INTRODUCTION.
The two addresses reprinted in the following pages
were delivered by invitation-that in Edinburgh from the
Lord Provost and other influential gentlemen, and that in
Greenock from the Provost, Magistrates, and the Chamber
of Commerce. They were not given by me officially as
High Commissioner for Canada, but solely as the views of
a colonist on subjects of much interest; and I publish
them in the hope that they may lead to the early and
full discussion of matters yearly becoming of greater
importance.
A. T. GALT.
LONDOr,
Feiruary, 1883.