[12] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. XXXVIII.
[13] Greville’s Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. III. p. 335.
[14] Memorials of an Ex-Minister, by Lord Malmesbury, Vol. I. p. 261.
[15] This, of course, applies only to States within the European comity of nations. Semi-barbaric Asiatic or African States—e.g., Turkey and Tunis—by special treaties or “capitulations,” surrendered to England extra-territorial jurisdiction over cases in which her subjects resident in their territories were concerned.
[16] The details of this intrigue, it is understood, were recorded by Mr. Greville, but the publication of them was withheld by the editor of his “Journal,” for reasons which may easily be guessed. The whole story will probably not be told during the lifetime of the Queen.
[17] Had the Bill passed, Lord Clarendon would have been Irish Secretary.
[18] See a curious letter of Croker’s in the third volume of “The Croker Papers.”
[19] He was beaten only by a majority of 3.
[20] See the Queen’s letter to King Leopold, cited in Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Ch. XXXIX.
[21] It is commonly called “the Queen’s Reading Lamp,” but it may be said that Sir Theodore Martin is not quite correct in assuming that this type of lamp was introduced into England by Prince Albert. A similar lamp was in use in Cambridge long before the Prince came to this country, and was known as the “Cambridge Reading Lamp.”