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*A s 2e o e nmegfen en rovs PREMIER MOWAT V Vn 1 A_ | Presented with a Portrait j4/«01" Himself y* | BY THE LIBERALS OF THE HOUSE. ' Grand Eulogy on his Life and Services ' l DELIVERED BY MR. BALLANTYNE. a N t ts | The Oil Painting Life Stzed--Full Text , of Mr. Ballantyne's Address-- l The Attorney -- General's | Feeling Reply-- The Artist. The Premier of Ontario was given in Room No. 16 of the Parliament buiidings a tangible testimony of the regard and esteem in which he is held by his colleagues and mupporters in the Assembly, _ He has been the hero of many vic:ories at the polls and | in the Courts, he has led his party with un-- l paralleled succeess for nearly a score of' years, and in administering the affairs of his native Province he has been always 'ound true to the right, and the stern ioe of compromise and political trickery. The Province is proud of his attainments, the Liberals follow him with a devotion rarely extended to a leader, and their repre-- sentatives in the Legislature yesterday therefore met the Attorney--General, and m _ the _ pressnce _ of _ members _ of his family and a few Conservatives in _ the _ Assembly, _ presented him with a magnificent life--sized oil painting of himself. _ The room was of course crowded by the Liberal members, and there were noticed Mr. Meredith and the following Conservatives : --Messra. Monk, Lees, Ulancy, Smith (Frontenac), Cruess, Feli, A. F. Wood, Tooley and Hudson. _ The ladies present at the interesting covemony were Mrs. Mowat, Mrs. Biggar, Mrs. Langton, Mrs. G. W. Ross, Mrs. Pacaud and Miss Strange. At 2.30 that grand Liberal, Mr. Ballantyne, entered the room, followed by he Premier and all the members of the Jabinet, _ Mr. Ballantyne advanced to the Attorney--General, and put his usual force ind feeling into the following address. It is needless to say that throughout the de-- very of his speech a silence arising out of , wofound interest pervaded the room :-- MR BALLANTYXE's TRIBUTE, /"'{Sm,--'l'ho occasion on which we have his day met is of so unique a character as o be almost, if not wholly, without a parallel in the history of British constitu-- \