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 CORRilZE —CORTLAND ultimately assured the advent of the Left to power; and while declining office, he remained chief adviser of Depretis until the latter’s death. On several occasions—notably in connexion with the redemption of the Italian railways, and of the Paris Exhibition of 1878—he acted as representative of the Government. In 1877 he was given by Depretis the lucrative sinecure of the Secretaryship of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, and in 1886 was created Senator. He died at Rome on 4th October 1888. CorrGZGj a department in the interior of France, traversed by the ramifications of the central plateau, and watered by the Dordogne, the Yezfere, and the Correze. Area, 2273 square miles, with 29 cantons and 287 communes. The population decreased from 326,494 in 1886 to 304,/18 in 1901. Births in 1899, 7395, of which 299 illegitimate ; deaths, 6263 ; marriages, 2451. In 1896 there were 761 schools, with 51,000 pupils, and 8 per cent, of the population was illiterate. The area under cultivation in 1896 amounted to 1,030,466 acres, 425,036 acres of which were plough-land, 276,767 acres natural pastures and grass lands, and 296,536 acres forests. The wheat return is low (£240,700), but in 1898 the rye crop yielded a value of £524,270, and the natural grass lands produced the value of £617,120. Chestnuts and walnuts are also an important crop, yielding in 1899 the value of £240,000. The live-stock amounted in 1899 to 990,200, of which 579,570 were sheep. There is not much working in metals, the department having hut few mineral beds. Other industries are also little developed. Tulle, the capital, had a population of 17,000 in 1896. Corrientes, a province of the Argentine Republic, south of Paraguay and west of the territory of Chaco. The official area at the census of 1895 was 32,579 square miles. The population in 1895 was 239,618. The province is divided into twenty-five departments. The capital, Corrientes, on the Parana, 844 miles from Buenos Aires, had a population of 16,129 in 1895. In 1895 there were 13,632 farms and 136,119 acres planted in cereals, 424,483 head of horses, and 2,893,256 head of cattle. Corrigan, Michael Augustine (18391902), third archbishop of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York, in the United States, was born in Newark, N.J., on 17th August 1839. In 1859 he began his studies for the priesthood as one of the twelve students with whom the American College at Rome was opened. On 19th September 1863, a year before the close of his theological studies, he was ordained priest, and in 1864 obtained the degree of D.D. Returning to America, he was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Sacred Scripture, and Director of the ecclesiastical seminary of Seton Hall College; soon after he was made vice-president of the institution; and in 1868, although hardly twenty-eight years of age, was appointed president of the college, one of the foremost of the Catholic educational institutions in the United States. When Archbishop Bayley was transferred to the see of Baltimore in 1873, Pius IX. appointed Father Corrigan bishop of Newark. In 1880 Bishop Corrigan was made coadjutor, with the right of succession, to Cardinal M‘Closkey, archbishop of New York, under the title of Archbishop of Petra; and thereafter nearly all the practical work of the archdiocese fell to his hands. He was at the time the youngest archbishop in the Catholic Church in America. He died on 5th May 1902. On the death of Cardinal M'Closkey in 1885 Archbishop Corrigan became metropolitan of the diocese of New York. Corry, a city of Erie county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., situated in the north-western part of the state, on the Western New York and Pennsylvania, the Erie, and the Pennsylvania Railways, at an altitude of 1434 feet. It is within the limits of the great oil-fields of Western Pennsylvania and Southern New York, and it is to petroleum that it owes its existence and whatever measure of prosperity it enjoys. It was a place of much importance during

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the oil excitement between 1860 and 1870, and in the latter year had a population of 6809. As the excitement abated, however, its population diminished, so that in 1880 it numbered but 5277, in 1890 it was 5677, and in 1900, 5369. Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean, forming a department of France; area, 3368 square miles, occupied by high mountains, and distributed among 62 cantons and 364 communes. The population in 1896 numbered 290,168, as compared with 278,501 in 1886. Births in 1899, 6947, of which 504 illegitimate; deaths, 5582; marriages, 1625. In 1896 the schools numbered 11(0, with 46,000 pupils, and 15 per cent, of the population was illiterate. The total area under cultivation in 1896 amounted to 1,593,886 acres, of which 919,265 acres were arable land. In 1899 the wheat crop returned a value of only <£57,800, while the produce of rye and oats together hardly exceeded <£21,000 ; but the vine, which is making progress in the island, yielded a value of <£278,000. In 1899 the crop of chestnuts was of the value of <£154,000; oranges, £2820; citrons, £1640; cedrates, £22,000. The production of silkworm cocoons amounted in 1899 to 5813 cwt. The live-stock in 1899 included 10,730 horses, 9130 mules, 8730 asses, 157,990 cattle, 408,650 sheep, 74,300 pigs, and 215,920 goats. Corsica has no coal-pits, but some copper and lead mines, yielding 1100 metric tons in 1898, and some salt-pans, producing, in 1898, 520 metric tons of salt. The industries are in a backward state. The railway, of recent construction, goes from Bastia to Ajaccio, sending off a branch line to Calvi. The line had in 1899 a length of 182 miles. Corsicana, capital of Navarro county, Texas, U.S.A., situated towards the north-eastern part of the state, at an altitude of 426 feet, on the Houston and Texas Central and the St Louis South-Western Railways. It is in a region largely devoted to the cultivation of cotton, for which staple it serves as a compressing- and shippingpoint. Population (1880), 3373; (1890), 6285; (1900), 9313. Corti, LodoviCO, Count (1823-1888), Italian diplomatist, born at Gambarano 28th October 1823. Early involved with Cairoli in anti-Austrian conspiracies, he was exiled to Turin, where he entered the Foreign Office. After serving as artillery officer through the campaign of 1848, he was in 1850 appointed Secretary of Legation to London, whence, with the rank of Minister, he passed to Stockholm, Madrid, The Hague, Washington, and, in 1875, as Ambassador to Constantinople. Called by Cairoli to the direction of Foreign affairs in 1878, he took part both in the preliminary negotiations to the Congress of Berlin and in the Congress itself, but unwisely declined Lord Derby’s offer for an Anglo-Italian agreement in defence of common interests. At Berlin he sustained the cause of Greek independence, but in all other respects remained isolated. While other Powers secured extensions of territory, he declined the German suggestion for an Italian occupation of Tunis, and excited the wrath of his countrymen by returning to Italy with “clean hands.” For a time he withdrew from public life, but in 1881 was again sent to Constantinople by Cairoli, where he presided over the futile Conference of Ambassadors upon the Egyptian question. In 1886 he was transferred to the London Embassy, but was recalled by Crispi in the following year through a misunderstanding. He died at Rome on 9 th April 1888. Cortland, a village of New York, U.S.A., and capital of Cortland county, situated in the central part of the state, on Tiopghnioga river, at the junction of its