[92] Personally, Lord Lytton was more correctly appreciated in Paris where in his last years he much lived. His unfailing presence of mind in physical difficulties or dangers compelled the admiration of all who knew him. A Colonial Secretary himself, he first showed, in the closing chapters of _The Caxtons_, that sense of the greatness of our Colonial empire, to-day a commonplace but unknown up to then. [93] John Copley, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, and John Campbell, afterwards Lord Campbell, during their student days at the Bar, both wrote for the London papers, chiefly theatrical critiques. [94] These figures for the later date are taken direct from Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directory 1897; for the earlier from a note by Mr Garnett in Mr Ward's _Reign of Queen Victoria_; Mr Garnett's statistics being apparently derived from an article contributed probably by Albany Fonblanc to an early number of the _Westminster Review_. [95] Carried in the January of 1855 a majority of 157 (305 to 148). [96] Successes of a new sort have been made. The penny newspapers had paid by their advertisements; when the price of the paper on which they were printed exceeded a certain figure, circulation beyond the amount necessary to maintain advertisements was not therefore in itself a paramount object. The new halfpenny sheets realized on every copy sold a profit larger even proportionately than the penny papers had ever made on their copies, advertisements of course excepted. [97] For the commercial details of newspaper enterprise, the reader is referred to the author's earlier work _England_, etc., where he duly acknowledged his obligations to his editorial chief and personal friend, Mr W. H. Mudford, of the _Standard_; for the fresh facts and figures here given the writer is indebted to Sir Charles Dilke, to Mr H. Labouchere, to an article on _Halfpenny Papers_ by Mr F. A. McKenzie in the _Windsor Magazine_ for January 1897, and above all to Mitchell's invaluable _Newspaper Press Directory_. [98] M.P. for Shrewsbury since 1832. [99] Each reform was followed by a fresh diminution in the death rate. [100] This lady, in addition to her natural gift of organization, had been trained at the Prussian hospital of Kaisersworth. Accompanied by her friends, Mr and Mrs Bracebridge of Atherstone Hall, and 37 nurses, she reached Scutari November 5, just in time to tend the wounded after Balaclava. [101] Sampson Low's _Charities of London_, p. 2. [102] The statistics illustrative of this subject have been derived exclusively from Mr Sampson Low's _Charities of London_, at the places already indicated in the footnotes. For the other facts to complete the little picture, the writer is indebted to friends who have made this subject their special study, such as Lady Priestley, or reluctantly to his own personal experience. [103] For these statistics, some of them perhaps now given for the first time the writer is beholden to Sir Brydges Henniker, Registrar General.