chapel of 1100, each minister of 1400 persons. In the for- mer electorate of Hesse were 988,041 Kvangelicals, 652
Evangelical parishes, 1284 Kvangelical churches, and 681
ministers; on an average, each parish 1. "dr., each church 769, each minister 1450 persons. There tire UU superin- tendents.
•■ In SchleSWig-Holstcill there were, in 1871, 984,972 per- son-, lis:; Kvangelical paiishes, lir. churches with 398 min- isters; on the average, each parish had 2571, each church 2367, each minister 2475 persons. There are 27 superin- tendents.
'■ hi each Prussian province there is a consistory; and the Kvangelical chnri lies in the eight old provinces are under the control ofthe Oberkirchenrath.
" (6.) Other German States.— Bavaria had, Pec. 1, IS75, 5,024,832 inhabitants, 1,:«o,'21s Kvangelicals. in.'.:, i ical parishes. [584 Evangelical chin. lies. 1 :;:;•_' Kvangelical ministers; on the average, belong to each Kvangelical parish 1348, to each church b4S, to each minister 1102. There are 81 superintendents.
" In Wiirtemberg there arel,SS1.505 inhabitants. 1. •_> t-.-i'.n Kvangelicals, '.ma Kvangelical parishes, 1'2::.'> Kvangelical churches, lllti Kvangelical ministers ; on the a\ erage each parish has 1380, each church 1010, each minister 1161 per- sons. There are 50 superintendents.
" P.aden has 1,506,531 inhabitants, 491,008 Kvangelicals, 363 Evangelical parishes, 400 Kvangelical churches, 441 Kvangelical ministers; each parish has on the average 1359, each church m.r>4, each minister llKi persons. There are 24 supei intendents.
"The grand-duchy of Hesse has SS'2,349 inhabitants, 589,399 Evangelicals, 4iu Evangelical parishes, with 782 Kvangelical churches, 404 Evangelical ministers; each parish has 7491, each church 7491, each minister 1209 per- sons. Theie are ■_':; superintendents.
"Saxe-Weiniarhas'27.\4!t-2 Kvangelicals, y>:: Kvangelical parishes, 536 Kvangelical churches, S16 Evangelical min- isters : each parish has !i74. each church M4, each minister si',:i persons. There are 27 superintendents.
"Anhalt has 198,107 Kvangelicals. 140 Kvangelical par- ishes, 206 Evangelical rhurchc-. If:: K\ angelical ministers; on the average each parish has 1387, each church 961, each minister 1215 persons. There are 5 superintendents.
»(2.> Catholic Church.- -(c) Roman Catholic- The Ro- man Catholic Church in Havana ha- --Jf p. : ishes, 1023 benefices, 6157 priests, and :;, 148,453 member- : each parish
has 1)820, and each priest Mill peo] Ie. The SI tie paid in
1874-75 to the Catholic Church £59,450, to the Protestant constsi'vV.- i' 10,903.
'•The Catholic Church in Prussia has :! Church prov- inces, u archdioceses and bishoprics, -'.'74 parishes and benefices, 6072 priests, 4 seminaries for priests. Accord- ing to the Budget far 1874, the government paid for the Catholic Church .£102,065; in Alsace and Lorraine for the Catholic worship there was paid, for 1876, £\ - 1
'■ In IheGei man empire Havana has go bishop :. -. In.;;,',:;
parishes and benefices, 17,898 priest-, and i:;.'.m ;:.".c mem- bers hi 1871).
"(6. Old Catholics. According to the report ofthe fourth Old-Catholic Synod, given In May, 1877, al Bonn, there are now in Prussia 35 Old-Catholic congregations with 6510 independent members ; in Baden, 44 congrega- tions with 5670 independent members; in Bavaria,! Icon- gregatlons with 3710 independent members; in Olden- burg, 2 congregations with 104 independent members; in Wurtemberg, I congregation with '.'4 independent mem- ber- : r.f. mini-tei - aie connected with the Old Catholics; they have in Germanv al least l-l congregations, and 16,557 independent members.
••In May, 1876, the same numbers of the congregations were reported, only in Bavaria the number bad fallen to 81. Sixty ministers were at that time connected with them, t more than now. Thev numbered ill May, 1-70, in Prussia, children lnclnded,*20J504; in Baden, 17,203;
PRUSSIA 731
in Bavaria, 10,110; hi Hesse, 1042; in Oldenburg, 249; hi Wiirteniberg, 233.
"In May, 1ST5, there were in Prussia 32 congregations, 6030 independent members, and is, 705 persons ; in Baden, 35 congregations, 4371 independent members, 14,993 per- sons; in Bavaria, 4245 independent members, 13,000 per- sons; in Germany, 15,000 independent members, 47,737 persons ; 54 ministers.
"(Z>.) Schools.— (1.) Universities.— -In the winter session of 1S75-76 there studied theology at Leipsic 337 ; at Tubin- gen, 233 ; at Halle, 1S7 ; Berlin,' 1*02 ; Erlangen, 134 ; GOtiin- geu, 78; Jena, 04; Bonn, 51 ; Kiel, 50; Strasbnrg, 50; Mar- burg, 40 ; Konigsberg, 44: Breslau, 39; Greit'swald, 33 ; Rostock, 25; Giessen, 23: Heidelberg, 9 — together, 1565 : in the summer session of ls75 there were 1037 students of theology.
"In the German empire are 20 universities, which had, in W5, 10,557 students; the polytechnic schools had 300 teachers and 4428 students.
"In the 9 Prussian universities, the academy at Mini- ster, and the lyceiim at Braunsberg, there we're, in the winter session of 1*70-77, 907 teachers and S302 students; in Berlin alone, 2490; in Breslau, 1219; Giittiugen, 991 ; Halle, S54; Bonn, 793: fi.">4 studied Kvangelir.il i neology, 274 Catholic theology, 2455 law, 1338 medicine, 3C44 phi- losophy; and besides the students, 2202 hearers attended the lectures.
"(2.) High Schools.— The kingdom of Prussia has, ac- cording to Dr. Wiese's historical-statistical work on the higher schools, 221 gymnasia (155 Evangelical, 50 Catholic, 16 mixed), 32 progymna-ia, 92 Realschulen (in which lan- guages, the arts, and sciences are taught— 76 Evangelical. 16 Catholic), 22 higher middle-class schools, 27 provincial trade-schools, 91 seminaries for young teachers (61 Evan- gelical, 25 Catholic, 4 Jewish, 1 mixed), 207 higher schools for young ladies (the Germans call them schools for daugh- ters"), 35 institutions for the deaf and dumb, 14 for the blind, and 7 higher military schools. The number of scholars in these high schools amounted in 1874 to 128,000, that of the teachers to 6900; the cost was £1,020,750.