Hon. J. R. Cartwright, Finance Minister, became the object of incessant newspaper attack. Sir Francis Hincks, who boasted a great reputation as a financier, wrote a profound essay in _The Mail_ to prove Cartwright’s incapacity. MAY 9th, 1874. [Illustration: No. 49. THE POLITICAL ATLAS. WHO WOULDN’T BE FINANCE MINISTER?] NO. 50. “_Pacific Pastimes._” The Reform Government took up the Pacific Railway scheme, but initiated a new policy with regard to it. Sir John Macdonald had pledged the country to complete the entire work within ten years. Mr. Mackenzie characterized this as a physical impossibility, and proposed, as the cartoon has it, “to tak the distance in sensible like jumps, ye ken!” MAY 16th, 1874. [Illustration: No. 50. PACIFIC PASTIMES; OR, THE “HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.”] NO. 51. _“Dignity” without “Impudence.”_ The Dominion Senate, usually so passive and quiet, strikingly signalized its life and vim during this session by throwing out a bill introduced by Mr. Cameron, M.P. for South Huron, having for its object the re-distribution of the electoral divisions composing that Riding. MAY 23rd, 1874. [Illustration: No. 51. “DIGNITY,” WITHOUT “IMPUDENCE.” OLD MADAME SENATE—“I SAY, MR. LOWER-HOUSE MACKENZIE, WHO’S RUNNING THIS COUNTRY, ANYHOW?”] NO. 52. “_Ambition’s Thorny Path._” Dr. John Herbert Sangster appeared as a candidate for a seat in the Council of Public Instruction. His candidature was warmly supported by many of the public school teachers of Ontario, and as ardently opposed, on personal grounds, by _The Globe_ newspaper and many others. MAY 23rd, 1874. [Illustration: No. 52. AMBITION’S THORNY PATH.]