[26] Mrs. Thompson.
[27] Mr. W. J. Fox, afterwards M.P. for Oldham, well known for his eloquent advocacy of the Repeal of the Corn Laws, was engaged to write the political articles in the first numbers of the Daily News.
[28] The first issue of the Daily News was a sad failure, as to printing.
[29] The birth, at Lausanne, of Mr. Thompson's eldest daughter, Elizabeth Thompson, now Mrs. Butler, the celebrated artist.
[30] In the dramatised "Battle of Life."
[31] Written to Mr. Sheridan Knowles after some slight misunderstanding, the cause of which is unknown to the Editors.
[32] Dr. Hodgson, then Principal of the Liverpool Institute, and Principal of the Chorlton High School, Manchester.
[33] Mr. Alexander Ireland, the manager and one of the proprietors of The Manchester Examiner.
[34] This refers to an essay on "The Genius and Writings of Leigh Hunt," contributed to The Manchester Examiner.
[35] The "Autobiography of a Working Man," by "One who has whistled at the Plough" (Alex. Somerville), originally appeared in The Manchester Examiner, and afterwards was published as a volume, 1848.