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 THE ELGIN PERIOD. 
 
 THE LATE HONORABLE MRS. ROBERT BRUCE 
 INTERESTING REMINISCENCES. 
 
 (Ottaioa Citizen, J 2th February, li'go.) 
 
 There has recently passed away at one of the Royal Palaces 
 in London, a lady of the Queen's household— the Hon. Mrs. Robert 
 Bruce— whose loss will be keenly felt by Her Majesty, and by other 
 surviving friends at home and abroad. In Canada, where Mrs. 
 Bruce long resided, her memory will be pleasantly associated with 
 a notable period in our domestic history — that covering the 
 years when her noble kinswoman, the Countess of Elgin, ably 
 sui^ported by the lady now no more, grac^,>' sly dispensed a 
 munificent hospitality, first at " Monklands," then at " Elmsley 
 Villa," and subsequently at the historic " Spencer Wood " Not a 
 few of the friends of those days have preceded the lamented lady to 
 the unknown land, but there are happily still with us a few to unite 
 in paying a tribute, however madequate, to departed worth and 
 goodness. Our recollections of Mrs. Bruce go back to her, first as a 
 young and happy bride. She was the daughter of Sir Michael 
 Shaw-Stewart, 6th Baronei of Blackball, and was married, in 1848, 
 to Colonel Robert Bruce, of the (kenadier Cuards, the singularly 
 handsome brother of Lord Elgin, then Covernor-General of 
 Canada. 'l"he young couple came at once to Montreal, where 
 the seat of (Government then was, Colonel Bruce being appointed 
 Military Secretary and Principal A.D.C. to his brother. Mrs. 
 Bruce's fine personal appeaiance and cheerful and winning 
 demeanour soon made her a particular favourite in society, and 
 her i)raises were universal. 'J'he times became out of joint, how- 
 ever, for the practice, to any considerable extent, of the social 
 amenities. There was mischief in the air. The passing of the 
 Rebellion Losses' Bill by Lord Elgin threw the country into a 
 ferment of excitement, and for a time there was a grand upheaval, 
 social as well as political. The painful events following— the 
 burning of the Parliament Buildings and the mobbing of the 
 Oueen's Representiuive, with other enormities — are lully set forth 
 
in history, and need no enlargement here. Many interesting 
 reminiscences of that stormy period have been given and are now- 
 more or less forgotten, but there is one incident recently revived 
 which certainly merits permanent record. It concerns a gentle- 
 man, now a resident of Ottawa, the highly respected Chancellor 
 of Queen's University, Mr. Sandford Fleming— then newly arrived 
 in the colony from his native Scotland. He it was on the 
 disastrous night of the conflagration who, at the imminent peril 
 ot his life, bore through the flames of the Legislative Halls, that 
 well-known picture of our revered Queen which now adorns the 
 Federal Buildings ot the Dominion Capital. What more patriotic 
 subject for the painter's brush or the poet's fancy ! Colonel 
 Bruce accompanied the Governor-General on all occasions, a 
 circumstance he had long painful cause for remembering, seeing 
 that he carried on his person for the rest of his days the wound- 
 print of a blow received from a heavy stone thrown by some one 
 in a pursuing mob. This occurred a week or more after the first 
 overt demonstration, as Lord Elgin and his brother were driving 
 home from Government House. Seeing the threatened danger, 
 Colonel Bruce threw himself into a position to save his brother, 
 and thus sustained the injury intended for the latter. His bravery 
 and fraternal devotion in such a crisis were on all sides much 
 applauded. During all this unhapp> period " Monklands," the 
 Governor's residence, and the houses of the Ministers resident, 
 were in a state of siege, requiring special protection. Mrs. 
 Bruce, of course, was with her sister-in-law at "Monklands," 
 and it was there, when the political excitement had somewhat 
 abated, attended by Mrs. Bruce, that Lady Elgin was safely 
 delivered ofa son— her first born— who has lived to inherit the 
 family titles and honours. Here, before \.'e dismiss the subject, 
 it may be proper to observe, that while public opinion in this 
 country was much divided on the wi^sdom and policy of Lord 
 Elgin's course at this particub- stage of his public career, in 
 England, by the Queen and h. con.stitutional advisers, it was 
 upheld and sustained throughout. But i)robably the best evidence 
 of His Lordship's eminent success as an .Administrator was afforded 
 on the occasion of his untimely demise, when both the great 
 leaders in the House ot Lords, Earl Derby and Earl Grey, con- 
 tended with generous rivalry for the honour of having first intro- 
 duced the departed statesman to ofificial life. Rarely has so marked a 
 compliment been paid in any country, even to a public man of the 
 first rank. From Montreal the seat of Government was transferred 
 to Toronto for two years, moving thence to Quebec in 185 r, at both 
 of which places Colonel Bruce (who meanwhile had succeeded 
 the late Colonel Campbell, of St. Hilaire, as Governor General's 
 Secretary and Superintendent-! ieneral of Indian Affairs) and his 
 
