The Canadian House of Commons: on Monday, at the invitation
of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Prime Minister, passed a unanimous Resolution supporting the Imperial Govern- ment in their controversy with the Transvaal. The Resolu- tion, besides referring to the Transvaal Republic, "of which her Majesty is suzerain," and to " the intolerable oppres- sion" resulting from the refusal of political rights to the Outlanders, declares, that Canada has largely succeeded owing to her adoption of the principle of conceding equal rights to every portion of the population. This Resolution, coupled with the offers of troops made by Australia, show the feeling that prevails throughout the Empire. We fear that opinion among the Cape Dutch is too heated to allow them to be influenced by the views of other Colonists, but if not, these expressions of Imperial opinion should be a guarantee to them that the Government has no intentions of a kind which could interfere with their independence and just rights. Canada and Australia would, they may feel sure, never support the unjust coercion of free members of the Empire, but they will and do support a policy of political emancipation for their fellow-citizens.
