A fine portrait of Sir George Trevelyan, by Mr. Frank
Roll,. was presented to him by his friends and supporters at Hawick this day week,—a portrait so fine that Sir George, in his speech of acknowledgment, modestly spoke of it as likely to be his own title to immortality "centuries hence." " Centuries hence, the curious antiquarian, looking back into the Parliamentary history of Hawick, Selkirk, and Galashiels,—which by that time will each be a flourishing separate constituency, with a couple of Members of their own,—will find that they once formed a single group, and that their first representative was a Sir George Trevelyan, who was painted by HolL" We hope that neither of these predictions will be fulfilled. If the first were fulfilled, and if other constituencies had increased their number of repre- sentatives in equal proportion, the Parliament of the future would, we fear, be a leviathan whose tongue it would be even more impossible to direct than the Leviathan referred to by Job himself. If the second should be fnlfilled, we think English history would prove that we are au ungrateful people for not recognising more fully the patriotic services of a man who for two years took his life in his hand., and without either boastful- ness or shrinking, though in the thick of the most venomous attacks, calmly discharged the duties of a predecessor who had been assassinated at the very opening of his endeavour to give to Ireland justice and peace.
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