when he is at home, is not a name to conjure with, and does not fill an exclusive place in the eye of the English world.

There are many Colonial Governors in the present and past tense to be found in the purlieus of South Kensington, where their presence creates no unusual excitement.

But when one of this honourable corps sets foot upon the vessel destined to bear him to the shores that he shall rule, all this changes.

He puts off the body of the ordinary betitled individual and puts on the body of the celestial brotherhood.

In short, from being nobody out of the common he becomes, and very properly so, a great man.