DEATH OF MR BRADLAUGH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1891, Page 2

DEATH OF MR BRADLAUGH.

* (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Received January 31, 10 a.m. London, January 30. Mr C. Bradlaagh, M.P. for Northampton, died today, aatat 57. [" Mams about Members," issued by the Pall Mail Gazette m 1889, gives a newsy account of some details m his latter career. It says:— "The long and unseemly struggle over Mr Charles Bradlaugh's right to take the oath was brought to an end by the consent of all parties at the beginning of the last Parliament. Mr Bradlaugh has taken tfie oath, and the House did not at onoe fall down. An amusing commentary on the statement that Mr Bradlaugh could not be believed on his oath, although Christians could, was recently afforded by his correspondence with Lord Salisbury anent a libel by the latter— in which the palm for straightforwardness and veracity was awarded even by Lord Salisbury's friends to the athiest. Still more amusing is the contrast between the Tory terror of Mr Bradlaugh so long as he was out, and the deference he and they mutually pay to each other now that he is m. No unofficial member commands the ear of the House better than oar Bradlaugh, and no Radical is more listened to by the Tories. Within the Radical era of politics Mr Bradlaugh pursues his own path^ with great independence, as was shown m his support of the Employers' Liability Bill of last session, m sharp opposition to Mr Broadhurst and the labour members generally. Mr Bradlaugh is the authority on Civil List Reform, and has lately aspired to become the "member for India." He is tremendously opposed to Socialism. His career out of Parliament was almost as chequered as his career m it. He is the son of a solicitor's clerk, and was educated at the public elementary school. Since then he has been successively errand boy, wharf clerk, Sunday school teacher, trooper, solicitor's clerk, and secularist lecturer and pamphleteer. He is 56, a man of great physique, and a fisherman ; but he is turning grey."