sequentes, gentem Islandicam perpetuent in about to send out as England's representative sæcula sæculorum."

The last words mechanically rolled out, in the same "ore rotundo" with which the poor old Dean of Christchurch used to finish his Gloria, &c., in the cathedral.

Then followed more speeches,-a great chinking of glasses,—a Babel of conversation, -a kind of dance round the table, where we successively gave each alternate hand, as in the last figure of the Lancers,– -a hearty embrace from the Governor, and finally-silence, daylight, and fresh air, as we stumbled forth into the street.

to this country one of the most promising among the younger generation of our public men, but that the queen herself was about to intrust to the keeping of the people of Canada her own daughter. If you desired any illustration of the respect, the affection, the confidence with which you are regarded by your fellow-subjects and by your sovereign at home, what greater proof could you require than this, or what more gratifying, more delicate, more touching recognition could have rewarded your never-failing love and devotion for the mother country and its ruler? But though parliament and the citizens of Canada may well be proud of the confidence thus reposed in them, believe me when I tell you that, quite apart from these especial considerations, you Gentlemen,—I hardly know in what terms I may well be congratulated on the happy choice am to reply to the address I have just listened which has been made in the person of Lord to, so signal is the honour which you have Lorne for the future Governor-general of conferred upon me. That a whole province, Canada. It has been my good fortune to be as large, as important, as flourishing as many ties of the closest personal friendship. Himself connected all my life long with his family by a European kingdom, should erect into an emI have known, I may say, almost from his boybassy the mayors of its cities, the delegates of its urban and rural municipalities, and hood, and a more conscientious, high-minded, or better qualified viceroy could not have been despatch them on a journey of several hunselected. Brought up under exceptionally dred miles, to convey to a humble individual like myself an expression of the personal good-has profited to the utmost by the advantages fortunate conditions, it is needless to say he

ON IRISHMEN AS RULERS.1

will of the constituencies they represent, is a circumstance unparalleled in the history of Canada, or of any other colony. To stand as I now do in the presence of so many distinguished persons, who have put themselves to great personal inconvenience on my account, only adds to my embarrassment. And yet, gentlemen, I cannot pretend not to be delighted with such a genuine demonstration of regard on the part of the large-hearted inhabitants of the great province in whose name you have addressed me; for, quite apart from the personal gratification I experience, you are teaching all future administrators of our affairs a lesson which you may be sure they will gladly lay to heart, since it will show them with how rich a reward you are ready to pay whatever slight exertions it may be within their power to make on your behalf. And when in the history of your Dominion could such a proof of your generosity be more opportunely shown? A few weeks ago the heart of every man and woman in Canada was profoundly moved by the intelligence, not only that the government of Great Britain was

A speech to the municipalities of Ontario, delivered at

Quebec, Sept. 5, 1878, in reply to their joint address.

placed within his reach, many of which will have fitted him in an especial degree for his present post. His public school and college education, his experience of the House of Commons, his large personal acquaintance with the representatives of all that is most distinguished in the intellectual world of the United States, his literary and artistic tastes, his foreign travel, will all combine to render him intelligently sympathetic with every phase and aspect of your national life. Above all, he comes of a good Whig stock-that is to say, of a family whose prominence in history is founded upon the sacrifices they have made in the of a man's ancestors have perished on the scafcause of constitutional liberty. When a couple fold as martyrs in the cause of political and religious freedom, you may be sure there is little likelihood of their descendant seeking to the crown, upon the privileges of parliament encroach, when acting as the representative of or the independence of the people.

