ITALY. 



wint, 49.000,000 lira ; eggs, 40,000.000 lire ; hemo 

 and flai. ^800,000 liw; TMeUbles, 80.000.000 



., 



.faclurw, 27.800.000 lire; ani- 

 .'7.000.000 1m : silk goods, 38,500.000 lire; 

 Milphur. 21.500.000 lira: fruits. 19.900.000 lire; 

 19.300.000 1m-: . -it- n goods, 16,800,000 

 lirv; aim.'; 



!m-: tnrtar. i:t.40O.oOO lire; marble and alabas- 

 tar,l&900.000 lire; poultry. rJ.mW.OOO lire: but- 



NHI hre: rice. l'l. 700.000 1: 



U.600.M> hre: r.ino ore. 10.500.000 lin-. The 

 ratae*. in i. i-ccial trade with the prin- 



cipal foreign countres, in 1894 are given in the 



ufroMoe 



110,400^000 



,.;.:;,,, H, 



rtJOOgOOQ 



11400,000 

 10,800,000 



7.-." "'.'" 



1,100,000 



MI..MN...NNI 



LM.100,000 

 MMOQ.OM 



18.500,000 

 18.900.000 



10.000400 



14^00,000 



7. ...... .'MM. 



1^00,000 



Navigation. There were entered during 

 1894 in Italian ports 1 1 :..!'. 7 vessels, of 29,038,- 

 183 tons, of which 15,953, of 7,962,369 tons, were 

 engaged in foreign trade, 9,579 of these, of 

 SjOOCW tons, being Italian, and JHJ.244. of 21.- 

 5 tons, were coasting vessels. The num- 

 ber of rets. 1 from long voyages with 

 cargoes was 12.682, of 6,384,198 ton,. The num- 

 ftteam vessels engaged in foreign trade 

 was6.716. of 7.262.7W* to,,. The total number 

 of vessels cleared was 113,983, of 28,21 >UJ 

 tons, of which 16.1 HH. O f 8.195,558 tons, were en- 

 gaged '-.!!. and <>f these latter 9,820, 

 of 4.:t6!i.02:i tons, carried cargoes. 



merchant marine on Jan. 1. 1 *'.'">. con- 

 sisted of 6.231 sailing vessels, of 571,605 tons, 

 and 328 * 



Railroads. Posts, and Tele-raphs. -Then- 

 were 14.944 kilometres, or 9.280 miles, of rail- 

 road in op Jan. 1, 1895. 



1899 forwarded I40.i:.907 

 letters. 57,036.433 postal cards, and 215,040,616 

 newnpApcr* and circulars. 



The l.-ngth of the telegraphs in 1893 was 38,- 

 .metres, with 148,34* kilometres of wires. 

 The number of paid internal messages sent was 

 7JW6.1S4: of international me- i (594. 



Prevention of i.iolitti. i 

 BtU, who on Dec. 15, 1894, submitted to tin 

 Chamber of Deputies a plico or seal* 

 containing charges agam*t Cri*pi fortified by 

 OOCBliwnU apparently implicating the Premier 

 hi the Hanca Homana scandals, and afterward 

 fled to avoid arrest when the session of the Par- 

 l wa% sudden!? suspended, returned to 

 001 Feb. 27. 1895, to m< ion- 



again<4 him of abtrartion r.f papers 

 *mhiTi nd illegal powesn, n of let- 

 HfDora Crinpi. The original complaint 

 was for forgrrr and lnlpr. (;i,,!itti demanded 

 a trial before the Senate. The Court of Cassa- 



\;-ril 24 sustained his appeal, and the 

 case against him was abandoned. 



1 be taken only b\ 



Chamber of I >eput ies. 



(.< neral Flections. Prime- Mil. 



jiied Parliament in 



cause he found it impossible to commam: 

 jorltv for hi- niea-ure- and feared a 

 -lire in tin- excitement caii-ed by ill, 



lit airaiii-t him in the ( 'hamler of D^H 



\-l'riiin-Mini-ler (iiolitt 

 month* he go\enn-d without a Parliaim-i 

 (T di uliitioii and tin- -umnn.i, 

 a new Chamber until it should b. 

 sary for the voting of the budget. Tin 

 ber was formally dissolved by royal d- 

 May 8, and election- were appoint* 

 place on May 26. Tin- electoral 

 while were n-vi-ed under a m-\\ 



M -I Illle 1 1, l^'.t I. T! B I 'ope 



hi- injunction W. forbidding Cl 



to take part in the elect i,,ns cji 



or as voters (//< />/// n> / //// 



lion was universally respected. Tin- polit 



of all parties predicted that tl 



give Cri-pi a majority of 1W in tin 



ber. Results can be'thus foretold becantt 



prefects have pow i T to control 



lions and elections, but mini*leria: 



often change their attitude after llic\ 



and vote against the mini-try on 0,1, 



ari-e in the Chamber. The people did not 



erally believe tin- imputation- a-ain-t the 



sonal bom- nor Crispi. altln'iiL'h 



were revived by the Radical 



Nothing had been actually proved 



in connection with tin Bam a Koi 



voting <-f a decoration for the Panai- 



Herz that was not capable of being 



a way that was consistent with hi* lifelong 



ord of probity. His assumption of a 



dictatorship for the suppn ion of econot- 



orders in Sicily and hi- exten-ion of tin- law 



of don. -itfn to anarchical prop.: 



lost for him many adherent* of liber.. 



dencies, but more \ 



conservative section of the community. Th<- 



improvement in the national final. 



achievement of Crispi's ministry that ma 



seem indispensable even to hi- mult it u 



personal and political enemies. I'.a: 



was able to boast that tin- rate of ,.\ 



fallen 10 point*, while ft ire of fA0- 



tional currency had been witlnlrawn fr- 



dilation : that" tin- paper iin-n- 



lire, while 44,000,000 lire of g. 



'.000 lire of silver had be, adde.i 

 metallic reserve; that the P.ank of Ita 

 successfully reconstructed and [ 

 the reorL'ani/at ion of tin- Maul 

 the official rate of di-c.,unt had been i 

 from 6 to 5 percent.: that tin- <) 

 had decreasea. con*<lidate<l -lock ha<i 

 withdrawn to the amount of no.ooo.oOO lin 

 OOO.CKK) lire of treasury bornl* ha 

 deemed, and (H).OOO.OOO lire of Italian -ih 

 returned from abroad: that Italia?. 

 risen to the highest quotation- in spite of 

 crease in tin- tax: that imports had dimr 

 by 69.000,000 lire, while exports in- : 

 000,000 lire; that there was a reduction 



