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DENMARK. 



28, 1869, to Princess Louisa, only daughter of 

 the late King Charles XV. of Sweden. Off- 

 spring of the union are three sons, born in 

 1870, 1872, and 1876, and a daughter born in 



1875. The King has a civil list of 500,000 

 rigsdalers, and the heir-apparent 60,000 rigs- 

 dalers. The ministry, at the close of the year 



1876, was composed as follows: President of 

 the Council and Minister of Finance, J. B. S. 

 Estrup; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron 

 Rosenorn-Lehn ; Minister of War and of the 

 Navy, General W. Haffner ; Minister of the 

 Interior, E. V. R. Skeel ; Minister of Pub- 

 lic Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs, J. 0. 

 A. Fischer ; Minister of Justice and for Iceland, 

 Prof. J. M. V. Nellemann. The area of Den- 

 mark 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. Oroix), 759,900 square miles. 

 The population, according to the latest dates, 

 was as follows : 



Nearly the entire population of Denmark 

 proper (99.15 per cent.) is connected with the 

 Lutheran Church. Of the remainder there 

 were, in 1870, 1,433 Reformed, 1,857 Catho- 



lics, 3,223 Baptists, 1,211 Free Congregations, 

 2,128 Mormons, 4,290 Jews, 260 Metho- 

 dists, 349 Irvingites, 74 Anglicans, 28 Friends, 

 12 Greek Catholics, 88 of various other 

 sects, and 205 without definite creed. The 

 number of emigrants from Denmark was, in 

 1875, 2,088; 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 



1873 to 1875, were as follows (in rigsdalers, 

 1 rigsdaler = $0.5463) : 



Revenue. Expenditure. 



1878- n 74 48,408,570 46,704,408 



1874-'75 64,656,780 65,037,288 



In the budget for the year 1876-'77, the 

 revenue was estimated at 48,085,953 crowns 

 (1 crown = $0.268); the expenditures at 46,- 

 695,071 crowns : the surplus being 1,390,882 

 crowns. The public debt on March 31, 1875, 

 amounted to 187,145,823 crowns, of which 

 160,355,623 were home debt, and 26,790,200 

 foreign debt. The state assets being 86,339,- 

 884, the actual indebtedness of the state 

 amounted to 100,805,939 crowns. The debt 

 has been in a state of reduction since 1866. 

 In 1872 it still amounted to 232,000,000; in 



1873, to 220,000,000; and in 1874, to 211,000,- 

 000 crowns. 



Military service begins with the twenty- 

 second year of age, and lasts eight years for 

 the line and first call ; the second call is liable 

 to military service to the age of thirty-eight 

 years. In time of peace, the line and reserve 

 (first call) number 1,106 officers and 34,551 

 men; the second call, 286 officers and 12,993 

 men. In time of war, the army numbers 

 48,982 men. The navy, in 1876, comprised 34 

 steamers, 7 of which were iron-clad, 2 sailing- 

 vessels, and 28 rowing-boats. It was manned 

 by 800 men, and officered by 1 admiral, 15 

 commanders, 34 captains, 47 lieutenants, and 

 20 sub-lieutenants. 



The movement of shipping during the year 



1874 was as follows: 



The aggregate length of railroads in opera- 

 tion, on January 1, 1876, was 1,260 kilometres 

 (1 kilometre = 0.62 English mile), of which 819 

 kilometres were state railroads, and 441 kilo- 

 metres private roads. The length of telegraph- 

 lines was 2,545.9 kilometres ; of wires, 7,049 

 kilometres ; the number of telegraph-offices, 

 174. The Post-Office forwarded, in the year 

 1873-'74, 16,487,000 letters and 15,134,000 

 newspapers. 



In the Danish Legislature the year has been 

 spent in constant contentions between the 



Government and the Opposition. The Lands- 

 thing, or Upper House, contains a large major- 

 ity in favor of the Government, while the Op- 

 position has a much stronger majority in the 

 Folkething, or Lower House. The two Houses 

 have not been able during the year to agree 

 upon any measure of importance. At the 

 meeting of the Folkething after the Christmas 

 holidays, the ministry announced that no prop- 

 ositions would be made in regard to relaxing 

 the tithes, because in order to do this it would 

 be necessary to wait until the question in ref- 



