NOTES

7. Won’t-es Go to Congress? – See Introduction on the state of Italy.

10. Lord Byron, Lord Punch, and Lord Fingall. – Some 300 Irishmen were induced to form an Irish Brigade, and proceed to Rome to fight in the service of the Pope. They assumed to be navvies engaged on a railway in Italy. Their subsequent career is alluded to hereafter.

23. Laurels for Laurie. – Sir Peter Laurie. See former volumes of Punch.

27. The Congress Party. – See Introduction on the state of Italy.

33. A Pill for the Pope. – Idem.

36. Rhodomontade. – Idem.

37. Dame Cobden’s new Pupil. – Mr.Corden was engaged & in arranging the new Treaty of Commerce with the Emperor 48 Napoleon.

42. One Thing they Manage Better in France. – The French washerwomen boat with wooden mallets the articles entrusted to them to wash.

49. Pam and the Jack Daw. – See “Essense of Parliament.”

51. Performing Parsons. – Several well-meaning Clergymen had been preaching in some of the Metropolitan theatres.

52. Quite Enought Too. – The Seven Dials is the name of a low locality in London.

54. One World to Englishmen. – Captain Harrison was the first Captain appointed to the Great Eastern Steamship, and the public generally relied for a favourable issue to that great experiment on the bold and skilful seamanship of the commander. He had brought the ship safely down the Thames to Portland, and in his hands the solution of the great problem of the age was considered certain: he was drowned by the upsetting of the boat conveying him to Southampton. The incidents attending the accident are touchingly set forth in the Annual Register, 1860, Chronicle, pp.10,11.

58. Louis Napoleon’s Master-Stroke, – L’univers was an Ultramontane paper published in Paris, and suppressed by order of the Government. It re-appeared shortly afterwards in Brussels.

59. The Next Invasion refers to the admission of French wines under the new Treaty with France.

61. The Bank of Faithful Ireland. – Dr.Cullen’s name is Paul.

74. New Bulls and Bears alludes to the abolition of the cruel black leather stocks in which the neck of our soldiers were previously confined.

87. The Rathborne Pamphlet accused Mr.Disraeli of neglect of his political obligations to Colonel Rathborne. The allegations were denied by Mr.Disraeli.

88. The Mountebank Member. – “Sir Robert Peel indulged in some pleasantries at the expense of the Volunteers, especially at ‘the fat lawyers,’ and was harmless enough.”

100&131. The Old News-boy and An Up-Hill Job. – Lord John Russell’s new Reform Bill was a very feeble measure, and satisfied no one. It was ultimately abandoned, after passing a second reading.

101. An Uncommonly Civil War. – Coals are now exported into France free of duty, and French wines are admitted into England at a reduced tariff.

107. The currency of the Chevelure. – Truefitt, a well-known hair-dresser in the Burlington Arcade, London.

111. Mr. Punch Surrenders the Savoyards consequent upon the annexation of Savoy to France. Mr. Punch has long waged war (and intends to continue doing so) with those street pests, the organ-grinders.

113. “Mr. John Bull Acknowledges,” &c. – One half of Westminster Bridge was completed and opened to the public before the old Bridge was removed.

126. A Wish.-H.B. was the well-known signature attached to a very popular series of polirical caricatures by the elder Mr.Doyle.

139. Kindness in Pall Mall. – The opulent Army and Navy Club is popularly known as “The Rag and Famish.”

143. The Man and the Snake. – See Introduction.

147. A New Tap for the Masses. – Mr.Ruskin, the distinguished critic and writer. Mr.Gough, a popular Temperance lecturer.

162. Mumbo Jumbo. – See Introduction.

176. Who Shot the Dog? - A Volunteer, thoughtlessly no doubt, shot a dog on Clapham Common. Mr.Punch, desirous of checking such folly, designed this out, and caused unintentional annoyance to his Friends the Volunteers, as the boys of London adopted the inquiry of “Who shot the dog?” as a street-cry.

179. The New Rogue’s March was composed on the occasion of the discovery of the Pullinger robbery of the Union Bank, and several other extensive commercial frauds.

188. The Swans of Thames were permitted to remain.

195. “Heavy Exchanges, and both Down.” – The Members of the London and Liverpool Exchanges subscribed a considerable sum of money for Tom Sayers, the pugilist. Other subscriptions were added and invested for the Champion’s benefit, on the condition that he never fought again in the prize-ring.

208. Just in Time. – Mr.James Wilson having been appointed financial member of the Legislative Council of India, had gone to that country, and, after an interval employed in making himself master of the complicated subject of Indian Finance, had matured a plan of retrenchment subject of Indian Finance, had matured a plan of retrenchment and taxation by which he hoped to produce the result so greatly needed in the present position of affairs, an equalisation of income and expenditure. Mr.Wilson development his scheme for this purpose in an elaborate speech, which he delivered in the Council at Calcutta, and which was generally received with approval, both there and in this country. Unfortunately, the recently-appointed Governor of Madras, Sir Charles Thevelyan, took an opposite view, regarding Mr.Willson’s projects of taxation as likely to be very injurious, if not impracticable, in India; and he made his hostility known and encouraged opposition to the measures of Government, in a manner calculated, in the existing state of the native mind, to create great difficulties and seriously to impede the success of the Government at home was compelled to take decisive steps in order to counteract the danger; and with creditable promptitude, they issued orders for the immediate recall of Sir C.Trevelyan – a step in which they carried with them the almost unanimous support of public opinion.

213. A Derby Course Incident. – The House of Lords rejected the clause repealing the Paper Duty, and the vote led to a serious rupture with the House of Commons. See “Essence of Parliament”.

242. A Shocking Youth Lady, Indeed. – For the benefit of the uninitiated it may be as well to explain that Aunt Sally is a black doll’s head, into the mouth of which a tobacco-pipe is inserted, and the player’s object should be to break the pipe. It was introduced into fashionable society by the Duke of Beaufort.

248. Clerk of the Weather Office. – The summer of 1860 was distressingly wet and cold.

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