[[247]] Disraeli.

[[248]] Bishop of London.

[[249]] Walsham How, then Suffragan Bishop of Bedford.

[[250]] At Cannes.

[[251]] "The Life of George Eliot."

[[252]] Now Viscount Milner.

[[253]] The present Earl Grey.

[[254]] Mark Pattison's Memoirs.

[[255]] The Afghan frontier. See Mr. Morley's account of the Penjdeh incident in his "Life of Gladstone," vol. iii. pp. 183-5.

[[256]] The reference is to Tennyson's lines on the Franchise Bill, "Steersman, be not precipitate," &c.