Mr. Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada., spoke on Wednesday
at a dinner given in his honour by the Royal Colonial Institute at the Hotel Metropole. The opening part of his speech was devoted to impressing upon his audience the great size of Canada and the problems of development, and especially of transport, with which she had at the present time to struggle. He went on to say that the greatness of no country could rest on material progress alone, and that the growth of the national spirit in Canada had been equal to that of its other developments. The one thing upon which the people of Canada were united and determined was that she should work out her own destiny as one of the great nations within the British Empire. Mr. Borden proceeded to emphasize the importance of a united Navy, and described his ideal as "one King, one Flag, one Empire, one Navy." He added that those who are responsible for the Empire's defence must, in the very nature of things, have some voice in the policy that shapes the issues of peace and of war. " Canada does not propose," he declared, "to be an adjunct' even of the British Empire, but to be a great part in a greater whole." Those are sentiments with which no Englishman will dream of quarrelling. Rather he will applaud them as displaying the authentic spirit of the Empire.
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