APPENDIX I. 



457 



Postal Service (1883). 



Letters posted to foreign countries 

 Newspapers, books, packages, &c . 

 Letters posted for the interior 

 Books, &c*., ,, ,, 



Total . . ■ • 



2,407,000 

 1,305,000 

 4,196,713 

 1,741,000 



9,709,713 



Deaths. 



133,720 



144,924 



119,912 



132,008 



138,668 



Excess of Births. 

 51,022 

 32 808 

 62,908 

 54,671 

 34,861 



Educational Eeturns. 



Attendance at all Mohammedan schools in 1820 



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1878 



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Mohammedan schools in 1878 .... 



Foreign schools in 1880 



Attendance, 6,419 natives ; 5,828 foreigners. 



3,000 



60,000 



90,000 



137,550 



5,370 



152 



Newspapers (1879) French, 9 ; Arabic, 7 ; Italian, 5 ; Greek, 3 ; Sundi-ies, 5. Total 29. 



FINANCE (1883). 



Revenue. 



Revenue from land and other direct contributions 



Indirect revenues, including customs, posts, octrois, and salt-tax 



Railway and telegraphs 



£5,367,684 



1,854,294 



389,104 



Total £7,611,082 



Expenditure. 



Tribute to Turkey 



Public debt . 



Cost of administration 



Total 



Surplus 



£678,397 

 3,318,164 

 4,155,357 



£8,181,918 

 £570,836 



Public Debt. 



Unified 4 per cent. .... 



Privileged debt .... 



Domain loans at 5 per cent. 



Daira Sanieh loans at 4 to 5 per cent. 



Floating debt, estimated at 



Turkish debt secured upon the tribute 



Loan guaranteed by the Powers in 1885 



Total . 



£56,726,420 

 22,446,800 

 8,254,820 

 8,991,820 

 5,000,000 

 11,918,800 

 7,000,000 



£120,338,660 



