DENMARK. 



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of the late Dnke William of Schleswig-Hol- 

 stein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, and of Princess 

 Louise of Hesse-Cassel ; appointed to the suc- 

 cession of the Banish crown by the Treaty of 

 London, of May 8, 1852, and by the Danish 

 law of succession of July 31, 1853 ; succeeded 

 to the throne on the death of King Frederick 

 VII., November 15, 1863 ; married, May 26, 

 1842, to Louise, daughter of Landgrave Wil- 

 liam of Hesse-Cassel. Heir-apparent, Prince 

 Frederick, born June 3, 1843 ; married, July 

 28, 1869, to Princess Louisa, only daughter of 

 the late King Charles XV. of Sweden ; oft- 

 spring of the union are two sons, Christian, 

 born September 26, 1870, and Charles, born 

 August 3, 1872. The King has a civil list 

 of 500,000 rigsdalers, and the heir-apparent 

 60,000 rigsdalers. The ministry, at the close 

 of the year 1873, consisted of the following 

 members : President of the Council, Count 

 Holstein - Holsteinborg, appointed President 

 of the Council May 28, 1870 ; Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs, Baron Otto Rosenorn-Lehn 

 (1870); Minister of the Interior, Christen An- 

 dreas Fonnesbech (1870); Minister of Public 

 Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Carl 

 Christian Hall (1870) ; Minister of Justice, 

 C. S. Klein (June 28, 1872) ; Minister of Fi- 

 nance, Andreas Frederick Krieger (June 28, 

 1872); Minister of War and Marine, Captain 

 N. F. Ravn (1873). The area of Denmark 

 proper, inclusive of lakes, is 14,753 square 

 miles; of European dependencies (Faroe Isl- 

 ands and Iceland), 40,268 square miles; of 

 American possessions (Greenland, St. John, 

 St. Thomas, and St. Croix), 759,900 square 

 miles. Population, according to the census 

 of 1870: of Denmark proper, 1,784,741; of 

 Faroe Islands, 9,992; of Iceland, 69,763; of 

 Greenland, 9,825 ; of the West India islands, 

 37,821 : total of colonies, 127,401. Nearly the 

 entire population of Denmark proper, namely, 

 1,769,583, or 99.15 per cent., is connected with 

 the LutheranChurch ; of the remainder, 1,433 

 are Reformed; 1,857 Catholics; 3,223 Bap- 

 tists ; 1,211 Free Congregations ; 2,128 Mor- 

 mons; 4,290 Jews; 260 Methodists; 349Irving- 

 ites; 74 Anglicans; 28 Friends; 12 Greek Cath- 

 olics ; 88 of various other sects ; 205 without 

 definite creed. The number of emigrants from 

 Denmark was 3,906 in 1871 ; 3,525 in 1870 ; 

 4,:ifiO in 1869: nearly all the emigrants went 

 to the United States. The actual revenue and 

 expenditure of the state for the two years 

 1870-'72 (the financial year ending March 31st) 

 were as follows : 



Rtndalen. 

 21 ,904.003 

 30,965.183 



For the financial year 1872-'73, the revenue 

 showed a surplus of 2,500,000 rigsdalers over 

 the expenditures. According to the Danish 

 Constitution, the annual financial accounts 

 must be laid on the table of the Folkething at 

 the beginning of each session, that is, about six 

 months after the close of the financial year, and 

 be examined by four revisers, two of whom are 



Rlpdalen. 



1RTO-'71 23.419.623 



HT1-'7S 22,516.916 



elected by the Folkething, two by the Lands- 

 thing. In the budget for the financial year, 

 1873-'74, the revenue is estimated at 23,736,161 

 rigsdalers, and the expenditures at 22,989,633 

 rigsdalers; in the budget for the year 1874-'75, 

 the revenue at 23,952,236, the expenditures at 

 23,235,371. The public debt, on March 31, 

 1872, amounted to 114,660,781 rigsdalers, of 

 which 82,876,160 were home debt, and 31,784,- 

 621 foreign debt. The state assets were 46,- 

 286,912, leaving 68,373,809 as the real amount 

 of the indebtedness of the state. The debt has 

 been in the course of reduction since 1866, 

 when it amounted to 132,000,000 rigsdalers. 

 According to the budget for 1874-'75, the pub- 

 lic debt, on April 1, 1874, would amount to 

 105,338,375 rigsdalers. 



The army, in time of peace, numbers 15,258 

 men; and on the war-footing, 62,656. The 

 navy, in 1873, comprised 30 steamers, 7 of 

 which are iron-clads, and 2 sailing-vessels. It 

 was manned by 918 men, and officered by 1 ad- 

 miral, 15 commanders, 34 captains, 47 lieuten- 

 ants, and 20 nnder-Iieutenants. 



The commerce of Denmark, which is mainly 

 carried on with Germany and Great Britain, 

 was, from 1868 to 1872, as follows: 



The precise amount of the commercial trans- 

 actions is not known, as the official returns 

 since 1863 have not given the declared or real 

 value of the imports or exports, but only their 

 weight. 



The movement of shipping in 1871 and 1872 

 was as follows : 



HOME NAVIGATION. 



OUTWARD NAVIGATION. 



The commercial navy, on March 31, 1872, 

 was composed of 2,837 vessels, with an aggre- 

 gate of 204,710 tons ; of these, 91 were steam- 

 ers, with 15,633 tons; and 2,746 sailing-vessels, 

 with 189,077 tons. On March 31, 1873, the 

 number of vessels was 2,738 (109 steamers), of 

 an aggregate of 197,000 tons. 



On January 1, 1873, there were 642.74 

 miles of railroad in operation. The length of 

 telegraph-lines, in 1871, was 1,485.76 miles ; 

 that of the wires, 3,833.77 miles. The post- 

 office forwarded, in 1871-'72, 13,468,134 let- 

 ters, and 12,233.261 newspapers. 



Denmark has 26 banks ; the most important 



