Excerpt from The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad, for the Year 1874 Austma. - Church Legislation - Resignation of War Minister - Visits of the Emmror to Russia and to Bohemia - ex-emperor Ferdinand - Austrian Polar Expedition - New lands discovered - Autumn Session of Reichsrath - Minis terisl Crisis in Hungary - Debate on Hungarian Finance. Inna - Church and Education - Bill for fortification - Finance debates and Ministerial de feats - Twenty-fifth anniversary of King's accession - Brigandage in Central Italy, Naples, and Sicily - Gamma and Mafia. Slant - Meeting of Cortes - General Pavia's Pronunciamimto - Castelar retires - Government of Mar shal Serrano - Dissolution of Cortes - Fall of Cartagena - Carlist war in the Northern Provi noes - Siege of Bilbao - Battle of Somorrostro - Marshal Con cha's campaign - Relief of bilbao-ministerial changes - Battle of Estella, or Pefia Muro - Death of Concha - Carlist cruelties - German remonstrances with France - Recognition of Serrano's Government by all Powers but Russia - Cuenca taken by the Carlists - Progress of the war - Ministerial changes - War on the Bidassoa - Siege of Irun - Carlist defeab - Inactivity of Repub licans - Marshal Serrano takes the command - Alphonsist movement - Prince of Asturias proclaimed King as Alphonso XII - New Ministry. Portugal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.