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twenty-seven volumes of that work; he also 

 wrote many biographies for the " Gallery of 

 Portraits," and in the uncompleted Biographi- 

 cal Dictionary of the Useful Knowledge So- 

 ciety, with' lives of Newton and Halley in 

 " Knight's British Worthies ; " a series of ar- 

 ticles in the " Companion to the Almanac," 

 1833-'57; many memoirs and papers in the 

 Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society, the Philosophical Magazine, the Cam- 

 bridge and Dublin Journal, Notes and Queries, 

 etc. He also contributed to the publications 

 of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge, of the committee of which he was 

 a member. He had for many years written in 

 favor of the system of decimal coinage, which 

 was recommended by a committee of the 

 House of Commons, and, beginning with 1846, 

 advocated large extensions of logic, and pro- 

 pounded a system, of which the most con- 

 densed view is to be found in his " Syllabus," 

 published in 1860. A somewhat angry contro- 

 versy sprung up on this subject between Prof. 

 De Morgan and Sir William Hamilton and his 

 followers, which continued for many years, 

 hinging principally on the question of logical 

 quantity. 



DENIO, HIRAM, LL. D., an American jurist, 

 born at Rome, N. Y.. May 21, 1799 ; died in 

 Utica, N. Y., November 5, 1871. His early 

 academical education was very thorough, and 

 before he had completed his seventeenth year 

 he entered upon the stilidy of law, first with 

 Judge Hathaway at Rome, and afterward 

 with Messrs. Storrs & White, eminent law- 

 yers of Whitesboro. He was admitted to the 

 bar in 1821, and entered into partnership with 

 Mr. W. Barnes, then practising in Rome. In 

 1825 he Avas appointed, by the Court of Gen- 

 eral Sessions, District Attorney, and held that 

 office nine years. In the mean time, in July, 

 1826, he became a resident of Utica, and a 

 partner with his life-long friend, E. A. Wet- 

 more, Esq., in the law firm of Wetmore & 

 Denio. Mr. Denio was appointed, in 1834, a 

 Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, and then 

 began the judicial career in which he won 

 eminence, serving about four years. About 

 1836 Judge Denio entered into partnership 

 with the Hon. Ward Hunt. In June, 1853, he 

 was appointed to fill a vacancy on the bench 

 of the Court of Appeals, and twice afterward 

 was elected to the same position, closing his 

 career in 1866. He held other honorable posi- 

 tions, such as Bank Commissioner and Clerk 

 of the Supreme Court, and was from 1835 a 

 useful and efficient trustee of Hamilton Col- 

 lege. In politics Judge Denio was a Democrat, 

 but he was still more a patriot. He favored 

 the Union cause during the war, voted for Lin- 

 coln for President, and supported the war 

 measures of the Government. His legal fame 

 will rest upon the services which he rendered 

 as Judge of the Court of Appeals. His deci- 

 sion on the Metropolitan Police Law offended 

 extreme Democrats at the time, but it illus- 



trated his independent and non-partisan char- 

 acter, and the party was compelled to recog- 

 nize his fairness and his integrity by a renomi- 

 nation. Judge Denio was regarded by his 

 associates and the most eminent members of 

 the bar as one of the ablest jurists that had 

 ever sat on the bench of the Court of Appeals. 

 He received the honorary degree of A. M. 

 from Union College in 1829, and that of LL. D. 

 from Hamilton College a few years since. 



DENMARK, a kingdom in Europe. King, 

 Christian IX., born April 8, 1808 ; suc- 

 ceeded King Frederick VII., November 15, 

 1863. Heir, Prince Frederick, born June 3, 

 1843 ; married to Princess Louisa of Sweden, 

 July 28, 1869; oldest son born at Copen- 

 hagen, September 27, 1870. A new Cabinet was 

 appointed May 28, 1870, composed of the 

 following members : Count Holstein-Holstein- 

 borg, President of the Council; Rosenornlehn, 

 Foreign Affairs; Haffner, War and Marine, ad 

 interim; Fonnesbech, Interior; Krieger, Jus- 

 tice ; Fenger, Finance ; Hall, Public Worship. 

 Area of Denmark Proper, 14,698 English 

 square miles ; of the dependencies, Faroe, Ice- 

 land, Danish settlements in Greenland, the 

 islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, 

 in the West Indies, 40,214 square miles. Min- 

 ister of the United States in Denmark, M. J. 

 Cramer (November, 1870). Minister of Den- 

 mark in the United States, F. E. de Bille, ap- 

 pointed in 1867. According to the official 

 census of February 1, 1870, the population of 

 Denmark was as follows : 



Zealand, MOet), Samsoe 637,711 



Fflhnen, Lanceland, Arroe 236,311 ? 



Lolland, Fallater 90.706 \ 



Bornholm 31,894 



Jfitland 788,119 



Total 1,784,741 



The population of the Danish dependencies 

 was, in 1860, 124,020. The Faroe Island in 

 1870 had 9,992 inhabitants; Copenhagen on 

 February 1, 1870, had 181,291 inhabitants. 



The religious statistics of the kingdom in 

 1870 were as follows : Lutherans, 1,770,759 ; 

 Reformed, 1,430; Catholics, 1,585; Baptists, 

 3,157; other Protestant sects, 791; Mormons, 

 2,069; Jews 4,400. 



In the budget for the year 1871-72, the 

 revenue is estimated at 20,954,063 rix-dollars ; 

 the expenditures at 20,568,526. The public 

 debt, on March 31, 1869, amounted to 116,- 

 370,350 rix-dollars. The army, in 1869, was 

 composed as follows : 



On a war-footing the total army numbered 

 52,656. 

 The fleet, in 1S70, consisted of 32 steamers, 



