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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

[introduction]

Her Majesty Queen Victoria is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India.

The Colonies form a portion of the United Kingdom, though the expression "United Kingdom" is generally only used in reference to the "Mother Country."

The Colonies may be arranged in two classes:—
1.Those strictly Colonies, which find homes for the children of the Mother Country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Cape Colony, the West Indies.
2.The Dependencies, i.e., those which may be regarded more as possessions held to protect the Realm and its commerce, such as Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong.