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HUNGARY. 



end of the Cretan revolution (while I was in RECEIPTS. 



command of a large Turkish fleet), much * Direct taxes 



bloodshed, and, many people think, a European 8 .' Booelptj from' 'goVemment ' property, 'and 



war. I ha ve organized the Turkish Navy in a state institutions 80,779,549 



way which has led to high encomiums as to 4 - *^^^,^**.^..^J? ! 390121 



its State from all the COmmanderS-in-chief of 5. Receipts of "the" other 'ministries .'.'.....'.'.'.'.'. 9,668'221 



the English fleets who have lately visited Con- & Other receipts 6,228,237 



stan tin ople. I have established naval schools, Ordinary receipts 212,230,108 



training and gunnery ships (and here I have Extraordinary receipts 8,925,997 



been ably assisted by English naval officers). Total 216,156,105 



While doing all this toward strengthening the FTPFKnirrRFq 



ft 11 T i A. 11 3 l!(AJrr*^lJll L ivbS* 



navy of our ally, I have naturally made many a . Eoyal Household 4,C50,ooo 



enemies. . . . All that they can find to Say 2. Royal Cabinet Chancery 74,'041 



(and it is bitter enough) is, 'He has been dis- j ^^ift^:::;:::::::::;:::;::;::; 'JSSffi 



missed the British service, without, of course, 5. Ministry (ad iatu) 50,343 



explaining the cause. This is most painful to * Ministry f 0r Croatia and Slavonia 3^940 



, . e , , . T . i j j-j? 7. " of the Interior 7.584053 



me, and is very detrimental to my already dif- 8 . of p^ mc Defense R992.525 



ficult position." He therefore asked that 9. of Education and Worship 4,oso,isi 



his offense might be overlooked and that he ft u " SS^^c^^":::: 



might be relieved from " the ban of disgrace. 12. of Communication 9,616,214 



This application was supported by the Earl of - . , ". . , of Jf toaD ? e ,v IT ' ' V =r ' ' ' 'MSS'IS 



~ , *\, ff . , J ,. ,, 14. Administration of Croatia and Slavonia 5,25^,808 



Derby, " as a matter of imperial policy," con- 15. O f Kume 64,430 



sidering it to be of material advantage that i& Pensions '.'.'. s,si 2'.&72 



Admiral Hobart Pasha should occupy the posi- cout^Ltot^'eom^-^^ture^ 81 ' 527 ' 757 



tion he held in Turkey. The Lords of the the Empire and to the Austrian debt 62.425.S58 



Admiralty, therefore, consented to allow him to 19 ' Other expenditures 20,40i,SQ2 



be reinstated in his former rank, placing him Ordinary expenditures 229,681,912 



on the retired list, with the opportunity of Extraordinary expenditures 6,920,130 



rising by seniority to the rank of a retired ad- Total expenditures 286,602,042 



miral. 



HUNGARY, a kingdom of Europe, and one Deflclt 20,445,937 



of the two main divisions of the Austro-Hun- The public debt of Hungary at the close of 



garian monarchy. (All the affairs which are 1874 amounted to 548,415,012 florins, exclusive 



common to the entire monarchy have been t>f the common debt of the Empire. Hungary 



treated of under the head of AXTSTBO-HCTNGA- also has a share in the public debt of Austria 



KIAN MONAEOHY.) As the Mflit&r-y Frontier, proper, about 30 per cent, of its amount pre- 



which had formerly its own administration, has vious to 1868. This debt is regarded as exclu- 



been wholly incorporated, partly with Hungary sively Austrian, but Hungary pays annually for 



proper and partly with Croatia and Slavonia, interest and its amortization 30,927,997 florins, 



the lands of the Hungarian crown now consist The assets of the state were estimated in 1874 



of three large historic divisions, namely: at 792,600,000 florins. 



The aggregate length of railways open for 



DIVISIONS. AM. Population in 1869. traffic was, on January 1, 1877, 6,656 kilome- 



tres (1 kilometre = 0.62 mile). The number 



Hungary proper iT'ofr H'^nl'nol of private and official letters, newspapers, etc., 



Croatia SdSiaVonia'.:::::: lira iS'oll in 1875, was 76,672,000; the number of post- 



offices, 1,948; and the value of valuable letter? 



and packages, 705,600,000 florins. The length 

 of telegraph-wires in January, 1876, was 49,- 



The Hungarian ministry in 1877 was com- 005; of telegraph-lines, 14, 498 kilometres. The 



posed as follows: 1. President of the Ministry, number of telegraph-stations was 911, and the 



Koloman Tisza; 2. Minister near the King's number of dispatches sent and received 2,487,- 



person (ad latus), Baron Wenckheim ; 3. Min- 998. 



ister of Finance, Koloman Szell ; 4. Minister In 1876 there were 315 newspapers and pe- 



of the Interior, Koloman Tisza ; 5. Minister riodicals published in Hungary, against 325 in 



of Education and Public Worship, Dr. Augus- 1875. Of the whole number, 137 were politi- 



tin von Trefort; 6. Minister of Justice, Bela cal papers, 36 were literary journals, 130 were 



Perczel ; 7. Minister of Public Works, Thomas devoted to special subjects, and 12 were comic 



Pechy ; 8. Minister of Agriculture, Industry, journals. 



and Commerce, A. von Trefort; 9. Minister of The public interest in Hungary during 1877 



Croatia and Slavonia, Koloman Bedekovitch was divided between the negotiations on the 



de Czomoz; 10. Minister for the Defense of "Ausgleich" (see ANNUAL CYCLOPEDIA for 



the Country, B. Szende 0n-Kevesztes. 1876), and the relations of the Empire to the 



The budget for the countries belonging to Eastern question. The President of the Min- 



the Hungarian crown, for 1877, was as follows istry, M. Tisza, in his New Year's speech, de- 



(in florins, 1 florin = 48 cents) : clared it to be the duty of the Hungarians to 



