NETHERLANDS, THE. 



following towns 

 1878, mono than 20,000 



OltlM. Population. 



Amsterdam 881,944 



Kotli-nlaiu 



Hague '.H.H'.C, 



Utrecht 63,140 



I .>( 1. M 39,869 



arooiogen 89,884 



Arah01m 85,198 



Haarlem 33,758 



Maestricht 88,483 



had, on December 1, 

 inhabitants : 



CIllM. Population. 



Leeuwarden 2(1,500 



Dortrecht 85,577 



Tllbnrg 81,845 



Horzogenbusch 81,168 



Delft 23.000 



Nime-juon 22,721 



Zwolle 21,810 



Helder 20,778 



Schiedam 20.104 



The area of the Dutch colonies in the East 

 Indies is estimated at 615,000 square miles. 

 The population was, in 1872, as follows : 



Colonial. Population. I Colonlw. Population. 



Java and Madura. 17,398,200 Western Borneo.. 865,881 



The foreign population ot these colonies in- 

 cluded 12,902 Europeans in the army; 86,494 

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

 1,324 descendants of Europeans ; 291,224 Chi- 

 nese; 13,903 Arabs; and 25,912 Hindoos. 



The budget for the year 1874 estimates the 

 expenditures at 100,244,000 florins; the rev- 

 enue at 93,742,000 florins; the deScit at 6,- 

 502,000, which was to be provisionally covered 

 by the issue of bank-notes. At the commence- 

 ment of 1874 the national debt was repre- 

 sented by a capital of 937,020,000 florins, di- 

 vided as follows : 



In the session of 1878, the States-General 

 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 florins, 

 by 7,000,000 florins, and thus redeem a total 

 amount of 8,900,000 florins within the year. 

 The entire reduction of the national d 

 the twenty-two years from 185'> to 1872, 

 amounted to 275,016,112 florins. In the budget 

 of the East India colonies the revenues are 

 t-tiniated at 123,598,000 florins; the expendi- 

 tures at 113,054,000 florins; surplus, 10,544,000 

 florins. The colonies have no longer any pub- 

 lic debt, as it has been transferred to the home 

 government. 



The army of the Netherlands in Europe con- 

 sisted, in 1874, of 2,057 officers and 60,014 

 men ; the East Indian army numbered 27,659 

 men, inclusive of 1,213 officers. 



The navy, on January 1, 1874, consisted of 

 84 steamers, with 565 guns, and 16 sailing-ves- 

 sels, with 108 guns : total, 100 vessels and 673 

 guns. 



The merchant navy, on December 31, 1872, 

 consisted of 1 , 73 1 vessels, of 438, 03 1 tons. The 

 aggregate length of railroads in operation was, 

 on January 1, 1874, 1,538 kilometres (1 kilome- 

 tre equals 0.62 of an English mile). The aggre- 

 gate length of the state telegraph-lines, in 

 January, 1874, was 3,277 kilometres ; the ag- 

 gregate length of the wires, 11,738 kilometres. 



The imports and exports in 1872 were val- 

 ued as follows (value expressed in florins) : 



The movement of shipping, in 1872, was as 

 follows : 



