VIA. 



BUM. 



men. 101 cavalry officers and 1,400 men. 270 artil- 

 o men. 65 engineer ofliwro and 

 1,000 i. ... - and 800 men in t) 



> and 500 men. 68 adminif 

 ,-r> on the staff: total. 



urn of all 



111 the regular army. 12H.6IO in the fir>t l.au 

 ,.f th. .uid 60.005 in tho xvond . 



t 'inmerre. The total value of the imp.,, 

 1806 was 88,448,000 dm, 



; . 

 dinar> from lin-at Britain. :t..V<MMH dinars from 



NI.I dinars from '1 



dinars fnm th .ruder 



mait 



and R'HVI .. valued at 58,386,000 



dinar-. of whi. -> dinars went 



.linars to Germany, l,W 

 iii.l tho remainder mainly to 



' 



M&?< (NM> dinars w, litural uijd agricul- 



tural n-l-ii !- and 22.888,000 animal* and animal 



products. ' B ; ; '"*> <linars. 



iimnnirations. T! : miles of 



railroad in operation at the U^innini; f 

 -:MJ had a total length of 

 '70 miles of wi Dumber of 



menaces in 1806 was 808,480. of whi.-h <;;-J.l<u> 



?rnal, 120,060 international, and l.:-(i n 

 >*t office in 188 i 8,124.000 



nil. 116,000 international, and I.'.KM.INNJ tran- 

 sit !.- 



Mir ximjrh Ministrv. -The Radicals, who had 

 attain- d from |>olitical nnoe the RU 



it ion in 1W4, In-came active 

 gain in 1806, and at the close .rried 



a Urge number of the Progressists with them in 

 a demand for .corpus prosecution of the 



Servian claims to Macedonian bishoprics, secured 

 the passage of a resolution in the Skupshtina in 

 favor of an amendment of the Constitution, and 

 produced a Cabin- t <;-. M. N<>vak<>vich and hi* 

 colleagues offered their resignation- <>n I> 

 1806, and u, who was summon. -d from 



:ia. where he represent, d the Servian (iovrrn- 

 moot, formed a new ministry on . ln<-h 



was composed of Moderate Radi< -als. tin Progress- 

 ists and the Liberals having declined to take part 

 in a coalition Cabinet, The new ministry was r<>m- 

 pojted as follows: Pn-^idcnt of tin- Council and 

 Minister of For-i-n Affairs. (J.-org Simich: Minis- 

 ter of Finance. Dr. M. Vuieh : f the In- 

 Mirka (Jeorgevich: Mmi-tr of War. Gen. 

 'ublir Works, M.Velirairo- 



rich; Minister of Put. lie Instruction and Wor-hip. 

 Andn-H Nik-.lirh: M \I. Milano- 



Ti<A. The Government in a circular letter to its 

 representatives abroad said that' the change was 

 due to home affair* alone, and that it intended to 

 maintain the traditional rein' with 



Rusaia. and with A uMria- Hungary. The S-rvian 

 -nment. while urging on the Porte the claims 

 ic Macedonian Servians to have bishops of 

 own nationality, preserved a pacific course 

 during the Qnoo-Torlush war. and in April re- 

 ceived, with the Go; f Mulgaria, an iden- 

 tical note from the Austrian and Russian Foreign 

 ters expressing satisfaction at its correct atti- 

 tude during the crisK Bishop Ambrosius. the 

 Greek ecclesiastic appointed to the see of Iskuh 

 by the (Ecumenical Patriarch f the pro- 

 tests of Servia, was removed before the close of the 

 same month. - eswion* in regard to the 

 in Church and schools were promised bv the 

 Sultan. 



