MAGNITUDE OF BRITISH EMPIRE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2214, 16 September 1886, Page 2

MAGNITUDE OF BRITISH EMPIRE.

Fifty Years' Progress is the title of a special number of the journal of the Imperial Federation League which was issued in London in June It contains a aerie 3 of articles exhibiting in a very striking light the development of the British Empire to the period mentioned. The first article, after mentioning the fact that the Empire now occupies a fifth part of the habitable globe, says :— We talk ot the Empire under Darius the Great. The British Empire is five tunes as laige. Men marvelled at the Kic-rtt cmpiic of Koine. It was but a fourth in size to that owned by our readers. Look at all the Russia on the map. See what a wide tract of territory. From the German border, hundreds of miles in Europe, tlioiiaaml* of miles in Asia, compiise the dominions* ofv\hiehthe C/ai is lord and autocr.it. The British Empire is an eighth larger, and on its surJ.ice dwell 230 additional millions of people. Fiance m a gtvat country, The British Empire is 60 times its sue. United Germany is vast and powerful. The Btituh people have an empire 40 times as extensive The United States of Ameiica stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ; from the St. Lawience to Mexico. Travel foi seven days and seven nights, at 30 miles an hoar, and you can just eioss the Continent. The Butish Finpire is three times larger than America.