the first instance, or to Taylor now, to account even for 'illness'--which I begin to doubt. "_I_ only asked him for a daily paper, which would have satisfied me of his daily attention. I have had _three_ since I left. Row him, please!--Yours ever, very hard worked, W. J. LINTON." ENCLOSURE. "House of Commons, May 28, 1863. "DEAR LINTON,--Do you know Thomson's address or how to get at it? He has not been at S. Street this week, and everything is going to the D----l.--Yours ever, P. A. TAYLOR." These fits of intemperance, comparatively rare at first, unhappily became more and more frequent. While Mr Thomson lived with us when he came back after one of these attacks--or was brought back, for indeed it usually happened that some friend searched for him and brought him home despite himself--he was nursed and cared for until he was quite himself again, for it often happened that he was bruised and wounded, and unfit to go out for some days.