. The earth and its inhabitants .. . and thirty-five arrondissements, besides five superior courts, and a Supreme Court of fifteen members. All judges, except those of inferior courts, are irremovable. The Eeformed Church was disestablished in 1870, although the vast majority of the inhabitants belong to it. The Roman Catholics are in a majority in the provinces of Limburg and Brabant, and generally carry the elections, for religious differences largely enter into politics. Jews are numerous in the larger towns.* The Army is partly recruited by voluntary enlistment, partly by conscription. * I
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . and thirty-five arrondissements, besides five superior courts, and a Supreme Court of fifteen members. All judges, except those of inferior courts, are irremovable. The Eeformed Church was disestablished in 1870, although the vast majority of the inhabitants belong to it. The Roman Catholics are in a majority in the provinces of Limburg and Brabant, and generally carry the elections, for religious differences largely enter into politics. Jews are numerous in the larger towns.* The Army is partly recruited by voluntary enlistment, partly by conscription. * In 1869 there were 2,074,734 memlDers of the Eeformed Church, 68,067 Lutherans, 1,313,053 Eoman Catholics, 55,757 Old Catholics and other Christians, and 68,003 Jews. In 1829 the Catholics were 38-8 per cent, of the population; in 1869 only 36-5 per cent.
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