NETHERLANDS. 



565 



of 6,850; 1 tri-weekly, circulation 500; 30 

 weekly, circulation 22,400 ; 4 monthly, circu- 

 lation 1,850. 



There were 390 libraries, having 147,040 

 volumes. Of these, 219, with 95,125 volumes, 

 were private, and 171, with 51,915 volumes, 

 were other than private. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 181, having 108 edifices, with 32,210 sit- 

 tings, and property valued at $380,000. 



The leading religious denominations are as 

 follows : 



The condition of pauperism and crime is 



shown by the following statistics : 



Total population 122,993 



Number of persons receiving support during the 

 year ending June 1, 1870 flS 



Cost of annual support 



Total number receiving support, June 1, 1870. . . 



Native 



White 



Colored 



Foreign 38 



Number of persons convicted during the year 53 



Total number of persons in prison, June 1, 1870 69 



Native 44 



White 35 



Colored 9 



Foreign 25 



NETHERLANDS, TIIE, a kingdom in Eu- 

 rope. King, William III., born February 19, 

 1817; succeeded his father, March 17, 1849 ; 

 heir-apparent to the throne, his son William, 

 Prince of Orange, born September 4, 1840. 

 The area and population of the kingdom, ac- 

 cording to an official statement, dated Decem- 

 ber 31, 1870, were as follows : 



$11,161 

 92 

 54 

 54 



Drenthe 



Friesland 



Gelderland 



Grouingen 



Limburg 



Brabant 



North Holland. 

 South Holland. 



Overyssel 



Zealand 



Utrecht..., 



Total. 



Square Miles. Population. 



1,028 



1,264 



1,964 



885 



851 



1.980 



1,054 



1,155 



1,282 



682 



534 



12,679 



108,056 

 304,702 

 439,715 

 2:34.903 

 228.785 

 440.302 

 711.437 

 602.018 

 2K0.680 

 181,471 

 176,868 



3,688,337 



The following towns 

 1869, more than 20,000 



Amsterdam 264.649 



Rotterdam 116,232 



Hague 90,277 



Utrecht 59,299 



Leyden 38,943 



Groningen 38,528 



Arnheim 31,626 



Haarlem 30,530 



had, on December 1, 

 inhabitants : 



Maestricht 27,808 



Dortrecht 24,613 



Herzogenbush 24.315 



Leeuwarden 23.121 



Nimeguen 22.842 



Delft 21,836 



Filburg 21,431 



Zwolle 20,408 



The area and population (in 1870) of the 

 Dutch colonies in the East Indies were as fol- 

 lows: 



The foreign-born population of these colo- 

 nies included 13,320 Europeans in the army, 

 35,541 other Europeans, 1,280 descendants of 

 Europeans, 219,560 Chinese, 12,721 Arabs, and 

 15,609 Hindoos. The largest cities are: Ba- 

 tavia, 65,000 inhabitants ; Surabaya, 90,000 ; 

 Samarang, 50,000 ; Surakerta, 50,000 ; Djoejo- 

 kerta, 45,000. The revenue in the budget for 

 1872 amounted to 119,758,338 florins; the ex- 

 penditure to 109,362,752 ; surplus, 10,395,586. 

 The budget for 1872 fixes the expenditures 

 at 96,873,092 florins, and the revenue at 88,- 

 377,159 florins, showing a deficit of 8,495,933 

 florins. The public debt, in 1872, amounted 

 to 995,837,326 florins, and the interest paya- 

 ble on the same to 28,120,088 florins. 



The army of the Netherlands, in Europe, in 

 1872, numbered 61,864 men, of whom 1,999 

 were officers. 



The navy, on January 1, 1872, consisted of 

 67 steamers, with 603 guns, and 42 sailing-ves- 

 sels, with 486 guns. The imports, in 1870, 

 amounted to 394,970,000 florins ; the exports 

 to 357,760,000 florins. 



The movement of shipping was as follows : 



Entered, total... 

 Entered, Dutch. 

 Cleared, total... 

 Cleared, Dutch., 



7,949 



1,849 



2,223,009 



651.230 



1,408,060 



IK BALLAST. 



Vessels. 



164 

 3,654 

 1,153 



13,137 

 941.532 

 199.543 



Vessels. 



8,: J 51 

 3,026 



8,286 

 3.002 



Tons. 



2,315,331 



664,367 



2,349,592 



659,108 



The merchant-navy, on December 31, 1870, 

 consisted of 1,985 vessels, of 499,506 tons. The 

 aggregate length of railroads in operation was 

 1,458 kilometres, in the course of construction 

 123 kilometres ; total 1,581 kilometres. The 



aggregate length of telegraph-lines was 3,121 

 kilometres, of telegraph-wires 10,770 kilo- 

 metres. 



The religious statistics of the kingdom, ac- 

 cording to the census of 1869, were as follows : 



