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[402] ~Independents~. The name applied in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the denomination now known as Congregationalists.
[403] From Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, Works, ed. 1834, I, 187.
[404] 1 Pet., III, 8.
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[405] ~Epsom~. A market town in Surrey, where are held the famous Derby races, founded in 1780.
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[406] Sallust's Catiline, chap. LII, § 22.
[407] The ~Daily Telegraph~ was begun in June, 1855, as a twopenny newspaper. It became the great organ of the middle classes and has been distinguished for its enterprise in many fields. Up to 1878 it was consistently Liberal in politics. It is a frequent object of Arnold's irony as the mouthpiece of English philistinism.