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the corn crop acreage, barley occupying about two-sevenths, and oats nearly four-sevenths. Nearly three-fourths of the green crop area are occupied by turnips, and nearly one-fourth by potatoes. Industries and Trade.—According to the annual report for 1898 of the chief inspector of factories (1900), the number of persons employed in factories and worshops in 1897 was 4690, as compared with 5359 in 1896. Non-textile factories employed 3379 persons, workshops 1150, the majority being engaged in the clothing industries. The total number of persons employed in connexion with mines and quarries in 1899 was 11,138. Coal-mining is the most important industry, Of the less valuable minerals there were raised (in 1899) 264,982 tons of clay, 204,599 tons of limeDemotica, a town of Turkey in Europe, in the stone, 23,042 tons of sandstone, and 28,840 tons of igneous rocks. sanjak and province of Adrianople, situated on the Iron ore has almost ceased to be raised. The following table gives right bank of the Kizil-deli, near its junction with the the productions of coal, lead, and zinc in 1890 and 1899 :— Zinc. Lead. Coal: Maritza, and on the Maritza Valley or Dedeahgatch-KuleliYear. Value. Bourgas Railway, about 35 miles south of Adrianople. It Tons. Value. Tons. Value. is of some industrial importance, the chief exports being 1890 2,221,497 £916,367 1416 £12,821 6593 £41,104 pottery, for which it has some repute, linen, silk, cocoons, 25,976 1899 2,512,104 973,440 1983 20,150 3273 and grain. The population is about 12,000. See Williams and Underwood. The Village Churches of Denbigh, a maritime county of North Wales, is Denbighshire, illustrated by geometrical, perspective, and detail (t. f. H.) bounded N. by the Irish Sea, N.E. by Flint and Cheshire, drawings. Denbigh, 1872. S.E. by Flint and Shropshire, S. by Montgomery and Denbigh, a municipal and contributory parliaMerioneth, and W. by Carnarvon. mentary borough (uniting with Holt, Ruthin, and Area and Population.—The area of the ancient county is Wrexham), market-town, and county town of Denbigh423,477 acres or 662 square miles. The population in 1881 was shire, Wales, 25 miles west of Chester. There are three 111,957, and 117,872 in 1891, of whom 59,569 were males and Established, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian, 58,303 females ; the number of persons per square mile being 178, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches; also a new and of acres to a person 3'59. In 1901 the population was 129,935. ,The area of the administrative county, as given in county school under the Welsh Intermediate Education the census returns of 1891, was 424,435 acres, with a population Act, a Blue Coat school (both of old foundation), a school of 118,843, but since then certain alterations have been made for 50 orphan girls maintained from funds left to the in the administrative area. In 1897 the part of the parish of Drapers’ Company, and, in the neighbourhood, the North Nanerch in Denbigh was transferred to Flint, and the part of the parish of Llanarmon yn Vale in Flint, and part of the parish Wales Asylum. The chief industries are tanning, bootof Erbistock were transferred from Flint to Denbigh. The area making, and slate-quarrying. Area of borough, 8868 of the registration county is 386,416 acres, with a population in acres. Population (1901), 6439. 1891 of 116,698. Within this area the increase of population Dotlia., a Mediterranean seaport of Spain, in the between 1881 and 1891 was 3'29 percent. The excess of births over deaths between 1871 and 1881 was 11,172, and the actual province, and 45 miles north-east of the town, of Alicante. increase of population was 5716. The following table gives the Population (1897), 11,401. There are manufactures of numbers of marriages, births, and deaths, with the number and woollen and linen cloths and esparto grass rugs. The percentage of illegitimate births, for 1880, 1890, and 1898 :— export trade in fruit is considerable, the figures for raisins in 1898 being: to Great Britain, 13,000 tons; elsewhere, Illegitimate Births. Year. Marriages. Births. Deaths. 12,000 tons ; 150,000 barrels of grapes were also exported, No. Per cent. exclusively to English ports. Of onions, 81,400 crates 2394 1880 3535 239 67 738 were despatched, practically all to North America. A 5-3 1890 3262 2313 173 871 breakwater, 1485 yards long, is in course of construction. 3572 2369 184 4'9 1898 881 426 vessels of 165,246 tons entered in 1898, and 427 In 1891 there were in the county 554 natives of Scotland, 819 of 165,511 tons cleared. About half of these were small natives of Ireland, and 171 foreigners ; while 38,310 persons could vessels engaged in the coasting trade, carrying agricultural speak English, 37,195 Welsh, and 35,030 English and Welsh. produce. The chief imports were timber from the Baltic Constitution and Government.—The ancient county is divided into two parliamentary divisions, and it also includes the Denbigh and coal from England. district of parliamentary boroughs, consisting of Denbigh, Holt, Denison, George Anthony (1805-1896), Ruthin, and Wrexham. There are three municipal boroughs, English Churchman, brother of Mr Speaker Denison (Lord Denbigh, Ruthin, and Wrexham. The following are urban districts—Abergele and Pensarn, Colwyn Bay and Colwyn, Llan- Ossington : 1800-1873), was born at Ossington, Notts, 11th gollen, and Llanrwst. Denbighshire is in the North Wales Circuit, December 1805, and educated at Eton and Christ Church, and assizes are held at Ruthin. The boroughs of Denbigh and Oxford. In 1828 he was elected fellow of Oriel; and after Wrexham have separate commissions of the peace, but no separate a few years there as a tutor, during which he was ordained court of quarter sessions. The ancient county, which is in the and acted as curate at Cuddesdon, he became rector of diocese of St Asaph’s, contains 75 entire ecclesiastical parishes and Broadwindsor, Dorset, and married (1838) the daughter of districts, and part of one other. Education.—The number of elementary schools on 31st August Mr Henley, M.P. In 1843 he was preferred by his brother, 1899 was 122, of which 48 were board and 74 voluntary schools, the Bishop of Salisbury, to the valuable living of East the latter including 70 National Church of England schools, Brent, Somerset, and in 1851 was made Archdeacon of 2 Roman Catholic, and 3 “British and other.” The average attendance at board schools was 9288 and at voluntary schools Taunton. For many years Archdeacon Denison repre8258. The total school board receipts for the year ended 29th sented the extreme High Tory party not only in politics September 1899 were over £38,495. The income under the but in the Church, regarding all “ progressive ” movements Technical Instruction Act was £69 ; that under the Agricultural in education or theology as abomination, and vehemently Rates Act was over £1384. Agriculture.—More than three-fifths of the total area of the repudiating the “ higher criticism ” from the days of Essays county is under cultivation, and of this nearly three-fifths is in and Reviews (1860) to those of Lux Mundi (1890). In permanent pasture. There are also over 80,000 acres of mountain 1853 his views on the doctrine of the Real Presence pasture grazed by sheep, and over 18,000 acres under woods. subjected him to a suit for heresy on the complaint of a Only about 220 acres are under orchards. The acreage under corn crops has considerably decreased, the decrease being chiefly in the neighbouring parson, and after various complications he acreage under wheat, which now occupies about one-seventh of was condemned by the Archbishops’ Court at Bath; but

ever, he again became Prime Minister, and was at the head of affairs during the Cretan crisis and the opening of the war with Turkey in 1897. The humiliating defeat which ensued—though Delyannis himself had been led into the disastrous war policy to some extent against his will—caused his fall in April 1897, the king again dismissing him from office when he declined to resign. Delyannis kept his own seat at the election of 1899, but his following dwindled to small dimensions.