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prescribed rate of one deputy to 40,000 souls. By royal decree of October 19, 1870, the Italian constitution was introduced into the newly annexed states of the sovereign Pontiff, and the proportion of deputies to be returned by the same fixed at 14, thus raising to 507 the total number of members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom.

The executive power is exercised, under the king, by a ministry divided into the following nine departments : —

1. The Ministry of the Interior. — Dr. Federico J. Lanza, born 1814; studied medicine; Minister of Finance, 1859-60; Minister of the Interior from September 1864 to January 1866 ; appointed again Minister of the Interior, December 14, 1869.

2. The Ministry of Public Instruction. — Carlo Correnti, ap- pointed December 14, 1869.

3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — Commendatore Visconti- Venosta, born 1828 ; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1866-67 ; ap- pointed again December 14, 1869.

4. The Ministry of Public Works. — Giacomo Gadda, appointed December 14, 1869.

5. The Ministry of War. — Lieutenant-General Ricotti-Magnani, appointed September 8, 1870.

6. The Ministry of Marine. — Rear-Admiral Acton, appointed January 11, 1870.

7. The Ministry of Commerce. — Antonio Castagnola, appointed October 28, 1867.

8. The Ministry of Finance. — Quintino Sella, born 1815; Minister of Finance from September 1864 to January 1866 ; ap- pointed again December 14, 1869.

9. The Ministiy of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs. — Guiseppe Racli, appointed October 21, 1869.

In each of the 73 provinces into which the kingdom of Italy is divided — 59 previous to the annexation of the Lombardo-Venetian territories, ceded by Austria under the terms of the Treaty of Vienna, of Oct. 12, 1866, and 68 previous to the occupation of the Pontifical territory, annexed by royal decree of Oct. 9, 1870 — the executive power of the Government is intrusted to a prefect appointed by the ministry.

Church of Rome.

The ' Statute fondamentale del Regno ' enacts, in its first article, that ' the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion ia the sole religion of the State.' By the terms of the royal decree of Oct. 9, 1870, which declared that 'Rome and the Roman Provinces shall con-