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ITALY. 



ary 9, 1878, and married, April 22, 1868, Mar- 

 garetha, daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Sa- 

 voy, Duke of Genoa. Heir- apparent, Victor 

 Emanuel, Prince of Naples, born November 

 11, 1869. 



The area of Italy is 296,322-91 square kilo- 

 metres, or 114,415 square miles. The follow- 

 ing table gives the area of the larger territorial 

 divisions (compartimenti), with the population 

 at the close of 1879 : 



Italy acquired its first colony in 1881, by the 

 acquisition of Assab Bay, on the Red Sea, with 

 a population of about 1,000. 



The movement of population for 1879 was 

 as follows : 



Marriages ?1 8 '9? 



inclusive of still-births. \ 



Still-births 83,625 



Surplus of births 227,471 



The number of emigrants for 1880 was 119,- 

 901. 



The principal countries of destination were 

 as follows : 



France 43,172 



Austro-Hungary 20,493 



Switzerland 13,074 



German Empire 4,277 



Greece, Turkey, Servia, and Eoumania 4,598 



Other European countries 2,019 



Algeria 1,390 



Egypt 758 



Tunis 260 



Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Central America, and United 



States of Colombia 12,053 



La Plata states 15,271 



United States and Canada 5,756 



Other countries 189 



The population of the principal cities, on 

 January 1, 1879, was as follows, according to 

 the calculations of the Bureau of Vital Statis- 

 tics: 



Naples 458.614 



Milan 292.524 



Rome 289,321 



Palermo 236,579 



Turin 231,636 



Genoa 178,006 



Florence (Jan. 1,1880) 145,207 



Venice 131.276 



Messina 120,709 



Bologna 111,983 



Leghorn 97,410 



Catania 90,996 



The Italian ministry consisted, at the close 

 of 1881, of the following members: President 

 of the Council and Minister of the Interior, A. 

 Depretis; Minister of Foreign Affairs, P. S. 

 Mancini ; Minister of Public Instruction, G. 

 Baccelli ; Minister of Finance and of the Treas- 



ury, A. Magliani; Minister of War, General E. 

 Ferrero; Minister of the Navy, Vice- Admiral 

 F. Acton; Minister of Grace, Justice, and Wor- 

 ship, J. Zanardelli ; Minister of Public Works, 

 A. Baccarini ; Minister of Agriculture and Com- 

 merce, D. Berti. 



The actual receipts and disbursements of the 

 kingdom, from 1876 to 1879, were as follows 

 (in lire, one lira=19'3 cents) : 



In the budget for 1881 the revenue was esti- 

 mated as follows : 



REVENUE. Lire. 



Ordinary 1,298,180,897 



Extraordinary 141,391,460 



Total 1,484,522,857 



Some of the principal sources of the ordinary 

 revenue were as follows : 



The interest and amortization of the public 

 debt in 1880 were as follows (in lire) : 



The strength of the Italian army, on Sep- 

 tember 30, 1880, was as follows : 



Infantry ofthe line 254,181 



Military districts 275.386 



Companies of the Alps 12,176 



Bersaglieri 42,827 



CavalrV 83,951 



