Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country. Escott Thomas Hay Sweet

salt 1s., rice 1s., and oatmeal 1s. 3d. per lb. On the Yilgarn gold fields meat is 9d. to 1s. a lb., flour 10s. to 30s. per 50 lb. bag, tea 3s. 6d. a lb., and other provisions are equally scarce and dear. At Coolgardie, to the east of Yilgarn, flour costs £3 per 200 lbs., bread 1s. per 1½ lb. loaf, butter 2s. 3d. per lb., potatoes 6d. per lb., sugar 8d. per lb., tinned milk 1s. 3d. per lb., bacon 1s. 9d. per lb., salt 6d. per lb., and board and lodgings £3 to £7 a week. On the Murchison gold fields in the North, the prices per lb. are: Flour 8d., sugar 8d., tea 3s. 6d., tobacco 6d., fish 1s. 6d., mutton 8d., beef 8d., butter 3s., and tinned meats 1s. 3d.

6

Still more than this was given to get men on the home voyage from Melbourne.

7

See Our Railways. By John Pendleton. Cassell & Co.

8

Brought down to 1897 instead of 1881, these mutatis mutandis figures are derived from Mr Mallock’s most useful book.

9

In the West of England, with which the writer is specially acquainted, this is generally the case.

10

These figures are taken from ‘Art Sales,’ by George Redford, privately printed, 1882.

11

Now Sir William Agnew.

12

All the details of art prices given in this chapter are derived from Mr G. Redford’s authentic record of art sales, first privately printed in 1888. For other information the writer is indebted to the late Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A.

13

See Picciotto’s Anglo-Jewish History for all these early facts about the Jews.

14

The idea of the Exhibition being ‘universal’ was not that of the Prince, but of the Committee of the Society of Arts. It was first suggested in fact by Mr Thomas Winkworth.

15

Most of the time he was at Ghent. His stay there is known in French history as La cour de Gand.

16

These anecdotes are given from Mr Reeves’ volume already mentioned. They are suggestive of incident if not uniformly accurate in fact. The correction of the Waterloo incident given above commended itself to some among Baron Lionel’s friends who would be likely to know.

17

While Lord Palmerston has become a historical name, Lord Beaconsfield’s precedents are daily, alike by friends and foes, cited as living forces.

18

See Quarterly Review, July, 1896.

19

This anecdote was often told by Lord Shaftesbury.

20

Not, however, the most appreciated by his master.

21

Now of course Battersea Park.

22

Who, to the regret of all who knew his abilities, died February 1897, having exercised influence rather than achieved distinction.

23

While he yet lives, his enduring monuments are his blocks of working men’s dwellings in the King’s Cross district and elsewhere.

24

The guarantees against undue delegation are stringent and successful.

25

Opinions vary as to the workability of this clause in the shape in which it left the Lords.

26

E.g. In a typical Surrey village, where there are no Nonconformists, the Chairman is the Vicar, but of 38 Gloucestershire parishes, where dissenters abound, only in two or three.

27

Urban District Councils have taken the place of Local Boards; they are in fact town councils of those districts which are not incorporated into municipalities.

28

Molesworth’s History of England, vol. i. p. 19.

29

As a fact, the County chairman is most likely a J.P. already.

30

For valuable facts and figures, bringing this chapter down to the latest date the writer is indebted to Mr Henry Chaplin and his staff at the Local Government Board, as for much other useful help to Sir Henry Fowler, Sir Charles Dilke, the Rev. Charles Cox, D.D., and to Mr G. W. E. Russell.