Lord Dufferin has been received most enthusiastically in British Columbia.
During his viceroyalty he has acted on the praise- worthy principle that a ruler should see for himself every part of the dominion entrusted to his care, and he has now visited the most distant and difficult of access of the provinces of the British North-American Confederation. To do so, he has had to travel some thousands of miles through the United States tuSan Fran- cisco, and to make a long sea voyage thence northwards. The British Columbiana naturally seized upon this circumstance of a 'Viceroy being obliged to travel thousands of miles through a foreign country to reach a portion of his own viceroyalty, to press home the necessity of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the argument was too forcible to be parried. But while skilfully availing themselves of this occurrence, the British Columbiana received the Viceroy with a warmth and a display which could hardly have been exceeded had the honour been paid to Royalty itself. One slight hitch, it is true, occurred, but the intention evidently was not to insult the Viceroy, only to make a demon- stration against the present Dominion Cabinet.
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