[67] Hume had been introduced to Place by James Mill, who thought him worth 'nursing.' Place found him at first 'dull and selfish,' but 'nursed him' so well that by 1836 he had become the 'man of men,'—Wallas's Francis Place, p. 181, 182.
[68] Torrens's Life of Graham, i. 250-72, where his great speech of 14th May 1830 is given.
[69] 2 and 3 William iv. cap. 111 (passed 15 August 1832).
[70] 4 and 5 William iv. cap. 15.
[71] The Platform, its Origin and Progress, by Henry Jephson (1892), gives a very interesting historical account of the process.
[72] 57 George iii. cap. 19, and 60 George iii. cap. 6.
[73] See Jephson's Platform, pp. 167-70.
[74] See Jephson's Platform, i. 348, 455, 517.
[75] See Ibid. ii. 129-40 for some interesting passages as to this.
[76] Official Correspondence (1887), 308.