The retirement came at a calculating moment.

South Fox still declared itself with pride an unhealthy division for Conservatives; but new considerations had thrust themselves among Liberal counsels, and nobody yet knew what the country would say to them.

The place was a "Grit" strong-hold, but its steady growth as an industrial centre would give a new significance to the figures of the next returns.

The Conservative was the manufacturers' party, and had been ever since the veteran Sir John Macdonald declared for a protective "National Policy," and placed the plain issue before the country which divided the industrial and the agricultural interests.

A certain number of millowners--Mr Milburn mentioned Young and Windle--belonged to the Liberals, as if to illustrate the fact that you inherit your party in Canada as you inherit your "denomination," or your nose; it accompanies you, simply, to the grave.