Volume 25 — NOTES.
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The Camp at Chobham.—The July of 1853 was particularly wet.5
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The Camp.—A fact.16
Fancy Portrait.—Need we say of Mr. Charles Kean.13
A Genteel Reproof was really required to check the somewhat indelicate curiosity of lady-visitors to the camp.15
Poisonous Puffs still disgrace many provincial papers and a few metropolitan ones. Newspaper readers have the remedy in themselves by adopting the advice given in this article.29
A Startling Novelty in Shirts was barely an exaggerationin 1853.31
A Determined Duellist.—See Note to p. 39. 32
The New Act.—The Cabman is the picture of a man then about town, and a member of a very respectable family, to annoy whom he drove a Hansom Cab.34
A Good Joke.—See Introduction.35
Another Potato Blight, &c.—Mr. Serjeant Murphy, of facetious memory.37
Mornington's Challenge.—Lord Mornington, formerly Mr. Wellesley Tylney Long Pole, recently challenged Lord Shaftesbury, who declined the folly. Pop Goes the Weasel was the name of a popular tune.39
East India House.—Mr. Hogg was a distinguished director of the East India Company and M.P.42
The American Cupid.—Mr. Hobbs, the celebrated lock-picker, to whom reference has been frequently made in preceding Volumes.49
Logic for Mr. Lucas.—See Notes to preceding Volumes.50
Effect of the Cab Strike.—About this time the Cab Proprietors of London struck against the new Cab Act, and London for a day was left cabless.51
Wanted, a Nobleman.—An Earl of Aldborough was advertised as a patron of Holloway's Pills, for whose real value, see Punch, No. 1126, February 7, 1863.61
The Member for Lincoln as he will Appear at the Next General Election.—A Street Musician used to play several instruments in the manner here indicated.61
The Battle of Spithead.—The Queen held a grand Naval Review at Spithead.73
The Doom of Westminster Bridge was fulfilled in 1862 by the opening of the beautiful structure built by Mr. Page.79
A Present for Aberdeen.—Lord Aberdeen was suspected of Russian tendencies.95
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Flowers of the Towzerey Plant.—The Towzerey Gang was a set of swindling warehousemen well exposed by the Times.104
A Consultation about the State of Turkey.—Turkey was described at this time as "the sick man."119
Tavern Experience.—See large cut below.128
The Institution of our Spectre of Chelsea.—An Apparition called the Lady of Salette was said to have appeared to a Shepherd boy, and was accredited by the Romish Church.131
Memorial to Bellot.—A Monument to the memory of this gallant Frenchman, who perished during one of our Polar Expeditions, is erected opposite to Greenwich Hospital.186
A Letter and an Answer.—The Cholera was rife at this time.197
A Nuisance in the City, &c.—The Corporation of London strongly opposed the Health of Towns' Bill.199
Lord Sid-nee Show.—Sidney was a Tea-dealer.204
A Bishop on Things Solid.—A most ridiculous movement was made in the City to obtain subscriptions for a Statue for Prince Albert. It was very properly discountenanced at Court.206
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A Lonely Square.—This was the age of "stick-ups."222
The Remonstrance, and A New Chime for Bow Bells.—The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London had fallen, sadly "fallen from their high estate" in public estimation.228
Expostulation with Palmerston.—Lord Palmerston had left the Ministry at this time. See Introduction.258
