^{page 131 note *} See note at foot of page 32 of the last Number.

^{page 131 note †} Whatever may be thought of the results of the Committee's labours, there can be but one opinion as to the part taken by this gentleman in them. The patience, strict impartiality, and courtesy, with which he conducted an inquiry at times most tedious and uninteresting, were only equalled by the rapidity with which he seized the ideas of the several witnesses, and extracted from them, in the least possible time, the greatest amount of useful information.