Liverpool Post.

"Among the political movements of the day, few command more sympathy or seem less likely to be realised than the project for the federation of the Colonies with the mother country. To form a grand federation of English-speaking countries under the Sovereign of Great Britain is an idea that commends itself to the imagination, and as emigration from the British islands must necessarily continue, and perhaps increase, it is pleasant to think that those who quit their native shore will still remain citizens of the Empire and retain an interest in its prosperity and a sympathy towards those who remain at home."