As for your future princess, it would not become me to enlarge upon her merits-she will soon be amongst you, taking all hearts by storm by the grace, the suavity, the sweet simplicity of her manners, life, and conversation. Gentle

men, if ever there was a lady who in her earliest | Have not even the French at last made the youth had formed a high ideal of what a noble same discovery in the person of Marshal Maclife should be-if ever there was a human Mahon? But still we must be generous, and being who tried to make the most of the oppor- it is right Scotchmen should have a turn. tunities within her reach, and to create for her- After all, Scotland only got her name because self, in spite of every possible trammel and she was conquered by the Irish-and if the impediment, a useful career and occasions of real truth were known, it is probable the house benefiting her fellow-creatures, it is the Prin- of Inverary owes most of its glory to an Irish cess Louise, whose unpretending exertions in origin. Nay, I will go a step further--I would a hundred different directions to be of service even let the poor Englishman take an occato her country and generation have already sional turn at the helm-if for no better reason won for her an extraordinary amount of popu- than to make him aware how much better we larity at home. When to this you add an manage the business. But you have not come artistic genius of the highest order, and innu- to that yet, and though you have been a little merable other personal gifts and accomplish- spoiled by having been given three Irish govments, combined with manners so gentle, so ernor-generals in succession, I am sure you unpretending, as to put every one who comes will find that your new viceroy's personal and within reach of her influence at perfect ease, acquired qualifications will more than counteryou cannot fail to understand that England is balance his ethnological disadvantages. not merely sending you a royal princess of majestic lineage, but a good and noble woman, in whom the humblest settler or mechanic in Canada will find an intelligent and sympathetic friend. Indeed, gentlemen, I hardly know which pleases me most, the thought that the superintendence of your destinies is to be confided to persons so worthy of the trust, or that a dear friend of my own like Lord Lorne, and a personage for whom I entertain such respectful admiration as I do for the Princess Louise, should commence their future labours in the midst of a community so indulgent, so friendly, so ready to take the will for the deed, so generous in their recognition of any effort to serve them, as you have proved yourselves to be.

And now, gentlemen, I must bid you farewell. Never shall I forget the welcome you extended to me in every town and hamlet of Ontario when I first came amongst you. It was in travelling through your beautiful province I first learned to appreciate and understand the nature and character of your destinies. It was there I first learned to believe in Canada, and from that day to this my faith has never wavered. Nay, the further I extended my travels through the other provinces the more deeply my initial impressions were confirmed; but it was amongst you they were first engendered, and it is with your smiling happy hamlets my brightest reminiscences are intertwined. And what transaction could better illustrate the mighty changes your energies And yet, alas! gentlemen, pleasant and agree- have wrought than the one in which we are able as is the prospect for you and them, we at this moment engaged? Standing, as we must acknowlegde there is one drawback to do, upon this lofty platform, surrounded by the picture. Lord Lorne has, as I have said, a those antique and historical fortifications, so multitude of merits, but even spots will be dis- closely connected with the infant fortunes of covered on the sun, and unfortunately an irre- the colony, one cannot help contrasting the parable, and, as I may call it, a congenital defect present scene with others of an analogous attaches to this appointment. Lord Lorne is character which have been frequently enacted not an Irishman! It is not his fault-he did upon the very spot. The early Governors the best he could for himself-he came as near of Canada have often received in Quebec the right thing as possible by being born a deputies from the very districts from which Celtic Highlander. There is no doubt the each of you have come, but in those days the world is best administered by Irishmen. Things sites now occupied by your prosperous towns, never went better with us either at home or the fields you till, the rose-clad bowers, and abroad than when Lord Palmerston ruled trim lawns where your children sport in peace, Great Britain-Lord Mayo governed India- were then dense wildernesses of primeval Lord Monck directed the destinies of Canada forest, and those who came from thence on an -and the Robinsons, the Kennedys, the errand here were merciless savages, seeking Laffans, the Callaghans, the Gores, the Hen- the presence of the viceroy either to threaten nesys, administered the affairs of our Aus- war and vengeance, or at best to proffer a tralian colonies and West Indian possessions. | treacherous and uncertain peace. Now, little

could Montmagny, or Tracy, or Vaudreuil, or Frontenac, have ever imagined on such occasions that for the lank dusky forms of the Iroquois or Ottawa emissaries, would one day be substituted the beaming countenances and burly proportions of English-speaking mayors and aldermen and reeves. And now, gentlemen, again good-bye. I cannot tell you how deeply I regret that Lady Dufferin should not be present to share the gratification I have experienced by your visit. Tell your friends at home how deeply I have been moved by this last and signal proof of their good-will, that their kindness shall never be forgotten, and that as long as I live it will be one of the chief ambitions of my life to render them faithful and effectual service.

