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."
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. |