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SONNINO, SIDNEY, BARON (1847– )

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SONNINO, See also:SIDNEY, See also:BARON (1847– ) , See also:Italian statesman upwards of roo sq. m. in See also:area. The See also:mineral resources include and financier, was See also:born at See also:Florence on the 11th of See also:March 1847. See also:silver, See also:gold, See also:copper, See also:lead, See also:tin, See also:iron and See also:coal, and See also:mining is the Entering the See also:diplomatic service at an See also:early See also:age, he was appointed See also:chief See also:industry. The lack of transportation facilities has been successively to the legations of See also:Madrid, See also:Vienna, See also:Berlin and partly relieved by the construction of a See also:branch of the See also:Southern See also:Versailles, but in 1871 returned to See also:Italy, to devote himself to Pacific (See also:American) from Nogales southward to See also:Guaymas and the See also:political and social studies. On his own initiative he conducted See also:Sinaloa frontier, from which it has been extended to See also:Mazatlan. exhaustive inquiries into the conditions of the Sicilian peasants Guaymas is the only See also:port of importance on the See also:coast, but it and of the Tuscan metayers, and in 1877 published in co-operation has a large See also:trade and is visited by the steamers of several lines. with Signor Leopoldo Franchetti a masterly See also:work on See also:Sicily (La The See also:capital of the See also:state (since 1882) is Hermosillo (pop. 1900, Sicilia, Florence, 1877). In 1878 he founded a weekly economic 17,618), on the Sonora See also:river, fro m. See also:north of Guaymas, with See also:review, La Rassegna Seltimanale, which four years later he See also:con- which it is connected by See also:rail. It suffered much in 1865–1866 verted into a political daily See also:journal. Elected See also:deputy in 1880, from the See also:savage struggle between Imperialists and Repubhe distinguished himself by trenchant See also:criticism of See also:Magliani's licans, and in subsequent See also:partisan warfare. Other important See also:finance, and upon the fall of Magliani was for some months, towns are Alamos (pop. 1895, 6197), 132 M. E.S.E. of in 1889, under-secretary of state for the See also:treasury. In view of Guaymas, Moctezuma, 90 m. north of Hermosillo, and Ures, the severe monetary crisis of 1893 he was entrusted by See also:Crispi the old capital of Sonora and seat of a bishopric, 33 M. north-with the See also:portfolio of finance (See also:December 1893), and in spite of See also:east of Hermosillo.

determined opposition dealt energetically and successfully The first Jesuit See also:

mission in Sonora, founded among the Mayos with the deficit of more than £6,000,000 then existing in in 1613, seems to have been the first permanent See also:settlement the See also:exchequer. By abolishing the illusory See also:pensions fund, by in the state, although See also:Coronado passed through it and its coast applying and amending the See also:Bank See also:Laws, effecting economies, had been visited by early navigators. The hostility of certain and increasing See also:taxation upon See also:corn, incomes from consolidated tribes prevented its rapid settlement. See also:Urea was founded in stock, See also:salt and matches, he averted See also:national See also:bankruptcy, and 1636, and Arizpe in 1648. Near the end of the See also:century Sonora placed Italian finance upon a sounder basis than at any See also:time and Sinaloa were divided into two districts, in 1767 the Jesuit since the fall of the Right. Though averse from the policy of See also:missions were secularized, in 1779 the See also:government of the unlimited colonial expansion, he provided by a See also:loan for the cost See also:province was definitely organized by See also:Caballero de Croix, and of the Abyssinian See also:War in which the See also:tactics of See also:General Baratieri in 1783 Arizpe became the provincial capital. The bishopric of had involved the Crispi See also:cabinet, but See also:fell with Crispi after the Sonora was created in 1781 with Arizpe as its seat. Up to this disaster at See also:Adowa (March 1896). Assuming then the leadership time the See also:history of the province is little else than a See also:record of of the constitutional opposition, he combated the See also:alliance savage warfare with the Apaches, Seris, Yaquis and other between the Di Rudini cabinet and the subversive parties, tribes. The development of See also:rich gold and silver mines brought criticized the See also:financial schemes of the treasury See also:minister, See also:Luzzatti, in more See also:Spanish settlers, and then the record changes to one of and opposed the " democratic" finance of the first Pellou% partisan warfare, which continued down to the See also:administration administration as likely to endanger financial stability. After the of See also:President Porfirio See also:Diaz. modification of the See also:Pelloux cabinet (May 1899) he became See also:leader SONPUR, a feudatory state of See also:India, in the See also:Orissa See also:division of the ministerial See also:majority, and See also:bore the brunt of the struggle of See also:Bengal, to which it was transferred from the Central Provinces in 1905.

Area, 906 sq. m. Pop. (1901), 169,877, showing a decrease of 13% in the See also:

decade, due to the results of See also:famine. Estimated See also:revenue £800o, See also:tribute £600. The chief is a See also:Rajput of the See also:Patna See also:line. See also:Rice and See also:timber are exported, and iron ore is said to abound. The See also:town of Sonpur is on the See also:Mahanadi river just above the point where it enters Orissa. Pop. (1901), 8887.

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