Brown, George, birth, 1; education, 1; leaves Scotland for the United States, 2; visits Canada, 4; founds the _Banner_, 5; founds the _Globe_, 20; addresses Toronto Reform Association, 21; refuses to drink health of Lord Metcalfe, 27, 28; his dwelling attacked by opponents of Lord Elgin, 36; opposes Clear Grit movement, 40; attitude towards Baldwin-Lafontaine government, 42; dissatisfied with delay in dealing with clergy reserves, 42; causes of rupture with Reform government, 44; comments on Cardinal Wiseman's pastoral, 44, 45; attacked as an enemy of Irish Catholics, 44-6; defeated in Haldimand election by William Lyon Mackenzie, 46; his election platform, 47; rupture with Hincks's government, 48; complains of French and Catholic influence, 48, 49; series of letters to Hincks, 48; addresses meeting in favour of secularization of clergy reserves, 55, 56; candidate for parliament for Kent, 61; his platform, 61; advocates free and non-sectarian schools, 62; advocates similar policy for university education, 62; elected member for Kent, 64; his first appearance in parliament, 65; consequence of parliament being held in city of Quebec, 65; hostility of French-Canadians to Brown, 65; Brown's maiden speech, 66; vindicates responsible government, and insists upon fulfilment of ministerial pledges, 66, 67; condition of parties in legislature, 69; Brown's temporary isolation, 69; his industry, 69; opposes legislation granting privileges to Roman Catholic institutions, 70; his course leads towards reconstruction of legislative union, 70; growth of his popularity in Upper Canada, 71; remarkable testimony of a Conservative journal, 71, 72; his appearance on the platform in 1853 described by the Hon. James Young, 73; favours prohibition, 76; elected for Lambton, 77; forms friendship with the Rouge leader, A. A. Dorion, 80, 81; advocates representation by population, 82-4; charged by J. A. Macdonald with misconduct as secretary of prison commission, 87; moves for committee of inquiry, 88; forcibly repels attack, 89; exposes cruelties and abuses in prison, 90; his relations with Macdonald embittered by this incident, 91; delivers address on prison reform, 91, 92; repels charge that he had been a defaulter in Edinburgh, and defends his father, 93-7; elected for city of Toronto in 1857, 99; defeats government on question of seat of government, 100; called upon to form a government, 101; confers with Dorion, 101; forms Brown-Dorion administration, 102; waits upon the governor-general, 102; receives communication from the governor-general, 102; forms belief that obstacles are being placed in his way by intrigue, 102; criticizes the governor-general's communication, 103; meets his colleagues, 104; his government defeated in parliament, 104; asks for dissolution and is refused, 105, 106; his government resigns, 106;