'Tis Sixty Since.
Next year Qiieen Victoria will have ■occupied the British throno for CO ' years, fatil a writer in the Edinburgh 1»,3 yi ew Has': seized upon prig cireuin stanco as an opportunity/for present ing- a retrospect: of tho moral and material .progress of her people during lier reign. For "every 50 persons who -wore alive in the r(snited ; Kingdom when the Queen came to the throne, N:he writer tells its/thore are now 75. England's Indian Empire has been in creased "by some 27-5,000 square miles •of territory ; .80,000 square miles have Ujeon added to it in the ludiau Archi pelago, and 200.000 square miles in South. Africa. Nearly one person out "" roi every four upon tlio earth owes directly or indirectly, to ■ "the Queen, whoso rule extends over 10,00,0 square miles and 350,001,000 people.' In 1837 floe total value of British imports and exports was about £140,000.000. It is now upwards of £680,000^000, and it will be remem . bored that only nine years aftor her accession freetrade was adopted as the commercial policy of tho Empire. In the interim tho wealth of the country lias trebled. In 1.842 every, penny of ilie income tax produced £700,000 a year, aud it now yields £2.230,000. In 1838 probate duty was paid, on £50.000,000, and"in 1894 upon up wards of £1(54,000,000. Between 1839

and 18-12, one psrson in every eleven was a pauper. At tho present time tho proportion is about one in every 37. Little more than ,60 years ago, the convict population 'of ..Great Britain numbered 50,000 persons. To-day it is less ; than 6500, although the total population has doubled in tho interval.
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