48 



AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY. 



REVENUE. Florini. 



(1 florin = 48 cti.) 



Ministry of Foreign Affairs fvS.'.-Mi 



ofWar. 2,7U%775 



" of Finance 1,860 



Supreme Court of Accounts 286 



Customs, net receipts 5,000,000 



Mutricul.ir contributions: 



From Hungarian Treasury 2.155,537 



' ClsMthtnt* (70 percent) 73.M4,i)o6 



" Transleitiianla (80 per coiit) 81 ,6*0,839 



Total 116,029,688 



EXPENDITURES. Florins. 



Ministry of Foreign Aflairs 4,153,900 



MinistrV of War : 



Army 101,599.581 



8,264.902 



Ministry of Finance 1.SSO.S50 



Supreme Court of Accounts 125,500 



Total ordinary expenditures 116.029,683 



Kxtraordinary expenditures 12,606,538 



Total 128,536,216 



The budget estimates for 1880 for Austria 



roper gave the net revenue at 301,109,093 

 orins, and the expenses at 425,551,018 florins. 

 The floating debt of the whole empire on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1880, amounted to 411,999,923 florins. 

 The public debt of Austria proper on January 

 1, 1880, was as follows: 



The commerce of Austro-Hungary, compris- 

 ing imports and exports of merchandise and of 

 bullion, was as follows in each of the years 

 from 1870 to 1878 (value expressed in Austrian 

 florins) : 



The following statement shows the strength 

 of the commercial marine of Austro-Hungary 

 on the 1st of January, 1880 : 



The army in 1880 consisted, on a peace foot- 

 ing, of 16,635 officers and 275,571 men ; and on 

 a war footing, of 29,653 officers and 1,013,953 

 men. 



The naval force at the end of the year 1879 

 was 58 vessels, of 16,086 horse-power, and 320 

 guns. The total length of railways in opera- 

 tion on January 1, 1880, was: in Austria prop- 

 er, 11,352 kilometres; in Hungary, 7,029; total, 

 18,381. The length of the telegraph wires and 

 lines, and the number of stations, and the mes- 

 sages sent, were in 1878 as follows : 



The following table shows the length of 

 railroads built during the past fourteen years 

 (in kilometres)' : 



The breach between the Constitutional party 

 and the ministry, which had assumed so large 

 proportions in 1880, continued during the year 

 1881, and Count Taaffe was forced still more 

 than in 1880 to look for support from the Right. 

 The first result of this policy was the resigna- 

 tion of Baron Streit, the Minister of Justice, 

 and Ritter von Kremer, Minister of Commerce, 

 who were succeeded, the former by Baron Pino, 

 and the latter by Dr. Prazak. Count TaafFe 

 met an unexpected obstacle in his desire to de- 

 pend upon the Right, in the Herrenhaus, or 

 House of Lords. To overcome this he created 

 twelve new life-members, of whom four were 

 Poles, two Czechs, and six Clericals or Conser- 

 vatives, all factious of the Right being repre- 

 sented. 



A new feature in the struggles of the Ger- 

 man and Slavic nationalities was the proposi- 

 tion to transform the old German University of 



