— period, furniture of, 222, 223 Suckling, owners of Nelson’s sword, 180 Suffield, Countess (the “Double Dow”), aristocratic insolence of, her carpet work, 49; an eighteenth-century dame, 50 Sussex, customs, songs, and superstitions, 265-266, 277-278; ironwork, 281-282; roads, eighteenth century, 280; smuggling in, 274 _et seq._ Sutherland, Duke of (the late), 137 Sutton, Miss, marriage of, with the Chevalier de Bardelin, 80 Taglioni, 254; on modern dancing, 255 Talleyrand, Charles Maurice, on Lady Holland’s caprices, 64 Teanby, William, watch-papers by, 199 Tennyson, Lord (the late), 67, 68 Testina, author’s mare, a long ride on, 233 Thackeray, W. M., 42 Theatres, 254; foreign, 260-262 Thorburn, portrait by, of the author, 189 Thurgar’s school, Norwich, 80 Thynne, Sir John, builder of Longleat, 44 Tickets, engraved for balls and concerts, author’s collections, 200 Tides, Norfolk superstition about, 313 Tilsit, Treaty of, a relic of, 80, 208-210 _Times_, the, and the _Owl_, 16; an odd advertisement in, 305 Tokens issued by towns, 288 Toole, Mr., the late, cause of his success, 256; his love of joking, 258 Töplitz, a Jewish wedding at, 262-263 Torrington, Lord, 253 Trafalgar Square riots, 166 Trotton church, “restoration” of, 286, 287 — Place, 284; association of, with Otway, 285 Truffles, English, excellence of, 131-132 Turkish ambassador, a story of a, 157 Turko-Russian affairs, 1878, 25; Lord Beaconsfield on, in 1876, 74 Tyburn, executions at, 164; one useful result of, 125 — stream, extant traces of its course, 167 “Ugly Mugs,” 197-198 _Undaunted_, vessel which took Napoleon to Elba, 88 Unemployed processions, a story of, 167 Valentines, 201 Van der Weyer, M., Belgian Minister, his reply to Lady Holland, 62 Vanneck family, “conversation” group of, by Devis, 181; their connection with the Walpoles, 181-182 Vardy, architect, 164 Vauxhall Gardens, in old days, fate of, 246-247 Vernon, Lord, his Dante discussion with Pope Gregory XVI., 8, 9 Versailles, alleged buried treasure at, 102 Vestris, Madame, in Curzon Street, 154 Vicenza, a glimpse of the Comte de Chambord at, 99 Victoria, Queen, attempts on her life, 165; libellous description of her habits, 263-264 Victoria and Albert Museum, 211 Victorian era, art of, 40 — furniture, its ugliness, 216 Vienna, ladies of, carpet made by, for Lord Westmoreland, 50 Village life, changes in, 312 _et seq._ Villegagnon, Madame de, and her husbands, 182 Visitors “down with the fish,” 43