more forcibly in Canada, I am impressed with the conviction that I owe the overpowering cordiality of my reception to my connection with her to whom, under Providence, I owe everything-my Sovereign and Parent-to her I shall, with pride, convey the expression of your loyal sentiments, and if, at some future period, so remote, I trust, that I may allude to it with less pain, it shall please God to place me in that closer relation to you which you contemplate, I cannot hope for any more honorable distinction than to earn for myself such expressions of generous attachment as I now owe to your appreciation of the virtues of the Queen. Few as have yet been the days which I have spent in this country, I have seen much to indicate the rapid progress and future greatness of United Canada.

The infancy of this Province has resembled, in some respects, that of my native Island; and as in centuries gone by, the Mother Country combined the several virtues of the Norman and Anglo-Saxon races, so I may venture to anticipate in the matured character of Canada the united excellencies of her double ancestry. Most heartily I respond to your desire that the ties which bind together the Sovereign and the Canadian people may be strong and enduring.

The subject of our sketch was Speaker of the Legislative Council and a member of the administration with whom the invitation to Her Majesty from the Canadian Parliament originated. He filled the same office when Her Majesty was pleased to accept the invitation for her son, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. He filled the same office when the Prince arrived in Canada. He had in his official capacity signed the address of invitation. He had in like manner signed and read the address of welcome. Little surprise was therefore betrayed when His Royal Highness, on finishing the reading of his answer to the Address, expressed by the Earl of St. Germains, His gracious pleasure that Mr. Belleau should advance and kneel. Then receiving the sword from His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, the Prince performed his first act of Royalty by touching with the side of its blade the shoulder of the kneeling gentleman, and commanding him to rise "Sir Narcisse Fortunat Belleau !"