Mr. J. Ferguson (Ceylon).

"I trust that the outcome of the meeting to-morrow will tend to confirm the unity of the British Empire, fully convinced, as I am, that—at least in that part of the world with which I am best acquainted—the greatest evil which could befall the people of the Asiatic Dependencies or Britain would be their deprivation (from any cause) of the proud and happy title of 'British subjects.'"