ITALY. 



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The movement of shipping in 1875 is exhibited by the following table : 



The movement of the special foreign trade, 

 from 1871 to 1876, was as follows: 



The commercial navy was composed as fol- 

 lows, at the close of 1876 : 



The strength of the Italian Army on Septem- 

 ber 30, 1876, was as follows: 



Stud depots 314 



Disciplinary 

 nies, 



Infantry of the line... 280,998 



Military districts 211,134 



Companies of the Alps 7,232 



Bersagliert 89,819 



Cavalry 27,445 



Artillery 67,671 



Engineers 10,211 



Gendarmes (Carbi- 

 neer*). 19,706 



Military schools 4.881 



Sanitary companies.. 8,705 

 Veterans 1,815 



compa- 



....... 549 



Penal institutions 1,827 



Officers in service.... 11,166 



Other officers 2,088 



1. Standing army 628,804 



8. Provincial militia. 270,978 

 8. Officers of reserve. 1,928 



Total 801,700 



The Navy was composed as follows in 1876 : 



The railroad statistics are as follows : 



YEARS. 

 1875.. 

 1876.. 

 1877.. 



Kilometre*. 



... 7,704 

 .. 7,850 

 ,.. 7,894 



The gross receipts of the railroads in 1875 

 were 114,819,287 lire. The costs of construc- 

 tion up to December 31, 1874, were, for the 

 government roads, 452,341,146 lire; for the 

 private roads, 1,849,709,635 lire; together, 

 2,302,050,781 lire. 



The number of post-offices in 1875 were 

 3,010; of letters sent, 115,489,027; of postal- 

 cards, 9,899,070; of printed matter, 113,849,- 

 538; of valuable letters, 4,374,716; of insured 

 letters, 30,383, having a value of 25,413,388 

 lire; and of post money-orders, 3,589,346, 

 having a value of 416,985,156 lire. 



The length of telegraph-lines in 1876 was 

 22,349 kilometres; of wires in 1875, 75,449; 

 of submarine cables in 1875, 178 kilometres; 

 and of stations in 1876, 1,778. The number 

 of dispatches in 1875 was 5,347,500 ; of which 

 5,037,490 were private dispatches, 171,947 offi- 

 cial dispatches, and 138,183 service dispatches. 



According to a report to the Department of 

 State, at Washington, from the United States 

 Consul at Rome, the number of emigrants from 

 Italy in 1876 was 19,783 ; of whom 10,759 were 

 men, 4,598 women, and the remainder children 

 under 14 years of age. Of the whole number 

 13,476 went to South America, 2,559 to France, 

 and 824 to the United States. Besides the 

 emigrants, 89,024 persons left the country, who 

 expected to return within a year. Of these, 

 81,994 went to France, 20,092 to Austria, 18,- 

 030 to Switzerland, 4,718 to South America, 

 and 600 to the United States. 



The Chambers met on January 15th. On the 

 following day, Deputy Corte of the Left inter- 

 rogated the Minister of the Interior with regard 

 to certain repressive measures taken against the 

 Gaztetta d? Italia, which led to a very violent 

 discussion between the minister Nicotera and 

 the friends of the former minister, Count Can- 

 telli, whom Signer Nicotera accused of having 



