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Tin- iluoil lino of Brunswick is likely to bc- 

 eimioi-xtinrt on the death of the reigning Duke. 

 Tin- succession is disputed by the Duke of 

 Cumberland (on of the late King of Hanover) 

 and tho Kmpi-rur of Germany. Tbe heir iip- 

 ]i;u. nt is the son of the reigning sovereign in 

 >iiK I'ourtri'ii of the twenty-two sovereign 

 JHIIHOS which belong to the German Empire. 



Tin- innvi-Nirnt of emigration from the ports 

 of Biviiiui und Hamburg was as follows: 



Besides this number, emigrants left Germany 

 as follows: by way of Stettin, 1875-'78, 630; 

 Antwerp, 1872-78, 13,656; Rotterdam, 1872, 

 1,486; Havre, 1872-76, 14,627; Marseilles, 

 1873 and 1874, 47; Genoa, 1872, 7. The 

 principal points of destination of the emigrants 

 from Bremen, Hamburg, Stettin, and Ant- 

 werp in 1878 were as follows : United States, 

 20,373; Australia, 1,718; Brazil, 1,048; Afri- 

 ca, 394 ; South American republics, 449 ; West 

 Indies and Central America, 96. 



The movement of populatiou in 1877 was as 

 follows: 



According to Brachelli ("StatistischePkizze 

 des Deutschen Reichs," 1878), the population 

 of Germany in 1875 comprised 26,718,823 

 members of the Evangelical Church, 15,371,- 

 227 Roman and Old Catholics, 100,608 other 

 Christians, 520,575 Jews, and 16,127 others. 



Germany has twenty universities, of which 

 nine are in Prussia, three in Bavaria, two in 

 Baden, and one each in Wurteraberg, Hesse, 

 Saxony, Saxe- Weimar, Mecklenburg, and Al- 

 sace-Lorraine. The number of professors and 

 of students in the German universities in 1878 

 were as follows : 



Sometimes the academies of Monster and 

 Braunsberg, containing each the two faculties 

 of Catholic theology and philosophy, are 

 counted among the German universities. In 

 1879 Munster had 32 professors and 279 stu- 

 dents. At the following universities outside 

 of the German Empire the German language 

 is exclusively or predominantly used, and in 

 the province of literature they may be counted 

 as German universities : 



The budget of the German Empire for 1879 

 -'80, as declared by the laws of March 80, 

 May 16, and July 6, 1879, estimates the reve- 

 nue at 546,594,477 marks and the expenditure 

 at 545,894,037 marks (1 mark = 23'8 cents). 

 The revenue was derived from the following 

 sources : 



Mario. 



1. Customs and excises of consumption 251,696340 



2. Stamps on playing-cards 1,916.000 



8. Stamp duty on bills of exchange 6,577,800 



4. Adininistnitit.n of postal affairs and telegraphs 15,022,988 



5. Administration of railroads 9,910,000 



6. Administration of the iinj*>rfal printing-office. 1.106.440 



7. Imperial Bank and other receipts 2.105.000 



8. Receipts of various descriptions 7,208,000 



9. From the Imperial fund* for invalids 88,0 15,879 



10. Surplus of former years 1,180,000 



11. Profit from the coining of imperial money.. .. 100,000 



12. Interest from invested capitals 6,270,179 



13. Extraordinary receipt* 180,268.974 



14. Matricular contributions 90.871,890 



Total 540^04,471 



The matricular contributions were divided 

 among the particular states as follows : 



