AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY. 



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thus ending the political 

 crisis which had troubled 

 the colony for almost six 

 months. Parliament was 

 prorogued on April 5th. 

 It assembled again on 

 July 9th. In his opening 

 speech, the Governor an- 

 nounced the introduc- 

 tion of bills for a new 

 loan for public works, 

 and for the purchase of 

 Hobson's Bay Railway. 

 The Governor also an- 

 nounced that an interna- 

 tional exhibition would 

 be held in Melbourne 

 in 1880. The Colonial 

 Treasurer made his finan- 

 cial statement on August 

 16th. The actual revenue 

 for the current year was 

 estimated at 4,991,713, 

 and the expenditure at 5,137,642, leaving a 

 deficit of 145,929. This deficiency was to be 

 covered by arrears and recoupments. There 

 were also to be loans for a total amount of 

 9,000,000 for railways and public works. In 

 the beginning of October a ministerial bill for 

 a reform of the Constitution, curtailing the 

 powers of the Legislative Council, was passed 

 on its third reading in the Assembly by a vote 

 of 50 against 21. 



The Parliament of New South Wales was 

 opened by the Governor on September llth. 

 Among the measures to be introduced by the 

 Government was a scheme for the construction 

 of a thousand miles of railway. 



The South Australian Ministry resigned in 

 the beginning of October, and a new cabinet 

 was formed, composed as follows: Premier, 

 Mr. William Morgan; Attorney-General, Mr. 

 Bundez ; Minister of Education, Mr. Rowland 

 Rees ; Colonial Treasurer, Mr. Mann. 



A revolt broke out among the natives of the 

 French colony of New Caledonia in the latter 

 part of June. It was said to be owing to the 

 seizure of a large and fertile valley in which 

 was the large village of the chief Atai. A con- 

 siderable number of whites were massacred, 

 but the resistance was subdued in a short time. 



AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY, an 

 empire in Central Europe. Emperor, Francis 

 Joseph I., born August 18, 1830 ; succeeded 

 his uncle, the Emperor Ferdinand I., Decem- 

 ber 2, 1848. Heir apparent to the throne, 

 Archduke Rudolphus, born August 21, 1858. 



The ministry for the common affairs of the 

 Empire consisted, toward the close of the year 

 1878, of Count Andrassy, Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs and of the Imperial House (appointed 

 1871) ; Baron Leopold Friedrich von Hofmann, 

 Minister of the Finances of the Empire (ap- 

 pointed 1876) ; and Count Arthur Bylandt- 

 Rheidt, Minister of War (appointed 1876). 



The ministry of Cis-Leithan Austria was in 



PARLIAMENT BUILDING, SYDNEY. 



1878 composed of Prince Adolf von Auersperg, 

 President (appointed November, 1871) ; J. Las- 

 ser, Freiherr von Zollheim, Interior (November, 

 1871) ; 0. von Stremayr, Public Worship and 

 Instruction (November, 1871) ; Glaser, Justice 

 (November, 1871); J. Ritter von Chlumecky, 

 Commerce (appointed in November, 1871, Min- 

 ister of Agriculture ; transferred to the Minis- 

 try of Commerce in May, 1875) ; Baron von 

 Pretis-Cagnodo, Finances (January, 1872) ; Co- 

 lonel Horst, Defense of the Country (appointed 

 pro tern. November, 1871, definitely in March, 

 1872) ; Count Mannsfeld, Agriculture (May, 

 1875) ; J. linger (November, 1871) and Florian 

 Ziemialkowski (April, 1873), ministers with- 

 out portfolio. 



Area of the Monarchy. 240,348 square miles ; 

 population, according to the census of 1860, 

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

 (the land represented in the Reichsrath) is 

 115,908 square miles. The civil population at 

 the end of 1876 was officially estimated at 

 21,766,887, to which must be added the army, 

 numbering (close of 1876) 177,449 persons; 

 making a total population of 21,944,336. The 

 estimate is based upon the census of December 

 31, 1869, by adding the average percentage of 

 increase. The civil population was distributed 

 among the different crown lands as follows : 



COUNTRIES. Inhabitants, Dec. 31, 1871 



Austria below the Enns 2,172,488 



Austria above the Enns 748.196 



Salzburg 154,584 



Styria 1,184,904 



Carinthia 839,035 



Carniola 470,965 



Trieste 188,113 



Goritz and Gradisca 217,478 



Istria 273,889 



Tyrol 794,297 



Vorarlberg 103,775 



Bohemia 5,399,028 



Moravia 2,091,802 



Silesia 565,195 



Galicia 6,088,509 



Bukowina ,553,949 



Dalmatia 471,180 



21,766,887 



