AUSTRALIA AN EMPIRE.
The Globe contains an extraordinary conversation which is said to have recently taken place, between a well-known Russian nobleman and the writer respecting the future of the great empires of the world. The Russian considered that Napoleon was the greatest politician in Europe— that 4 the Crimean war was managed very badly on the part of the English — and that England would not occupy her present position many years.: Russia, he thought, would in all.probabilltiy take her place, our empire of .the*. seas would also pass away, and Ireland would become a separate kingdom or re* public. The conversation then finished as follows : — " Do you suppose that Russia will last for ever, then .?" "No ; but she ■ will last till the five great empires of Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australia arise." "Australia!". "'Tes, Australia will probably prove the strongest of all. She will be the richest, and her resources are boundless." " What binders these great changes you talk of from taking place at once ?" " The want of population in countries like ours, the over-population in lands such as yours." There is much in this last sentence which the Governments of the world would do well to ponder.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1024, 7 November 1871, Page 2
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