France has now a larger revenue

expenditure,.and publie debt than any other country in the world. The revenue for 1901 was estimated at $710,- 920,540, and the expenditure at $710,- 870,620. The total debt in 1900 was reported as $6,000,092,780. France has been a republic since the overthrow of the second empire by a Paris mob on Sept. 4, 1870. The details of the constitution were fixed by a law dated Feb. 25, 1875, and several amendments have been enacted in subsequent years. This law places the legislative authority in the hands of a National A embly composed of two chambers, the chamber of deputies and the senate. The chamber of deputies consists of 584 members = resenting the arrondi ements, and the members are elected for four years by universal suffrage. The senate consists of 300 members who must be 40 years of age at least. They are elected by special bodies of delegates for nine years, one-third retiring every three years. The head of the government is a president, elected for seven years by a majority of votes of the members of the two chambers.