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Show DISPOSITION OF JEWS IN . EUROPE. ( In tbe course of an articlo upon ' the condition of tho Jews in euatern Europe, the iiepublique Francuise quotes some interesting statistics as to their numbers both there aud in other 1 countries. From these statistics it1' appears that Jerusalem does not con- j 1 tain more than eight or nine thou-' sand, and that the Jews are ratbtr .' more numerous in North Africa tliau ' .they arein Judea. There ate scarcely nuy Jews in Italy or Spain, and tu Great Britain they do not torni more ! man one in a thousand of tbo inhabitants. inhabi-tants. Ia France tney are iu the proportion of fwur to a thousand of t., whole population, but this comparatively com-paratively high proportion is due to tho fact that the Jews aro very numerous in the departments on the German frontier. In the annexed provinces of Alsace-Lorraine tbe Jews uumberi 4u,ii-S out of a total population of a ! million and a ball, vrliile in tiwilzer-j land there are only 7,067 Jews to a total population of more than two! iml.iuu aud a half. Germany, including in-cluding tbo I'ubsb provinces and Alsace-Lorraine, contains no more than 512 100 Jews; while in Austria j tney number 1,370,000, or 3.8 per centum of tbe whole population. Nearly a third of the Austrian Jews inhabit the province of Galicia, wheis they form nearly an eighth of tbe whole population, and where al the rale ol increase observed during tlio laat twenty years they will eventually be in an ubsoluu; majority. I Tne sixty-three million inhabitnntH ' of Kussiau Ettrupeoompri.se 1,81?..', 100 Jews who, until tbo recent decree authorizing them to reside io any part of tho empire wero confined to certain dustrieis in soutnern Kuia, to (Jour land and tbe ancient provinces of FoUnd. More than a million at.d a half of the Russian Jews reside in the Pulish provinces, aud as tbe in-liubitanU in-liubitanU of those prutinceo- number but 1,113,085, they form more than eleven per centum of tho whole population, pop-ulation, outnumbering ttie 1'oles, properly so called, by nearly half a million. Tbo Jews ar still more 1 numerous proportionally in th kingdom king-dom of Foland itself, there being 783,000, or thirteen per centum, in a; total population of 5,700,000. i r In ltti7 Hamburg continsd 13,457, Jewrt out of a tola) population of 306,507; Berlin U7,565, out olOW.DSI; and Si. Fetor burg only l!02, out ol i fi.'VJ.lVJS; while in Wnrs.tw there were 7-, 770 Jews in a total population of . 1:22,900. Their numbers have in-1 in-1 creased since, and they now repre-1 repre-1 tent 3.J.0 por centum of tho wholo j population. |