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GREAT BRITAIN. 



tunity for overthrowing the administration, ternational Exhibition of the present year, 

 and who denounced the American Government The building for this exhibition cost over $2 - 

 in no measured terms, and demanded imme- 000,000, and contained 25-J- acres of flooring, 

 diate preparations for war. The demand for The Prince Consort had taken a lively interest 

 restitution and apology, which was said to have in it, and had indeed been the prime mover in 

 been at first couched in. very haughty and the enterprise. Some statistics are subjoined, 

 menacing language, was, it is asserted, mate- which indicate the material condition of the 

 rially modified, by the Prince Consort, with the British Empire more forcibly than any descrip- 

 approval of the Queen, and was one of the last tioii can do. The census of the United Kingdom 

 acts of that much lamented and excellent per- of Great Britain and Ireland was taken on the 

 sonage. As received by the U. S. Government, 8th of April, 1861, and among its results were 

 though somewhat peremptory, it was not want- the following : 

 ing in courtesy ; its transmission had been ac- 

 companied by the forwarding of a body of TABLE I. AREA AND POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN 



13,000 to 14,000 troops to Canada, as if to pre- AND IRELAND. 



pare for immediate war on the frontier. Area in 



"While, however, the general course of the copulation. q . miles. 



British Administration towards the U. S. Gov- England and Wales ~ 20,061,725" ""IsliJo" 



ernment had been marked by that dignity and Scotland 3.oei,329 21,324 



courtesy becoming in such a nation, a painful T r f la ^ d '-";c"i>";-' I' 6,792,025 82,512 



,/ ,, & , . , , ',,. * ~ . Islands in the British seas 148,779 394 



exception must be made in regard to this affair. out of the country, viz. : 



Within less than, ten days after his knowledge Army, navy, and merchant seamen.. 803,442 



of the capture of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, rp nfnl 



- r f, l f ., . ~ ... , iUUll ^S,OUi,OUU I li/.OOU 



Mr. Seward, the American Secretary of State, 



had sent to the American Minister to the Court The population of Ireland had decreased, 



of St James, instructions to communicate the owing to the large emigration. There were 



fact to Earl Russell and to inform him of the in the United Kingdom twelve cities having 



disposition of the American Government to above ioo,000 inhabitants, and nine of these 



arrange the affair in such a manner as to ob- had above 30 o,000, while London had a popu- 



viate any danger of hostilities between the two ] a ti O n of 2 861 000 



Governments; yet the ministry kept this fact The other possessions of the British Empire, 

 concealed till the report of the surrender of in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia, and 

 Messrs. Mason and Shdell reached England, and p i yne sia, have the following areas and popu- 

 by their silence and the measures they took, ] a ti ns, according to the latest census : 

 (such as prohibiting the exportation of salt- 

 petre and sulphur, and ordering the putting of Area in 

 the army and navy upon the war footing,) they Briti>h poions. Bq niile8 Population. 



aroused a feeling of hostility between the two In E . ~ 



countries which far outlasted its occasion. Gibraltar" 1.67 17.750 



The proffered surrender of the parties to the Malta and GOZ/.O 115 136;271 



British Minister, restored the concord between Sn islands' (undeViBrYtish'prol 



the two Governments, though not that between tectorate) 1,041 229,736 



the two peoples, and though the year closed Tota]< iTeTgl 866 557 



with grievous apprehensions on the part of the ' ' ' ! 1_ 



English people, the early days of the new year , , In ^ sia ' . 



v x J Possessions of the late East India 



brought to them a relief. Company 851,018 135,442,911 



In the internal policy of the Government, Ceylon ,. 24,700 1,759,528 



there had been circumstances of some in- b n ^? n f.V."V.V.V;:::: :;:::: " la' 14 7 i$f 

 terest here passed over, in order to give a 



more connected view of its American policy. Total 875,797.14 137,279,105 



Among these might be named the partial fam- j n Africa: 



me in Ireland, the result of a failure of the po- Gambia 5.693 



tato crop, which was the subject of govern- &Sfts^'fi^:::::: 6.000 JgjSt 



mental investigation, and to some extent relief; Cape Colony 104,921 267,096 



the extraordinary increase of organizations of ?? tal , <;: -^ ', ;;:. 18 ' 000 121,068 



r^t,,tn ~;fl i v it. /-i Islands St. Helena, Mauritius. 



volunteer riflemen, encouraged by the Govern- Seychelles, Aden, &c 755? 252,099 



ment, and stimulated by the apprehension of 



trouble with France in the early part of the Total 129.976? 835,650 



year ; the large increase of cooperative associa- in America: 



tions among the workmen of the different towns Labrador. no,ooo 



and cities, promoted by the fear of loss of work ^^A\\"""" SjR 1^091 



by the shortness of the cotton supply ; the ex- New Brunswick 27,037 I93,soo 



tensive strikes especially among the workers tZKS^vSff^::": "'18 "MM 



m stone, which at one time produced serious Newfoundland 86,000 119,834 



trouble among the building fraternity ; and the British Columbia 222,080 



extensive preparations made for the great In- ilSS^f^l'.rZ: Z '1o UJS 



