Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 309, 26 October 1891 — Foreign NOTES. [ARTICLE]

Foreign NOTES.

Russla manifests no disposition to let the Eastern question rest. The Czar has just gained a step in Pamir, a table land of Central Asia, often called the u roof of v»orld, r and whieh is the central node fron ( whence the mountains oi Asia radiate. Russia has also strongintluenee in Afghamstan, and indeed ali the IChanates of Central Asia. Thus in Asia the|Bussian lx>undary line »3 con"tmualty expanding in the directioti of India. In Europo the iuiportance v>f, thei free navigation of the ])ardanelies ; is well lenown.. Rusvta is also mas-' sing a fbrce of 100.000 nien in Bessarabia. a provinoe adjoinuvj; Uoumania; and she is neith< r poor nor but it haekeīl hy Froii' v h i inlluonee aiul i h-,' i • '.oin. I: enii' readilv bt v s»»rn th;it. U'i;-«i,', under, these cir«;umisiuancfs. >usiu.ins lu*r rf- j putation as the troub!or of Euro|>e. When i< wai» known that the Oar J d.ane!les h;idboo:\cp< to Rus£ian ! w;ir u, body -o? % troops :roni the Britīāii Meet Meuitcrrancan were ianded at Bi£?ri. a liarbor of Mytilcne conv«niently near thc

D&£«baEs4lbB* In an instant Ēarope was in a Maze of excitement; but Johni\y Buil qniet?y explaijied that the mea merely went asbore fer gun praetk». A very harmless act, btit it taught aa important objeet lesson. īt is nothing new for the Eastern qtiasti<»& to be discussed with the swoud} but sueh an armed rehearsal istilEuque.—Ex> \ 1 , 1 11 ■ The Missio'iiary Review of ihe World for Auguat says the population of Europe may be set down ia round numbers as 350,000,000, aad is divided religiously about asfoHows: Roman Gathōlics,l6s,ooo,ooo: Protestants, 90,000,CK)0; member of bld Qriental churehes, 85,000,000, and about 5,000,000 eaeh of Jews and Mohāmmedans. Italy with 31,000,000 as well as Spain and Portugal with 26,090,000 are almost wholJy Cathqlic. Belgfum with 6.000,000 is papal about twelve to one. In Prance out of 39,000,000 less than a million Prutestants. Austria eont%ins some 37,000,000 inhabitants, of whom 12,000,000 are.non-Catho-lie. In Switzerland nearly twothirds of the 3,000,000 accept the Reformed faith. The German Empire holds 30,250.000 Protestants in a totai of 48,000,000. l)enmark, Sweden, Norway, and the Xetherlands, with a conibined population of 13.500,000 are aliuost solid against papacy, the iatter being overwhelmingly Presbyterian, and the other Lutheran. Great Britain and Ireland are Protestant by 29,620,000 against 5,640,000. Of the Catholi6s 1,370,000 arfe found in England and Waies, and but 330,000 in Scotland. In Ireland are found 1,155,000 Protestant« and about 4,000,000 Catholics. Rusbia and Greece have a popuiation of 100,0(K),000. of whieh two-third helōng to the Greek Church. Mohammedans comprise about onehalf of Turkey's 5,000,000. —E:c.