Changes at home--A soldier in search of work--With Mr Rogers, of 70 Fenchurch Street--Anonymous busybodies again--"Iconoclast" --The Hooper family--Old letters--Poetry--Calumnies refuted--Common-sense justice--First recorded lawsuit--Marriage--My sister's birth--My mother. CHAPTER VII. HYDE PARK MEETINGS, 1855 52 The new Sunday Bill--In Hyde Park--"Go to Church"--Hyde Park again--The Bill abandoned--The Royal Commission--Mr Bradlaugh's evidence. CHAPTER VIII. THE ORSINI ATTEMPT 62 Lecturing and writing--"The Bible: what it is"--Arrest of Edward Truelove--Felice Orsini--Simon Bernard--Thomas Allsop--"Thorough"--Recollections of W. E. Adams. CHAPTER IX. EARLY LECTURES AND DEBATES 72 Provincial lectures--First visit to Northampton--President of the London Secular Society--Robert Owen's last paper--_The Investigator_--Political meetings--Hyde Park--Guildhall--Debates: Thomas Cooper--Rev. Brewin Grant--Dr Mensor--Rev. T. D. Matthias--Mr Court--John Smart. CHAPTER X. HARD TIMES 90 The Manchester poisoning case--Mr Harvey--Rheumatic fever--Elysium Villa--My brother's birth--Kate--Railway journeys--A lecturer's profits--An editor's profits. CHAPTER XI. A CLERICAL LIBELLER 99 An articled clerk--The Naples Colour Company--Financial operations--"Black Friday"--Sunderland Villa--The Rev. Hugh M'Sorley. CHAPTER XII. TOTTENHAM 108 Our home--James Thomson ("B. V.")--Harriet Bradlaugh--Father and children. CHAPTER XIII. THE "NATIONAL REFORMER" 119 The _National Reformer_ Company--The coming of Joseph Barker--Turkish baths and Secularism--The difficulties of a dual editorship--A house divided--Sole editor--G. J. Holyoake as chief contributor--More difficulties--Arbitration--Messrs Smith and Son's boycott--John Watts as editor--My father resumes--The _Saturday Review_--"B. V." replies--The Rev. Charles Voysey: 1868 and 1880. CHAPTER XIV. THE "NATIONAL REFORMER" AND THE GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS 137 Prosecution of _National Reformer_ by Mr Disraeli's Government--"Published in defiance of Her Majesty's Government"--The Act of James I.--Collapse of the prosecution--The Press--The Rev. J. Page Hopps--Prosecution of _National Reformer_ by Mr Gladstone's Government--Abandonment of the prosecution--John Stuart Mill--Repeal of the odious Security laws--The Postmaster-General and the _National Reformer_. CHAPTER XV. ITALY 152