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 NOTES BY THE WAY.

��1901, February 13th (Marquis of Salisbury). Widow of W. MRS. MARY JANE LITTLE.

" In recognition of the services rendered by her late husband, Mr. William Cutlack Little, in the investigation of rural and agri- cultural problems. 50Z."

��Police.

��Danphter of

Sir Richard

Mayne.

��Messengers.

��Daughters of Peter Vargas.

��The Civil List an

interesting record.

��PUBLIC SERVICE (POLICE).

1872, June 18th (W. E. Gladstone). Miss SARAH FANNY MAYNE (now MRS. MALDEN).

" In consideration of the personal services of her late father, Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.B., to the Crown, and of the faithful performance of his duties to the public. 90Z."

Sir Richard Mayne (1796-1868), Police Commissioner. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduated B.A. ; then at Trinity College, Cambridge ; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1822. On the institution of the Metropolitan Police, 29th of September, 1829, Col. (afterwards Sir) Charles Rowan and Mayne were appointed joint commissioners, and on the resignation of the former in 1850 the latter became Chief Commissioner, the number of police under his command reaching about seven thousand men. For his services, including those on the day of the Chartist meeting on Kennington Common on the 10th of April, 1848, he was on the 29th created a C.B., and on the close of the 1851 Exhibition was made K.C.B. He was injured in the Hyde Park riots in July, 1866. There is a monument to him at Kensal Green (' D.N.B.,' vol. xxxvii.).

MESSENGERS. 1880, January 26th (Earl of Beaconsfield).

^ SS LOUISA EMILY VARGAS and MlSS HENRIETTA VARGAS.

" In consideration of the long and meritorious services of their father, the late Mr. Peter Vargas, Superintendent of the Parlia- mentary Messengers under the Secretary to the Treasury. 251. each."

This Civil List forms an extremely interesting record of many of the most important events of the nineteenth century. We get a glimpse of Napoleon and Sir Hudson Lowe at St. Helena, of the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the bombardment of Alexandria, the Phoenix Park assassinations, and the institution of our Metro- politan Police ; in the more peaceful portion of the record, the 1851 Exhibition, submarine telegraphy, the formation of the Suez Canal, and the discovery of the sources of the Nile ; while under Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts we meet with many of the illustrious names of the past sixty years.

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