Diogenes, June 18th, 1869.
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
MRS. BRITANNIA.—“IS IT POSSIBLE, MY DEAR, THAT YOU HAVE EVER GIVEN YOUR COUSIN JONATHAN ANY ENCOURAGEMENT?”
MISS CANADA.—“ENCOURAGEMENT! CERTAINLY NOT, MAMMA. I HAVE TOLD HIM WE CAN NEVER BE UNITED.”
“WELCOME THE COMING—SPEED THE PARTING.”
About this time Hon. (now Sir) John Rose, late Minister of Finance in the Dominion Government, left Canada to take up his residence in England, where he still resides. Sir Alexander Galt, Mr. Rose’s predecessor in the Finance Department, had recently re-entered public life. Both gentlemen had long been prominent citizens of Montreal.