Liverpool Mercury.

"Of late years it has become increasingly evident that at some future period we shall have to choose between allowing our Colonies to take care of themselves or providing some link which, without fettering their freedom, would mutually bind them and the mother-country in one vast commonwealth. It is beginning to be understood that, without imposing any restriction upon their laudable desire to grow strong and self-reliant, an arrangement might be feasible which would ensure a grand imperial union consistent with the fullest liberty of all the parts."