AUSTRALIAN EMPIRE.
The " CHobe" 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 the Crimean war was managed very badly on the part of the English I—and that England would not occupy her present position many years. Russia, he thought, would in all probability take her place ; onr empire of the seas would also pass away, and Ireland would become a separate kingdom or republic. The conversation then finished as follows:—" Do you suppose that Russia will last for Jever, then ?" " No, but she will last the five great empires of Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australia arise." " Australia!" " Tes, Australia will probably prove the strongjest of all. She will be the richest, |and her resources are boundless." r What hinders these great changes jyou talk of from taking place at sonce ?" " The want of population in icountries like ours, the over-population |in lands such as yours." There is jjniuch in this last sentence which the of the world would do Swell to ponder.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 908, 2 January 1872, Page 3
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196AUSTRALIAN EMPIRE. Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 908, 2 January 1872, Page 3
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