FRANCE. 



Nfi 



hussara, together 12,000 men. To these must ho 



iments of Chasseurs d'Afrio,ue, 



men, and three regiments of Spahis, 



men, making a total of cavalry of the 

 f 85,550 men. Tho field artillery of the 

 consisted of 84,000 men, who, with the 



of engineers and the army train, would 

 make a total strength of the French field army 



:..V)() iiii-n, namely : 



Intently, 855,000 men, divided Into 374 battalions. 

 . , 88,550 " " 252 squadrons. 



Artillery, 86,500 " " 104 batteries, 984 gnns. 



KiiL'iucorB, 7,500 " " battalions. 



6,000 " 



The budget for the support of the army, 



during 1870, amounted to about $65,000,000, 

 fold. 



At the head of the marine force (in 1870) were 

 two admirals, 0. Kigault do Genouilly (Janu- 

 ary, 1864) ; F. T. Trehouart (February, 1869) ; 

 and sixteen active vice-admirals. Minister 

 of the United States in France, E. B. Wash- 

 burne, appointed May 28, 1869. Area of 

 France, 209,428 square miles; population, ac- 

 cording to the census of 1866, 88,067,064. 

 The Governor-General of Algeria has since 

 handed in an official report to the Conseil Supe- 

 rieur de 1'Algerie (January 1, 1870), from which 

 the following has been condensed : 



The following territorial changes also took 

 olace during the year 1870 : After the occupa- 

 tion of the northeastern part of France by the 

 German armies, the Prussian Government took 

 charge of the administration of the conquered 

 territory of Alsace and Lorraine, and created 

 the " General Governments of Alsace and Lor- 

 raine," the former of which has an area of 

 6,828 square miles, and a population of 1,638,- 

 546 ; the latter of 6,700 square miles with 

 1,081,904 inhabitants. A small portion of the 

 department of Landes, situated at the mouth 

 of the river Adour, and of an area of 1,235 

 acres, has been transferred to the arrondisse- 

 ment Bayonne in the department of Basses- 

 Pyr6nees. The area of the former depart- 

 ment has thus been changed to 3,593 square 

 miles, with a population of 306,653 ; that of the 

 latter to 2,944 square miles, with 435,526 in- 

 habitants. The islands of Toulas and Ber- 

 geres have been transferred from the depart- 

 ment of Loire-Inferieure to the department of 

 Maine-et-Loire ; so that the former now has an 

 area of 2,794 square miles, with 598,500 inhab- 

 itants; the latter of 2,806 square miles, with 

 532,423 inhabitants. The population of the 

 larger cities, according to the census of 1866, 

 was as follows : 



Paris l>-.'.vrri 



Lyons 323.954 



Marseilles 300,131 



Bordeaux I'.u.-.Ml 



Lille i:.t.7i:i 



Toulouse l-'ii.'.Wi 



Nantes lil.'.i.v, 



Kouen 100.671 



St. Etienne 96.620 



Strasbourg 84,167 



Brest 



Toulon 77,126 



Havre 74.900 



Rheims 60,734 



Ntmes 60,240 



Mtihlhonse 58,773 



Montpellier 55,606 



Metz 64,817 



Aimer* 54,791 



Limoges 53,022 



Nlzza 60.180 



Nancy 4fl,93 



Rennes 49,231 



VOL. X. 20 A 



! Orleans 49,100 



Besancon 46.961 



Le Mans 45.230 



Caen 41,564 



Grenoble 40,484 



Boulogne 40,251 



Dijon 89.193 



Tourcolng 88,262 



Clermont 37.690 



Lorii-nt 87.655 



Cherbourg 87,215 



Avignon 36.407 



Troycs 85.878 



IDnnkerkc 83,088 



St. Ouenlin 32,690 



Poitiers 31.034 



Ronbnir 65,091 



! Amiens 61.063 



Versailles 44,021 



Tours 42,450 



Rochefort 80,151 



I Bonrgcs 30,119 



The expenditures on the state debt, accord- 

 ing to the budget for 1870, were estimated as 

 follows t 



The interest payable on the above consoli- 

 dated debt may be distributed among the sev- 

 eral administrations of France as follows : 



On debts incurred up to April 1, 1814 63,363,743 



On debts created through the invasion of the 



Allies in 1815 101,203,000 



On debts created during the reign of Louis 



Philippe 12.377,983 



On debts created during the Republic of 1848.. 53,923,496 

 On debts created during tbe Second Empire.., 133,156,612 



Total as above 363,924,834 



The total state debt, as will be seen by ref- 

 erence to the preceding table, comprised a 

 capital of 12,923,718,073 francs on January 1, 

 1870; to this must bo added a war loan of 

 750,000,000 francs, authorized by decree of 

 the Empress Eugenie, as Regent of the empire, 

 of August 21, 1870. It was stipulated that the 

 cost of this financial operation, including the 

 discount on anticipated payments, should not 

 exceed 245,000,000 francs. The loan was ac- 



