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24th of March, a new ministry was appointed, 

 composed as follows : Presidency and Interior, 

 Luis Gonzales Bravo Murillo ; Navy, Belda ; Jus- 

 tice and Foreign Affairs (provisionally), Roncali ; 

 Colonies, Marfori; Finances, Orobio; Public 

 Works, Qatalina; War, Lieutenant-General May- 

 aide y Villaroya. On the 16th of June, Roncali 

 was definitely appointed Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs; Coronado, Minister of Justice; Marfori, 

 Minister of the Royal House. The Provisional 

 Junta, which assumed the reins of the Govern- 

 ment after the expulsion of the Queen, charged 

 Marshal Serrano with forming a new ministry, 

 which was completed on the 8th of October, 

 and composed as follows : Presidency, Marshal 

 Serrano, Duke de la Torre ; "War, Lieutenant- 

 General Juan Prim, Marquis de los Oastillejos; 

 Navy, Juan Topete ; Finances, Laureano Figue- 

 rola ; Foreign Affairs, Juan Alvarez de Loren- 

 zana ; Justice, Antonio Romero Ortiz ; Interior, 

 Praxedes Mateo Sagasta; Colonies, Adelardo 

 Lopez de Ayale; Public Works, Manuel Luiz 

 Zorella. 



Revenue and expenditures, in the budgets 

 from 1866 to 1869, were as follows (value ex- 

 pressed in escudos 1 escudo = 10 reals = 48 

 cents) : 



The public debt, on November 30, 1866, 

 amounted to 20,412,134,058 reals. 



In the budget for the island of Cuba, pub- 

 lished by the Official Gazette of Madrid on 

 May 25, 1868, the expenditure of the colony is 

 estimated at 498,504,350 reals, against a reve- 

 nue of 603,293,250 reals, leaving a balance in 

 favor of the treasury of 104,788,900 reals. In 

 the budget of the Philippine Islands for 

 1868, -the expenditure is estimated at 204,- 

 571,510 reals, and the revenue at 238,490,510 

 reals. 



The area of Spain, inclusive of the Balearic 

 and Canary Islands, is 195,607 square miles. 

 In point of administration, Spain was formerly 

 divided into thirteen provinces (exclusive of 

 the islands), most of which were during the 

 middle ages independent states. In 1822 the 

 Cortes abolished this division and divided the 

 kingdom into fifty-one provinces (exclusive of 

 the Canary Islands) ; this division was modified 

 in 1833, and again in 1856. From that time, 

 Spain has been divided into forty-nine prov- 

 inces, each of which is called after its capital. 

 The provinces are subdivided into districts 

 (partidos). At the head of every province 

 was a civil governor, appointed by the King. 

 Among the different schemes of reorganization 

 which were discussed in the last months of 

 the year 1868, there was one to make Spain a 

 federal republic on the basis of the revived 

 names of the old historic provinces. In the 

 following table we give both the old and the 

 new division of provinces : 



According to the census of 1860, the total 

 population was 15,673,536; in 1857 it was 

 15,464,340. The colonies of Spain, in 1868, 

 had the following area and population : 



The Corte?, which were in session on the 

 opening of the year 1868, consisted almost ex- 



* Inclusive of the island of Ceuta (10,395 inhabitants). 

 t Inclusive of the Presidios de Africa (3,119 inhabitants 

 in 1860). 



