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The following table gives a complete list of the colonies and possessions: 



The following table gives the area and pop- 

 ulation of the United Kingdom according to 

 the census of 1871, as well as the estimates of 



the Registrar-General (who does not include the 

 islands in the British waters, nor the soldiers 

 and sailors abroad) for 1877, 1878, and 1879: 



The British colonies are grouped in forty ad- 

 ministrative divisions, some of them embracing 

 a number of formerly separate colonies. Of 

 these four are in Europe, eleven in America, 

 ten in Africa, seven in Asia, and eight in Aus- 

 tralasia. According to the form of government 

 the colonies are divided into three classes, viz. : 

 1. Crown colonies, in which the Crown has 

 entire control of legislation, while the adminis- 

 tration is carried on by public officers under 

 the control of the Home Government ; 2. Colo- 

 nies possessing representative institutions, in 

 which the Crown has no more than a veto on 

 legislation, but the Home Government retains 



the control of public officers ; 8. Colonies pos- 

 sessing responsible governments, in which the 

 Home Government has no control over any 

 public officer except its own representative. 

 The first class embraces twenty-four colonies, 

 the second class seven, and the third class nine. 

 The latter comprise Canada, Newfoundland, 

 Cape Colony, and the colonies of the Australian 

 continent, with the exception of Western Aus- 

 tralia. 



The movement of population from 1871 to 

 1878, according to tne "Statistical Abstract 

 of the United Kingdom," No. 26, 1864-1878 

 (London, 1879), was as follows: 



