[6] Her Majesty pays Income Tax on her private property, like any of her subjects. [7] Cant name for gin. [8] It falls to the lot of the drummers in the army to flog, whenever corporal punishment is decreed. [9] By this is probably meant the Act 1 & 2 Will. IV. cap. 22. [10] A parody on Jetty Treffz’ famous song, “Trab, Trab, Trab,” at Jullien’s Promenade Concerts in 1850. This parody is exceedingly humorous, being the story of how an exceedingly fat man hired a cab and drove all over London. [11] Unconsumed carbon, the deposit of very gaseous coal, which wraps round the bars, until it finally parts and is blown away. Its sign was, in my young days, that a stranger would visit the house ere the day was over. [12] This is a cant term for a quartern of gin served in three glasses, which, between them, exactly hold the quantity. [13] This word seems simply to be used in order to make up a rhyme. Of course, there are wattles of turkeys and wattles (hurdles), but neither are applicable. [14] The Reverend Theobald Mathew, the famous advocate and apostle of Temperance, was born at Thomastown, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, October 10, 1790. He was ordained in 1814, and was appointed to a chapel in Cork. Here he interested himself much in the condition of the poor, and in 1838, his attention having been called by a Quaker to the evils of drunkenness, he began his famous total abstinence campaign, enrolling in the course of five months one hundred and fifty thousand converts. On one visit to Galway he administered the pledge to one hundred thousand persons in one day. His influence over the working classes, especially of the Irish, was enormous, and the amount of good he did is incalculable. He did not confine his exertions in the cause of temperance to Ireland, but visited England and America. He died December 8, 1856. [15] Credit. [16] There is a line short in the original. [17] Hence the names of “Bobby” and “Peeler” as applied to the Police. [18] These four lines form the chorus. [19] dance somewhat similar to a Redowa, and in vogue about the time when the Polka was the rage. [20] See “Jullien’s Grand Polka.” [21] This verse is used as chorus. [22] There is a somewhat similar story in Dr. Andrew Boorde’s “Wise Man of Gotham,” printed in Henry the Eighth’s time, but the _dénouement_ is not so pleasant, as the lady dismissed her lover with some very strong language. [23] A parody on the very popular _lied_, “Trab, Trab, Trab,” sung by Fraulien Jetty Treffz at Jullien’s Promenade Concerts, 1850, etc. [24] This song is old, for it was introduced by Bannister in “Peeping Tom,” and it was set to music by Dr. Arnold. [25] Richard Martin exerted himself especially in the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. [26] This notice still survives in some parts of the suburbs; and the barber’s pole, striped with its bandages, indicative of bleeding, is fast becoming obsolete. [27] A form of marriage practised among the gipsies.