h j ' -cLt Roman Colonial offices was paro- chial > and this much is certain, that when a new Ministry is formed, the chief curiosity of Canada and of Australia, of the Cape and of Cej'lon, of a dozen young .empires and of a hundred rich depend- encics, is to know who is going to be Colonial Minister. In selecting the Earl of Carnarvon for the post, there can be no question but that Mr Disraeli took the best man at his disposal. nnd it would be mere partisan- *? *° * n fj h *J^ frV'Sord "^" n £\?, The new -^mibeiiey to ms s\icces.»oi. xne ne\v Minister passed all his apprenticeship m this department—which he now controls or the second time—and his success m

bringing about the Federation of tho Canadian provinces was an achievement which time confirms as wise and masterly. Those members of the Dominion which fretted at iirst under the new bond have become more than reconciled to it ; and - all our magnificent appanages m that region , are practically united, a step necessary to ' their strength and independent existence. ' Nowhere is loyalty towards England more '. deep than m Canada ; and it is this senti- , ment which we may trust Lord Carnarvon to appreciate and to preserve. There are able and well-meaning men who talk i about separation from Canada upon various grounds, some good and some bad ; and these decry the loyal feeling we speak of, calling it a mere " fashion," and setting far too light a value upon the affectionate intorests which still bind the " august mother of Empires " to her mighty children. Lord Carnarvon is not likely to commit this mistake, which arises from a disposition content witli ordinary logical and commercial facts, but too unfamiliar with the huge part borne m practical affairs by human emotions of the vaguer soi't. Emotions are not necessarily weak, historically and imperially, because they seem vague. The home-love which made the Greek colonists take with them a leader from their own State, and carry also a sward from the soil and a spark from the hearth-stones of their native city, was worth more to Athens or to Sparta than we count up m triremes or tributes. 