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PRUSSIA. 



1871, were $64,635.27; of which $45,013.19 

 were for the general work, $12,834.93 for ob- 

 jects kindred to the work, but not under the 

 control of the committee, and $6,965 for for- 

 eign missions. Three thousand and ninety 

 dollars of the latter sum were specially con- 

 tributed for work in Mexico. Fifty-two mis- 

 sionaries were commissioned during the year. 

 They labored in the States of Delaware, Iowa, 

 Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, Ne- 

 vada, Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, and 

 Virginia, and in Costa Eica. Griswold Col- 

 lege, Iowa, is represented as growing in effi- 

 ciency as a training-school for the ministry. 

 The society have in trust $10,000 for the pro- 

 fessorship of Systematic Theology, and $20,000 

 for the professorship of Ecclesiastical History 

 in this institution. 



The receipts of the Evangelical Educational 

 Society, for the year ending in October, were 

 $36,141.58, considerably exceeding those of tho 

 the preceding year. The Evangelical Knowl- 

 edge Society reports receipts, for the year, of 

 $139,933.27; expenditures, in the same period, 

 $138,533.34; present assets, $88,927. Forty- 

 two new publications have been issued since 

 the last triennial report. 



PRUSSIA, a kingdom of Europe, forming 

 part of the German Empire. King, William 1., 

 German Emperor, and King of Prussia (see 

 GEKMANY). No changes were made in the 

 Cabinet. After the annexation of Hanover, 

 Hesse-Cassel, Nassau, Frankfort, Schleswig- 

 Holstein, and Lauenburg, the kingdom con- 

 sists of the following provinces and dis- 

 tricts : 



On December 3d a new census was held in 

 Prussia, as well as in all the other states be- 

 longing to Germany. The most remarkable re- 

 sult shown by this census, especially in Prussia, 

 is the rapid increase of the population of the 

 large cities. At the close of the "War of Lib- 

 eration, in 1815, she had only one city with a 

 population of upward of 100,000 inhabitants, 

 namely, the capital, Berlin, which, at that 

 time, had 197,000 inhabitants. In 1831 the 

 population had increased to about 230,000. 

 During the following twenty years it rose to 

 400,000; and in 1864 the census showed a 

 population of 632,000. In 1867 the popula- 



tion amounted to 700,000, and, according to 

 the census of December, 1871, it contained 

 828,000 inhabitants. Besides Berlin, there are 

 eight other Prussian cities with a population 

 exceeding 100,000, namely, Breslau, Elberfeld, 

 Cologne, Konigsberg, Magdeburg, Hanover, 

 Frankfort -on -the -Main, and Dantzic. The 

 number of Prussian cities which have (exclu- 

 sive of the military) a population exceeding 

 3,000, and which, therefore, according ^to the 

 new " Kreisordunng " (the law regulating the 

 division of the provinces into Tcreise or circles), 

 are entitled to constitute by themselves a krei*, 

 is sixteen in addition to those already men- 



