The Separatist programme triumphed.

And the outcome?
The sham unity of government has been replaced by a real unity of interest, affection and cultural affinity.

We find administrators like Mr Lyttleton, former Tory Secretary for the Colonies, engaged to-day not in suppressing but in celebrating the "varied individuality" of the overseas possessions.

As for the political effects of the change, every English writer repeats of the Colonies what Grattan, in other circumstances, said of the Irish: Loyalty is their foible.

There is indeed one notable flaw in the colonial parallel.