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FRANCE. 



The latest educational statistics of France 

 are as follows : 



If the latter class is not taken into ac- 

 count, we obtain the following table of per- 

 centage : 



Leaving the children below six years of age 

 aside, it appears from the table that about 

 30 per cent, of the population are unable to 

 read and write. 



Among the married people the number of 

 illiterates was, in 1872, as follows : 



The budget for 1876, voted by the National 

 Assembly, comprised the following sources of 

 revenue and branches of expenditures : 



REVENUE. 



Direct taxes 



Special taxes, assimilated to the direct taxes. . . . 



Stamps and enregistrement 619,489,815 



Produce of forests 88,064,680 



Duties 286,933,250 



Indirect taxes 998,615,455 



Produce of posts 110,176,000 



Miscellaneous receipts 146,841,182 



Extraordinary receipts 8,600,000 



Additional taxes 14,000,000 



Total 2,575,028,582 



EXPENDITURES. Francs. 



Public debt and donations . . 1,181,880,281 



Ministries- 

 Ministry of Justice 83,771 ,640 



Ministry of Foreign Affairs 11,255,500 



Ministry of the Interior 112,214,715 



Ministry of Finances 19,828,250 



Ministry of Public Instruction 98,640,640 



Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce 19,186,500 



Ministry of Public Works 161,105,188 



Ministry of War 500,088,115 



Ministry of the Navy ( - aK ono . 



Administration of colonies f 165 . 89 M96 



Revenue collection 249,014,838 



Deficits and repayments 17,782,000 



Total 2,570,506,513 



The public debt, according to the budget of 

 1876, was as follows : 



On January 1, 1873, the new army law of 

 August 16, 1872, went into operation. Its 

 first article enacts universal liability to mili- 

 tary service. Every Frenchman capable of 

 bearing arms must serve for twenty years, 

 namely, four years in the standing army, five 

 years in the reserve of the standing army, five 

 years in the "territorial" army (landwehr), 

 and six years in the reserve of the "terri- 

 torial " army (landsturm). 



The recruiting in 1874 showed that the num- 

 ber of young men registered in the military 

 lists as becoming twenty years old in 1873 

 (" class of 1873 ") was 296,504. In addition 

 to these there were 21,022 properly belonging 

 to the class of 1872. Of these numbers there 

 were 



Class of 1873. Class of 1872. 



Of the men declared fit for service, 6,056 , 



were assigned to the navy for a service of 'five l '%SfflPtt&Kff 



years. 1 he remaining 146,369 men of the class years.) 69,080 8,94292,972 



of ms, and the 6,797 of the class of 1872, * g^ggggf* 



were divided into two sections : six to twelve months 57,839 2,855 60,194 





