Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . in obtaining a very large reduction,and also arranged that the Austrian southernroad should continue the management of theItalian lines for two years longer. On the17th of June the proposition which had beenintroduced by the former ministry for the pur-chase of the railways was withdrawn, and inits stead was substituted a new one, combiningcertain features of the contracts which hadbeen made at Vienna with the one which hadbeen made at Paris by the Cossenti commissionwith Baron Rothschild as the representativeof the
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . in obtaining a very large reduction,and also arranged that the Austrian southernroad should continue the management of theItalian lines for two years longer. On the17th of June the proposition which had beenintroduced by the former ministry for the pur-chase of the railways was withdrawn, and inits stead was substituted a new one, combiningcertain features of the contracts which hadbeen made at Vienna with the one which hadbeen made at Paris by the Cossenti commissionwith Baron Rothschild as the representativeof the Austrian southern road. This bill, hav-ing been first opposed in detail, was adoptedas a whole in the Chamber of Deputies, by avote of 344 to 35. It was likewise adopted inthe Senate, June 29th, by a vote of 113 to 5. The next important measure discussed wasthe one for the establishment of so-called freeports, or of a system of bonded warehouses,at a number of the principal ports of thecountry. It was advocated by Signor Depretisin the Senate, as involving a portion of the. CAMTAGXA OF ROME. ministerial programme to such an extent that,if it were rejected, the Government wouldhave to consult as to the course they shouldpursue. In the vote in the Senate concerningthis bill, a very singular complication oc-curred. On the first division the yeas andnays were equal, and the question was pro-nounced decided in the negative. An irregu-larity was, however, discovered in the ballot-ing, and the validity of the vote was vote was taken, and there was againa tie. On the third vote, a majority of onewas given for the yeas, but before the votewas declared another senator came in andrecorded his vote in the negative, causing a tiefor the third time. The bill was passed, July20th, by a vote of 114 to 102, and became alaw. In August some of the ministers visited theirparliamentary constituencies, and spoke con-cerning the policy of the Government. AtCatania, Signor Majorana,
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