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There were in attendance about 20,000 people, of all ranks, creeds and nationalities.

Mr W.

Murray, the chairman of the Committee, read an address to His Excellency, requesting him to crown their work by presenting the statue to the city of Montreal, which His Excellency did, in the following terms : " GENTLEMEN, It is with a degree of pleasure, very difficult to express in words, that I find myself engaged in the discharge of a duty so appropriate to my office, and so congenial to my feelings, as that which you have imposed upon me to-day.

(Cheers.

) Among the many circumstances which have made me feel at what a lortunate epoch I have arrived in Canada, by no means the least agreeable is the fact that there should have been reserved to me this opportunity of taking part in a ceremony which evinces, in so marked and general a manner, the unfailing loyalty and affection entertained by the citizens of this large, prosperous ami wealthy town to the person and throne of our Sovereign.