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but the dissolution of 1857, when Lord Palmerston 

 went to the country about the Chinese lorcha, The 

 Arrow, gave him an opportunity of returning to 

 Parliament as Liberal member for his native county 

 of Galway. His parliamentary career (or, at least, 

 its second heat) continued until 1872, when, chiefly 

 at the instance of Frances, Countess Waldegrave, 

 then the wife of the still living Lord Carlingford, 

 he was appointed Governor of the Crown Colony of 

 Ceylon. Before dismissing his House of Commons 

 " record," I should mention that during the Civil 

 War between the Northern and Southern States 

 of the American Union, Sir William Gregory, who 

 had travelled in the winter of 1859-60 through 

 the slave States, and had passed some weeks at 

 Washington on his return from " Dixie," became 

 a strong and able supporter of the Southern cause 

 in Parliament. 



Upon domestic subjects, especially upon those 

 connected with Ireland, with the British Museum, 

 the National Gallery, and matters of art and taste, 

 he was a frequent speaker, and with such success 

 that he was appointed a Trustee of the National 

 Gallery by Mr Disraeli, and sworn as a member of 

 the Privy Council for Ireland in 1871 under Mr 

 Gladstone's First Administration. The culminating 

 point of his career was, however, attained when, in 

 1872, Lord Kimberley, then Secretary of State for 

 the Colonies, appointed him Governor of Ceylon. 

 At last " the hour and the man had both come." 



