1: The "Greville Memoirs," edit. 1875, vol. ii. p. 23. 2: Now on exhibition at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks show. 3: "The Greville Memoirs," vol. ii. edit. 1875. 4: Wellington. 5: Times, July 12th. 6: Louis Philippe. 7: This engine may now be seen in the Patent Museum, South Kensington. 8: Times, September 7, 1831, p. 3, col. 1. 9: Defacing an old Great Seal is a very perfunctory performance. The two halves are slightly tapped with a hammer, and the seal is, by a fiction, supposed to be so defaced as to be incapable of being used again. 10: I cannot reconcile these dates. The King prorogued Parliament on October 20th, whilst there is no doubt that the attack on Apsley House took place on the 11th, for it is mentioned in the parliamentary reports of the 12th. 11: Glegg's "Life of Wellington," edit. 1864, p. 375. 12: His personal property was sworn under £200,000, but his real estate amounted to £150,000 more. 13: Gronow probably intimates the time when the interior was redecorated in 1849, and opened for the Military, Naval, and County Service, but was closed again in 1851. 14: See Sir C. Hanbury Williams' Poems. 15: This, luckily, was not the case, as it is still in keeping at the House of Lords. 16: Academia Artis PictoriÆ NoribergÆ, p. 274. 17: Sir Robert Peel. 18: The King. 19: The first boat race between the two Universities was on June 10th, 1829, from Hambledon Lock to Henley. Oxford won by five or six lengths. 20: A debate on church rates, in which the majority was only five. 21: Now in the National Gallery: bought by the trustees from the late Sir Robert Peel. 22: Tom Hood notices this steam carriage in his poem of "Conveyancing"—

23: As applied to tailors, "cabbage" means the remnants of cloth stolen in making up garments. The "goose" is the large iron used for pressing seams, etc. 24: The reader can find others in the Times of March 18, 1833; February 1, and November 2, 1836; and February 9, 1837.