“ To the Folkething all money bills must in the first instance be submitted by the Government. The Landsthing, besides its legislative functions, has the duty of electing from its midst every four years the assistant judges, four in number, of the Höiesteret, or Supreme Court, who, together with the four judges, form the highest tribunal of the kingdom, and can alone try parliamentary impeachments. ”

“ After Germany and Great Britain, Denmark has the greatest trade with Sweden and Russia. The precise amount of the commercial transactions with these countries is not known, as the Danish official returns do not give the declared or real value of the imports or exports, but only the weight of the same. ”

“ The commercial intercourse between Denmark and the United Kingdom is shown in the subjoined tabular statement, exhibiting the value of the total exports from Denmark to Great Britain and Ireland, aside with the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures into Denmark, in the ten years 1860 to 1869:—
The exports of Denmark to the United Kingdom consist entirely of agricultural produce, mainly corn. ”

“ Eligible to the Landsthing is every citizen who has passed his thirtieth year, and is of unspotted reputation. The Folkething, or Lower House of Parliament, consists of 101 members, returned in direct election, by universal suffrage, for the term of three years. ”

“ Besides the university of Copenhagen, there are 13 public gymnasia, or colleges, in the principal towns of the kingdom, which afford a 'classical' education, and under them are a large number of Middle Schools, for the children of the trading, and higher working classes. ”

“ Trade and Industry. The commerce of Denmark is carried on mainly with Germany and Great Britain, the imports from the former amounting to about 2,000,000 £., and from the latter to 1,500,000 £., and the exports to the former to 3,500,000 £., and to the latter to rather more than 2,300,000 £., on the average of the five years 1864–68. ”

“ In conformity with Art. 85 of the Constitution, education is afforded gratuitously in the public schools to children whose parents cannot afford to pay for their teaching. The system of mutual instruction, introduced in 1820, was generally adopted in 1840. ”

“ Defeat of Marshal MacMahon at Douzy and Bazeilles, and retreat of
the French army into the fortress of Sedan. September.
1. Battle of Sedan, and final defeat, with loss of 30,000 prisoners, of the army of Marshal MacMahon, by the united German armies under the King of Prussia.
2. Interview between the Emperor Napoléon and the King of Prussia, resulting in the capitulation of the whole of the French army imprisoned at Sedan. The Emperor, Marshal MacMahon, thirty-nine generals and 100,000 soldiers of all grades, fall prisoners to the German troops. ”

“ The proportionate increase in the population of Denmark for the last fifteen years has been larger in the towns than in the country districts. In Copenhagen it has been 8.05. per cent., in the other commercial towns together 10.29 per cent., whilst in the country districts it has only been 5.99 per cent. ”

“ The second period of drill, which is for only a portion of the recruits of each branch of arms, notably those who have profited the least by the first course, lasts nine months for the infantry, eleven months tor the cavalry, and one year for the artillery and the engineers. ”

“ But, being challenged, we are resolved, like our forefathers, placing full trust in God, to accept the battle for the defence of our homes and our
country.' August.
1. Grant of two millions sterling by the House of Commons to the British Government 'towards defraying the expenses which may be incurred in maintaining the naval and military services of the kingdom during the war in Europe.'
2. ”

“ The occupations of the people are stated as follows in the last census. Out of an average of 1,000 people, 395 live exclusively by agriculture; 228 by manufactures and trades; 187 are day labourers; 53 are commercial men ”

“ Opening of the Zollverein Parliament at Berlin.
23. Decree of the Emperor Napoléon, convoking the French nation for the 8th of May in their comitia to acccept or reject the following plebiscite:—'The people approves the liberal reforms effected in the Constitution since 1860 by the Emperor, with the co-operation of the great bodies of the State, and ratifies the Senatus Consultum
of the 20th of April, 1870.'
24. Changes in the Greek Ministry. 25. Protest of the Turkish Government against a new loan contracted by the Khedive of Egypt. ”

“ On the 31st of March, 1869, the Fund stood at 6,500,000 £., or considerably more than the national revenue for two years. It is contemplated gradually to reduce the Reserve Fund, in the years 1869–77, to 16,000,000 rigsdaler, or 1,780,000 £.
The public debt of Denmark, incurred in part by large annual deficits in former years, before the establishment of parliamentary government, and in part by railway undertakings, amounted to 119,141,086 rigsdaler, or 13,239,872 £., on March 31, 1869. ”