SIR CHARLES TOPPER.
(TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SrEcT.eroe.-1 Bilk—Mentioning to my father that Sir Charles Tupper's Becollections of Sixty Years had just been published, it was interesting to hear from him that in the years 1835 and 1838 on several occasions he drove Sir Charles's father (who was a minister) from Hantsport, then, I believe, called Falmouth, to his nine-mile-distant home. He was an able preacher and an excellent self-taught linguist. In Sir Charles's boyhood days his father apprenticed him to a shoemaker, but this occupation to a boy with large ideas was uncongenial, and he ran away from his employer.
The early political ambition of Sir Charles was a United Canada (the ambition of some of our present-day poli- ticians is a "Disunited" Kingdom). It took Sir Charles six arduous years to consummate the Confederation of the Provinces ; it will take more than six years to reunite this Kingdom should Home Rule be granted to four-fifths of Ireland. Had not Nova Scotia been included in the Con- federation, to-day it might have been apart of the United States. Is it not possible that Ireland, when she obtains her independence—for that must he their leaders' ultimate object —will be willing to sell herself to the highest bidder? By no stretch of the imagination can it be said that Ireland as a whole is loyal; the loyalists are those whom the present Government are trying their best to coerce into being disloyal.
Hantsport, St. lames Road, New Brighton.
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