memorandum attached to the Report, which Mr. Goschen supported by
another independent minute.

Sir Charles sent also a request for the suggestion of 'remedies' to
Cardinal Manning, who, says a scribbled note, 'is our only
revolutionary!'

'On Friday, May 16th, at the Commission the Cardinal handed me his
list of suggestions, which were not only revolutionary, but ill-
considered, and I have to note how curiously impracticable a
schemer, given to the wildest plans, this great ecclesiastic showed
himself. He suggested the removal out of London, not only of prisons
and infirmaries (which no doubt are under the control of public
authorities), but also of breweries, ironworks, and all factories
not needed for daily or home work, as a means of giving us areas for
housing the working class, suggestions the value or practicability
of which I need hardly discuss.'

'On May 18th, I having proposed to add to the Royal Commission a
member for Ireland and a member for Scotland before we began to take
the Scotch and Irish evidence, and having proposed Gray, the
Nationalist member and proprietor of the _Freeman's Journal_, who
was the highest Irish authority upon the subject, Ponsonby replied:
"Although the Queen cannot say she has a high opinion of Mr. Gray,
Her Majesty will approve of his appointment, and that of the Lord
Provost of Edinburgh, on the Royal Commission." Sir Henry Ponsonby
was a worthy successor of General Grey--a wise counsellor of much
prudence, invaluable to the Queen.'

'Early in June Chamberlain came a good deal to the Local Government