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GERMANY. 



Prussian Government. T?he ministers, who 

 are under the direction of the Chancellor, are 

 as follow : Secretary of State in the Office of 

 Foreign Affairs, Count Herbert von Bismarck - 

 Schonhauseu ; Secretary of State in the Im- 

 perial Office of the Interior, Herr von Botti- 

 cher; Chief of the Imperial Admiralty, Lieut. - 

 Gen. von Caprivi ; Secretary of State in the 

 Imperial Ministry of Justice, Dr. von Schell- 

 ing ; Secretary of State in the Treasury of the 

 Empire, Dr. Jacobi ; President of the Imperial 

 Office for Railroads, Herr Maybach ; President 

 of the Court of Audit, Herr von Stuenzner; 

 President of the Administration of the Invalid 

 Funds, Dr. Michaelis ; Chief of the Imperial 

 Post-Office, Dr. von Stephan. 



Area and Population. The area of the several 

 states of the empire in square kilometres and 

 their population as shown by the final results 

 of the census of Dec. 1, 1885, are as follow : 



Main, 154,513; Konigsberg, 151,151; Magde- 

 burg, including Neustadt, 148,471 ; Hanover, 

 139,731 ; Stuttgart, 125,901 ; Bremen, 118,- 

 395; Dusseldorf, 115,190; Nuremberg, 114,- 

 891; Dantzic, 114,805; Strasburg, 111,987; 

 Chemnitz, 110,817 ; Elberfeld, 106,499 ; Alto- 

 na, 104,717 ; Barmen, 103,068. 



The number of foreigners naturalized in 

 1885 was 4,893; the number of Germans who 

 renounced their rights of nationality, 18,877, 

 of whom 13,965 were emigrants to the United 

 States. The total emigration in 1886 was 76,- 

 687, as compared with 103,642 in 1885 and 

 143,586 in 1884. The emigration to the United 

 States in 1886 was 72,403, as compared with 

 98,628 in 1885, 139,339 in 1884, 159,894 in 

 3883, 189,373 in 1882, 206,189 in 1881, 103,- 

 115 in 1880, 30,808 in 1879, and 20,373 in 

 1878. The total emigration from Germany 

 since 1820 is reckoned at 4,700,000 persons, of 

 whom 3,600,000 settled in the United States. 



Commerce. The Custom-House returns for 

 1885 and 1886 give the values of the imports 

 and exports of the German Zollverein, in mill- 

 ions of marks and tenths of millions, as fol- 

 low : 



The population of the principal cities on 

 Dec. 1, 1885, was as follows: Berlin, 1,315,- 

 287; Hamburg, 305,690; Breslau, 299,640; 

 Munich, 261,981 ; Dresden, 246,086 ; Leipsic, 

 170,340; Cologne, 161,401 ; Frankfort-on-the- 



