AUSTRO-HOTGARIAN MONARCHY. 



TABLE OF THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS OF THE EMPIRE FOR 1669. 



In the budget of 1871, for the whole mon- 

 archy, the estimates for expenditure and re- 

 ceipts were as follows : 



Expenditures. Austrian florins. 



1. Common Ministry of Foreign Affairs 4,264,187 



2. Common Ministry of War : 



(1.) For the Army 104,997,476 



(2.) For the Navy 11,353,700 



3. Common Ministry on Finances 1,783,810 



4. Common Chamber of Accounts 102,000 



Total 122,501,173 



Receipts. 



Receipts of Ministry of War 5,071,1591 



Receipts from Customs 12,199,700 I 



Receipts from Consulates 115,000 f 



Payments of the Austrian Lloyd. . . 282,000 J 



Balance, 104,833,314 florins, of which 65,- 

 145,402 florins are to be provided by the cis- 

 Leithan provinces, and 31,449,994 florins by 

 the trans-Leithan provinces. 



The total expenditures for 1872 are estimated 

 at 110,647,498 florins, and the receipts at 93,- 

 438,615 florins, of which 65,145,402 florins are 

 furnished by the cis-Leithan provinces, and 

 28,293,213 florins by the trans-Leithan prov- 

 inces. The budget of the cis-Leithan prov- 

 inces for 1871 shows a total of expenditures 

 of 349,811,642 florins, and of receipts of 338,- 

 084,609, leaving a deficit of 11,727,033 florins. 



The army, in August, 1871, consisted of 

 246,695 men on the peace-footing, and 820,811 

 on the war-footing. The navy, at the begin- 

 ning of the year 1871, consisted of 47 steam- 

 ers, of 95,700 tons; 20 sailing-vessels, of 13,190 

 tons; and 5 tenders, of 930 tons. Total, 72 

 vessels, and carrying 522 guns. 



The imports, not including precious met- 



als, of the monarchy, in 1870, amounted to 

 424,700,000 florins ; the exports to 395,900,000. 

 The arrivals at the port of Trieste, in 1870, were 

 8,054 vessels of 960,103 tons; the clearances, 

 8,023 vessels, of 1,012,776 tons. The merchant 

 navy, at the beginning of the year 1871, con- 

 sisted of 7,843 vessels, of 375,822 tons. The 

 number of letters sent in 1870, by mail, was 

 143,898,317 in the cis-Leithan, and 31,792,143 

 in the trans-Leithan provinces. 



The year 1870 closed with the exchange of 

 friendly sentiments between the Chancellors 

 of Austria and the North-German Confedera- 

 tion. A dispatch from Bismarck, dated De- 

 cember 14th, expressed the hope that Germany 

 and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy would 

 regard each other with sentiments of mutual 

 friendship, and join hands for the promo- 

 tion of their prosperity. This expression of 

 friendly feelings was fully reciprocated in a 

 note from the Austrian Chancellor, dated De- 

 cember 16th. In opposition to that party 

 which demanded that Austria should insist on 

 the Treaty of Prague, which excluded the South- 

 German States from a union with the North - 

 German Confederation, Von Beust took the 

 ground that, whatever claims Austria may have 

 a right to base upon the Peace of Prague, the 

 great event of modern times, the unification of 

 Germany, must be the standard by which to 

 judge the international relations between the 

 two great empires of Central Europe, and that 

 an unbiassed appreciation of mutual wants will 

 be the basis of the friendly relations which 

 in future must rule between the powerful 



