Hansard's Debates upon the floor,--no unusual combination of studies
amongst the poorer and more ardent students of the law, who often owe
their earliest, nor perhaps their least noble, earnings to employment in
the empire of the Press. By the power of a mind habituated to labour,
and backed by a frame of remarkable strength and endurance, Ardworth
grappled with his arid studies not the less manfully for a night mainly
spent in a printer's office, and stinted to less than four hours' actual
sleep. But that sleep was profound and refreshing as a peasant's. The
nights thus devoted to the Press (he was employed in the sub-editing of a
daily journal), the mornings to the law, he kept distinct the two
separate callings with a stern subdivision of labour which in itself
proved the vigour of his energy and the resolution of his will. Early
compelled to shift for himself and carve out his own way, he had obtained
a small fellowship at the small college in which he had passed his
academic career. Previous to his arrival in London, by contributions to
political periodicals and a high reputation at that noble debating
society in Cambridge which has trained some of the most eminent of living
public men [Amongst those whom the "Union" almost contemporaneously
prepared for public life, and whose distinction has kept the promise of
their youth, we may mention the eminent barristers, Messrs. Austin and
Cockburn; and amongst statesmen, Lord Grey, Mr. C. Buller, Mr. Charles
Villiers, and Mr. Macaulay. Nor ought we to forget those brilliant
competitors for the prizes of the University, Dr. Kennedy (now head-
master of Shrewsbury School) and the late Winthrop M. Praed.], he had
established a name which was immediately useful to him in obtaining
employment on the Press. Like most young men of practical ability, he
was an eager politician. The popular passion of the day kindled his
enthusiasm and stirred the depths of his soul with magnificent, though
exaggerated, hopes in the destiny of his race. He identified himself
with the people; his stout heart beat loud in their stormy cause. His