[47] [The Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Mr. James Lowther.]
[48] Sunderland Times, 7th Jan., 1876, &c.
[49] Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council on the Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-2.
[50] [The Happy Land by F. Tomline and Gilbert A’Beckett was a burlesque of The Wicked World. It was produced at the Court Theatre on March 3, 1873, and prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain on March 7, principally because three of the actors were made up to represent Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Ayrton, and Mr. Robert Lowe. It was afterwards reproduced with sundry alterations and omissions.]
[51] Old Pensioners of Sutton’s hospital—so called by the boys.
[52] For the Glendoveer, and the rest of the dramatis personæ of this imitation, the reader is referred to the “Curse of Kehama.”
Midnight, and yet no eye
Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep!
Behold her streets a blaze