To the evil of " making politics pay," not only in the NorthWest but nearer home, do we owe much of our humiliation and trouble. In one quarter of the country let us have done with the professional politician. To those who have not lost faith. in our political systems, and who, above all things, desire the moral elevation of the community, the result will be welcome. If under our party system we must reward men for political services, let us agree to pension them rather than place them in positions for which they are unfitted, or where they are likely to abuse their trust. The suggestion will doubtless bring a smile to the faces of some of the liverymen of party, but it would be well for the nation did it bring a blush.

At the seat of the insurrection the situation for a time must be one of extreme delicacy. To meet the disorganisation, and heal the scars of the conflict, we must draw upon patience and conciliation, as well as upon the country's purse. To the ministration of kindness we must above all things look. To the white settler let us be kind, as well as helpful of his interests, and ready, with discretion, to ameliorate his lot. To the half-breed we can afford to be generous; and it becomes us to be patient with his weaknesses and tender towards his susceptibilities. To none should we do injustice, and from none withhold a ready and patient hearing. The Indian should be our especial care. In his management are wanted a union of firmness and compassionateness, with the accompaniment of a high Christian example and unwavering good faith. The present condition and future of the fast vanishing race demand our warm and active sympathies. Let us not forget that to the intrusion of the white man their whole destiny has been changed. Above all let us keep from them the diseases of our modern civilisation, and undeviatingly maintain our embargo upon intoxicating liquors. Despite their material

and moral squalor, the Indians have a tribal life which it is fitting we should respect. They have also claims to the sovereignty of the land which, as colonists rather than conquerors, we cannot with justice wholly set aside. Pursuing our traditional policy of kind treatment, we may win many of them to civilisation, and lead all of them, we trust, to renew their attachment to Queen and Country.

"We must, however, be reasonable in our expectations. We must remember that the Indian has never been habituated to steady labour, and it should not be a matter of bewilderment if he is vacillating and irregular in accepting that condition. For countless generations his life has been nomadic. He has been lord of the soil, bred a warrior, and the white man who has been the cause of the change in his condition should bear with him and be patient, and extend him help and aid. He has much of his former life to unlearn; he has to struggle against the instincts of his blood; he has to accept the great truth that labour is honourable. * * No doctrine is more recognised than that every right is coexistent with a duty. The Indian has to reach the condition of understanding that he can only hold his place by the side of the white man by fulfilling the obligations attendant on the position he claims."

While not impatient of results, and pursuing the policy which has long been our proud boast, we may hope that the animosities of the conflict will soon pass away, and that the great domain of the Canadian people will take a fresh start in a bright career of progress. Its prosperity, we believe, will receive a new impulse from the events of the past few months, and the nation at large will benefit in an accession of patriotism and national spirit from the effusion of blood. But as we pen these closing lines, we hear the bugles of the returning heroes-conquering heroes!-from the fields of their glory, and we take leave of our task to join in the plaudits, and add a voice to the chorus of acclaim.

*"England and Canada," by Sanford Fleming, C. E., C. M. G.

Conquering heroes! Yes; what is it they have not conquered?
Wearisome miles on miles up to the far North-West ;
Limitless breadths of prairie, like to the limitless ocean;
Endless stretches of distance, like to eternity.

Farther still, to their seeming far as the starless spaces
That loom in the measureless void above some desolate heart.
How the unnumbered miles threatened them like an army,—
Then perished in silence beneath the tread of resolute feet.

Not alone did they march, our brave Canadian soldiers,
Grim Privation and Peril followed them hand in hand;
Sodden Fatigue lay down with them in the evening,
And Weariness rose with them and went with them all the day
Inexpressible Sadness at thought of the homes they were leaving
Hung like a cloud above them, and shadowed the path before.
These, all these, were slain by our brave, our conquering heroes.
Ah! but the battle was long,-long and bitterly hard.

Crueller enemies still ;-treacherous, scarcely human,
Hard and fierce in look, but harder and fiercer in heart;
Versed in animal cunning, warily waiting in ambush ;
Merciless in the purely animal power to smite.

Swift in their veins runs the hot, vindictive blood of their fathers;
Deep in their hearts lies a hatred, strong and cruel as death.

The heart of our country is beating against the knife of the savage; But the knife has dropped to the ground, the heart is conqueror still.

Ah! but the brave boys wounded and dead on the field of battle,
Giving their brave young lives for a cause that was dearer than life.
Say you they who have yielded their all have conquered nothing, —
Nothing remains to them but the sad deep silence of death?
No, a thousand times, no! For them are the tears of a nation-
Tears that would fain wash out the pitiful stain of blood.
These are their victories; The love that knows no forgetting,
Measureless gratitude, and the fame that forever endures.*

* Agnes E. Wetherald, in The Week.

SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF STAFF AND COMPANY OFFICERS

OF CORPS SERVING IN THE NORTH-WEST.

