[323] Ibid., 66.
[324] Ibid., 131.
[325] The Midlothian Campaign, 58.
[326] The Midlothian Campaign, 63.
[327] Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Arthur Balfour, Sir John Gorst, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff.
[328] Hansard, III. cclxxviii. 1174. Bright's best speech is at cclx. 1199.
[329] Times, 21st November, 1883; Nineteenth Century, January and February, 1884. Miss Octavia Hill, who knew more about the subject than anybody else, was not appointed a member of the Commission, though she gave evidence. Twenty years elapsed before a woman sat on a Royal Commission.
[330] Report of Lord Bessborough's Commission (1881), 21.
[331] Lord Morley's Miscellanies, iv. 306.
[332] Midlothian Campaign, 44.