DENMARK. 



DERBY, EDWARD G. S. 219 



and St. John, in the "West Indies, 40,214 square 

 miles. Minister of the United States in Den- 

 mark, George H. Teaman, appointed in 1865. 

 Minister of Denmark in the United States, 

 F. E. de Bille, appointed in 1867. The popu- 

 lation of Denmark, according to the official 

 census of 1860, was 1,608,095 ; in 1868 it 

 was estimated at 1,753,787. The population 

 of the Danish dependencies, in 1860, was 

 108,983. In the budget for the year 1869-'70 

 the revenue is estimated at 22,039,391 rix- 

 dollars; the expenditures at 22,358,024. The 

 public debt, on March 31, 1869, amounted to 

 119,141,100 rix-dollars. The army,* in 1868, 

 was composed as follows : 



On a war footing the army numbered 49,008. 



The fleet, at the close of 1868, consisted of 

 31 steamers, inclusive of 6 iron-clads, with an 

 aggregate of 312 guns, 2 sailing-vessels, 27 gun- 

 boats, and 29 transports. 



The movement of shipping in 1867-'68 was 

 as follows : 



Vessels. Lasts. 



Domestic Navigation 46,864 305,339 



Foreign Navigation 88,084 535,615 



The number of foreign vessels taking part in 

 the domestic navigation was 1,592, or 3.6 per 

 cent., and of those taking part in the foreign 

 navigation 20,216, or 53.1 per cent. 



The merchant navy, on March 31, 1868, con- 

 sisted of 3,132 vessels, together, of 87, 777 lasts. 

 The number of steamers, in 1868, was 80. 



In November, 1868, both Houses of the 

 Rigsdag adopted a law which permits the 

 establishment of free religious congregations. 



On the llth of January the Landsthing voted 

 the total exemption of the clergy from military 

 duties. 



On the 19th of January the Minister of Jus- 

 tice, in reply to an interpellation, stated that 

 nothing in the laws of Denmark forbids Jews 

 from holding a judicial position. 



On the 4th of February the Folkething 

 agreed to the bill, already ratified by the Lands- 

 thing, to raze the fortress of Nyborg. 



The Diet was closed on the 27th of Feb- 

 ruary. 



On the 1st of March, the decision of the trial 

 of the Duke of Glucksburg against the state 

 was promulgated. The state government was 

 declared to be obliged to pay every year to the 

 Duke 17,006 thalers, and to his younger broth- 

 ers 1,006 thalers each from January 1, 1869, 

 from the Ploen " Equivalent money." 



* See the AMEBICAN AKNTTAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1867, for 

 an account of the military law of 1867 ; the latest statis- 

 tics of the value of imports and exports ; and an account 

 of the present constitution. 



On the 4th of July a Scandinavian meeting, 

 attended by upward of ten thousand Swedes, 

 Danes, and Norwegians, took place in the park 

 of the Royal Palace of Fredericksburg, about 

 twelve miles north of Copenhagen. The Scan- 

 dinavian societies of Denmark and Sweden had 

 .sent invitations to all parts of Scandinavia, and 

 the most distant places sent representatives to 

 the meeting. A journalist came from Trondh- 

 jem, at the extreme north of Norway, a peas- 

 ant from a village on the western coast of Jut- 

 land, and Schleswig was represented by three 

 well-known Danes from Flensburg. A great 

 number of speeches in Danish, Norwegian, and 

 Swedish, were delivered, in which the neces- 

 sity of a political union between Sweden and 

 Denmark was dwelt upon as the only means of 

 protecting those countries against the attacks 

 of their powerful neighbors. It was also urged 

 that the greatest possible development should 

 be given to both the military and naval forces 

 of Scandinavia. A Swede spoke warmly in 

 favor of the people of North Schleswig, and 

 one of the delegates from that country declared 

 that the North-Schleswigers would "never 

 cease to appeal to The Treaty of Prague as the 

 guarantee of their rights, and to demand re- 

 union with Denmark, trusting that they would 

 be supported in this demand by their Scandi- 

 navian brothers." 



DERBY, EDWAKD GEOFFHEY STANLEY, four- 

 teenth Earl of, K. G., an English statesman 

 and orator, born at Knowsley Park, Lanca- 

 shire, March 29, 1799 ; died at Knowsley Park, 

 October 23, 1869. He was educated at Eton, 

 and Christ Church College, Oxford, distinguish- 

 ing himself at college for his classical attain- 

 ments, and gaining, in 1819, the Chancellor's 

 prize for Latin verse, his subject being "Syra- 

 cuse." Immediately after attaining his ma- 

 jority he entered political life, having been 

 returned to Parliament for Stockbridge in 

 1820. It was not, however, till four years 

 after his first election to the House of Com- 

 mons that he ventured to address that body ; 

 but his maiden speech stamped him at once as 

 an orator of no ordinary powers, its effort 

 eliciting a warm eulogium from that fine 

 scholar, Sir James Mackintosh, then one of 

 the most distinguished members of the House. 

 The second speech, delivered in opposition to 

 a measure of the celebrated economist, Joseph 

 Hume, proposing certain reforms in the Irish 

 Church Establishment, was equally felicitous, 

 and, following it up by several others of like 

 ability, he soon established his fame as one of 

 most accomplished and effective debaters in 

 the British" Legislature. His great powers, 

 and the brilliant success he had achieved as 

 parliamentary orator, combined with his high 

 rank, soon won him the post of Under Secre- 

 tary for the Colonies in the Administration of 

 Lord Goderich. This position did not afford 

 much scope for the exercise of his extraordi- 

 nary talents; but he turned it to good account 

 in familiarizing himself with the routine work 



