[19] A name given by the Baronet to the British House of Commons.
[20] George Hudson, a draper, and Lord Mayor of York in 1839, by his successful management of various railway schemes amassed a large fortune (which he afterwards lost), and became known as the “Railway King.”
[21] Alluding to The Times critique on Henry Irving as “Macbeth.”
[22] In the original this word is written “Atty.”
[23] Sir Francis Bolton died early in 1887, leaving a very large fortune.
[24] “The fundamental feature on which all opposition to this measure hinges is, that there is on the part of the people of England, an ignorant impatience of taxation, Lord Castlereagh.
[25] Quere, Liar? Some doubts have arisen on the orthography of the last word in this line.
[26] John Wilson Croker. Author and Politician, who invented the term “Conservative” as applied to the Tory party.
[27] Tambour qui se bat sur le rampart des villes frontières, vers le coucher du soleil, pour y rappeller les habitans.
[28] Mr. Walpole, after the death of Mr. Gray, placed the China vase in question (for it was not a tub) on a pedestal at Strawberry-Hill, with a few lines of the Ode for its inscription.