ArsTi:u-nrN<;Ai:iAN MUNAKCHY. 





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COLONIES. 



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169,154 

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177,447 



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3i,707 



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AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY, an 



empire in Central Europe. Emperor, Francis 

 JoM-ph I., born August 18, 1830; succeeded 

 liis uncle, the Emperor Ferdinand I., on De- 

 cember 2, 1848. Heir-apparent to the throne, 

 Archduke Rudolphus, born August 21, 1858. 

 Area of the monarchy, 240,348 square miles ; 

 population, according to the census of 1869, 

 85,901,435. The area of cis-Leithan Austria 

 (the lands represented in the Reichsrath) is 

 1 15,908 square miles ; population at the end of 

 1-71, officially estimated at 21,169,841. The 

 estimate is based upon the census of Decem- 

 ber 31, 1869, by adding the average percentage 

 of increase, as it results from the census of 1869 

 and that of 185.7. It was distributed among 

 the different crown-lands as follows : 



CooDtrlM. InhtblUnU In 18T4. 



Austria below the EnnB 9,087,980 



Austria above the Eiina 741,918 



Salzburp 153,386 



Styria 1,164,512 



Carinthia 838.045 



Carniola 468,065 



Trieste 132,274 



Goritz and Gradisca 212,349 



Istria 266,303 



Tyrol 787,494 



Vorarlherg 108,341 



Bohemia 5,287,244 



Moravia 2,056,081 



Silesia 544,459 



Galicia 6,8,7,798 



Bukowina 587,815 



Dalinatia 460,327 



Total 21,169,841 



Of the total population, 10,303,437 were of 

 the male, and 10,865,904 of the female sex. 

 The number of marriages in 1873 was 193,836, 

 of births 829,947 (429,324 males, 400,623 fe- 

 males). Of the children born alive, 712,109 

 were legitimate, and 98,727 illegitimate; of 

 those still-born, 15,420 were legitimate, and 

 8,691 illegitimate. The number of twins was 

 18,580. The number of deaths was 679,896 

 (3c4,883 male, and 325,063 female). 



The ministry for the common affairs of the 

 empire consisted, at the beginning of the year, 

 of Count Andrassy, Minister of Foreign Affairs 

 and of the Imperial House (appointed 1871) ; 

 Baron von Holzgethan, Minister of the Finances 

 of the Empire (appointed January, 1872) ; and 

 Baron Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld, Minister of War 

 (appointed January, 1868). 



The ministry of cis-Leithan Austria was com- 

 posed of Prince Adolf von Auersperg, Presi- 

 dent ; J. Lasser Baron von Bollheim, Interior ; 

 C. von Stremayr, Public Works and Instruc- 

 tion; Glaser, Justice; Banhans, Commerce and 



1'olitical Economy; J. Ritter von Cljlun 

 Agriculture (all appointed November, i 

 Baron von Pretis-Cagnodo, Finances (January, 

 1872) ; Colonel llorst, Defense of the Country 

 (appointed pro tern. November, 1871 ; del'mit.- 

 ly, March, 1872) ; J. Unger (November, 1871), 

 and Fl. Zieinialkovski (April, 1878), ministers 

 withont portfolio. 



According to the common budget of the 

 whole empire for the year 1874, the amount 

 required for the ordinary branches of adminis- 

 tration was 116,364,502 florins; the receipts 

 for the same branches were estimated at 5,- 

 815,125 fl. ; the receipts from customs at 17,- 

 500,000 fl. ; leaving 93,049,378 to be distrib- 

 uted among Austria Proper and Hungary (the 

 former contributing 70 per cent, and the latter 

 80 per cent.). The cis-Leithan budget for 1873 

 estimates the revenue at 893,677,697 fl., and 

 the expenditures at 889,929,292 fl. The com- 

 mon debt in 1872 amounted to 412,001. '.4 

 fl. ; the debt of cis-Leithan Austria at 2,693,- 

 495,790 fl. The army on the peace-footing 

 numbered, in August, 1878, 283,125, and on 

 the war -footing 1,093,979 men. The navy 

 numbered 68 vessels; tonnage, 107,470. 



The total number of savings-banks, at the 

 end of the year 1873, was 259 (against 211 in 

 1871); the number of depositors, 1,207,688; 

 ditto of deposits, 482,768,132. They are very 

 unequally distributed among the several prov- 

 inces, and, in some of them, are barely known, 

 as appears from the following table : 



The universities of Austria had, during the 

 summer of 1873, the following number of pro- 

 fessors and students : 



Of the students, 7,687 were Austrians, and 

 681 were foreigners. With regard to their na- 

 tionality, 8,599 were Germans, 1,656 Czechs, 

 1,219 Poles, 489 Ruthenes, 513 Slovens, Croats, 

 and Serbians ; 889 Italians, Ladiuians, and 



