OHILI. 



121 



aii'l 



'_' sailing-vessels of all rigs, 28 steamers, 

 iteara-tugs ; total tonnage, 19,164. 

 he sources ami amount of the national rev- 



ie for is;-.', uliont <>!io-half of which is com- 

 monly ilrrivi-il from customs, are shown in the 

 following table : 



RKVKNCK. 



Castomo $7,875,768 



lilwity* 1,975,677 



Mouapotlei (tobacco, playing-cards, etc.) 1,594,867 



ii ibe Hale of real estate 688,468 



liaal-olate tax 648,035 



rlglite 875,855 



Sale of uniju'o :MI.OK) 



illce 88,846 



Telegraphs ar>. I7:i 



Sundriutf 643,986 



$13,594,410 



Ho iv fol!o\\ the items of the national 



EXPENDITURE. 



Ministry of the Interior $4,896,089 



Ministry of Foreign Affaire, etc 805,893 



Ministry of Justice, etc 2,123,193 



Ministry of Finance 6,080,561 



Mini-try of War. 2,171,810 



Ministry of the Navy 1,033,137 



$16,609,188 



The deficit of $3,014,773 is to be accounted 

 for probably by an increased outlay for rail- 

 ways. The estimated budgets for 1873 and 

 l^Ti were respectively: 



Jtevenue For 1873, $14,000,000; for 1874, $14,260,810 



Expenditure.. For 1873, $13,364,450; for 1874, $16,009,183 



The following table exhibits the state of the 

 public debt on January 1, 1873 : 



The following is a comparative statement of 

 the receipts of the custom-house at Valparaiso 

 during the first ten months of 1872 and 1873 : 



The Senate refused to grant a suUidy of 

 $100,000 for the Transandine Telegraph. 



The lines of railway in operation at the be- 

 ginning of 1874 were tin- -mm as thorns enu- 

 merated in the ANNUAL CYCLOPEDIA for 1878, 

 page 112. (For details of the projected Trans- 

 aniline railway from Valparaiso to Buenos 

 A\ IVH, see page 34 of this volume.) 



There are 8,177 miles of telegraph open in 

 the republic, of which 1,951 miles, with 52 

 offices, belong to the state. 



The post-office returns for 1871 and 1872 

 show the following statistics : 



A new penal code, submitted to Congress 

 for approval toward the end of 1873, was re- 

 ported to be of a nature to completely revolu- 

 tionize the criminal law of the republic. One 

 important feature therein, providing for tho 

 peaceful exercise of religious worship by all 

 sects, and deciding the clergy to be amenable 

 to the civil authority, greatly alarmed the 

 clerical party, and a petition against the sanc- 

 tioning the law, signed by the archbishop and 

 two of his bishops, was presented to the Sen- 

 ate. Indeed, the spirit of discord caused by 

 the Ultramontane party in Europe, followed by 

 the attempt to override the supremacy of the 

 law in Brazil, has extended itself to Chili. 

 Public feeling, however, appears to be too 

 strong for the clerical party, and it is expected 

 the bill will pass, after which there will prob- 

 ably be more peace and quietness in the com- 

 munity. Chili has long suffered from this in- 

 fliction, being in every other respect liberally 

 and quietly governed. It was only after the 

 achievement of independence that the right of 

 sepulture was allowed to foreigners. 



An archiepiscopal pastoral was issued in 

 October, excommunicating lata sententia the 

 voters for the amendments in the denounced 

 code, and extending to all magistrates who 

 might enforce the new law. 



The President's message to Congress was ex- 

 ceedingly brief, being merely the announcement 

 that peace reigned undisturbed in all parts of 

 the republic, and the expression of the hope 

 that the question of separation of Church and 

 state might soon bo disposed of, to the interest 

 of the country. 



Few states in South America more quietly 

 pursue the even tenor of their way than Chili ; 

 and yet it is proverbial for its steady progress 

 in all industrial enterprises, for the absence 

 of political perturbation, and for its punctuality 

 in meeting its financial engagements. Its se- 

 curities rank among the foremost on the Lon- 

 don Stock Exchange, being usually held for 

 investment; it builds its own railways and its 

 own telegraphs without much foreign help; 



