[14]. Hansard, 3d Series, vol. xlvi. col. 694–5.

[15]. Page 403—“The Earl of Derby.”

[16]. In a similar strain ventured to speak a certain Mr Serjeant Murphy at Cork. “Who is their Chancellor of the Exchequer? I’ll tell you what he is. He is a political adventurer, who speculates on politics as a black-leg on the turn of the dice and the fluctuating chance of the turf—a political trader!” And the refined and complimentary Milesian proceeds to utter a supposed bon-mot concerning Mr Disraeli’s speech on the Budget, which, he says, he himself heard, “while sitting near the Duke of Cambridge, with whom I have the honour of being acquainted!”

[17]. Wednesday, 14th July 1852.

[18]. 21st July 1852.

[19]. 21st July 1852.

[20]. See our June Number, p. 763.


TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Silently corrected palpable typographical errors; retained non-standard spellings and dialect.