THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1955, 2 April 1885, Page 2

THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

The Chicago "Herald" says:—"Let us not delude ourselves with fictitious greatness. There is another country at whose greatness we may pause for contemplation. Its area exceeds eight andijfelf million square miles. The basis power is not land, but water. Its greatness is maritime, and its const lino is 29,500 miles long, It lies on both sides of the equator, and its boundaries touch the extremes of heat and cold. Its uncultivated area, which can be made to feed unborn millions, without the help of the United States, covers millions of square miles. It contains one hundred thousand square miles of forest, which are being jealously preserved, while .ours are being ruthlessly sacrificed... Its popu- . lation amounts to 315,000,000 souls, including pretty nearly all the races known to man. Its revenue for government amounts to more than a thousand million dollars annually, only one-fourth of which is levied in direct hasnearlyhalfamillionmen under armvSt has one policeman for every sixteen square miles of its entire area. Its 24§ war vessels are all in oommissioi), not rotting- in harbors. Its merchant navy consists qf 30,000 ships, manned by sailors. It surpasses in steamers ail other powers on the glqbe, and nearly equals their combine*} total in sailing vessels. Forty-nine per cent, of the carrying power of the world is under its flag, More than half the ships' earnings from freights and passengers belong to it, Two-thirds of the tonnage annually built belong to it. The Banks of that empjjfe transact one-third tlie business of the |B ; tiro world. Its manufactures comprise one-third those of all Europe. Its enormous debt, which it uses as the most profitable investment of its own earnings, amounts to only 9 per cent, of the wealth which has been made by its exports, Its name is Great Britain, It sends its ships to every clime; it offers its wares in every port; it asks 110 tax on articles offered in exchange, and the cargoes its ships carry back to their wharves enrich it as much as those they had borne away,"

A TOUCHY FAIRY QUEEN. Madame Nina Castclli, who had beep^jjt appearing as the Fairy Queen in the toraime of" Aladdin" at the new Princo of Wales Theatre, Greenwich, made an application to Mr Marsham, the local magistrate under circumstances Bhe detailed. She said she had' been grossly insulted in the Theatre and refused to play the next night unless an apology were given. Some persons in a box had a number of small bouquets, which she declared they threw to every lady'on fck stage but herself, her good songs passed over, and flowers thrown to tnP* ballet, girls. In the last scene they threw flowers ovor her head to the chorus, and the last four, which were very wet, they threw on her bare arms. Mr Lloyd Clarence, who had charge of the pantomime, picked them up'and offered them to lief, but she refused them, saying she did not accept flowers after the ballet-girls. Subsequently Mr Clarence came to her dressing room and abused her for refusing the flowers. He said, "—you, madamo," which "she would not put up with from her own husband, let alone from him." (Laughter.) fa She sent a message that, unless he apolo- T gised she would not act, and.she had not (i appeared sinco. Next night one of the chorus was put on in her place and under her ant| she was going to take action for daiiiagq tq her artjstic repiiti-. tion, She wanted to know if slie cqi|lij compel Jjr Lloyd Clarence tq pay her fop the six weeks' engagement and " the'' run. "—Mr Marsham said her remedy could only be in a civil action.; »He thought she was justified in refusing to appear if she was insulted, but. advised her to explain that she would, carry out her engagement if an apology ;were giveaMw The applicant thanked his Worship retired. .

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