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Dunstan Times, Issue 839, 17 May 1878, Page 3

Joint affair. —Rheumatism. Policeman’s motto.—Give us arrest. Matters of interest. Government bonds. The Russian Empire comprises one twenty-seventh part of the globe. Her religion is orthodox Catholic ; it was established in 1054. She denies the spiritual supremacy or in/aUibUky of the Pope, and prohibits the celibacy of the priesthood ; nor can they perform any spiritual functions before they are married, nm- after they become widowers. The Emperor appoints them to every sacred office ; ho is the protector and defender of the Church. Iter population is 85,683,930, of which 54,093,810, are orthodox Catholics; the remainder are Mahommedans, Protestants, Roman Catholics, &c. The British Empire is rated at one-seventh of the land surface of the globe, inhabited by 202,540,213 souls. Great Britain and Ireland contain 31,028,230 souls, exclusive of the army and navy. They are divided into 122 religious denominations. The population of the World was computed in December tohe 728,281,239,002 of which number 157,511,445 were Roman Catholics.

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Stanley’s discoveries and explorations may bear greater fruit in ibe immediate future than even he, sanguine and enthusiastic as ho naturally is, could ever have supposed. Sir David Salomons, a thoughtful politician, who was once Lord Mayor and sat for Greenwich, looks to African colonisation to redress the balance if it turns against us in the present difficulties in the East. Ho anticipates as extremely probable such a ratification of the boundaries of European States, that tho whole continent would contain, broadly speaking, only three great Powers - Germany, Patssia and Franee. Two of these, Germany and America, support “ protection j” France, even, is tending towards it. Our commerce, therefore, based upon tho principle of freetrade, is directly threatened. We could never recur to protection, yet we Have not land enough to raise food sufficient for our •consumption. What, then, are we to do ? asks Sir David. Acquire Africa. Make it a second India. France, the only real obstacle, might be talked over judiciously, particularly if we made a defensive alliance with her, and bought up the rest of the Suez Canal. “We could then buy Egypt, and annex Abyssinia, Zanzibar, etc , without bloodshed, and gradually colonise the whole, or nearly tbe whole, of Africa in a friendly way." Not a bad pregramme, certainly, but likely, if adopted, to lead us into a little expense. London, it is said by the most reliable authorities, covers within the fifteen miles radius of Charing Cross nearly 700 square miles. It numbers within those boundaries four million two hundred thousand of inhabitants. It contains more country-horn persons than the comities of Devon and Gloucester combined, or 37 per cent, of its population. Has a birth in it every six minutes. Has 205 persons every day and 75.000 annually added to its population within the circle named. Has seven accidents every day in its 7000 miles of streets. Has on an average 28 miles of new streets opened and 9000 new houses built in it every year. Has 10S0 ships and 9000 sailors in its port every day. Has upwards of 73.000 annually taken into custody by the police. Has more than one-third of all the crime in the country committed m it. Has 23.000 persons living in its common lodgin’', bouses. Has 38,000 persons annually committed for drunkenness by its magistrates. It comprises 100,000 foreigners from every quaiterof the globe. It contains more Roman Catholics than Rome itself, more Jews than the whole of Palestine, more Irish than Belfast, more Welsh m-n than Cardiff, more Scotchmen than Aberdeen. It has as many beer-shops and gin-palaces, the frontages of which would, if placed side by side, stretch from Charing Cross to Chichester, a distance of C2 miles. It has as many paupers as would more than occupy every house in Brighton. It has CD miles of open shops every Sunday. It has need of 1000 now churches and chapels.

A bright story is told of the accomplished wife—now dead -of General Hooker When she was the admired Miss Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, she was once at an evening party, when a fashionable young dandy was asked if he would like to he presented to her. ‘ Oh yes,’ said He languidly, ‘ trot her out.’ The lady overheard the remark and when she Was presented, she adjusted her eyeglasses deliberately, and slowly scanned his clothing from boot to collar. The survey finished, she waved her hand and carlessly Said, ‘ Trot him back, I have seen all there is of him.’

It was thought a groat cricketing wonder when the Auckland team, in tho last interprovincial match, were got rid of for five runs from tho bat, yet the following items, taken from “ James Lillywhite’s Annual” for tho present year, are much move extraordinary -In a match, Thornton’s Eleven v. Fenton Hall, played August 24th and 25th, tho former team scored 071. with only three wickets down. The individual scores were:—S. Meek (not out), 253 : Pi. Thornton, 151 ; F. Kennedy, 97 ; O. Dalgleish, 89 ; and T. Plumb (not out), 63. Mr Meek was at the wickets seven hours for his score, which was obtained without one fair chance, and included five sixes and nine lives. In a match a fortnight previously—Fenton Hall v. F. C. Hoare’s Eleven—the latter team scored 391, without the loss of a wicket; 8. 11. Meek (not out), 192; and F- 0. Pollit (not out), 150. There were 149 sundries. Mr Meek’s batting was brilliant. Ho made six sixes, five of them being clean out of the'ground. In a match played on the recreation ground, Hnckwell Hnckwell York and United v. Bulwell Forest C.C.—the latter went out without a run off tho bat, tho total being 9 sundries.