The others were of a very different stamp; no two in Ireland had a better right to the name of statesmen.

Dr.O'Donnell, the Bishop of Raphoe, had been for many years officially one of the treasurers of the United Irish League.

Since the foundation of the Congested Districts Board, he had been one of its members, and served on the Dudley Commission which inquired into these regions.

His native Donegal could show the traces of his influence in applying remedial measures to what was once its terrible poverty.

Dr.Kelly, the Bishop of Ross, came from the extreme south of the same western coast-line; a keen student of finance and economics, he had been a member of the Primrose Committee on Financial Relations, and, before that, of Lord George Hamilton's Commission on the Poor Law.