t was not a job,
and that it involved a considerable saving of public money. But this
matter will interest no one at present.]

[Footnote 25: I have to thank Mr. Bryce, now President of the Board of
Trade, for kindly procuring me the dates of my father's official
appointments.]

[Footnote 26: Communicated by my friend Mr. J. Dykes Campbell.]

[Footnote 27: My cousin, Dr. John Venn, informs me that the first
traceable Venn was a farmer in Broad Hembury, Devonshire, whose son,
William Venn, was vicar of Otterton from 1599 to 1621.]

[Footnote 28: _Henry Venn's Life_, published by his grandson, Henry
Venn, in 1834, has gone through several editions.]

[Footnote 29: A short life of John Venn is prefixed to his _Sermons_. He
married Catherine King on October 22, 1789, and left seven children:--

1. Catherine Eling, born Dec. 2, 1791, died unmarried,
April 22, 1827.
2. Jane Catherine, Lady Stephen, b. May 16, 1793,
d. February 27, 1875.
3. Emelia, b. April 20, 1795, d. Feb. 1881.
4. Henry, b. February 10, 1796, d. January 13, 1873.
5. Caroline, Mrs. Ellis Batten, b. 1799, d. Jan. 26, 1870.
6. Maria, who died in infancy.
7. John, b. April 17, 1801, d. May 12, 1890.]

[Footnote 30: _Missionary Secretariat of Henry Venn, B.D._, by the Rev.
William Knight, with introductory chapter by his sons the Rev. John Venn
and the Rev. Henry Venn, 1880.]

[Footnote 31: Sir H. Taylor's _Autobiography_ (1885), ii. 303. Taylor
was b. October 18, 1800, and d. October 31, 1886.]

[Footnote 32: _Autobiography_, i. 136.]

[Footnote 33: P. 233.]

[Footnote 34: Autobiographical fragment.]

[Footnote 35: _Taylor_, ii. 301.]

[Footnote 36: Stephen's _History of the Criminal Law_, iii. 256. My
brother was generally accurate in such statements, though I cannot quite
resist the impression that he may at this time have been under some
confusion as to the time employed upon this occasion and the time
devoted to the Bill of 1833 to be mentioned directly.]

[Footnote 37: _Taylor_, i. 121-127. Sir Henry Taylor says that Stanley
prepared a measure with Sir James Graham which was introduced into the
House of Commons and 'forthwith was blown into the air.' I can find no
trace of this in Hansard or elsewhere, and as Stanley only became
Colonial Secretary (March 28) six weeks before introducing the measure
which passed, and no parliamentary discussion intervened, I fancy that
there must be some error. The fa