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ITALY. 



larger territorial divisions (compartiment'i) with 

 the population, male and female, of each, ac- 

 cording to the census of 1871, and the total 

 population at the close of 1875, according to 

 an official calculation : 



According to the latest census, taken in 1871, 

 the total population was 26,801, 154. The move- 

 ment of population, from 1870 to 1875, was as 

 follows: 



The religious statistics of the kingdom, in 

 1871, were as follows: Catholics, 26,658,679; 

 Protestants, 58,051 : Israelites, 35,356 ; others, 

 48,468: total, 26,801,154. 



With regard to the birthplace, the popula- 

 tion was divided into 26,720,326 native-born, 

 and 80,828 foreign-born.* 



The Bolletino Ufficiale delV Istruzione Pub- 

 lica gives the following statistics on the num- 

 ber of children not attending school, in 1875, 

 in a part of Italy : t 



The total number of lyceuins was 80, with 

 5,532 pupils ; the number of gymnasia 104, 

 with 9,772 pupils; the number of technical 

 schools 63, with 6,501 pupils. 



* For a detailed account of the foreign population of Italy, 

 as well as of the Italians living abroad, see ANNUAL CYCLO- 

 PAEDIA for 1875. 



t For statistics of primary instruction in 1874, see ANNUAL 

 CYCLOPAEDIA for 1875. 



In the budget for 1876 the revenue and ex- 

 penditures were estimated as follows : 



ORDINARY REVENUE. Lire. 



1. Land-tax 182.290,655 



2. Income-tax 180,465,946 



3. Duty on grinding 79,000.000 



4. Mutation tax 144,080,000 



5. liegistration 3,200,000 



6. Customs 106,000,000 



7. Consumption duties (octroi) 69.853.767 



8. Tobacco and salt 107,500,000 



9. Lottery 75,100,000 



10. Miscellaneous receipts 18,206,148 



11. Postal department, state railroads and tele- 



graphs 56,070,733 



12. Accidental receipts 7,410,000 



13. Eeceipts from state property and state 



assets 70,095,196 



14. Returns of payment and Miscellaneous re- 



ceipts 89,850,145 



Total revenue 1,248,629,180 



The extraordinary receipts amounted to 34,- 

 822,206 lire, and the special revenue from the 

 ecclesiastical property to 37,691,000 lire; to- 

 tal, 1,321,142,386 lire. 



EXPENDITURES. 



The aggregate of the ordinary and extraor- 

 dinary expenditures amounted to 1,318,612,252 

 lire, leaving a surplus of 2,530,134. 



The total debt of the kingdom amounted in 

 January, 1875, to a nominal capital of 9,883,- 

 589,226 lire, divided as follows: 



Live. Lire. 



1. Rentes, 5 per cent 6,902,712,9181 



2. " 3 " " 213 ' 602 ' 681 i? ISO 815 599 



3. Perpetual rentes of the Papal f i8U ola iW 



See 64,500,000 J 



4. Special debts 1,183,280,045 



t. Miscellaneous debts (including 



unpaid interest) '. 406,472,540 



C. Floating debt: 



(a) Bank-notes in circulation, ") 



December 31, 1874. . . . 198,029.100 



(Z>) Conto correntes 84,991,942 \ 1,113,021,042 



(c) Notes of national banks, 



which are legal tenders 880,000,000 J 



Total 9,883,589,22C 



The aggregate length of railroads in opera- 

 tion, in 1873, was 6,881 kilometres ; in 1874, 

 7,372; at the close of 1875, 7,704. The aggre- 

 gate length of telegraph-lines, in 1873, was 

 20,192 kilometres; in 1875, 21,437; the length 

 of wires in 1873, 69,373; in 1875, 73,512. _ 



The budgets and debts of the communities 

 and provinces are given in the following table : 



