The National Reform League--Primrose Hill--Trafalgar Square--Sir Richard Mayne's prohibition--The Derby Cabinet--Hyde Park--Another prohibition--Fall of the Hyde Park railings--Agricultural Hall--Bristol--Attacks upon Mr Bradlaugh--Northampton--Luton--Matthew Arnold casts his stone--On horseback at Trafalgar Square--Agricultural Hall again--The _Saturday Review_ and its followers--Hyde Park again--The Government "admonition" served and withdrawn--Mr Bradlaugh's resignation--Its result. CHAPTER XXIV. PROVINCIAL LECTURING, 1866-1869 238 The Mayor of Liverpool--David King--Huddersfield: Arrest; Release; Before the Magistrates--The Rev. J. M'Cann--Huddersfield again--The Murphy riots at Manchester--The New Hall of Science--Blyth and Mr Thomas Burt--The "infidel" on Portsea Common--The people who loved my father--A liberal priest. CHAPTER XXV. IRELAND 252 English Misgovernment--The Fenian Brotherhood--Colonel Kelly and General Cluseret--The Irish proclamation of 1867--The Manchester rescue--The death sentence--The Clerkenwell explosion--Pamphlet on "the Irish Question"--A Quakers' discussion society--Lectures on behalf of Ireland--A visit to Dublin. CHAPTER XXVI. NORTHAMPTON, 1868 263 Mr Bradlaugh's determination to seek a seat in Parliament--The choice of Northampton--First election address--Scorn of the Whigs--Enthusiasm of the people--The election colours--John Stuart Mill--_The Daily Telegraph_--The Irish Reform League--John Bright--W. E. Gladstone--Mr Charles Gilpin and Lord Henley--The press--Dr Lees--Canvassing--The Lord's Day Rest Association--Mr Giffard, Q.C.--Mr Charles Capper, M.P.--Anti-Compulsory Vaccination--The nomination day--The poll--Tributes from the Mayor and from Mr Gilpin--Ministers who rejoiced. CHAPTER XXVII. SOUTHWARK ELECTION, 1869 280 Mr Bradlaugh and Mr Odger. CHAPTER XXVIII. LITIGATION, 1867-1871 282 English Joint Stock Bank (Limited) and Charles Bradlaugh--Bradlaugh _v._ De Rin--The Oath question in different Courts-Confusion of the law of evidence--A costly victory--The Evidence Amendment Act, 1870--The _Razor_ libel case--Mr O'Malley, Q.C.--"Outlaw or Citizen: Which am I?"--Action against the Mirfield Town Hall Company--Mr Digby Seymour, Q.C.--Mr Justice Willes. CHAPTER XXIX. PERSONAL 299 Financial difficulties--Mr Bradlaugh gives up business in the City and devotes himself to public work--Our home sold up--A scattered family--My brother's illness and death--His burial--The Rev. Drummond Ash--The Rev. Theophilus Bennett--My father's grief. CHAPTER XXX. LECTURES, 1870-1871 304