POPULATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
John Bull’s family is among the largest in the family of civilised nations, and, by the census of 1871, numbers 231,702,593. Tho English possessions cover 7,769,119 square miles, or a space forty times tho size of France. In Europe there is a superficial extent of 121,730 square miles; in America, 3,480,034; in Africa, 230,860 ; in Asia, 964,103; in Oocanica, 2,060,722; while Great Britain and Ireland have a_ population of 31,845,379, and in the Empire in Europe, 176,213. English colonies in America have 3,789,050; in Central America, 1,003,880; in South. America, 200,000 ; in British India, 191,307,070, distributed among 487,001 villages. British India has fifteen cities, with about 100,000 inhabitants. In Australia, England has 2,000,000 subjects. Tho population of the United Kingdom has doubled in seventy years. In England, whore the demand for labor has boon greatest, tho population has nearly trebled. In Scotland it has doubled, hut in Ireland it is stationary. In 1801, Ireland had 6,216,231, and ia 1850, 5,412,377.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4258, 12 November 1874, Page 3
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165POPULATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4258, 12 November 1874, Page 3
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