[129]. In March 1846, on the introduction of the measure (9th and 10th Vict. cap. 2) for enabling the Treasury to make advances on security of grand jury presentments, Mr. O'Connell, whose knowledge of Ireland must be admitted, declared that government had acted wisely in causing a quantity of maize or Indian corn to be imported, to replace the damaged potatoes, as by so doing they had added to the quantity of food for the people.
[130]. See ‘The Irish Crisis,’ by Sir Charles Trevelyan, reprinted in 1848 from the Edinburgh Review No. 175.
[131]. These were Professors Kane, Lindley, and Playfair.
[132]. See ‘History of the Scotch Poor Law,’ pp. 130 and 165.
[134]. Commonly known in Ireland as “the Apostle of Temperance,” a worthy and benevolent man.
[135]. See ‘The Irish Crisis,’ by Sir Charles Trevelyan, p. 41.
[136]. The 10th and 11th Vict. cap. 1 and 2.
[137]. See ‘The Irish Crisis,’ by Sir Charles Trevelyan, under whose able superintendence the government aid was chiefly administered in Ireland, and on whose statements of what took place I have chiefly relied in this account of the dismal periods of 1846 and 1847.
[138]. In the month of March the expenditure upon relief-works including labour and plant, and the cost of the staff, amounted to 1,050,772l.