The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-04-02
Her Maiesty's Domin,ons.

Her Majssty's DOminions.
''The Queen of England rules over 234.-
761 ,593 souls; her people dwell in A
1926 houses the area of the lands
they inhabit is 7,769, ,439 square miles"
These are the stupendous figures disclosed
by the imperial census" Of the British
dominions taken in 1871 but only now
fully tabulated. How Insignificant appear
the extent and the population of our re-
public compared with the territory and
the people over whom Queen Victoria, or
the Clique of gentlemen who rule IN her
name. reigns supreme We have an area
OF 3,O34, ,459 square miles, she has more
than twice as much we have q popula-
tion of 40,000,000, she is the ruler over
six times as many. Her dominions are in
Europe, in North America, in Central
America and the West Indies, in Africa.
IN the Indian seas, in Australasia and in
Asia. Less than 40, ,000, 900 of the Queens
subjects are Christians there are 36OOO.-
600 Mahometans, 98,00000O Hindooes.
more than 100000 of Buddhists. and
58, ,000, 900 of t"others"-sheathen" of this
kind or the other kind, for the sects of
heathendom are as numerous as the diyi-
sions Of Christianity. Imperial Rome at
the summit of its glory exercised domin-
Ion over 100000 square miles of terrific
ry, and 100 ,000,000 of people Welded
obedience to her sway. Bat Victoria rules
nearly twice as many people, and is the
sovereign of territory more than six
times as large. To count the people in
England and Wales alone on the third day
Of April, 1871. required a2,543 census
takers, who were supervised by 2,I95 reg
istr2rs and 626 superintendents. They
did their work in a single night, and It
was so well done that not man, woman,
or child escaped them. They counted
population of q, 1866, ,l64, and they found
to the lndellble disgrace of the English
men that while 39 out of every 100 men
betweeA the ages of twenty five and thir-
ty were unmarried there were I,246. 600
wemen between tbs ages of fifteen and
twenty-one who were unmarried. The
professional class" in England comprised
$50, 900 persons; the domestic class"
wives, mothers, hotel and lodginp-house
keepers, and servants, more than 5000
000 the agricultural class" 1000 600;
the industrial class" 5,137 900; the class
of rank and property" I69OO0; and
there were Z SOC 900 children.
Crossing the channel to Europe, the
Queens subjects are found in Heligoland.
in Gibraltar, and in Malta bat all of
these, numbering only n 900 souls, do
not amount to as many as are counted in
an English town of the second class. In
Canada and the Bermudas there are g.
789. $50 British subjects, with plenty OF
elbow-room, since they lnhabit an area of
1876, ,92o square miles. In the British
West India Islands there are about ]. 600.
100. On the continent there are British
Honduras and British Guians. with a
population OF 2lS,0QO souls. Coming TO
| Africa and the adjacent islands. Queen
| Victoria ands herself the ruler of 236 $50
/ square miles and of 1,7I3,55O persons.
| These dwell in Ascension Island. ST.
| Helen q, Sierra Leone, the Gambia settle
ments, the Gold Coast, the Cape, Grqua-
land, and Natal. In the Indian seas she
has the M2uritius, with 330,460. West
Australia, with 97S, 900 square miles Of
territory, has only 24,785 inhabitants :;
South Australia, with 100000 people !;
Victoria, with only $1,000 square miles,
has 73l ,528inhabitants;N New South Wales,
on its 323,437 square miles, has sos esi
residents Queensland had 100. .IO2; Tas-
mania 99.32s and New Zealand has
Finally comes India, the greatest and
most splendid division of the British en-
pire. There are twelve provinces in
| British India over which the Queens
| Viceroy rules supreme. These provinces
number l9l s907, ,070 souls they occupy
an area Of 938, ,366 square miles, and they
live IN 487,O7l towns or villages. The
provinces of Bengal and Behar have a
population of 66.000,000 and it is here
that the famine Is raging; the northwest
provinces have 80, 768, 900 people /; Oade
has 4l,220,OQ0; the central provinces,
9,066, ,0s3; British Burnah, 1852 1923 /;
the Madras Presidency, 81, 900, 900; Bonn
bay and Sind, 100000. And the
islands Of Ceylon and Hong Kong, the
peninsula of KoW-loon, Singapore, Wei
lesley, Penang. and Malacca, have togeth-
er population of 2 S37, ,287. = a
Nominally, it Is Victoria who is the
reigning queen of all these people. Prac-
tIcally, they are governed by the working
king who happens to be most in favor
with $50 or $50 of the elected and repre-
sentative gentlemen who form the lower
house Of the British Parliament. His
name to-day is Disraell. The 81. 600 900
OF people who live in Great Britain and
Ireland rule the destinies of the 2O3 OO0-
OOO OF British subjects who dwell in the
rest OF the world. There are those who
believe that this rule would be much bet
ter exercised If these 203, COO 600 were
permitted to send pueuof their own choice
to represent them IN Parliament. The
politicians, if not the people, of Canada
ATe ANXIOUS fol this reform-and the ap.
pointment of Mr., Edward jenkins as the
political agent of the Canadian Govern
ment at London is said to have been made
with view towards the accomplishment
OF tnis desire. Mr. Jenkins, who is a ma
tive OF Canada but who has long lived IN
England, was elected as the member of
Parliament for Dundee, Scotland, while
ne was on his way home from Canada to
England. In his double capacity as mem
Der for Dundee and political agent for
Canada, the author of '-Ginx's Baby" will
nave chance to show of what metal he
is made.