Meagre attendances are the rule on occasions of lectures at the Royal Society of Arts' rooms in Adelphi terrace, and on Tuesday, when your Agent-General read hiß paper on the "Aspects of Imperial Federation League from a Colonial Point of View," that rule waß not departed from. Lord Onslow occupied the chair, and amongst those present were Sir Frederick Young, Sir Edward Braddon, Mr H. M. Paul, and Mt C. Bous-Marten, together with several promiuent Leaguers, headed by their Hon Secretary, Mr A. H. Loring. Mr Perceval was warmly congratulated by Lord Onslow on his paper, and also by the participants in the brief discussion which followed, and on the morrow was somewhat surprised to get a letter from Mr Loring, expressing cordial approval ef the " stateE manlike breadth of view" he had taken of hiß subject. As Mr Perceval's references to the Imperial Federation League and its work, were not by any means com plimentary, he was naturally much pleased with thiH tribute. In dealing with the many-Bided problem of Imperial Federa tion, the Agent-General did not claim to express the opinion of • any person other than himself. He believes that the great majority of Her Majesty's subjects all over the world are now convinced that the disintegration of the Empire would be a fatal calamity, and that its future existence and prosperity depend npon the evolution of a more complete system of national unity than now exists. Contrary to the view generally held, Mr Perceval considers that the feeling in favour of a closer union is stronger in the Colonies than in the Mother Country, because the majority of Colonists recognise that to become citizens J of a puny independent state, instead of co- , sharers in the powerful Empire which they and their forefathers have helped to build up, would be an exchange in every way deplorablo in its consequences. The ignorance of Greater Britain prevailing in England, and the failure to appreciate the value of the Colonies to the latter, is, Mr Perceval recognises, tho great stumbling block to Imperial Federation. Self in- j terest is at the bottom of the de6ire for ' unity wherever it exists, and the first step to take is to wake up the Home millions to the fact that the Colonieß are of value to each individual. 