that occasion, he remarked:- Gentlemen, I am also particularly happy that this honour has been given to me by the city of Glasgow, because, long years ago, the dream of my life was to connect myself much more nearly than I am ever likely to do with this city. I had at one time some reason to suppose that I might have been elected to the honourable and distinguished office of Professor of Greek in your University. To fail in that object was the greatest disappointment that ever happened to me in my life, but years soften everything, and I now can only remember that the place, I doubt not, is much more worthily filled by a distinguished and elegant scholar."

It is somewhat suggestive to reflect that had Robert Lowe succeeded in this quest he would never assuredly have gone to Australia, nor would he in all probability have entered the arena of the House of Commons. The duties of such a professorship would have been congenial-he was never really an ambitious man, and its emoluments would have been ample for his wants. It is therefore more than likely that for the rest of his life he would have been known as Professor Lowe, and the world would never have heard of Viscount Sherbrooke.