HUNGARY. 



385 



of sees, and 29 deputies for Croatia and Sla- 

 vonia. 



The Hungarian ministry in 1871 was com- 

 posed as follows : Presidency, Count Andrassy 

 of Csik - Szent - Kiraly and Kraszna -Horka, 

 Minister of the Defence of the Country (March 

 14, 1867) ; Minister a latere at the Imperial 

 Court, Baron Wenckheim (May 19, 1871); 

 Minister for Public Worship and Public In- 

 struction, Th. Pauler (February 10, 1871) ; Min- 

 ister of the Interior, W. Toth (February 10, 

 1871) ; Minister of Communications and Pub- 

 lic Works, Tisza (June 12, 1871) ; Minister of 

 Finances, C. Kerkapolyi (May 21, 1870); Min- 

 ister of Justice, St. of Bitto (June 5, 1871) ; Min- 

 ister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry, 

 F. Szlavy (July, 1870); Minister for Croatia 

 and Slavonia, P. Count Pejacsevich (February 



10, 1871). In November, 1871, Andrassy was 

 appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs for the 

 whole empire; he was succeeded as Prime- 

 Minister of Hungary by Count Lonyay. The 

 Royal Commissary for Transylvania was Count 

 Pechy of Pech Ujfalu. 



The Croato-Slavonic Diet was composed of 

 2 archbishops, 7 bishops, 7 counts, 41 mag- 

 nates, 21 deputies of towns and markets, and 

 46 deputies of country districts. The chief of 

 the Administration of Croatia was 0. de Bede- 

 kovich, Banus and President of the Septem- 

 viral Body at Agram. 



The budget of the Hungarian crown-lands 

 was, for 1871, as follows: 



I. RECEIPTS. Florins. 



1. Direct taxes 57,578,000 



2. Indirect taxes, monopolies and duties. . 69,202,000 



3. From the public domains and mines. . . 24,564,871 



4. Divers receipts of the administration of 



finances 163,725 



B. Receipts of different branches of ad- 

 ministration 7,628,340 



Total 159,136,536 



11. EXPENDITURES. 



1. Household of the court 3,650,000 



2. Cabinet chancery 61,229 



3. Hungarian Diet 800,000 



4. Presidency of ministry 249,680 



5. Ministries : 



a. Croato-Slavonic 46,100 



b. At the imperial residence 71,820 



c. Interior 10,848,488 



d. Public Worship and Instruction 8,244,190 



e. Justice 3,925,300 



/. Defence of the Country 5,183.023 



a. Finances 61,943,036 



h. Agriculture 9,460,290 



6. Communications 9 054,790 



7. Pensions 2,470.060 



8. Subventions 22,035,320 



9. Interest on public debt 32,723,200 



10. Share of the common expenditure of 



the empire 81,359,992 



Total Expenditures 197,126,520 



Total Receipts 159,136,536 



Deficit 37,989,984 



The public debt of Hungary, on December 

 81, 1870, amounted to 2,593,269,591 florins. 



On January 1, 1871, the length of railroads 

 in operation in the trans-Leithan provinces 



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amounted to 2,249 miles; in course of con- 

 struction, 1,750 miles. The length of telegraph 

 lines in 1870 was 5,835 miles; length of wire, 

 17,211 miles. _ 



In the political complications through which 

 Austria passed in 1871, the Hungarian minis- 

 try showed a decided sympathy with the Ger- 

 man Liberal party. It supported the efforts 

 of the Austrian Chancellor, Count Beust, to 

 strengthen the friendly relations between Aus- 

 tria and Germany ; and, when the Hohenwart 

 Cabinet, by its readiness to concede the exten- 

 sive demands of the Czechs for autonomy, 

 brought on, in November, another great crisis 

 in the political history of cis-Leithan Austria, 

 Count Andrassy, the Hungarian Minister, cast 

 his weighty influence against the demands of 

 the Czechs, and in favor of reestablishing the 

 ascendency of the German Liberal party. 

 When Count Beust resigned as Chancellor and 

 Minister of Foreign Afiairs for the whole em- 

 pire, Count Andrassy succeeded him as Minis- 

 ter of Foreign Affairs, while he in turn was 

 succeeded as Prime-Minister of Hungary by 

 Count Lonyay, heretofore Minister of Finance 

 for the whole empire. In the Hungarian 

 Parliament, the policy pursued by Count An- 

 drassy was attacked by Helfy and other mem- 

 bers of the extreme Left, and Kossuth, in 

 November, addressed a long letter to Helfy, in 

 which he expressed a warm sympathy with 

 Bohemia, and maintained that the indepen- 

 dence of that country could not be injurious 

 to the interests of Hungary. 



The relation of Croatia to Hungary was, in 

 1871, again the subject of violent disputes. 

 In the new Croatian Diet, elected in 1871, the 

 National Slavic party, which aims at the great- 

 est possible independence of the South-Slavic 

 districts of Hungary under the leadership of 

 Croatia, controlled more than 60 votes, while 

 only about 30 could be relied upon as support- 

 ers of the Hungarian ministry and the policy 

 pursued by the Magyars. At first the Croa- 

 tian Nationalists appeared to be disposed to 

 overthrow the agreement which in 1868 had 

 been concluded between the Magyars and the 

 Croatian Diet, and some of the most radical 

 partisans even attempted an insurrectionary 

 movement, which, however, was at once sup- 

 pressed. In the latter part of the year the 

 Nationalists declared their readiness to recog- 

 nize the agreement of 1868, and to effect its 

 revision in a strictly legal manner. Count 

 Lonyay, soon after his appointment as Prime- 

 Minister of Hungary, made friendly overtures 

 to the Croatian Nationalists, who accepted the 

 proposition to enter into new negotiations 

 concerning a friendly rearrangement of the 

 relations between Croatia and Hungary. For 

 this purpose a conference was opened in Vien- 

 na in December, 1871, in which the demands 

 of the Croatians were chiefly represented by 

 Mrazovits, Dr. Racki, Voncina, and Krestits. 



