LOMBARDY. The administration of the Austrian government in Lombardy has paid peculiar attention to the material improve ments of roads, bridges, canals, dykes, and other public works. Among the most useful enterprises have been, constructing or repair ing the dykes in the province of Mantua ; completing the groat canal called Naviglio ; making roads in the mountainous districts of Bergamo, the great commercial road of the Splugen, and the road over the Stiffer loch to Como and Loco° ; and building the splendid bridge at Buffalora on the Ticino. Railways have also been constructed from Milan to Monza, 12 miles, Milan to Trevilio, 181 miles, and Venice to Vicenza, through Padua ; and others are in progress.
The Lombardo-Venetian kingdom is gene rally one of the most fertile countries of Eu rope ; and the industry of the inhabitants, and the extensive system of irrigation, increase the natural fertility of the soil. Lombardy
produces in abundance every thing that is necessary for the sustenance of its population , —corn, wine, rice, fruits, cheese, and excellent meat. The chief articles of export are silk, rice, cheese, and hemp. The chief manufac tures are silk, glass, paper, bronze works, and straw hats ; but Lombardy is essentially an agricultural country, and receives most of the manufactured goods which it uses from the other parts of the Austrian monarchy. The bookselling and publishing trade, although subject to the censorship, is (in peaceable times) more flourishing at Milan than in all the rest of Italy put together.
A little further information concerning the industrial statistics of this beautiful country will be found under the names of some of the provinces and cities.