[2] Sir John Robinson, _Fifty Years of Fleet Street_. [3] It was humorously said at the period that Mr. Robinson (the Manager of the _Daily News_) and Count Bismarck were the only persons who had gained by the war, and that only the former deserved to do so. [4] Mr. Labouchere gave the following reasons for severing his connection with the _Daily News_. "On Mr. Gladstone's withdrawal from public life," he wrote in _Truth_, "the party, or rather a majority of the officialdom of the party became tainted with Birmingham imperialism. My convictions did not allow me to be connected with a newspaper which supported a clique of intriguers that had captured the Liberal ship, and that accepted blindly these intriguers as the representatives of Liberalism in regard to our foreign policy." [5] _Daily News_, Feb. 8, 1869. [6] Merivale and Labouchere had recently met at a dinner party at the house of the former's father. [7] Merivale had collaborated with Palgrave Simpson in the construction of the play. [8] Herman Merivale, _Bar, Stage, and Platform_. [9] Ellen Terry, _The Story of my Life_. [10] _Truth_, August 16, 1877. [11] _Ibid._, June 12, 1877. [12] _Truth_, Nov. 12, 1887. [13] _Truth_, November 8, 1877. [14] Joseph Hatton, _Journalistic London_. [15] "The Ghastly Gaymarket," _Truth_, Dec. 8, 1881. [16] _The World_, July 15, 1874. [17] Mr. Grenville Murray, who was the editor of the _Queen's Messenger_, was assaulted by Lord Carrington on account of an article he wrote about the latter's father, and out of the case which Mr. Grenville Murray brought against Lord Carrington arose Mr. Murray's prosecution for perjury, which resulted in his departure from England. He died in Paris in 1881. It was at the time of the scandal aroused by the article for which Lord Carrington assaulted Grenville Murray, that Mr. Labouchere was accused of being the proprietor of the paper. [18] _The World_, Jan. 23, 1912. [19] _Truth_, October 11, 1877. [20] _Temple Bar_, December 1, 1860. [21] _Daily News_, February 19, 1872. [22] G. A. Sala, _Life and Adventures_. [23] _Truth_, October 23, 1884. [24] The first and last verses are as follows: Of all the boys that are so smart There's none like crafty Labby; He learns the secret of each heart, And lives near our Abbey; There is no lawyer in the land That's half as sharp as Labby; He is a demon in the art And guileless as a babby! The ministers and members all Make game of truthful Labby, Though but for him it's said they'd be A sleepy set and flabby; And when their seven long years are out, They hope to bury Labby; Ah then how peacefully he'll lie, But not in our Abbey! {119} CHAPTER VI THE BESIEGED RESIDENT (Sept., 1870-Feb., 1871)