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felt in the Brompton Oratorian case throughout the country. It 

 was referred to several times in the House of Commons. 



In the Appendix, No. XXYI., is the rejoinder to the manifesto 

 of Dr. Dalgairns, Principal of the Oratory, entitled ' The Private 

 and Secret Burial-Grround of the Oratory,' together with a corre- 

 spondence with Sir George Grey, and a petition to the House 

 of Commons. 



My father was always a consistent opponent of religious 

 houses such as monasteries and nunneries, and in 1871 he gave 

 evidence against them in the Committee Eoom of the House of 

 Commons. 



The pamphlet 'On the Practical Kemedy for Extortion and 

 Intimidation practised by the aid of the Superior Law Courts ' 

 was written by my father in 1863. This pamphlet had the 

 desired effect of drawing the attention of the Legislature to the 

 abuses there alluded to. Such extortion can now be no longer 

 practised, for by an Act passed in 1867 it was provided that any 

 person against whom an action for malicious prosecution, illegal 

 arrest, illegal distress, assault, false imprisonment, libel, slander, 

 or other action of tort, may be brought, may make an affidavit 

 that the plaintiff has no visible means of paying the costs of 

 the defendant ; and thereupon a judge of the court in which the 

 action is brought is empowered to stay the proceedings, unless 

 full security for the defendant's costs is given. See Appendix, 

 No. XXVII. 



