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a dozen or two left at the table, we went off with the rest to have our Coffee and a 
Cigar. Even if it had been worth while to answer anything they said there was 
nobody reporting and no audience. We were content to let the Scotchmen draw 
the contrast between the two sides without disturbing the harmony of a benevolent 
and convivial meeting by the intrusion of our Colonial politics. This is a picture 
of the scene as Annand and I sawit. Of course I had not the bad taste to write out 
my speech and publish it on my own account. Our friends were not content to have 
their light hid under a bushel, and by this mail you will receive the Canadian News 
for which they have written out all they said and much that they did not say, with 
an editorial attributing to Lord Elcho, Colonel Lyndsay, and Dr. McKay, sentiments 
and opinions which none of them ever uttered. All this is mean and contemptible 
enough. Ny speech has been omitted altogether. We shall put the affair right on 
this side of the water and our papers must do the same on the other. 
On Tuesday the Confederates got to work. Galt and Tilly and I suppose 
Archibald were yesterday engaged on a Finance Committee, from which we infer 
that in view of the increasing revenues of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick both Tilly 
and Tupper feel the necessity for having the 80 cents increased. We hear, indirectly 
that the Canadians are prepared to make modifications but to what extent remains 
to be seen. Of course until they have agreed upon something we have nothing to 
attack, but we keep, through every channel that we can occupy, operating in the 
meantime on public opinion. 
You will receive by this mail the Hampshire Independent with a friendly article 
on the Organization—Lloyd’s Weekly which has a circulation of half a million a week 
with a condensed statement of our case by Annand—the Morning Post” in which 
Garvie has broken good ground and the Weekly Despatch" of this morning in which 
there is an admirable article, written by the Senior Editor, with whom Annand and I 
spent an hour last week. We are promised the insertion of articles, already written 
for the Telegraph and Spectator. 
We also send you the Saturday Review®? which has an article against us but even 
that paper is assuming a more moderate tone. The Globe! has an article in favor 
of Confederation, but the Editor admitted in a conversation with Annand that no 
Cabinet could bring down a measure that had not been sanctioned at least by the 
Colonial Legislatures. 


98 “An increased subsidy, in addition to the 80 cents per head, of $80,000, $70,000, $60,000, and 
$50,000 was made severally to Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and 
the capitation subsidy of 80 cents in both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia extended until the popula- 
tion reached 400,000.” Gray. Confederation, 386. In January, 1869, Howe himself secured for 
Nova Scotia, by the so-called Better Terms Arrangement, a substantial addition to the amount pro- 
vided by the B. N. A. Act. Speeches, II, 583, et seq. 
97 Established 1772. Southey, Lamb, Coleridge, and Wordsworth were among its contributors 
in the early part of the last century. Algernon Borthwick, afterwards Lord Glenesk, was editor from 
1852 to 1898. 
#3 Founded 1801 by John Bell. Edited by William Johnson Fox for many years. Acquired in 
1875 by Ashton Wentworth Dilke. Radical in politics. 
% Founded 1855. John Douglas Cooke first editor, 1855-68. Succeeded by Philip Harwood. 
Among its more notable contributors were Andrew Lang, John Morley, E. A. Freeman, William Vernon 
Harcourt, and Lord Robert Cecil, afterward Lord Salisbury. In its early years the Saturday Review 
made it its business to systematically attack The Times. 
100 Established 1803. George Lane was first editor. In 1823 the Globe absorbed the Traveler, 
and Walter Coulson became editor. Succeeded by Gibbons Merle. Started as a Whig paper, but 
turned Conservative after 1869. 
