Edward Miall, an English journalist, born in Portsmouth in 1809. He was educated in the Protestant dissenters' college at Wymond-ley, Herts, and for several years officiated as an Independent minister at Ware and Leicester. In 1841 he established the " Nonconformist " newspaper in London, in the interests of the " anti-state-church " party, and is still its editor and proprietor. He was elected to parliament for Rochdale in 1852, but lost his seat in 1857, and was returned for Bradford in 186!). In parliament he has been a persistent advocate of manhood suffrage and other popular reforms. He has published "The Nonconformist's Sketch Book " and "Views of the Voluntary Principle " (1845); "Ethics of Nonconformity" (1848); "The British Churches in relation to the British People" (1849); "Bases of Belief " (1853); "Title Deeds of the Church of England to her Parochial Endowments" (1862); "Politics of Christianity" (1863); and "An Editor off the Line, or Wayside Musings and Reminiscences " (1865).