A PLEA FOR TOLERATION.1

Gentlemen, Few things could have given me greater pleasure than to receive such an address as that which you have presented to me. I recollect the friendly reception you gave me on my first arrival, and I rejoice at this opportunity of bidding you farewell. I am well aware of the useful nature of the task you have set yourselves, and of the broad and liberal spirit in which you execute it, and it is, therefore, to you, and through you to the rest of our Irish fellow-countrymen in Canada, that I feel irresistibly compelled to convey one last and parting entreaty. No one can have watched the recent course of events without having observed, almost with feelings of terror, the unaccountable exacerbation and recrudescence of those party feuds and religious animosities from which for many a long day we have been comparatively free. Now, gentlemen, this is a most serious matter; its import cannot be exaggerated; and I would beseech you and every Canadian in the land who exercises any influence amid the circle of his acquaintance-nay, every Canadian woman, whether mother, wife, sister, or daughter, to strain every nerve, to exert every faculty they possess, to stifle and eradicate this hateful and abominable root of bitterness from amongst us. Gentlemen, I have had a terrible experience in these matters. I have seen one of the greatest and most prosperous towns of Ireland -the city of Belfast-helplessly given over

A speech to the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, Toronto, Sept. 25, 1878, in reply to an address read by

Captain M Master.

for an entire week into the hands of two con-
tending religious factions. I have gone into
the hospital and beheld the dead bodies of
young men in the prime of life lying stark
and cold upon the hospital floor-the delicate
forms of innocent women writhing in agony
upon the hospital beds-and every one of
these struck down by an unknown bullet-
by those with whom they had no personal
quarrel-towards whom they felt no animo-
sity, and from whom, had they encountered
them in the intercourse of ordinary life, they
would have probably received every mark of
kindness and good-will. But where these
tragedies occurred-senseless and wicked as
were the occasions which produced them-
there had long existed between the contend-
ing parties traditions of animosity and ill-will
and the memory of ancient grievances; but
what can be more Cain-like, more insane, than
to import into this country-unsullied as it is
by any evil record of civil strife-a stainless
paradise, fresh and bright from the hands of
its Maker, where all have been freely ad-
mitted upon equal terms-the blood-thirsty
strife and brutal quarrels of the Old World?
Divided as you are into various powerful re-
ligious communities, none of whom are entitled
to claim either pre-eminence or ascendency
over the other, but each of which reckons
amongst its adherents enormous masses of the

population, what hopes can you have except
in mutual forbearance and a generous liberality
of sentiment? Why, your very existence de-
pends upon the disappearance of these ancient
feuds. Be wise, therefore, in time, I say, while
it is still time, for it is the property of these
hateful quarrels to feed on their own excesses;
if once engendered they widen their bloody
circuit from year to year, till they engulf the
entire community in internecine strife. Un-
happily, it is not by legislation or statutory
restrictions, or even by the interference of the
armed executive, that the evil can be effec-
tually and radically remedied. Such alter-
natives, even when successful at the time--
I am not alluding to anything that has taken
place in Canada, but to my Irish experiences
-are apt to leave a sense of injustice and of
a partial administration of the law rankling
in the minds of one or other of the parties;
but surely when reinforced by such obvious
considerations of self-preservation as those I
have indicated, the public opinion of the com-
munity at large ought to be sufficient to re-
if you desire to
press the evil. Believe me,
avert an impending calamity, it is the duty of