It had been currently reported in the newspapers that the dignity of the Lieut. Governorship of Ontario was to have been bestowed on the Hon. George Brown, immediately on the accession to power of the Reform Government. The new ministers discovered, however, that Sir John Macdonald, had, in the last gasp of his official life, appointed one of his own colleagues, (the Hon. John Crawford) to the position in question, besides disposing of ninety-nine other “places” in the gift of the First Minister. NOVEMBER 15th, 1873. [Illustration: No. 24. THE POLITICAL MOTHER HUBBARD AND JOHN A.’S “DYING INIQUITY.”] NO. 25. “_The Irrepressible Jack._” The circumstance under which Sir John Macdonald was deposed from power seemed to warrant the assumption of the Reformers that he was “done for.” But on the contrary it only seemed the signal for additional honours to be heaped upon him by the Conservative Party, who unhesitatingly chose him leader of the opposition, and nominated him as member for Kingston, West Toronto, &c., not to mention banquets, and other species of emphasis. NOVEMBER 22nd, 1873. [Illustration: No. 25. THE IRREPRESSIBLE JACK; OR, THE CONSERVATIVE RESUSCITATION. JOHN A. (_Side Showman_)—“DID YOU THINK THE LITTLE FELLER’S SPRING WAS BROKE, MY DEARS?”] NO. 26. “_The Premier’s Model._” In an address to the electors of Lambton, soon after the accession to power of the Reform Party, Mr. Mackenzie declared the cardinal points of the policy he would inaugurate, as leader, to be “Electoral Purity” and “the Independence of Parliament.” (Before entering political life, Mr. Mackenzie followed the vocation of stone-mason.) NOVEMBER 29th, 1873. [Illustration: No. 26. THE PREMIER’S MODEL; OR, “IMPLEMENTS TO THOSE WHO CAN USE THEM.” CANADA—“WELL AND BRAVELY DONE, MACKENZIE, NOW STAND BY THAT POLICY, AND I’M WITH YOU ALWAYS!”] NO. 27. “_The Liberal Programme._” An adaptation of one of Leech’s Cartoons, in _Punch_, to Canadian circumstances—the cleansing of the Legislature after the corrupt Conservative regime. DECEMBER 6th, 1873. [Illustration: No. 27. THE LIBERAL PROGRAMME; OR, THE ERA OF PURIFICATION.] NO. 28. “_The Political Giant-killer._” The “Canada First” movement, having for its object the cultivation of a national sentiment and the extinction of political party strife, was inaugurated about this time. DECEMBER 13th, 1873. [Illustration: No. 28. THE POLITICAL GIANT-KILLER; OR, “CANADA FIRST.”] NO. 29. “_The West Toronto Run._” In the General Election which followed the defeat of the Conservative Government, Mr. E. O. Bickford contested West Toronto in the interest of the New Opposition, and rested his claims to the seat mainly on the prestige of Sir John Macdonald, declaring that, if elected, he would follow that honourable gentleman through weal or woe. As the cartoon suggests, he met with defeat. DECEMBER 20, 1873. [Illustration: No. 29. THE WEST TORONTO RUN.