AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



The population of the city of Vienna in 1880 

 was 705,402, and that of the thirty-five villages 

 included in the metropolitan police district, 

 377,752, making with the garrison, of 20,703 

 troops, a total population of 1,103,857. The 

 population of the other cities of the empire, 

 containing more than 40,000 inhabitants, was 

 as follows : 



CITIES. Population. 



Buda-Pesth 360.551 



Prague 16^3 



Trieste 144,>44 



Lemberg 109,726 



(Jriitz '.'7.71H 



Brunn 82,660 



Szegedin 73,675 



Cracow 66,095 



Commerce. The following table exhibits the 

 values of the imports and exports of merchan- 

 dise across the Austro-Hungarian customs fron- 

 tier from the neighboring countries, from the 

 free port of Trieste, and through the other 

 ports of the empire, for the years 1880 and 

 1881, in millions of guldens and tenths of mill- 



CITIES. Population. 



Theresienstadt 61 ,367 



Debreczin 51,122 



Holdniezo-Yasarhely 50,966 



Presburg 48,006 



Czernowitz 45.600 



Kecskemet 44,887 



Linz 41,687 



The values of the imports and exports of the 

 free port of Trieste in 1882 were, in thousands 

 of guldens, as follow : 



The imports and exports of the general class- 

 es of merchandise in 1880 and 1881 across the 

 customs line were of the following values, in 

 millions and tenths of millions of guldens : 



The imports of precious metajs in 1880 

 amounted to 32,200,000 guldens, the exports 

 to 22,500,000 guldens; the imports in 1881 to 

 36,500,000 guldens, the exports to 5,900,000 

 guldens. 



The imports of cereals in 1881 were of the 

 value of 69,900,000 guldens, against 85,900,000 

 in 1880; the exports 108,100,000, against 106,- 

 900,000 guldens. The imports of tobacco de- 

 clined from 27,700,000 to 20,700,000 guldens, 

 while the exports increased from 7,300,000 to 

 7,500,000 guldens. The exports of groceries, 

 principally sugar, increased from 64,100,000 to 

 72,400,000 guldens; those of live animals and 

 animal food products from 59,000,000 to 71,- 

 100,000 guldens. The exports of fermented 

 liquors declined from 26,100,000 to 18,400,000 

 guldens. There was an increase in the imports 

 and a decrease in the exports of fuel, raw met- 

 als, and textile materials. In manufactured 

 goods there was an increase in the imports of 

 finished articles of use and luxury as well as 

 of manufacturing implements and half-manu- 

 factured goods. The exports of fine manufact- 

 ures likewise showed an increase. 



The exports of sugar in 1883 were 2,580,428 

 metric quintals, 316,465 less than in 1882. The 

 cultivators of the beet in Bohemia and other 

 parts of the Austrian Empire and the manufact- 

 urers of sugar suffered from the crisis in the 

 sugar-trade as severely as the producers of any 

 country. The state and private railroads re- 

 duced their tariffs to promote the export, but 

 without avail. Some of the heaviest refining 

 houses in Vienna failed in 1884. 



Navigation. The number of vessels entered 

 at the port of Trieste in 1882 was 6,978; ton- 

 nage, 1,226,369 ; the number cleared was 6,938; 

 tonnage, 1,238,497. The number of vessels en- 

 tered at all the ports of the empire in 1881 was 

 47,796, of 6,301,519 tons, of which 20,458, of 

 5,325,959 tons, were steamers; the number 

 sailing under the Austrian flag was 38,056, of 

 5,478,240 tons. The tonnage cleared was 

 6,299,120 tons; the steam tonnage, 5,330,419; 

 under the Austrian flag, 5,476,449 tons. The 

 merchant navy in 1883 comprised 486 sailing- 

 vessels engaged in foreign commerce, of 275,- 

 316 tons; 85 coasting-vessels, of 12,695 tons; 

 74 steamers engaged in foreign commerce, of 

 72,365 tons; and 52 steamers for the coasting- 

 trade, of 7,250 tons, besides 8,185 fishing- 

 smacks and other small craft. 



Railroads. On the 1st of January, 1883, there 

 were 11,911 kilometres of railroad lines in op- 

 eration in Austria, and 7,824 kilometres in 

 Hungary. Of the Austrian lines 335 kilome- 

 tres were owned and managed by the state; 

 642 kilometres were owned by the state, but 

 managed by companies; 2,031 kilometres were 

 owned by private companies, but managed by 

 the state; and 8,903 kilometres were owned 

 and managed by companies. In Hungary the 

 state owned and managed its own lines, 2,965 

 kilometres in length, and administered 222 ki- 

 lometres of private lines, the remaining 4,637 



