[15] The following gentlemen of the press were in Paris during the siege: Charles Austen of the _Times_, Frank Lawley of the _Daily Telegraph_, Henry Labouchere of the _Daily News_, Thomas Gibson Bowles of the _Morning Post_, J. Augustus O'Shea of the _Standard_, Capt. Bingham, who sent letters to the _Pall Mall Gazette_, and Mr. Dallas, who wrote both for the _Times_ and the _Daily News_. {142} CHAPTER VII LABOUCHERE AND BRADLAUGH (1880-1881) At the general election of 1880, Mr. Labouchere found in the electors of Northampton a constituency which was to remain faithful to him throughout his political career. He was described in the local press as the "nominee of the moderate Liberals," though, as he explained in the columns of _Truth_, a moderate Liberal at Northampton was a Radical any where else. The "Radical" candidate was that upright and greatly persecuted man, Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, who merited far more than Mr. Labouchere the title of the "religious member for Northampton."[1] It has often been pointed out that the difference between religious and irreligious people does not lie so much in opinion as in temperament. Labouchere had an essentially irreligious nature, he was a born _impie_, as the French say: Mr. Bradlaugh had the soul of a Covenanter. As far as speculative religious opinions were concerned, they practically coincided, while, in the general lines of political opinion, they were quite at one. Both were strong Radicals and strong anti-socialists.