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Charmingly told. its first 10,000, in the U.S. Sure of L id second 10,000 is being rapidly disposed and will ami IT IS A the Lilacs" is a charming book HORRID GIRL.— of fun and adventu THAT her repay the reader. It is full 1 captivating story. Time is flying. Get : ROBERTSON'S CHEAP SERIES POPULAR READING XT POPULAR PRICES. SPEECHES OF THE EARL OF DUFFERIN K.P, K.C.B., G C.M.G.,F.B.S., Etc., GOVERNOR-GENERAL OE CANADA.* 1872-1878- COMPLETE TORONTO T. ROSS ROBERTSON, 67 YONGE-STREET, 1878. — — THE SPEECHES OF THE EARL OF DUFFERIN. It was in the beautiful city of Florence, in only of England but of all Europe were upon Italy, that the Right Honourable Sir Frederick him when he rose to speak. His marriage Temple, Earl of Dufferin, K.R, G.C.M.G., in 1862 is the next landmark in his history. K.C.B., F.R.S., first saw the light of day on He espoused Harriot Georgina, eldest daugh- the 21st June, 1826. His father was fourth ter of Archibald Rowan Hamilton, Esquire, Baron Dufferin, and his mother a grand- of Killyleagh Castle, County Down, Ireland, daughter of the celebrated Richard Brinsley a lady of good old Scottish stock, and one Sheridan, whose genius was in a measure distinguished alike for the brilliancy of the transmitted through his son Thomas to Irish and the common-sense of the Scotch the latter's daughters, the Hon. Mrs. Nor- one whose unobtrusive help has sustained ton, who was married to the baronet of and nerved his Lordship in many hours of Keir, and the Baroness Dufferin. In her weariness. From 1864 to 1866 he was son Frederick the mental acquirements of Under Secretary of State for India, in the this lady were perpetuated, and shone with latter year being offered the position of increased brilliancy. Lord Dufferin was Governor of Bombay, which for family rea- educated at Eton and Christ Church College sons he had to decline. He was then trans- at Oxford. On his father's death, on21st July, ferred to the War Department as Under 1841, he succeeded to the title. He early Secretary, a position which he vacated on directed his attention to the questions that Mr. Gladstone's accession to power in 1 868, were then in Ireland beginning to cry ur- to assume the duties of the Chancellorship of gently for attention, the fruits of his studies the Duchy of Lancaster and of Paymaster being ^iven to the country through the General. In this year he was also sworn in as columns of the Times, and in the House of a Privy Councillor. When he had been in Lords, to which he was elevated in 1850 these positions for about three years, he was, under the title of Baron Clandeboye. At in 1871, created an Earl of the United King- this time Lord Dufferin was a Lord in dom. In his own- native county he has Waiting to the Queen, a position which he been Lord Lieutenant and Honorary Colonel held at intervals until 1858. He was attached of the North Down Rifles. On the 22nd received his tj Lord John Russell's famous special mis- May, 1872, he s commission as sion to Vienna in Feb., 1855. On his return Governor General of Canada from the Glad- he went to Iceland in his yacht, the trip fur- stone Government—a fitting reward for a nishing materials for his Lordship's best known quarter of a century's labour for his country. work, "Letters from High Latitudes." It is no part of our purpose to pursue the Lord Palmers ton soon found employment for effulgent course of Lord Dufferin's adminis- the rising young statesman by sending him tration in Canada. Every one in the coun- to Syria to investigate the Christian massa- try cannot fail to be conversant with his cres, that about this time created consider- movements from his first landing at Quebec able stir. This he did with great acceptance, on the 25th June, 1872, to his departure not alone to his Government, but to the in- thence the 19th Oct., 1878. He perfected habitants themselves, and this it was pro- the constitutional work which others had bably that led the press to jump at once to ably begun. His whole career—in Canada may the conclusion that he would be appointed to be summed up in the words : " Say what a administer the British reforms in Asia Governor should be, and he was that." Minor. On his return to Britain he was In inviting our readers' attention to the made a K.C.B.

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