AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Ninth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1874. PRICE 1D. ___________________________________________________ THE BRITISH EMPIRE. The Empire possesses 7,769,449 square miles of territory. The United Kingdom, 121,608 square miles; the Colonies, 6,685,021; India and Ceylon, 962, 820. There are 38 persons to a square mile in the empire; 260 in the United Kingdom, 201 in India, and 1.41 in the Colonies. It should be observed, however, that in some parts of India, the density of population more than equals that of England. The Queen rules over 234,762,593 souls; her people dwell in 44,142,651 houses; the area of the lands they inhabit is not less than 7,769,449 square miles. Never has the Census of an empire so splendid in existence and so imposing in prospect been recorded. ________________________________