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FOOTNOTES:
[246] The following were the Commissioners appointed under the Act: Sir
John F. Burgoyne, Thomas N. Redington, Esq., Under Secretary; Edward
T.B. Twistleton, Esq., Colonel Duncan M'Gregor, Commissary-General Sir
Randolph J. Routh, and Colonel Harry D. Jones.
[247] The number of electoral divisions is, at present, 3,438, embraced
within 163 Unions.
[248] _Sunday Observer_; which journal should, for the information of
posterity, have placed upon record what, if any, were the other courses
in the _carte_ at the Reform Club, the day on which M. Soyer's Irish
Soup No. 1 was so highly approved of.
[249] _The comparative nutritive and pecuniary value of various kinds of
cooked food_, by John Aldridge, M.D., M.R.I.A., read at a meeting of the
Royal Dublin Society on the 6th of April, 1847.
[250] _Freeman's Journal_, April 6th.
[251] _Evening Packet_.
[252] He did not even escape the shafts of ridicule. A writer in the
Dublin _Nation_, imitating the Witches' scene in Macbeth, thus attacked
him:--
_1st Cook_--Round about the boiler go,
In twice fifty gallons throw--
Water that in noisome tank
Mossed with verdure rich and rank.
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