Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-31

Notable Figure Removed From the
 Midst of English Politics-Career of
 a Man Whose Opinions Cost Him
 His Home.
 LONDON, Jan. 30.-Charles Bradlaugh, member of parliament for Northampton, the well known reformer, died shortly af- ter o'clock this morning.
 London, September 26, 1883. Owing to the extreme poverty of his parents he ceased attending school before he was eleven years old. He early developed a taste for politics, and at the age of fifteen appeared as an orator before street audi ences during the political turmoils of 1S47-S.
 The origin of his atheistical opinions dates from the same period. Studying to fit himself for Sunday school exhibition before the bishop of London, he became skeptical and declared his inability to rec oncile the thirty-nine articles with the four gospels. His father gave him three days in which to change his opinions on penalty of losing his situation. He &C., cepted the penalty and quilted the situa- ton and his home forever.
 For year he earned an inadequate sup port by selling coal on commission, and then becoming slightly involved in debt he enlisted in the service of the East India company, where he remained until small legacy enabled him to purchase his dis charge.
 He secured clerkship in solicitors 8 office in London and entered at once upon his life career of political and atheistical writer and speaker. In 1S5S-9 he gained considerable notoriety by editing journal thn Inv atnr. hs n1 suspended for want of capital. A year later he established the National Reformer Systematic attempts were made to SUD- press his journal, but their only effect was to increase it's circulation.
 His sympathies for the oppressed have not been confined to his own country. When Italy was fighting for freedom he raised by his own exertion one hundred guineas and sent them to Garibaldi. He visited Ireland, conferred with the advo- cates of home rule and raised his voice in their justification.
 His political status as the member from Northampton was for more than five years one of the most agitating questions before the British parliament.
 At the beginning of the controversy in 1880, he refused to take the oath of ale glance on the ground that it would not be binding on his conscience. The house re- fused to let him affirm, inasmuch as no provision is made in the parliamentary oaths act for affirmation by others than Quakers and the like.
 Upon reelection MT. Bradlaugh changed his ground and offered to take the oath but the house now refused to receive it. In sisting upon entering the house and ad- ministering the oath to himself, he was re- moved by the police.
 Afterwards, on several occasions, simi- lar farce was gone through.
 MT. Bradlaugh at last took the counsel of influential men, who advised patience and all would be we'll. MT. Gladstone and other eminent leaders having taken his part, in January, 1885, he was admitted.
 member of parliament MT. .Bradlaugh was very successful, playing a prominent part from the date of his entrance. He was 8 man of remarkable ability, force and tact. Among the causes he made specially his own was that of India.
 He was of commanding stature, standing over six feet "in his stockings" was broad in proportion to his height, with an excep- tionally large head, the forehead rising high and broad over deep piercing eyes, the hair thinning and showing signs of his fifty years of life, a curiously mobile mouth, changing with every change of thought.