At the close of the Session at Ottawa, Sir John Macdonald was received in Toronto by a party demonstration, embracing torch-lights and all the usual accompanyments of such occasions. As the Northern Railway revelations were at the moment occupying public attention, the procession was pictured as it should have been rather than as it was. Mr. John Beverley Robinson, M.P. for West Toronto, had shortly before this distinguished himself in a personal encounter with the proprietor of the Toronto Telegram. Sir John had, in a speech before the Session, declared that he and Robinson intended to “fight the beasts at Ephesus.”
Grip, May 5th, 1877.
“HOME FROM EPHESUS.”
(THE TORCHLIGHT-RECEPTION, AS SEEN FROM A GRIT STANDPOINT.)
THE DANGERS OF DISSOLUTION
The Conservative reaction having now unquestionably set in, the Mail boldly challenged the Government to dissolve the House and appeal to the country.