TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY NEWS.”

Sir,—In my second letter to you on Colonial Emancipation, a fear was expressed that unless the question was dealt with promptly and in the right way, we should have a quarrel with our great Colony; and that England would forfeit the glory of being the first to confer independent existence on a daughter nation. That fear seems likely to prove true.

What right, I would ask, has the Prime Minister of this country to call the Opposition in the Canadian Parliament “factious” because they throw out the Government, or to style the conflict of parties there “a factious conflict”? Has he never, as a leader of Opposition in the English Parliament, been guilty of the same kind of “faction”? Did he never, for instance, take advantage of a question about a Militia Bill to overthrow a Government which had ousted him from place? Why should not the Canadian Parliament have its parties, its party objects, and its party struggles as well as ours?

We profess to have given the Canadians independence. We claim their gratitude for the gift. They exercise that independence in determining what is and what is not necessary for the defence of their own frontiers. They apprehend no danger at present, and therefore they refuse to waste their money in armaments and throw out the Militia Bill.