A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 28 August 1880, Page 3

A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE.

Sir Daniel Cooper, acting Agent-Gene-ral for the colony of New South Wales, in Landon, lies issued a pamphlet entitled " A Federal British Empire tho best Defence of the Mother Country and the Colonies." He advocates a Federal Council, whose decision should be carried out through the instrumentality of Parliament by the Secretary of the Colonies—the Council to become ultimately the Parliament of the Empire. Ho believes in a federal navy, in whioh each colony or dependency should contribute rateably. Ho sums up his oase thus : —" Fifty years ago, which is within my own recollection, the whole population of the Australasian colonies numbered 50,000, more or loss; how it ia computed at 2,500,000. In another fifty years it will most likely increase to 15,000,000 or 20,000,000; and in a second fifty or 100 years henoe it will be 40,000,000 50,000,000 —or equal in magnitude to that the population of the mother country, ofanoda will by that time, with its railways Cnd inhabited territory stretching to the Pacific Ocean, have nearly the same population ; and the South African colonies may, with their mixed races, number 10,000,000 to 12,000,000, and the other British colonies would complete that number up to 20,000,000, offering on aggregate population in—Great Britain, 50,000,000; Australasia, 50,000,000; Canada, 40,000,000 ; Cape and other colonie?, 20,000,000 j in all 160,000,000, without countiog India. The available blood and bone, for military and naval purposes, of Buoh a population would equal, if not exceed, that of most of tho other European countries combined."