Note 78 — Chapter XVIII

“July 9th.—At the House of Commons. . . . In the course of the evening ——, M.P. for ——, evinced a desire to renew acquaintance with me. For a time I avoided him, but when this was no longer possible, I told him very plainly my opinion as to the ‘Lord’s Day Society.’ (He was one of the deputation which came to me last year.) He replied that he had always done me justice, and referred to what Lord Ashley had said in the House of Commons. On which I rejoined that neither Lord Ashley nor any one else had spoken out in a straight-forward, manly way. He left me, apparently much nettled.”—Sir R. Hill’s Journal.—Ed.