[118] Professor Anderson’s entertainment is evidently referred to here.
[119] The “ladle” in which the offertory is collected in Scottish parish churches is passed round each pew by an “elder” of the Kirk.
[120] In the Life of the Prince Consort, by Sir T. Martin, there is a record of a curious conversation the Prince and Lord Clarendon, giving a graphic description of rural Ireland at this time.
[121] This was done, as a matter of fact, on three previous occasions—the Irish Municipal Bill (1834), and the Irish Poor Law Bills of 1838 and 1847.
[122] Memoir of James, eighth Earl of Elgin, edited by Theodore Walrond, with a Preface by A. P. Stanley, Chap. IV., pp. 70 et seq.