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AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY. 



AUSTRO-HUNGAPJAN MONARCHY, an 



empire in Central Europe. Emperor, Francis 

 Joseph L, born August 18, 1830; succeeded 

 his 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, 

 35,901,435. The area of cis-Leithan Austria 

 (the lands represented in the Reichsrath) is 

 115,908 square miles; population at the end of 

 1874, officially estimated at 21,169,341. The 

 estimate is based upon the census of Decem- 

 ber 31, 1869, by adding the average percentage 

 of increase. It was distributed among the dif- 

 ferent crown-lands as follows : 



COUNTRIES. Inhabitants in 1874. 



Austria below the Enns 2,087,930 



Austria above the Enns 741,918 



Salzburg 153,886 



Styria 1,164,512 



Carinthia 338,045 



Carniola 468,065 



Trieste 132,274 



Goritz and Gradisca 212.849 



Istria 266,803 



Tyrol 787,494 



Vorarlberg 



Bohemia 



Moravia ... 



103,341 

 5,287,244 

 2,056,081 

 544,459 



Galicia 5.827,798 



Bukowina 537,815 



Dalmatia 460,827 



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 

 3,691 illegitimate. The number of twins was 

 18,530. The number of deaths was 679,396 

 (354,333 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 von Keller, Minister of War (appointed 

 June 14, 1874). 



The ministry of cis-Leithan Austria was com- 

 posed of Prince Adolf von Auersperg, Presi- 

 dent (appointed November, 1871); J. Lasser 

 Baron von Zollheim, Interior (November, 

 1871) ; C. von Stremayr, Public Works and In- 

 struction (November, 1871); Glaser, Justice 

 (November, 1871); 'j.Rittervon Chlumecky, 

 Commerce and Political Economy (appointed in 

 November, 1871, Minister of Agriculture ; trans- 

 ferred to the Ministry of Commerce in May, 

 1875) ; Baron von Pretis-Cagnado, Finances 

 (January, 1872); Colonel Horst, Defense of 

 the Country (appointed pro tern., November, 

 1871, definitely March, 1871) ; Count Colloredo- 

 Mannsfeld, Agriculture (May, 1875); J. Un- 

 ger (November, 1871) and Fl. Ziemialkowski 

 (April, 1873), ministers without portfolio. 



The common debt in December, 1874, 

 amounted to 411,999,796 florins; the debt of 

 cis-Leithan Austria to 2,668,990,937 florins. 

 The army on the peace-footing numbered, in 

 October, 1875, 284,435, and on the war-footing 

 785,649 men. The navy numbered 69 vessels; 

 tonnage, 115,380. 



The commerce of the Austro - Hungarian 

 monarchy, in 1874, was as follows: 



The First Danube Steam Navigation Com- 

 pany had, in 1872, 156 steamers and 574 tow- 

 ing-boats; income, 13,261,918 florins; expen- 

 ditures, 12,697,746 florins; surplus, 564,172 

 florins. The Steam Navigation Company of 

 the Austrian Lloyds had, in 1872, 69 steam- 

 ers ; income, 10,551,014 florins; expenditures, 

 9,287,579 florins ; surplus, 1,263,417 florins. 



The commercial navy, at the beginning of 

 the year 1874, was composed as follows : 



The movement of shipping in the Austrian 

 ports, during the year 1872, was as follows : 



The number of post-offices, at the end of the 

 year 1873, was 4,191 ; the number of .private 

 and official letters, 219,600,000 ; of newspapers 

 sent, 60,300,000; of postal-cards, 21,300,000. 



The aggregate length of railroads, on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1875, was 9,823 kilometres (1 kilome- 

 tre = 0.62 mile). The number of telegraph- 

 stations 2,067; the aggregate length of tele- 

 graph-lines 31,731 kilometres, and of telegraph- 

 wires 82,718, divided as follows: 



On January 10th the two Houses of the 

 Austrian Reichsrath resumed their labors after 

 a four weeks' vacation. After remaining in 

 session for about two months, they were ad- 

 journed on March 23d. Their attention dur- 



