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With regard to religion, the population was, on December I, 1869, composed as follows: 



The following towns had, on December 1, 

 1872, more than 20,000 inhabitants : 



Anuterdiun ......... 177.765 



Rotterdam .......... 122.471 



Hai?ue .............. 92,7*5 



Utrecht ..... ........ 61.601 



Leyden ............. 89,574 



Oroningen ..... 89,015 



Arnhelm ........... 84,064 



Haarlem ............ 82,168 



cin. roi>utin. 



Mestricht 28,279 



Leenvrarden 16,884 



Dortrecht 85,498 



Bola-le-Duc 21,161 



Tllbors 84,153 



Nlmwezen 22.785 



Delft 28,748 



Zwolle 21.113 



The area of the Dntch colonies in tlie East 

 Indies is estimated at 615,000 square miles. 

 The population was, in 1871, as follows: 



The foreign population of these colonies in- 

 cluded 12,348 Europeans in the army; 35,4-37 

 other Europeans (28,003 in Java and Madura) ; 

 1,028 descendants of Europeans; 247,097 Chi- 

 nese; 12,842 Arabs; and 17,757 Hindoos. 



The budget for the year 1873 estimates the 

 expenditures at 96,879,274 florins; the revenue 

 at 91,373,719 florins ; the deficit at 5,505,555, 

 which was to be provisionally covered by the 

 issue of bank-notes. At the commencement 

 of 1878 the national debt was represented by 

 a capital of 950,693,826 florins, divided as fol- 

 lows: 



In the session of 1873, the Stntes-Qeneral 

 passed an act to increase the annual sum set 

 aside as a sinking-fund for the redemption 

 of the national debt, namely, 1,900,000 flo- 

 rins, by 7,000,000 florins, and thus redeem 

 a total amount of 8,900,000 florins within 

 the year. The entire reduction of the na- 

 tional debt, in the twenty-two years from 1850 

 to 1872, amounted to 275,016,112 florins. In 

 the budget of the East India colonies the rev- 

 enues are estimated at 183,433,472 florins; the 

 expenditures at 123,005,777 florins; surplus, 

 10,427,695 florins. The colonies have no longer 

 any public dobt. ns it has been transferred to 

 the home government. 



The army of the Netherlands in Europe con- 

 I. in 1873, of 62,068 men, of whom 2,054 

 were officers ; the East Indian army numbered 

 27.659 men, inclusive of 1,2 13 . .Hirers 



The navy, on January 1, 187:!. ccpn-istcil of 73 

 steamers, with 596 guns, and 40 sailiiiL'-vessels, 

 with 385 guns: total, 113 vessels, and 981 guns. 



The movement of shipping, in 1871, was as 

 follows : 



The merchant navy, on December 81, 1871, 

 consisted of 1,902 vessels, of 492,438 tons. The 

 aggregate length of railroads in operation was, 

 on January 1, 1872, 1.468 kilometre (1 kil. 

 equals 0.62 Enelish miles) ; in the course of 

 construction, 123 kilometres; total, 1,581 kil- 



ometres. The aggregate length of the Btnto 

 telegraph-lines, in January, 1873. was 3,288 

 kilotni'tiv; ; the aggregate length of the wires, 

 11.276 kilometres. 



The imports and exports in 1871 were val- 

 ned as follows (value expressed in florins) : 



