It was addressed "To the Members of the House of Commons," and was "for private circulation only." The indignant butcher, for that is his trade, wished "to submit to their notice the horrible blasphemies that are appended, and quoted from a new weekly publication issued from the office where Mr.Bradlaugh's weekly journal, the _National Reformer_, is published.

The paper is entitled the _Freethinker_, and is edited by G.W.Foote, one of Mr.Bradlaugh's prominent supporters, and one of his right hand men at the Hall of Science." The Commons of England were also requested to notice that "Dr.Aveling, who for some years has been one of Mr.Bradlaugh's chief helpers, is another contributor to this disgraceful product of Atheism." In conclusion, they were called upon to "devise means to stay this hideous prostitution of the liberty of the Press, by making these shameless blasphemers amenable to the existing law." It is a curious thing that such a fervid champion of religion should always attack unbelievers with private circulars.

Yet this is the policy that Henry Varley has always pursued.

He is a religious bravo, who lurks in the dark, and strikes at Freethinkers with a poisoned dagger.

More than once he has flooded Northampton with the foulest libels on Mr.
Bradlaugh, invariably issued without the printer's name, in open violation of the law.