[NOTE.--I wish here to express my thanks to Colonel Walker Powell, Adjut. General of Militia at Headquarters, for courtesy in furnishing the following information, which I was unable to procure in time for insertion in the body of the book. My thanks are further due to the Hon. the Speaker, and to the Clerk of the House of Commons, Ottawa, for personal and official courtesies. I am also under obligations for like courtesies, and other kindnesses, to my valued friend and old commanding officer, Lt.-Col. C. T. Gillmor, late of the Queen's Own Rifles. Though unable to take part in the duties and honours of the campaign, no one, I venture to think, has followed the doings of the troops on active service in the North-West with greater pride or with a keener interest than has this true soldier and veteran in the service, Colonel Gillmor.-THE AUTHOR.]

HALIFAX PROVISIONAL BATTALION.-Lt.-Col. J. J. Bremner, Major C. J. Macdonald, 1.c., Major T. J. Walsh, Paymaster W. H. Garrison, Adjt. E. G. Kenny, capt., Qr.-mr. J. G. Corbin, Asst. Surg. D. Harrington.

No. 1 Co.
No. 2 Co.
No. 3 Co.

No. 4 Co.

No. 5 Co.
No. 6 Co.

No. 7 Co.

Capt. J. E. Curren, Lt. J. P. Fairbanks, 2nd Lt. A. Anderson.
Capt. J. McCrow, Lt. W. L. Kane, 2nd Lt. R. H. Skimmings.
Capt. B. A. Weston, Lt. A. Whitman, 2nd Lt. H. A. Hensley.
Capt. R. H. Humphrey, Lt. B. Boggs, 2nd Lt. C. E. Cartwright.
Capt. C. H. Mackinlay, Lt. J. A. Bremner, 2nd Lt. J. McCarthy.
Capt. H. Hechler, Lt. H. St. C. Silver, 2nd Lt. T. C. James.

No. 8 Co.

Capt. A. G, Cunningham, Lts. J. T. Twining, C. R. Fletcher.
Capt. J. Fortune, Lt. C. J. McKie, 2nd Lt. C. K. Fiske.

STAFF AND CO. OFFICERS 65TH BATT.-Lt.-Col. J. A. Ouimet, Major G. A. Hughes, 1.c., Major C. A. Dugas, Paymaster C. L. Bossé, Ajt. J. C. Robert, Qr.-mr. A. LaRc cque, Surgeon L. A. Paré, Asst. Surg. F. Simard.

Capt. J. B. Ostell, Lt. A. C. Plinquet.

Capt. J. P. A. des Trois-Maisons, Lt. G. Des Georges.
Capt. E. Bauset, Lieut. C. Starnes.

No. 1 Co.

No. 2 Co. :

No. 3 Co.

No. 4 Co.

Capt. A. Roy, Lieut. A. Villeneuve.

No. 5 Co.

Capt. G. Villeneuve, Lieut. B. Lafontaine.

MONTREAL BRIGADE OF GARRISON ARTILLERY.-Lt. Col. W. R. Oswald, Major W. H. Laurie, Major E. A. Baynes, Paymaster W. Macrae, Adjt. T. W. Atkinson, Qr.-mr. J. A. Finlayson, Surgeon C. E. Cameron, Asst. Surgeon J. M. Elder, Chaplain Rev. J. Barclay.

No. 1 Battery: Capt. W. C. Trotter, Lieut. W. H. Lulham.

No. 6 Batt.

Capt. C. H. Levin, Lieut. J. K. Bruce, B. Billings (acting).

WINNIPEG FIFLD ARTILLERY.-Major E. W. Jarvis, Capt. L. W. Coutlée, Lieut. G. H. Young, 2nd Lieut. G. H. Ogilvie.

WINNIPEG TROOP CAVALRY.-Capt. C. Knight, 2nd Lieut. H. J. Shelton.

:

CAVALRY SCHOOL CORPS, QUEBEC.-Commandant Lt.-Col. James F. Turnbull. Lieutenants: Lieut. E. H. T. Heward, Lieut. F. L. Lessard.

9TH BATTALION RIFLES, "VOLTIGEURS de QUEBEC."-Lt. Col. Amyot; Majors Roy and Evanturel; Paymaster, Major Dugal; Quartermaster, A. Talbot; Adjutant, Casgrain Pelletier; Supply Officer, M. Wolsley; Surgeon Dr. A. Deblois; Asst. Surgeon, M. Waters; Capts. L. E. Frenette, M. Chouinard, J. C. G. Drolet, E. Garneau, F. Pennee, A. O. Fages, L. F. Perrault, N. Lavasseur, Fiset; Lieuts. G. F. Hamel, W. D. Baillairgé, - Fiset, G. A. Labranche, J. V. Dupuis,

- Dion,

Shehy,

Casgrain, F. de St, Maurice, P. Pelletier, J. C. Routhier, C. C. Larue, and H. Beique.

[It is doubtful

whether the list of this regiment is either full or accurate. The Adjut.. General was unable to furnish it.]