[I]. The taxes of the Government amounted to four hundred millions odd in 1873; in 1893 they amount to over eight hundred millions.
[J]. A footman of Lord Darnley’s was sentenced to pay £2 by the Rochester magistrates for having killed a dog by heaping burning coals on it! This in the end of the year 1894.
[K]. Suggested by an Address to the British Association at Aberdeen, 1885.
[L]. Science having shouted many hallelujahs over the telephone, now discovers that it is a terrible disseminator of disease!
[M]. See Times of September 19, 1885: account of duel in Munich.
[N]. See article ‘The Failure of Christianity.’
[O]. Whoever may care to study the brutal treatment of conscripts and soldiers in Germany by their officers is referred to the revelations published this year by Kurt Abel and Captain Miller, both eye-witnesses of these tortures.
[P]. Since this was written, the officer, Blanc-Tassinari, has been tried by a civil tribunal, found guilty of ‘culpable homicide and abuse of authority,’ and condemned to five months’ detention in a fortress, and a fine of £20 (500 fr.). This punishment will entail no privation, as he is rich, and will live as he pleases in the fortress, and when the five months have expired, will rejoin his regiment as if nothing had happened. De Felice, Molinari, Garibaldi-Bosco, Barbato, and hundreds of intelligent and disinterested patriots are brought before military courts, are sentenced to twenty, twenty-five, thirty years’ imprisonment, are condemned to prison diet, to shaved heads, to forced labour, to solitary cells, whilst this young brute, who made the lives of his soldiers a martyrdom, and is found guilty of culpable homicide, receives practically no chastisement whatever. And the English Press upholds and justifies the Government under which such enormities are possible.