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AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN" MONARCHY. 



The numerical strength of the different nationalities in the Austro-IIungarian monarchy was, 

 in 1869, as follows: 



Among the northern Slavi are 6,730,000 

 Czechs, Moravians, and Slovaks ; 2,380,000 

 Poles, and 3,104,009 Ruthenians ; among the 

 southern Slavi 1,260,000 Slovenitzi, 1,424,000 

 Croats, 1,520,000 Servians, and 26,000 Bulga- 

 rians. The western Roumanians are chiefly 

 (530,700) Italians, who occupy the southern 

 district of Tyrol and Trieste. The Germans 

 have a majority in only eleven out of the sev- 

 enteen crown-lands, namely, in Lower and Up- 

 per Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Ty- 

 rol, and Silesia. In the last-named provinces 

 their majority is small, and in Styria, Carin- 

 thia, and Tyrol, they have about a two-thirds 

 majority, while Lower and Upper Austria and 

 Salzburg are wholly German. The northern 



Slavi have a majority in Bohemia, Moravia, Ga- 

 licia, and a plurality in the Bukovina : the 

 southern Slavi a majority in Carniola, the Lit- 

 toral, Dalmatia, and Croatia. The east Rou- 

 manians have a small majority in Transylvania, 

 and the Magyars a plurality in Hungary. In 

 the provinces represented in the Parliament 

 of the cis-Leithan provinces (Reichsrath) the 

 Slavi have a majority (56.78 per cent.) ; in the 

 lands belonging to the Hungarian crown the 

 Magyars contribute 38.61 per cent. ; the Slavi, 

 26.55 ; the east Roumanians, 17.86 ; the Ger- 

 mans, 12.60. 



The ecclesiastical statistics of the monarchy 

 were estimated, in 1869, to be as shown in the 

 following table : 



In the budget of 1870, for the whole mon- 

 archy, the estimates of expenditure and re- 

 ceipts were as follows : 



Expenditures. Austrian florins. 



1. Common Ministry for Foreign Affairs 4,226,471 



2. Common Ministry of War: 



(1.) For the Army x . 78.778,356 



(2.) For the Navy 9.933,265 



3. Common Ministry on Finances 1,743.507 



4. Common Chamber of Accounts 104,095 



Total 94,785,695 



Receipts. 



Receipts of Ministry of War 3,214,000 1 



Receipts from Customs 12,000,000 V 15,326,900 



Receipts from Consulates 112,000 } 



Total 79,459,695 



Of which sum the cis-Leithan provinces 

 furnish 70 per cent., or 55,621,787 florins; and 

 the trans-Leithan provinces 30 per cent., or 

 23,837,908. 



The budget of 1868 for the cis-Leithan 

 provinces was as follows : Receipts, 317,195,- 

 040 ; expenditures, 739,254 ; deficit, 3,544,214. 

 The public debt of the cis-Leithan provinces 

 on December 31, 1868, was 2,692,067,316 flor- 

 ins; on December 31, 1869, 2,680,896,744 flor- 

 ins. The common floating debt was, on De- 

 cember 31, 1869, 319,082,561 florins. 



The army, in 1870, consisted of 246,695 on 

 the peace footing, and 822,472 on the war 

 footing. 



According to the new military law of Aus- 

 tria, the obligation for military service is uni- 

 versal ; the time of service in the line, three 

 years ; in the reserve, seven years ; in the 

 landwehr, two years. The navy, at the begin- 

 ning of the year 1870, consisted of 44 steamers 

 (of which 21 were iron-clads, together of 89,960 

 tons) ; 24 sailing-vessels, together of 14,162 

 tons; 9 tenders and relief ships, of 1,640 tons. 

 Total, 77 vessels, of 105,762 tons. 



The imports, not including metals, of the 

 monarchy in 1869 amounted to 368,500,000 

 florins; the exports to 421,800,000 florins. 

 The arrivals in the port of Trieste were 9,095 

 vessels, together of 1,087,268 tons ; the clear- 

 ances, 9,125 vessels, of 1,143,458 tons. The 

 merchant navy at the beginning of 1870 con- 

 sisted of 7,853 vessels, of 362,965 tons, and 

 manned by 28,184 persons. The number of 

 letters sent by mail was 99,400,000 in the cis- 

 Leithan, and 28,600,000 in the trans-Leithan 

 provinces. 



The ministerial crisis in the cis-Leithan 



