THE FLYING SQUADRON.
(From the Daily Neios.) The " flying squadron " of frigates has acted as the most popular and powerful of embassies, and has done more, perhaps, to draw the colonies nearer to the mother country and to convince them that a bit of British bunting makes tho wholo world kin, than all the speeohes of all the colonists in Cannon-street. A British man-of-war is a piece of England itself; and wherever Admiral Hornby's ships have appeared, there the colonists have recognised the real presence of the empire. At Melbourne the squadron was received not only with an inexhaustiblo curiosity, but with a heartiuoss of affection that could not be satisfied. Not only were tho Bhip3 thronged with visitors from morning to night, but officers and crows were treated as guests, not only of tho Government, but of the whole community, and of every house and home. By tho creation of tho flying squadron the First Lord of the Admiralty, who is himself an old Australian and knows what colonists feel, has proved himself as valuable a coadjutor to his colleagues at the Colonial Office as to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 1 (Supplement)
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