estimable wife, made many warmly attached friends, with several 
 of whom, in after years, they maintained an intimate correspon- 
 dence. Hoth Lord and Lady Elgin and their family circle, in- 
 cluding His Lordship's daughter by his first marriage, the present 
 Lady Thurlow, mingled freely in the Colonial society of the day, 
 and one and all manifested the wannest interest in everything 
 tending to the welfare and hap|)intss of the Canadian people, the 
 smallest duties being as sedulously looked after as the more im- 
 portant ones. The writer well remembers a visit paid to the 
 school he attended by His Excellency. There was to be a distri- 
 bution ot prizes and the Governor (ieneral was asked to present 
 them. To the writer's intense surprise his own name was 
 oalled. Proceeding in some trepidation to the dais, where the 
 great personage stood, he found himself before a handsome, 
 middle-aged gentleman of benevolent aspect, whose first words 
 removed every uneasiness. "You are an English boy," said His 
 Lordship, witn i. kind smile, " your parents having both come from 
 England ; I am now about to give you the History of England," 
 and, handing the book with a warm shake of the hand, " I want you 
 always to stand up for England !" While in Quebec, Durham 
 Terrace (so named after Lady Elgin's father, whose report on 
 public affairs is now so frequently cited), was always a favourite 
 resort with the Vice-regal party, and there, in the early morn, 
 Lord P^lgin. when he remained in town, and Colonel and Mrs. 
 Bruce, always, rain or shine, could be found doing a vigorous 
 " constitutional " before breakfast, their companions on these 
 occasions not infrequently being the late Hon. Henry Black, the 
 late Hon. F. VV. Primrose (son of a former Earl of Rosebery), or 
 the venerable and dignified Seigneur of Lotbiniere, the late Mr. 
 Gaspard Joly, whose son, Edmond, an officer under Havelock, 
 not long afterward bravely fell at the relief of Lucknow. At 
 that time, during the sessions of Parliament, divine service was 
 celebrated every Sunday morning in one of the Chambers 
 ot the Legislature (whose sittmgs were held in the old 
 stone building, since destroyed by fire, at Prescott Gate), 
 the late Dr. Adamson generally officiating. At these services, 
 which were attended by almost all the members of the 
 Legislature of the Anglican communion, Lord Elgin, with his 
 family and suite, was oftentimes present. A'as ! how few remain 
 of the prominent figures of those times. As we look around us 
 today, and mentally note the absent faces, we begin to realize 
 the tremendous havoc wrought by d-ath in the ranks of our 
 public-men, but one form— that of the veteran Premier in his 
 green and vigorous old age— remaining in active public life as a 
 connecting link between the Present and the Past of which we 
 are speaking. Lord Elgin's official relation with Canada termi- 
 
nated in 1854, the year in which he concluded his well-known 
 Treaty of Reciprocity with the United States. Returning to 
 England His T-ordship entered the administration of the day, and 
 with his subsequent brilliant career in China and India, down to 
 the day when dying on t^-e Himalayan hills from exhausted 
 vitality, he sent his last message, expressive of love and devotion 
 to the Queen, our readers are doubtless familiar. He was but 52 
 when called away. Colonel Bruce re-joined his regiment, and, in 
 1859, attained Major-General's rank ; but in the previous year, 
 Her Majesty, whose entire confidence and sincere regard and 
 esteem he seems to have won, together with that alsoof the lamented 
 Prince Consort, was pleased to appoint him to the charge of the 
 Prince of Wales as (iovernor, a trust, we are assured, he ful- 
 filled with a fidelity, good judgment, tact and kindness that 
 have rarely been equalled. In the capacity named General 
 Bruce accompanied His Royal Highness on his visit to Canada 
 and the United States, in i860, the full political significance of 
 which event the Prince Consort was the first to recognize ; on his 
 tour in Germany, in 1861, when the young Prince met for the 
 first time his future wife ; and, again, on his interesting journey 
 through the Holy Land, in the year following. He was also with 
 the Heir Apparen*: at Oxford and Cambridge. While at Con- 
 stantinople, returning from the East, the General contracted a 
 fever, from the effects of which he died, suddenly, soon after 
 reaching England, his death occurring at St. James' Palace, the 
 scene also of his wife's demise. The Queen, it is reported, was 
 plunged in grief over the sad event, as was also the Prince of 
 Wales, whose faithful guide, counseller and friend the departed 
 officer had proved himself to be. Realizing from her own sad 
 experience, not long before, the full force of the blow sustained 
 by the bereaved widow. Her Majesty extended to her every con- 
 solation in her power, and in further proof of her consideration 
 and sym|)athy was jjleased, as before stated, to appoint Mrs. 
 Bruce to an important position in her personal service. In this 
 office, in close and frecjuent attendance upon her Royal Mistress, 
 Mrs. Bruce — the friend of many in Canada in other times — passed 
 the remainder of her days until her own call came not many 
 weeks ago. Like her husband and other |)rominent members of 
 the family in otificial life before her, Mrs. Bruce died at the post 
 of duty, thus further sustaining the oj)inion advanced by the chief 
 of the Biuces in his last moments -that it was well to die in 
 harness I She ])a^sed away not unrecognized lor her useful and 
 important services in the Queen's household. Her Majesty having, 
 some years before, enrolled the name of the lamented lady in the 
 Royal Order of Victoria and Albert. 
 
 Mufti.