CHAPTER VI.. Life in London.

LIFE IN LONDON. Appointed London Correspondent of the Leeds Mercury--My Marriage--Securing Admission to the Reporters' Gallery--Relations between Reporters and Members--Inadequate Accommodation for the Press--Reminiscences of the Clerkenwell Explosion--The Last Public Execution--The Arundel Club--James Macdonell--Robert Donald--James Payn--Mrs. Riddell and the St. James's Magazine--My First Novel--How Sala Cut Short an Anecdote--Disraeli as Leader of the House in 1868--A Personal Encounter with him at Aylesbury--Mr. Gladstone's First Ministry--Bright and Forster--W.E. Baxter--Irish Church Disestablishment Debate in the House of Lords--Mr. Mudford--Bereavement.