[24: See article on Lord Elgin in "Encyclopædia Britannica" (9th ed.), Vol. VIII., p. 132.] [25: In the "North British Review," quoted by Waldron, pp. 458-461.] [26: Lord Elgin's eldest son (9th Earl) Victor Alexander Brace, who was born in 1849, at Monklands, near Montreal, was Viceroy of India 1894-9. See Debrett's Peerage, arts. Elgin and Thurton for particulars of Lord Elgin's family.] [27: See Mr. Howe's eloquent speeches on the organization of the empire, in his "Speeches and Public Letters," (Boston, 1859), vol. II., pp. 175-207.] [28: See on this subject Todd's "Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies," pp. 313-329.] [29: See Todd's "Parliamentary Government in England," vol. II., p. 101.] [30: He was speaker of the House of Representatives from 1895 to 1899.] [31: "Congressional Government," pp. 301, 332.] [32:"The English Constitution," pp. 95, 96.] [33: In the _International Review_, March, 1877.] [34: "Congressional Government," p. 94.] [35: "The American Commonwealth," I., 210 et seq.] [36: Ibid., pp. 304, 305] [37: ibid., Chap. 95, vol. III.] [38: "Commentaries," sec. 869.] [39: See Story's "Commentaries," sec. 869.]