nions to submit
to any authority. In no sense could he be called a party man.

Another member of the Opposition was the {64} young man we have already
met as a student in Macdonald's law-office, afterwards Sir Oliver
Mowat, prime minister of Ontario. Mowat was of a type very different
to Sandfield Macdonald. He had been a consistent Reformer from his
youth up. After a heated struggle, he had been elected to parliament
for the South Riding of Ontario, in the general elections of 1857, over
the receiver-general J. C. Morrison. On this occasion the electors
were assured that the alternative presented to them was to vote for
'Mowat and the Queen' or 'Morrison and the Pope.' Mowat at once took a
prominent position in the Liberal ranks, and formed one of George
Brown's 'Short Administration.'

Among those who first entered parliament at the general elections of
1857 were Hector Langevin and John Rose. The former was selected to
move the vote of want of confidence in the short-lived Brown-Dorion
Administration. Rose at that time was a young and comparatively
unknown lawyer of Montreal, in whom Macdonald had detected signs of
great promise. Earlier in the same year he had accompanied Macdonald
on an official mission to England. This was the beginning of a close
personal friendship between the two {65} men, which lasted for more
than thirty years and had no little bearing on Rose's future. On
returning from England Macdonald appointed him solicitor-general for
Lower Canada. In the ensuing election Rose stood for Montreal, against
no less a personage than Luther H. Holton, and was elected. He was
destined to fill the office of Finance minister of Canada, to become a
baronet, an Imperial Privy Councillor, and a close friend of His
Majesty King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. It was believed that
still higher marks of distinction were to be conferred upon him, when
he died in 1888. It was said that Sir John Rose owed much of his
success to the cleverness and charm of his wife. I have often heard
Sir John Macdonald speak of her as a brilliant and delightful woman of
the world, devoted at all times to her husband and his interests. This
lady was originally Miss Charlotte Temple of Vermont. Before becoming
the wife of John Rose she had been married and widowed. There had been
a tragic event in her life. This was related to me by Sir John
Macdonald substantially as I set it down here.

About the year 1840 there