The views that we expressed last Saturday as to the
feeling of the Empire in regard to the Transvaal crisis have been confirmed during the week. In the first place we may note the offer made by the Queensland Government to send a contingent of troops for service in the Transvaal in the case of hostilities, an offer which has been accepted should the .occasion arise. Next comes the news of a debate in the Canadian House of Commons, during which Sir W. Laurier, one of the least " heady " and excitable of men, "trusted that the Transvaal would realise that it must accord the same measure of justice to all classes,"—an aspiration which goes a great deal further than anything that has ever been asked by the Imperial Government. Sir Charles Tupper, the leader of the Opposition, in the same debate declared that the Empire was united in the determination to maintain British authority in Africa. We do not doubt that this feeling is to be found throughout the Empire, and if the need should unhappily arise, will be expressed with the requisite el:aphasia
