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EUEOPE. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. 



EUROPE continued. 



The following table (from Behm and Wagner, 

 "Bevolkerung der Erde," ii.) gives a very full 

 exhibit of the various density of population in 

 the several countries of Europe. It will be 

 seen that the densest population is found in 

 Belgium, where 64 per cent, of the total area 

 has more than 400 persons to the square mile, 



and the aggregate population of this part of 

 the area is 86 per cent, of the total population. 

 The remainder of the area (36 per cent.) has 

 an average population of from 100 to 400 per- 

 sons to the square mile. The last country of 

 the table (Iceland) has nowhere more than two 

 persons to the square mile : 



EUROPE. 



EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. A special 

 meeting of the council of the British Branch of 

 the Evangelical Alliance was held in London, 

 * ebruary 22d, when the report of a deputation 



who had been appointed to visit Constantinople 

 for the purpose of presenting a memorial on the 

 subject of persecutions which had been suffered 

 by Christian converts at Latakia and Marash, in 



