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 REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

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Extraordinary Expenditure : —

Ministry of Finance .... „ „ the Interior ,, ,, Justice ....

„ Public Works. ,, „ Agriculture and Commerce. Expenditure on Railways and Canals.

Florins

£

1,200,000

600,000

10,000

600,000

159,000

22,229,000

120,000

60,000

1,000

60,000

15,900

2,222,900

Total extraordinary expenditure.

24,798,000

2,479,800

Total estimated expenditure for 1869.

15-1,038,599

15,403,859

The Kingdom, besides its share of the national debt of the Austrian empire, has a debt of its own, amounting at the end of 1870, to 84,000,000 florins, or 8,400,000/. The debt consists of two foreign loans, the first, for the amount of 60,000,000 florins, or 6,000,000/., contracted, in June 1868, at Paris and Amsterdam ; and the second, for the amount of 24,000,000 florins, or 2,400,000/., issued, in April 1870, at Vienna and Frankfort. Both loans bear interest at five per cent., and are repayable, by means of sinking funds, in fifty years.

Army and Navy. 1. Army.

According to official returns, Austria possessed, at the commence- ment of 1869, a standing army numbering 278,470 men, on the peace-footing, and 838,700 on the war-footing, organised as follows : —

Number

Description of Troops of Standing Army

Peace

War

footing

footing I

Infantry : —

80 regiments of the line, each composed of 3 field

battalions, 2 reserve battalions, and 1 depot

battalion .......

121,840

485,440

14 Military frontier regiments, 6 of 3, and 8 of 4

battalions .....

12,307

53,823

1 regiment of ' Kaiser-jager,' of Tyrol, and 33 bat-

talions of 'Feld-jager' .....

20,251

54,463

12 companies of ambulance and hospital service. Total of infantry. Cavalry : —

1,180

3,876

155,578

597,602

14 regiments of dragoons, 12 heavy, and 2 light;

14 regiments of hussars ; and 2 regiments of kncers Total of cavalry.

35,793

58,794