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DENMAKK. 



DERVISH PASHA. 



fer with the Ministry on the provisional budget, 

 and pave the way for the acceptance of the 

 definite budget, if the provisional one should 

 not be adopted. On October 31st, the report 

 of the Finance Committee was brought for- 

 ward. The Left, forming the majority of the 

 committee, moved that the House should re- 

 ject the provisional financial law which was 

 attached as a note to the budget of 1877-'78, 

 and then pass to the second reading of the 

 budget itself. At the same time, the Left 

 offered to give a provisional sanction to the 

 budget in a form which the Ministry declared 

 unacceptable. The Right offered, in case of the 

 provisional budget passing to a second reading, 

 to vote for its preliminary approval in the form 

 accepted by the Ministry. On November 7th, 



KKONBORG CASTLE, ELBIKOBE. 



the Folkething, after a debate lasting three 

 days, refused to sanction the provisional finan- 

 cial law of April 12th. This law was made by 

 the Ministry, because the Chambers could not 

 agree on a definite budget. The Ministry had, 

 however, neglected to have the provisional 

 financial law, which was valid up to April 15th, 

 renewed by the Chambers; if this had been 

 done, much trouble would have been avoided. 

 The reason why this step had not been taken 

 became known during the debate on the ques- 

 tion of sanctioning this law. The Prime Min- 

 ister stated that, at the time, the material for 

 the new law was ready, but as he, the President 

 of the Ministry could not make himself heard 

 during the session of March 31st, it had been 

 impossible to submit it to the Chambers. As 

 soon as the provisional law had been defeated, 

 a temporary one was proposed. This did not 

 come from the Government, but from a member 

 of the Folkething, and waspassed, after having 

 been received in about the same form as the 

 budget passed by the Folkething on March 

 31st, but which was afterward rejected by the 



Landsthing. The Government declared itself 

 in favor of this temporary law, which was, 

 nevertheless, changed by the Landsthing, and 

 returned to the Folkething, which restored it 

 to its original form, when it was again changed 

 by the Upper House. At this stage, a joint 

 committee was appointed, which arranged a 

 satisfactory compromise bill, which was adopted 

 by both Chambers on November 8th. The 

 Rigsdag continued its session beyond Decem- 

 ber 1st, the day fixed by law for its adjourn- 

 ment, with the consent of the King. 



The trial of Messrs. Hall and Worsaae, the 

 ex-ministers charged with the misappropriation 

 of public moneys, which was resolved upon by 

 the Chambers in the beginning of the year, 

 came to a hearing before the Supreme Court 

 on September 24th, af- 

 ter several previous ad- 

 journments of the case ; 

 and, in the beginning of 

 October, the court ac- 

 quitted the two ex- 

 ministers. 



The social democrats, 

 who had always been 

 very strong in Denmark, 

 met with serious re- 

 verses. In January, one 

 of their leaders, Brix, 

 was sentenced to four 

 years in the House of 

 Correction, for insulting 

 the King. On March 

 24th, two other leaders, 

 MM. Pio and Geleff, 

 the so-called "two mar- 

 tyrs," the editors of the 

 Social Democrat, sud- 

 denly left for parts un- 

 known. Great excite- 

 ment prevailed when it 



was discovered that they had taken all the 

 money on hand, belonging not only to the 

 paper but to the various working-men's build- 

 ing societies, the trades unions in fact, every 

 available shilling which had been intrusted to 

 them, including even a sum of some 2,000 

 dollars belonging to the leader of the female 

 socialists, the Swedish Baroness Liliencrantz, 

 besides leaving debts calculated at 16,000 to 

 20,000 crowns. 



DERVISH PASHA, the commander of the 

 Turkish corps at Batum, was born about 1805. 

 A Bulgarian by birth, he renounced, at an early 

 age, Christianity, and is now a Mohammedan. 

 His name first became known in the campaign 

 in the Corsan-Dagh, where he so distinguished 

 himself by his energy and severity, that the 

 conquered Kurds mentioned his name for a 

 long time with fear. Under the administration 

 of his old comrade, Hussein Avni Pasha, he 

 became, in 1873, Minister of War ; was then 

 for a time Minister of the Navy, and was final- 

 ly appointed commander of the troops in Al- 

 bania, where he conducted the campaign against 



