With the Catholic prelates sat the two Archbishops of the Church of Ireland--Dr.Crozier and Dr.Bernard--to both of whom the democratic constitution of their Church had given great experience in management of business and discussion.

Dr.MacDermott, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, was the official head of his Church for the year only and had not equal knowledge of administration.

An orator, with a touch of the enthusiast in his temperament, he was a simple and sympathetic figure; vehement in his political faith, yet responsive to all the human charities and deeply a lover of his country.

There was no better representative there of Ulster, of the Ulster difficulty--at once so separate from and so akin to the rest of Ireland.
The Government nominees included, as was only natural, the most personally distinguished group.

First of them should be named the Provost of Trinity, Dr.Mahaffy, under whose aegis we assembled--a great scholar and a great Irishman.