[96] One of his smartest phrases was occasioned by Mr. Greg declaring himself to be a Christian. He was such a Christian, said Fitzjames, as an early disciple who had admired the Sermon on the Mount, but whose attention had not been called to the miracles, and who had died before the resurrection.
[97]Contributions of James Fitzjames Stephen to the Pall Mall Gazette (kindly sent to me by Mr. George Smith):—
| Dates | Articles | Occasional notes | Correspondence |
| 1865 | 143 | 103 | 8 |
| 1866 | 147 | 36 | 22 |
| 1867 | 194 | 27 | 9 |
| 1868 | 226 | 29 | 11 |
| 1869 | 142 | 5 | — |
| 1870 | 14 | — | — |
| 1872 | 112 | 3 | 2 |
| 1873 | 96 | 1 | 7 |
| 1874 | 39 | 2 | 8 |
| 1875 | 6 | — | 5 |
| 1878 | 1 | — | — |
[98] 'Liberalism,' January 1862.
[99] Mr. Charles Buxton was the first chairman, but resigned because he thought a prosecution of Governor Eyre inexpedient, though not unjust. See J. S. Mill's Autobiography, pp. 296-299.
[100] It is substantially given in his History of the Criminal Law (1883), i. 207-216.
[101] Nuncomar and Impey, ii. 271.
[102] His first letter to Miss Thackeray, I notice, is written upon the back of a quaint broadsheet, bought at Boulogne. On the other side is a woodcut of the gallant 'Tulipe' parting from his mistress, and beneath them is the song 'Tiens, voici ma pipe, voilà mon briquet!' which Montcontour used to sing at the 'Haunt' to the admiration of Pendennis and Warrington. See the Newcomes, vol. i. chap. xxxvi.
[103] I depend chiefly upon the official reports of the debates in the Legislative Council; my brother's own summary of Indian legislation in a chapter contributed to Sir W. W. Hunter's Life of the Earl of Mayo (1875), ii. pp. 143-226; and a full account of Indian criminal legislation in chap, xxxiii. of his History of Criminal Law. He gave a short summary of his work in an address to the Social Science Association on November 11, 1872, published in the Fortnightly Review for December 1872. I may also refer to an article upon 'Sir James Stephen as a Legislator' in the Law Quarterly Review for July 1894, by Sir C. P. Ilbert, one of his successors.
[104] I may say that he especially acknowledges the share of the work done in his own time by Mr. Whitley Stokes, secretary to the Council, by Sir H. S. Cunningham, for some time acting secretary, and by Mr. Cockerell, a member of the Council.