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REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

13 students attending these universities amounted, in 1868, to above 9,000, about one-fourth of which number were at Vienna. Next in rank to the universities stand the theological seminaries, 125 in number, with 4,500 pupils; and the Polytechnic schools, 11 in number, with 3,000 pupils. The German-speaking population of the empire is most advanced in general education; and least the people of the provinces of Slavonia, Croatia, and Dalmatia.―(Report of the Imperial-royal Government to the Statesman's Year-book.)

Revenue and Expenditure.

In accordance with the political constitution of the Austrian empire, which recognises three distinct parliaments, there are also three distinct budgets: the first, that of the Delegations, for the whole empire; the second, that of the Reichsrath, for German or Cisleithan Austria; and the third, that of the Hungarian diet, for the Transleithan kingdom, or Hungary. By an agreement, or so-called 'compromise, entered into, in February 1868, between the governments and legislatures of German Austria and Hungary, the former has to pay seventy and the latter thirty per cent, towards the 'common expenditure of the empire,' not including the interest of the national debt, which formed the subject of a special treaty. (See p. 16.)

Budget for the Whole Empire.

The estimates of expenditure, ordinary and extraordinary, for the ’common affairs of the Empire,' for the year 1869, laid before, and approved by the Delegations, were as follows:—

Ordinary Expenditure : — Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of War \ Arm ^' 69 >?77,692 > Ministry ot Uar j ^^ 7,461,132 }

Ministry of Finance .... Total.

Extraordinary Expenditure : —

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

nr • 4- t «r S Army, 4,739,681 "1 Ministry of War i -*-. " r«w»n«oo 5

J I .Navy, 1,289,028 J

Ministry of Finance .... Total. Total estimated expenditure for 1869

Florins

£

4,081,959

77,238,824

1,788,215

408,195 7,723,882

178,821

83,108,998

101,481

6,028,709

13,830

8,310,899

10,148

602,870

1,383

6,144,020

614,402

89,253,018

8,925,301