f the Clergy Reserves,
29; combine with the Conservatives in the defeat of the Government, 35,
36; combine with the Rouges, 47; protest against the choice of a
capital being left to Her Majesty, 53; their success with 'Rep. by
Pop.' and 'No Popery' in Upper Canada, 54-6.

Clergy Reserves question, the, 29 and note, 37, 38, 45.

Collins, John Edmund, his book on Sir John Macdonald, 165-166.

Commercial Bank, failure of the, 82, 86 and note.

Common School Act, the, 55.

Confederation, the scheme of, 62, 71-4, 75, 76.

Conservatives, join with Lower Canadian Liberals in 1854, becoming the
Liberal-Conservative party, 36-9, 102; defection among, 69; their
National Policy, 112. See Parliament.

Costigan, John, and Macdonald's Home Rule views, 153-4.

Derby, Lord, 49, 58.

Dilke, Sir Charles, on Sir John Macdonald's resemblance to Lord
Beaconsfield, 175-6.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 58; on Goldwin Smith, 156. See Beaconsfield.

Dominion of Canada. See Canada.

Dorion, A. A., the Rouge leader, 39-40, 47, 56, 67, 96; his alliance
with Brown, 45 and note; in the Macdonald-Sicotte Cabinet, 69-70;
hostile to Confederation, 74.

Dorion, J. B. E., 'l'enfant terrible,' 56.

Double Shuffle episode, the, 52, 57, 59-62.

Draper, W. H., and Macdonald, 13; from prime minister to chief justice,
19; Canadian commissioner in the Hudson's Bay Company investigation, 49.

Dufferin, Lord, and the Pacific Scandal, 97 and note; and Macdonald,
115-16.

Durham, Lord, his Report on the state of Canada, 15, 34; the question
of its authorship, 15 n.

Elgin, Lord, his troubles in connection with the Rebellion Losses Bill,
22, 23, 24, 25.

Family Compact, the, 3, 16-17, 44.

Farrer, Edward, his amusing article on Sir John Macdonald, 131.

Fitzpatrick, Sir Charles, chief justice, 128.

Foster, George E., a colleague of Sir John Macdonald, 145-6, 156.

Fournier, Telesphore, 56; minister of Justice, 107.

Franchise Act of 1885, the, 133-138.

French Canadians, their hostility to the Union Act, 34-35; and Sir
Edmund Head, 40; and Rep. by Pop., 54; and the execution of Riel, 127,
130-2.

Galt, Sir A. T., a colleague of Sir John Macdonald: sent for in 1858,
58-9; his work on behalf of Confederation, 62, 72-3, 78; resigns
portfolio of Finance, 82, 113; his character, 82-3, 84-5.

Gladstone, W. E., attacks the Rebellion Losses Bill, 25; his case of a
'Double Shuffle,' 62 and note; and the Fenian claims, 95; and Home
Rule,