tor." The paper went on nicely for eleven months, its
circulation and our revenue increasing greatly. We had for some time
received articles for insertion from a Nonconformist parson in the town,
the Rev Mr Gray. The contributions, being on subjects foreign to our
non-political and non-sectarian principles, had almost invariably been
rejected, until the writer appealed to the printer, who was the
proprietor of the paper, and happened to be one of the parson's "flock."
The proprietor told Ben and I it was no use--we must insert the Rev Mr
Gray's articles. Now, Ben and I were convinced that to publish that
gentleman's contributions would be to kill the journal, but the
proprietor was firm, and so, as a protest, we resigned our positions as
joint-editors. The parson was put in to edit the paper, and when the next
number, under his hand, was issued, it was seen that the paper had
travelled from Africa to Iceland, as it were--its contents were so cold
and watery. This, the first under the Rev. Mr Gray's editorship, proved
the last issue of the "Spectator."

THE GUARDIANS AND THEIR VISIT TO YORK CASTLE

In the years 1875-6 the town--and, indeed, the whole country--was greatly
interested in the conduct of the Keighley Board of Guardians with respect
to the Vaccination Acts. The Guardians refused to direct their medical
officer to enforce the Acts, and the Local Government Board finally
appealed to the Court of the Queen's Bench for a mandamus against the
Guardians, to compel them to put the Vaccination Acts into force in the
Keighley district. The mandamus was granted, but the Guardians
persistently refused to obey it, and the consequence was that the Local
Government Board applied to the Queen's Bench for a writ of attachment
against the eight members of the Board who had by their open votes defied
the law--Messrs R. A. Milner (chairman), J. B. Sedgwick, Titus Ogden,
John Jeffrey, Hezekiah Tempest, David Normington, James Newbould and
Samuel Johnson. Johnson afterwards promised obedience, and was released
from the attachment, which was granted by the Court of Queen's Bench. I
shall never forget the "rumpus" there was on Friday, the 11th August,
1876, when the High Sheriff and his officers came to Keighley to arrest
the Guardians mentioned. Thousands of people were in the streets. The
Sheriff's officers secured the Guardians, and conveyed them to the
Devonshire Hotel. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon the Guardians came o