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AUSTRO-HUNGARIAff MONARCHY. 



Leopold II., Emperor of Germany, died 1792. 



Francis II., last Emperor of Germany, Charles, Archduke, 

 abdicated 1806 ; as Emperor of Aus- died 1829. 



Budolphus, Prince Imperial 

 and heir apparent, born 

 1858. 



The Ministry for the Common Affairs of the 

 Empire consisted, toward the close of the year 

 1879, of Karl Heinrich Baron von Haymerle, 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs and of the Impe- 

 rial House (appointed October 9, 1879) ; Baron 

 Leopold Friedrich von Hofmann, Minister of 

 the Finances of the Empire (appointed 1876) ; 

 and Count Arthur Bylandt-Rheidt, Minister of 

 War (appointed 1876). 



The Ministry of Cisleithan Austria, at the 

 close of 1879, was composed of Count Eduard 

 Taaffe, President (appointed August 14, 1879) ; 

 C. von Stremayr, Public Worship and Instruc- 

 tion (November, 1871); General Horst, Defense 

 of the Country (appointed pro tern. November, 

 1871, definitely in March, 1872); Count Julius 

 von Falkenhayn (August 14, 1879), Agricul- 

 ture ; Baron Karl von Korb-Weidenheim (Au- 

 gust 14, 1879), Commerce ; Emil Chertek (Au- 

 gust 14, 1879), Finance ; Florian Ziemialkow- 

 ski (April, 1873), and Dr. Alois Prazak (August 

 14, 1879), Minister without portfolio. 



Count EDUARD TAAFFE was horn February 

 24, 1833. Having held various administra- 

 tive offices, he was in March, 1867, appointed 

 Minister of the Interior, and later on in the 

 same year substitute of the Minister-President 

 and Minister of Public Defense ; and in 1868 

 he was appointed temporarily and in 1869 

 permanently Minister-President. Resigning 

 this post in 1870, he was next called to the 

 office of Governor of the Tyrol, where he 

 showed great administrative talent in recon- 

 ciling the Italian with the German element. 

 At the beginning of 1879, on the resignation 

 of the Auersperg Cabinet, he was charged 

 with the formation of a new Cabinet, but, 

 having failed in this task on the eve of the ex- 

 piration of the session of the Reichsrath, and 

 the members of the Auersperg Cabinet being 

 prevailed on to retain their portfolios, the 

 Count joined that body as Minister of the In- 

 terior. Under his auspices the Reichsrath was 

 closed and new elections were held. The pro- 



gramme of Count Taaffe aimed at the recon- 

 ciliation of the various nations of Austria, the 

 union of their representatives in the Reichs- 

 rath, and the direction of the energies of Par- 

 liament to economic and financial questions. 



Dr. VON STKEMAYK was born October 30, 

 1823. He was on several occasions Minister 

 of Justice and Worship, until in 1871 he was 

 appointed Minister of Education in the Auers- 

 perg Cabinet, which office he held up to the 

 present year. 



General Baron HORST, the Minister of Public 

 Defense, has held this position since 1871, and 

 has administered his department with eminent 

 success. 



Dr. ZIEMIALKOWSKI, a Pole by birth, had as 

 a youth a very agitated career, and was con- 

 demned to death for being compromised in 

 some political affairs. Having been successful 

 as an advocate, he entered Parliament, and 

 was in 1867 elected second Vice-President. 

 In 1873 he was called upon to act as inter- 

 mediary between the Government and his Po- 

 lish compatriots. 



Count JULIUS FALKENHAYN is the represent- 

 ative in the Parliament of the Clerico-Feudal 

 party, of which he has long been an active 

 partisan. His appointment was regarded as 

 a concession to the rural communes of the 

 Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper Austria, and Styria, 

 where the Clerical party is in the majority. 



Baron KORB-WEIDENHEIM, Minister of Com- 

 merce, although belonging to the Reichsrath 

 since 1867, was known but very little before 

 his appointment. This was intended to secure 

 to the large landed proprietors of Bohemia a 

 place in the Government. 



Dr. A. PRAZAK, born February 21, 1820, was 

 a deputy for Moravia from 1861 to 1863, and 

 again since 1874, and represented in the new 

 Parliament the Czech element. Together with 

 Dr. Ziemialkowski, he was expected to form 

 an instrument of communication between the 

 Government and the new Slav element which 

 had recently entered the Reichsrath. 



The area of the Monarchy is 240,348 square 

 miles ; population, according to the census of 

 1869, 35,901,435. The area of Cisleithan Aus- 

 tria (the land represented in the Reichsrath) is 

 115,908 square miles. The civil population 

 at the end of 1878 was officially estimated at 

 21,970,649, to which must be added the army, 

 numbering (close of 1876) 177,449 persons; 

 making a total population of 22,148,098. 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, 1878. 



Austria below the Enns 2,201,428 



Austria above the Enns 750,301 



Salzburg 154.9&6 



Styria. 1,191,782 



Carinthia 389,366 



Carniola > 471,936 



Trieste 140,117 



Goritz and Gradisca 219.215 



Istria... 275,798 



