ANHALT. 



ABGENTINE EEPUBLIO. 



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That though the sentence, having been pro- 

 nounced by a tribunal not acknowledged by 

 the Queen's courts, whether civil or ecclesias- 

 tical, can claim no legal effect, the Church as a 

 spiritual body may rightly accept its validity. 

 Only the Bishop of London (now Archbishop 

 of Canterbury) declared that he was unable to 

 append his signature to the report of the com- 

 mittee which had recommended the above 

 declaration ; and stated his own views to be as 

 follows : "I.I consider the trial to have been al- 

 together set aside by the decision given by the 

 highest court in the empire, that it was null 

 and void in law. 2. I consider that if it had 

 been thought right that a trial of a purely 

 spiritual character was to take place, without 

 reference to any binding legal authority on the 

 part of the Metropolitan or his Suffragans as- 

 sembled in Synod, such trial could only be 

 held in virtue of a compact ; and I find no 

 proof that Bishop Colenso entered into such a 

 compact with Bishop Gray, otherwise than on 

 the supposition that the letters patent were 

 valid and that Bishop Gray possessed coercive 

 jurisdiction. 3. Independently of my views 

 as to the general invalidity of the trial, I en- 

 tertain grave doubts whether, in conducting 

 the proceeding, Bishop Gray did not, in several 

 important points, so far depart from the prin- 

 ciples recognized in English courts of justice 

 as to make it highly probable that, if the trial 

 had been valid, and had become the subject of 

 appeal on the merits of the case to any well- 

 constituted court ecclesiastical, the sentence 

 would have been set aside. These difficulties 

 have all along made me feel that the case of 

 Bishop Colenso cannot be satisfactorily dis- 

 posed of without fresh proceedings in lieu of 

 those which I understand to have entirely 

 failed." -The office of Bishop of Natal was ac- 

 cepted by the Rev. Mr. Macrorie, who accom- 

 panied the Bishop of Capetown to South Afri- 

 ca, and was there to be consecrated as bishop. 



ANHALT, a duchy of the North-German 

 Confederation. Area, 1,026 square miles; popu- 

 lation, according to the census of 1867, 197,041 

 (in 1864, 193,046; increase, 2.07 per cent.). 

 "With regard to their religious denominations, 

 the inhabitants were, in 1864, divided as fol- 

 lows : 143,305 Evangelicals, 21,265 Lutherans, 

 27,118 Keformed, 3,156 Catholics, 2,108 Isra- 

 elites, and 89 members of Free Congregations. 

 The capital, Dessau, had, in 1867, 16,904 in- 

 habitants. In the budget for 1868, the revenue 

 and expenditure are estimated at 3,698,558 

 each. The public debt, in 1865, amounted 

 to 1,827,593 thalers for the duchy of Anhalt- 

 Dessau-Cothen, and 1,618,634 thalers for the 

 duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg. (See GEEMANY.) 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, a republic in 

 South America. President, from 1868 to 1874, 

 Domingo F. Sarmiento ; Vice-President, Adolfo 

 Alsina. The estimates of the area and popula- 

 tion of the republic greatly vary. According to 

 Beam (Q-eograph. Jdhrbuch, vol. ii., Gotha, 

 1868), the area is 826,828 English square miles, 



and the population, 1,465,000.* The following 

 table shows the names of the provinces, with 

 the number of inhabitants, and the name and 

 the population of the capital of each State : 



The number of the foreign-born population 

 is considerable. The immigration, from 1858 

 to 1862, amounted to 28,066, and from 1863 to 

 1867 to 64,599 ; total from 1858 to 1867, 92,665. 

 The immigration of the year 1867 was 17,022, 

 and was larger than in any previous year, f 

 During the first six months of 1868, the im- 

 migration again largely increased, amounting to 

 17,187, chiefly from Germany and Italy. 



The revenue and the expenditures of the 

 republic, from 1864 to 1867, were as follows : \ 



Revenue. Expenditures. 



1864 7,005,330 pesos. 6,179,490 pesos. 



1865 8,295,070 " 6,876,175 " 



1866 6,763,830 " 8,265,750 " 



1867 12,040,287 " 



The chief sources of revenue are the proceeds 

 of the customs, which in 1865 constituted 95 

 per cent, of the entire income. The customs on 

 imports, in 1867, were on an average 23 per 

 cent, ad valorem, and those on exports 10 per 

 cent, ad valorem. The public debt, in October, 

 1866, amounted to 32,483,710 pesos. Each of 

 the fourteen provinces has its own budget. 

 That of the province of Buenos Ayres amounts 

 to about 2,000,000 pesos annually. 



The army is estimated at 10,700 men, exclu- 

 sive of the militia and national guard of Buenos 

 Ayres. The republic has no war-vessels. 



The imports of the chief port of the republic, 

 Buenos Ayres, during the year 1865, were 

 valued at 5,420,000 pounds sterling; the ex- 

 ports at 4,400,000 ; the imports of 1866, at 

 6,450,000, and the exports at 4,610,000. The 

 value of the aggregate commerce of all the 

 ports of the republic, in 1866, was estimated at 

 16,000,000 pounds sterling. 



*For further details, see ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 

 1867. 



tFor other interesting information on immigration and 

 foreign residents, see ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1867. 



% 1 peso fuerte equals about one dollar. At the close of 

 the year 1866, a law fixed the value of a Spanish silver 

 peso at 25 paper pesos. 



Additional commercial statistics may be found in 

 the ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1867. 



