THE IMPERIAL COLONIES CLUB.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Referring to your article of the 14th inst. headed "An Imperial Club for London," I beg to send you the prospectus
of the Imperial Colonies Club, which you will see is formed to carry out the ideas put forward in your article. The following gentlemen, our vice-presidents, take an interest in the club :—Lord Brassey ; Sir Edmund Barton, P.C., M.P., K.C. ; Sir Robert Bond, K.C.M.G. ; Lieutenant- Colonel Sir Albert Rime, K.C.M.G., P.C.; Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G.; the Hon. H. B. Lefroy, C.M.G.; the Hon. R. P. Roblin; Joseph Beecham, Esq., J.P. Although the club is at the present proprietary, it is proposed as soon as the members are willing to make it a members' club, to comply with the provisions of the new Club Licensing Act.
[We have little doubt that the club of which Mr. Barclay writes aims at doing good work, but it does not seem to us quite to cover the ground suggested in our article. That article pointed to a club which would in fact be a Federal Institution to which all the clubs of the Empire would stand in the relation of States,—a club such as is described in the preceding letter signed "S."—ED. Spectator.]
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