ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.
[To THE EDITOR OH TER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The writer of an article which appears under the above heading in the Spectator of September 5th refers to the United States of Australia as "the Australian Colonies." Perhaps you will permit me, as a citizen of the Commonwealth, to point out that by the Federal 'Constitution we are' termed States. So we style ourselves, and so we claim to be styled by the outside world. The word "Colony," with all its associations, is buried for ever as far as Australia is con- cerned. The term "Colonial," also used by the writer in question, is equa..11y obnoxious, in our eyes at least. No self- respecting Australian would allow himself to be spoken of as a Colonial without a protest. —I'am, Sir, &c., OIVIS AUSTRAL/ANUS SDK.
[We can assure our. correspondent that no offence was meant. But the great difficulty is the lack of a suitable and comprehensive word to replace "Colonial."—En. Spectator.]
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