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DENMARK. 



28 1869 to Princess Louisa, only daughter of 

 the late' King Charles XV. of Sweden ; off- 

 sDrino- of the union are two sons, Christian, 

 born September 26, 1870, and Charles born 

 August 3, 18T2. The King has a civil list of 

 500 000 rigsdalers, and the heir-apparent 60,001 

 rigsdalers. The new ministry, appointed on 

 June 11, 1875, consisted of the following mem- 

 bers- President of the Council and Minister 

 of Finance, J. B. S. Estrup; Minister of For- 

 eign Affairs, Count F. G. G. Moltke, of Bre- 

 gentved; Minister of War and of the Navy, 

 General W. Haffner; Minister of the Interior, 

 E. Y. K. Skeel ; Minister of Public Education 

 and Ecclesiastical Affairs, J. 0. A. Fischer; 

 Minister of Justice and for Iceland, Prof. J. 

 M V. Nellemann. The Minister -of Foreign 

 Affairs, Count Moltke, died on October 1st. 

 He was succeeded by the Baron Rosenorn- 

 Lehn, who occupied* the same position five 

 years ago in the cabinet of Count-Holstem- 

 Holsteinborg. The area of Denmark proper, in- 

 clusive of lakes, is 14,753 square miles; of Euro- 

 pean dependencies (Faroe Islands and Iceland), 

 40,268 square miles ; of American possessions 

 (Greenland, St. John, St. Thomas, and St. 

 Croix), 759,900 square miles. The population, 

 according to the latest dates, was as follows : 



Revenue. 



l72-'73 49,889,970 Rigsdalers. 



1873->74 48,403,570 



Expenditure. 

 47,356,026 Rigsdalen. 

 46,704,408 " 



In the budget for the year 1875-'76 the rev- 

 enue was estimated at 23,024,226 ; the ex- 

 penditures at 22,799,200; the surplus, 225,026 

 rigsdalers (1 rigsdaler = $0.5463.) The public 

 debt, on March 31, 1874, amounted to 105,- 

 936 192 rigsdalers, of which 80,653,954 were 

 home debt, and 25,282,238 foreign debt. The 

 state assets were 50,773,635, leaving 55,162,557 

 as the real amount of the indebtedness of the 

 state.. The debt has been in the course of re- 

 duction since 1866, when it amounted to 132,- 

 000,000 rigsdalers. It was expected that in the 

 spring of 1875 this debt would be reduced to 

 93,000,000 rigsdalers, and that when, on March 

 31, 1875, the English loans would be paid off, 

 the foreign debt would only amount to 13,- 

 000,000 rigsdalers. Five and a half million 

 rigsdalers of the foreign debt were again to be 

 paid in 1877. 



In the budget of the Danish islands in the 

 West Indies the revenue is estimated at 191,235 

 rigsdalers, and the expenditure at 206, 987 rigs- 

 dalers. The deficit is to be made up by Den- 

 mark. 



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

 men; and on the war-footing, 52,656. The 

 navy, in 1875, comprised 33 steamers, 6 of 

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

 was manned by 800 men, and officered by 1 

 admiral, 15 commanders, 34 captains, 47 lieu- 

 tenants, and 20 sub-lieutenants. 



The commerce of Denmark during the finan- 

 cial year 1873-'74 was as follows (value ex- 

 pressed in rigsdalers) : 



Nearly the entire population of Denmark 

 proper, namely, 1,769,583, or 99.15 per cent., 

 is connected with the Lutheran Church ; of 

 the remainder there were, in 1870, 1,433 Re- 

 formed ; 1,857 Catholics; 3,223 Baptists; 

 1,211 Free Congregations; 2,128 Mormons; 

 4,290 Jews ; 260 Methodists ; 349 Irvingites ; 

 74 Anglicans; 28 Friends; 12 Greek Catho- 

 lics; 88 of various other sects; 205 without 

 definite creed. The number of emigrants from 

 Denmark was, in 1874, 3,322 ; in 1873, 7,200 ; 

 in 1872, 6,893 ; in 1871, 3,906 ; in 1870, 3,525 ; 

 in 1869, 4,360 : nearly all the emigrants went 

 to the United States. The actual revenue and 

 expenditure of the state for the two years 

 1871-73 (the financial year ending March 31st) 

 were as follows : 



The following table exhibits the condition 

 of the commercial navy during the years 

 1872 to 1874 : 



