Excerpt from The Jubilee Year: An Oration Let us, in the next place, as proposed, proceed to consider the probable destiny of the Empire. Of late years the subject of Im perial Federation has received a large share of attention. It has been discussed in the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom and Colonies, and in weighty articles of the principal magazines. At the Imperial Conference opened on the 4th of April last, at the Foreign Office, under the presidency of Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of State for the Colonies, the subject underwent length ened discussion; yet the speakers indulged for the most part in glittering generalities and seemed exceedingly chary of propound ing any definite scheme. The Marquis of Salisbury, in the course of an able speech, referred to such aspirations as somewhat senti mental and yet not separated by so deep a chasm from actual practical undertaking as some might think; although hazy, they were the nebulous matter that in the course of ages. Of much less. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.