From the newspaper article:
At a time when only Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, were considered suitable subjects for such an honour, Charles Connell defied convention, stunned his fellow colonial legislators and promptly lost his job by putting his portrait on the hot-selling five-cent denomination.
All of the stamps were destroyed, but now Sotheby's is auctioning off the proofs, and expects to get in the neighbourhood of $50,000.
Charles Connell's ego didn't seem to hurt his political career as he was re-elected to the New Brunswick legislature in 1864 as a strong advocate of Confederation and then became one of the new province's first MPs when he won a seat by acclamation in the federal election of 1867. He died, still an MP, in 1873.
Link to Edmonton Journal Article
Link to Article from The Canadian Philatelist
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