[5] [The Ministry, being on the verge of dissolution, compelled Lord Plunket to resign the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland in order to bestow it, with a peerage, on Sir John Campbell, the English Attorney-General. He went to Ireland and sat in Court a few times and then retired without a pension. But this was justly considered as one of the most outrageous jobs which any Government ever sanctioned. Lord Campbell afterwards filled much higher offices in England, and he presided for several years in the Court of Queen's Bench, and died Lord Chancellor.]
[6] Lord Robert Grosvenor, brother of the first Marquis of Westminster, afterwards Lord Ebury.
[7] [Lord Brougham had not heard the appeal, nor did Dr. Lushington sit on it, on account of their supposed intimacy with Alderman Wood, who was one of the principal legatees.]
[8] [The first Session of the New Parliament opened on August 24, the Whigs being still in office. Lord Ripon moved an Amendment to the Address in the House of Lords, which was carried by a majority of 72 against Ministers. In the House of Commons Ministers were defeated on the Address upon the 28th August by a majority of 91.]
[9] Sir Robert Peel's Administration was composed as follows:
| First Lord of the Treasury | Sir Robert Peel |
| Lord Chancellor | Lord Lyndhurst |
| Lord President | Lord Wharncliffe |
| Lord Privy Seal | Duke of Buckingham (and, on his retirement, the Duke of Buccleuch) |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | Right Hon. H. Goulburn |
| Home Secretary | Sir James Graham |
| Foreign Secretary | Earl of Aberdeen |
| Colonial Secretary | Lord Stanley |
| Secretary at War | Sir Henry Hardinge (and, on his departure for India, Right Hon. Sidney Herbert) |
| Board of Control | Lord Ellenborough (and, on his departure for India, Lord FitzGerald—on his death, Earl of Ripon) |
| Board of Trade | Earl of Ripon (and subsequently Mr. Gladstone) |
| Duchy of Lancaster | Lord Granville Somerset |
| Postmaster-General | Lord Lowther |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | Earl of Haddington |
| Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland | Earl de Grey |
| Woods and Forests | Earl of Lincoln |
[10] [This is precisely what did occur, though it was many years afterwards. Lord John Russell returned to office as Prime Minister in 1846, and Lord Palmerston resumed the direction of Foreign Affairs; but, after innumerable disputes, which will be related here en temps et lieu, his colleagues could endure it no longer and turned him out in December, 1851; but this event led shortly afterwards to the dissolution of Lord John Russell's Government as is here foretold.]
[11] [Captain, afterwards Sir Charles Elliot, had been the diplomatic agent of the Government in the ports of China at the time of the seizure of opium by the Chinese Government. He was blamed at the time, but subsequent events showed him to have been right.]
[12] [Lord Monteagle was Comptroller of the Exchequer when this great forgery of Exchequer Bills took place, to a very large amount, which the Treasury lost. These bills were put into circulation by a man named Rapallo, the same who advanced money to Louis Napoleon for his Boulogne expedition in 1840. It is probable, therefore, that there was some connexion between the two events.]
[13] [A fire broke out in the Tower of London, Oct. 31, which consumed the grand storehouse and small armoury. The total loss in stores and buildings was estimated at 200,000l.]