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and tried to drive them back to their homes, 

 but with indifferent success. 



At the meeting of the Delegations in April, 

 the Common Ministry asked for 23,730,000 

 florins to defray expenses in South Dalmatia 

 and the occupied provinces until October, in 

 addition to the military credit of 8,000,000 

 florins granted at the special meeting of the 

 Delegations on January 28th. The Hungarian 

 Delegation took this opportunity to overhaul 

 the Bosnian policy of the Government. The 

 Minister of Finance, Count Szlavy, explained 

 that the conscription in Bosnia would be con- 

 fined to recruiting 1,200 men. who would not 

 be removed from the country, and was only in- 

 tended to enforce the principle that it is the 

 duty of the people to take part in the defense 

 of their boundaries. The conscription is a 

 direct infringement of the Treaty of Berlin. 

 In the administration of this practically an- 

 nexed territory the Austrian Government goes 

 through the form of submitting every procla- 

 mation to the Porte. The Turkish minister 

 revises and alters it, but it is always issued in 

 the original shape. The Hungarian Delegation 

 cut down the appropriation for fortifications 

 and other items. Count Szlavy resigned in 

 consequence. In the Hungarian Lower House 

 the reduced appropriations were warmly con- 

 tested. In the Upper House, Count Desseffy, 

 who was for three years chief administrator of 

 the district of Serajevo, unfolded all the mis- 

 takes and abuses of the Bosnian administration. 

 Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, admitted that 

 the Bosnian bureaucracy needed a thorough 

 purification. In deference to the determined 

 attitude of the Hungarian opposition, after 

 Szlavy had continued his functions for nearly 



a month, awaiting his successor, Baron Kallay, 

 a Hungarian statesman, but a friend of the 

 Slavs and believer in the Slavic extension of 

 the empire, was appointed Common Minister 

 of Finance. The post might be better de- 

 scribed as the ministry for Bosnian affairs. 

 The programme to be carried out was the re- 

 versal of the obnoxious German methods, and 

 an administration according to Slavonic no- 

 tions and customs. As an initial reform, a 

 separate Civil Governor of Bosnia was ap- 

 pointed, the choice falling upon Count Rudolf 

 Khevenhuller, who, like M. de Kallay, is famil- 

 iar with the southern Slavs and their languages. 

 The elaborate machinery of the law, which was 

 introduced after European models, was first 

 done away with, and the decision of cases 

 made speedy and inexpensive. No lawyers 

 nor briefs are necessary in petty suits, and in 

 larger ones only one appeal may be heard. 



INUNDATIONS IN TYKOL. Various parts of 

 Europe were visited in 1882 by devastating 

 floods. In the Alpine regions the abnormal 

 rain-fall wrought the most destruction, and no- 

 where so great as in the valleys of Austrian 

 Tyrol, where the losses exceeded 30,000,000 

 florins, or $13,000,000. An inundation oc- 

 curred in the middle of September, the effects 

 of which were partly averted by the energy of 

 the authorities. On the 28th of October the 

 people were driven out of Bruneck, Toblach, 

 Innichen, and the hapless Welsberg, by one of 

 the most destructive floods that is recorded 

 in history. The protective works were de- 

 stroyed, towns almost annihilated, farms not 

 only stripped of harvest and improvements, 

 but left desolate under a layer of silt and 

 bowlders. 



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BAPTISTS. I. REGULAR BAPTISTS IN THE churches in the United States, as they are 

 UNITED STATES. The following is a sum- given in the " American Baptist Year-Book " 

 mary of the statistics of the Regular Baptist for 1882 : 



