SATURDAY, MAY %, 1S4l.
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change and the new life infused into
the stagnant governments of ASIA even
by their being flung into the whirl of
European interests, look not unlike signs
of the times. 1t may be no dream, to
imagine in these phenomena the proofs
of some memorable change in the interior
of things some preparatives for that
great providential restoration, of which
Jerusalem will yet be the scene, if not
the centre and the Israelite himself the
especial agent of these high transactions,
which shall make Christianity the religion
of all lands, restore the dismantled beauty
of the earth, and make man, what he was
created to be-only "a little lower than
the angel.'


The statistics of the Jewish population
are among the most singular circum-
stances of this most singular of all people.
Under all their calamities and dispersions,
they seem to have remained at nearly the
same amount as in the days of David and
Solomon, never much more in prosperity
never much less after ages of suffering.
Nothing like this has occurred in the his
tory of any other race Europe in general
having doubled its population within the
last hundred years, and England nearly
tripled hers within the last half century
the proportion of America being still more
rapid, and the world crowding in a con-
stantly increasing ratio.-Yet the Jews
seem to stand still in this vast and gen.
eral movement. The population of Judea,
in its most palmy days, probably did not
exceed, if it reached, four millions. The
numbers who entered Palestine from the
wilderness were evidently not much more
than three and their census, according
to the German statists, who are generally
considered to be exact, is now nearly the
same as that of the people under Moses
-about three milions.-They are thus
distributed -


In Europe, l,9l6,OOO, of which about
$3.50 are in Poland and Russia, and
458, 900 are in Austria.


In Asia, 738,OOO, of which 100000
are in Asiatc Turkey.


In Africa, 594 900, of which 100000
are in Morocco.


In America, North and South 500.


If we add to these about 5000 Sa-
maritans, the calculation in round nu-
mbers will be about 100000.


This was the report in l825-the num-
bers probably remain the same. This
extraordinary fxedness in the midst of
almost universal increase, is doubtless not
without rcason-if we are even to look
for it among the mysterious operations of
which have preserved Israel separate
race through eighteen hundred years. May
we not naturally conceive, that people
thus preserved without advance or retro
cession dispersed, yet combined broken,
yet firm without country yet dweIlers
in all everywhere insulted, yet every
where influential without nation, yet
united as no nation ever was before or
since-has not been appointed to offer
this extraordinary contradiction to the
common laws of society, and even to the
common progress of nature, without
cause, and that cause one of final benev-
olence, Universal good, and divine grand
eur!


Twas eve on jerusalem!


Glorious its glow