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But it is useless to continue the list. It has no end, England���s growth in Victoria���s time. There will be complexions in the procession to-day which will suggest the vast distances to which the British dominion has extended itself around the fat rotundity of the globe since Britain was a remote, unknown, back settlement of savages with tin for sale, two or three thousand years ago and also how great a part of this extension is comparatively recent; also, how surprisingly speakers of the English tongue have increased within the Queen���s time. When the Queen was born there were not more than 25,000,000 English-speaking people in the world, there are about 120,000,000 now. The other long-reign Queen, Elizabeth, reigned over a short 100,000 square miles of territory, and perhaps 5,000,000 subjects. Victoria reigns over more territory than any other sovereign in the world���s history ever reigned over; her estate covers a fourth part of the habitable area of the globe, and her subjects number about 400,000,000. It is indeed a mighty estate, and I perceive now that the English are mentioned in the Bible: ���Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.��� The long-reign pageant will be a memorable thing to see, for it stands for the grandeur of England, and is full HYLAND 17