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The Archbishop of Bahia is the Primate of 

 Brazil, and there are 11 bishops : those of 

 Para, Sao Luiz, Olinda, Kio de Janeiro, Sao 

 Paulo, Porto Alegre, Marianna, Diamantina, 

 Goyaz, and Cuyaba. 



The Supreme Court of Justice (at Eio de 

 Janeiro) is composed of a president, a council- 

 lor, and 17 members. 



The eleven Courts of Appeals throughout 

 the empire have each a president ; that of Eio 

 de Janeiro has 17 members ; that of Bahia, 11 ; 

 that of Pernambuco, 15 ; those of Maranhao, 

 Para, Ceard, Minas Geraes, Sao Paulo, and Sao 

 Pedro do Sul, 7 each ; and those of Matto 

 Grosso and Goyaz, 5 each. There is a Tribu- 

 nal of Commerce at Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, 

 Pernambuco, and Maranhao; and a Supreme 

 Tribunal of War and Justice at Rio de Janeiro, 

 the president of which is the Emperor. 



The army in time of peace comprises a spe- 

 cial corps of 401 men ; twenty-one battalions 

 of infantry, 10,259 strong; five regiments of 

 horse, 2,495 strong ; and three regiments and 

 one battalion of artillery, with one battalion of 

 engineers, 3,381. Total strength of the army, 

 16,536. The Brazilian army of occupation in 

 Paraguay is made up as follows : Special corps, 

 21 men; infantry, 1,326 ; horse, 274; and artil- 

 lery, 776 ; making in all, 2,397 men. 



By virtue of a new law, the strength of the 

 army in time of war is to be 32,000. The Na- 

 tional Guard was disbanded, to be organized 

 anew after the census has been completed. 



The police force comprises 6,476 men, of 

 whom 483 were in Rio de Janeiro. 



The present naval force of the empire is as 

 follows : 17 iron-clad steamers, 9 steam cor- 

 vettes, 24 steam gunboats, 6 steam trans- 

 ports, and 4 sail-of-the-line the total arma- 

 ment being 218 guns, and the total horse- 

 power of the steamers, 7,217. There are be- 

 sides one school-ship and a brig for midshipmen, 

 both without armament; and also 2 steam 

 iron-clads, 2 steam corvettes, andl transport, in 

 process of construction. There are in the navy 

 15 general staff-officers, 418 first and 152 sec- 

 ond class officers, a sanitary corps of 67 men, 

 27 almoners, 215 accountants, 223 cabin boys, 

 etc., 42 engineers, 2,897 imperial marines, a 

 naval battalion of 945, and 961 apprentices: 

 total strength of the navy, 5,962 men. 



From the foregoing remarks it has been ob- 

 served that the whole of the Brazilian troops 

 have not yet been withdrawn from Paraguay, 

 nor will they completely evacuate the territory 

 of that republic until the pending question of 

 boundaries shall have been settled between the 

 Governments of Ascencion and Buenos Ayres. 

 The constant and progressive increase in the 

 foreign commerce of Brazil, notwithstanding 

 the multifarious circumstances which not only 

 militate against, but seem to threaten to im- 

 pede its development, can only be attributecl- 

 to a 'patient and ambitious energy on the part 

 of her agriculturists an energy as surprising 

 as it is real, if it be remembered that the most. 



productive portions of the empire are almost 

 entirely comprised within the tropics. 



The value of the coffee-exports alone for the 

 year 1872-'73 surpassed by more than twenty- 

 five per cent, that of the entire exports from 

 the Argentine Republic in the same period. 

 Of the whole coffee-crop nothing need be said, 

 nor could any remarks thereupon enhance the 

 eloquence of the figures just given. 



Cotton statistics are no less surprising than 

 those of coffee, the exports of that article hav- 

 ing been so prodigiously extended since 1860 

 as to rank, at the present time, second only to 

 those of the United States. 



In the following table are exhibited the total 

 exports from Brazil during the triennium 1870- 

 '73, and the value of each of the principal com- 

 modities : 



The general increase resulting from the fore- 

 going figures may be summarized as follows: 



Increase in 1871-'72, as compared with 1870-'71, $12,026,275 

 " " 1872- 1 73, " " 1871-'72, 12,049,600 



" " 1872-'73, " " 1870-'71, 24,075,875 



Mean annual increase $16,050,583 50 



The subjoined table shows the value of the 

 exports from the different provinces in the 

 three years above referred to : 



A fact w.orthy of remark is, that Rio de 

 Janeiro, though the smallest of all the prov- 

 inces save four, and though about two-thirda 

 of the commodities shipped therefrom pro- 

 ceed from other provinces, has still by far the 

 largest exports, these being on an average 



