IMPERIAL FEDERATION

Clutha Leader, Volume 1, Issue 52, 8 July 1875, Page 3

IMPERIAL FEDERATION

.. Representation of the leading dependencies of the Empire in theSlm? • perial; Parliament is likely 'to be,' according to the ' Toronto- Nation,' at no distant date experimentally tested. The Imperial Government will shortly-, invite Canada to send their representatives. But before this can be done, an --Act of Parliament must pass authorising this : -change in the constitution. .We do not suppose that, this resolution was spontaneous with the Disraeli Government. It was, presumably the result of suggestions made | from Canada, and the conclusion may. ibe taken as the result of "the correspondence" that- ensued. All parties: are ; willing that Imperial confederation should be tried, not less than its special advocates tha believers in the ultimate supremacy of self-govern-ment rin the dependencies of the Crown, .though _all-have not thasame faith , in its ultimate success. What has been asked for by both parties, a definite plan of confederation, will how have to be produced; theory will give pllace to : crurcal ; . experiment. ' : The secret manne| ; in : which this great change . has been arranged for is not free from objection^ :hvit, it -may pro-'' bably be accounted for by the various conflicting interests that have to be dealt with. From the urgencyrwith which the experiment was insisted, on, its trial had probably become inevitable, and from the .moment that conclusion was accepted nothing was to be gained by delay.—* European Mail.*