Lady Victoria Campbell

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posters up with " Cabinet Crisis." I can't help
feeling it is a pity. From what little I have seen
of agriculture, I have long felt with regard to
Foreign competition, how are we to succeed ? I
remember asking father, one of those last years,
to explain how Free Trade could pay, as other
countries had not taken to it, and being struck
with his halting answer ! How one longs for a
talk with him !
Her sense that protected emigration was the proper
outlet for the surplus women of the country, brought
her into close and vital touch with the dominions
beyond the seas ; and consciously, or more probably
unconsciously, she was a strong Imperialist, believing
that for Great Britain there was yet very much
land to be possessed for God and the Covenant of
Promise.
This period of her lif e cannot be passed over without
some account of her life among the younger gener-
ation. In her the mother-instinct was in overwhelm-
ing proportion. Her parents had been the veritable
roof-trees of her existence, and she clung to the
memory of the one, and missed the mother-love
from her surroundings to the end of her life. There
were some of her friends for whom she had the feelings
of a daughter : Mrs. Gordon, of Melrose, and Louisa,
Duchess of Northumberland, had both a peculiar
position in her affections. Writing of a visit to
Albury in 1886, she speaks of the rest it had been.
" The Duchess's strong counsel to be in no hurry to