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only330,000 on 1896. To this minute increase Paris and jth

subUrbis contribute 292,000. Since 1850 the population of France, allowing for alterations of boundaries, has only in. creasedfrom 35,000,000 to 38,000,000. In the same period the population of the United Kingdom has risen from 21,000,000 to 41,000,000, that of Germany from 35,000,000 te 56,000,000. The Times correspondent attributes the falling-off in population largely to two things,—the unlimited sub. division of the land, and the impediments placed in the way of marriage by the system under which a dot is essential. A girl without a dowry literally cannot marry.