Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-08
Queen victorfa's DOminiOns.

''The Queen of England rules ovel
234, 762 ,593 souls; her people dwell in
A, 142 ,651 houses; the area of the lands
they inhabit is 1850, ,449 square miles
These are the stupendOus figures dis.
closed by the Imperial census of the
British dOminions taken in 1871, but
only now fully tabulated. How insig-
niticant appear the extent and pOpula-
ton of our republic compared with the
territory and the people over whom
Queen Victoria, or the clique of gentle
men who rule in her name, reigns SUI
premei We have an area of 1904, ,459
square miles, she has more than twice
as much; we have population of 40,
1000, she is the ruler over six times
as many. Her dominiOns are in Eu-
rope, in North America, in Central
America and the West Indies, in Africa
in the Indian seas, in Australasia, and
in Asia. Less than 100000 of the
Queens subjects are Christians; there
are 36,OOO,OO0 MahOmetans; 9S,0O0,000
HindOOs, more than 100000 of Budd-
hists, and 5S,OO0,OOO of Others
''heathen" of this kind or the other
kind, for the sects of heathendOm are
as numerous as the divisions of Chris
tianity. Imperial Rome, at the summit
of its glory, exercised dominion over
1,600,0OO square miles of territory and
100000 of people yielded obedience
to her sway. But Victoria rules nearly
twice as many people, and is the
sovereign of a territory more than six
times as large. To count the people in
England and Wales alone on the third
day of April, 1871, required 32,543
census-takers, who were supervised by
2,195 registras and 626 superintendents.
They did their work in single night,
and it was so well done that not man,
woman, or child escaped them. They
counted population of 90 $50, ,164, and
they found to the indelible disgrace of
the Englishmen that while 80 out of
every 100 men between the ages of
twenty-five and thirty were unmarried,
there were 1,246, 900 0wOmen,.between the
ages of fifteen and twenty-One were
unmarried. The professional class"
in England comprised 6SO,OOO persons;
the domestic class" wives, mothers,
hotel and lOdging-house keepers, and
servants, more than 100000; the
agricultural class" 900, 900; the ''in-
dustrial Glass; 5,i31,000; the class of
frank and property" 16S,000, and there
were 100000 children.
Crossing theChannels to Europe. the
Queens subjects are found in Heligo-
land, in Gibraltar, and in Malta; but all
of these numbering only 1000 souls. do
not amount to as many a are counted
in an English town of the second class.
In Canada and the Bermudas there are
3,.S7 500 British subjects, with plenty
of elbOw-roOm, since they inhabit an
area of 3,316,925 square miles. In the
British West India Islands there are
about 100000. On thecontinent there
are British Honduras and British
Guiana, with a population of 21S.OO0
souls. Coming To Africa and the ad
iaeent islands, Queer Victoria finds her
self the ruler of 2:i6, square miles
and of ,S13,45 persons. These dwell
in Ascension Island. st. Helena, Sierra
Leone. the Gambia settlements, the
Gold Coast, the Cape, Griqualand, and
Natal. In the Indian seas she has the
witt $50. .460 people, West
with y1S,O00 square miles
Of territory, has only 24,s sS5 Inhabitants;
South Australia. with 100000 square
miles, has 1S9, 200 people; Victoria, with
only 5000 square miles, has 731 Dps in
New South Wales, on its
}3::,, 49, square miles. has 503.9S1 resi-
lents: Queensland has 20.10i. Tas-
mania ~, ,3S2.S; and New Zealand has 29;,,
s93.
Finally comes India, the greatest and
most splendid division of the British
empire. There are twelve provinces in
British India over which the Queen
Niceroyr supreme. Theseprovinoes
number 10l, 10000 souls; they occupy
IN area of 93S. 1856 square miles. and
hey live in 4S7,061 towns or villages.
The provinces of Bengal and Behar
have a population of 81, 900 900. and it is
here that the famine Is raging; the
northwest provinces have 30,s69. 900 |
people; Oude has 11,220.0O0; the Pun |
aub. 17,596,000; the central. al.provinees,
]. ,.O66. .0S3: British Burmah. 2.563 ,S2j; the !
Madras Presidency, 81 900, 900; Bombay
md Sind. 1000, 900. And the islands of
ceylon and Hong Kong, the peninsula
If KOw-lOon, Singapore, Wellesley,
Penang and Malacca, have together a
population of J. .S31. .2S1.