FOOTNOTES
[1] Made by Nurse and Co. Crawford Street, Bryanstone Square.
[2] So styled in the act by which Philip II, ceded to them the Sovereignty of the Low Countries.
[3] Wordsworth’s Sonnet to Bruges.
[4] Query, St. Salvador.
[5] I must take this early opportunity of adding my tribute of gratitude to the compiler of these most invaluable volumes, the Hand-books of Northern and Southern Germany, they have been my constant companions, and I cannot do less than unite with every tourist, whom I met on the continent, in pronouncing them as matchless in the value and variety of their contents, as they are faultless in their accuracy.
[6] It is the custom in Belgium, in order to distinguish one member of the same family, to append to the surname of the husband that of his lady.
[7] At Ghent, this fee has been reduced to one half the sum.
[8] De l’Industrie en Belgique, Causes de Decadence et de Prosperité, &c. par M. N. Briavionne, Bruxelles, 1839, vol. ii, p. 345.
[9] By the French commercial code, there are three descriptions of trading companies. First, sociétés en nom collectif, with all the attributes of an ordinary partnership in England; secondly, sociétés en commandite, where the great majority of the associated capitalists are sleeping partners, with no share in the management, no name in the firm, and responsible only to the extent of their registered capital, one or more of the partners, alone, having the conduct of the establishment, and being responsible to the public to the full extent of their property; and thirdly, the sociétés anonymes, which are, in every incident and particular analogous to the joint stock companies of England, only with a liability, limited in every instance to the amount of their shares.