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Kingdom in the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria presents some extraordinary contrasts with itself in 1837, in such matters as extent of empire, trade, population, etc. The area of the empire is roughly 11,000,000 square miles, which is nearly three times as large as Europe. The population of it is about 400,000,000, which means that one person out of every four that are alive upon the face of the earth is a subject of Queen Victoria. Of every 100 square miles in Europe she rules over 3, of every 100 in Asia 10, of every 100 in Africa 19, of every 100 in America 24, and of every 100 in Austral asia 60. The n proportion of her subjects is 6 per cent, in America, per cent, in Europe, 18 per cent, in Africa, 35 per cent, in Asia, and 40 per cent, in Austral asia. In the latter area 1 person in every 3 is a native of the United Kingdom, but the proportion is much le elsewhere e.g. 1 in 14 in British America, 1 in 523 in British Africa, and 1 in 2548 in British Asia. Compared with other empires of the earth it is 40 times as large as the Italian, 10 times as large as the German, 4 times as Jarge as the French, 3 times as large as the U.S.A., and about one-third larger than the Ru ian. The United Kingdom has colonies nearly 100 times) its own area, while the French colonies are only a dozen times as large as France, the German only 5 times the size of Germany, the Ru ian only 3^ times the size of Ru ia, and the Italian only 2^ times the size of Italy; and during Queen Victoria’s reign the increase of empire has been a 4 Scotland -!- reland every year. country is mainly responsible. Atlantic between 500 N, qnd 6oQ N. This latitude in the islands is more than 70 miles from sea. Great near together Clyde and the Forth, the Solway and the Tyne, the Mersey and the Humber, the Severn and the Thames. ture, extending means of higher education to persons of all cla es, and of both sexes engaged in regular occupations. Courses of lectures are given by specialist graduates of the universities, and each lecture is preceded or followed by a cla in which the students are orally examined by the lecturer, who also corrects written papers done at home. The movement began in 1872 at Cambridge, and was definitely established at Oxford in 1885. m Dublin University is a ociated with Cambridge the work, and the Scotch Universities are trying it too.