GERMANY. 



The total number of emigrants from the three 

 ports of Hamburg, Bremen, and Stettin, in 1875, 

 was 56,289 ; in 1874, 75,502 ; in 1873, 134,191. 



The governments of the various states of 

 the empire are investigating the causes of emi- 

 gration from Germany. They will endeavor to 

 remove them by facilitating the acquirement 

 of small estates, and by opposing the action 

 of emigration-agents paid by the transatlantic 

 governments. 



The states of Germany are constitutional 

 monarchies, with the exception of the three 

 Hanse-towns, which are democratic republics, 

 and the two grand-duchies of Mecklenburg, 

 where the old feudal institutions, notwith- 

 standing the urgent demands of the population 

 and the admonition of the German Reichstag, 

 had, in 1875, not been abolished. In the prin- 

 cipality of Lippe-Detmold, the constitutional 

 government has for some years been suspended 

 in consequence of a conflict between the gov- 

 ernment and the representatives of the people. 

 Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wtirtemberg, Baden, 

 and Hesse, have Diets consisting of two Cham- 

 bers ; all the other states have only one Cham- 

 ber. In Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wtirtemberg, 

 Baden, Hesse, Brunswick, Schwarzburg, Wai- 

 deck, and Schauraburg-Lippe, women can suc- 

 ceed after the extinction of the male line ; but 

 not in the other states. 



The following tables show the composition 

 of the different classes of the Diets of the 

 particular states : 



STATISTICS OF THE DIETS OF THE PARTICULAB 

 STATES. 



I. STATES WITH Two CHAMBERS. 

 a. FIRST CHAMBER. 



The movement of emigration from the ports of 

 Bremen and Hamburg was, in 1874, as follows : 



b. SECOND CHAMBER. 