A.-re held in the U-ginni: 



.lul\. it-d in the r.-tnrn . :iml> 



and' 4 menilMTs of tin- < >pp.-ii i,,n. Th,. Skup>hiina 

 was con veiled ! i.ary ---<:. m <>n .Inly 



oooaaioned 



ly the cnti-al coinlition ( .f affairs in tli 



The ChamUT g :nary ernlit f..r 



warlike |" Arnaut- -I t he '-and jak of 



Kossovo committed manv depn \i;n^ 



..II U.th sides ..! p, Tin- 9 



nieiit rallrd the attention of the iWte t.. the i-hroiiic 

 . flK'd state of the frontier, and didared its in- 



tention to pursue the maraudmj: Albanian l.;mds 

 . if iirri-.-ar\. A I 



>ervian < "iiniiis-i,,!! \va> a|>pointed to inouire into 



the late raiii-. Suli.e.|Ui-nl attar-ks made alnnot 

 '.laiii-ously fp'iitier i the 



\ernmeiit to make a formal pn.t 



the j The Ottoman (iovi-rnnient 



(ju.'iitly post.-d In .ops "ii the front i. 



reclllTeli.-,- ,,f . The dispulr with the 



icnieal Patriarch was finally arranged 1>\ 

 firming Amliro-ius a > titular bishop, Imt appoint- 

 ing the Servian Archimandrite Firmilian< to di- 

 rect tho see. 



I he <.eor-e\ ich <;ihilirt. \ fr.-h ministerial 

 crisjx \\;is provoked ly the return <>; ^lilan 



to BelgTMM after I'remi.-r Simich had stOTaO t> 

 prevent his coming. The father of Alexander I 

 h'd the KadlcaU a> hi> eliemi' they 



had e>poii>ed the c.i Nathalie in hi's 



divorce j.r..e,-.-diiiL'- and aNo as inimical to hi- 

 Durini: Ih im.ad with his f 



II differem-i-. of ..pinion on jin'- 

 financial, military, ami political nature had B 

 h.-t \vi-i-n him an'd his ministerial alvis.-rs. The 

 to raising the constitu- 



tional question, which the ministers regarded as 

 urgent and which they were pledged to setth- at 

 the rarliest i.ossil,!,. moment. On ' 



Kini; lUlan'fl arrival with the Kin-;. M. Simich 

 truth-red the resi,r lia i j,, n ,,f the whole c a liim-t, 

 which was at once a- -cepieil. .M. ( I. -or-i-\ icl )% t he 

 Servian minister at Constantinople, was intrusted 

 with the task of forming a new ministry, which 

 was completed on Oct. '2'.\. u* follow nt of 



the Council and Minister of l-'-.n-i^n Affairs, I >r. 

 Vladan Geor^evich ; Minister of Fn. 

 Pryovich; Mini-ter .,f Comm.n-e. Airrieult un-. and 

 Industry. Simon Lo/ani<-h : Minister of the Inte- 

 rior. .lefram Andoiiovich; Minist.-r of Pulilic In- 

 struction and Worship. Andrea (Jeorgevich ; Min- 

 f .lust icr. Costa Crist ich: Minister of War. 

 Col. Vukovich ; Minister of Public Works, Col. 



^1 A.M. an absolute monarchy in s,,uthe, 



The reigning Kin-: is Chnlalongkom, }> 

 Sept. 'Jl. IV,::. who KDOOeeded his father. Moimkut. 

 on Oct. 1, lsr,s. The King is assisted by the Sal.ha 



ini-t of M 



of half-brothers of th<- Kin^r. The ministers are 

 aided by KurojM-an advi-er^ in t! il de- 



partments, and the whole administration ha- 

 organi/.-d under tin- direction of M. Kolin-.Ia 

 myn-. formerly a Uelyi;.- Minister. A 



lative Council, composed of aetjve and re- 



appointed by : -A a 1 * instituted bytl, 



cree of .Ian. 1" 'he preparation and de- 



liberation of laws. 1 .. mi/at ion and mod- 



ern i /at ion of the admin is! rat ion wa> seriously I 

 after ti victories overSiam in 1W:|. which 



-1 from the kintrdom 110.000 square miles of 

 terri* .'flO.OOO ocojile formerly subject to 



winded with France or 



''. made the Mekong the boundary bet 

 Siarn and the French possessions in Indo-C'hina. 



