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 RELIGION

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The rate of illegitimacy varies from 42 per cent, in Carinthia, 28 in Salzburg, 27 in Lower Austria, 24 in Styria, 19 in Upper Austria, to 3*2 per cent, in Dalmatia.

The following are the emigration statistics of A ustria-Hungary for five years : —

Year

1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

Total Emigrants

65,544 25,566 66,101 67,456 37,215

To N. America To Argentine

To Brazil

65,878 22,965 50,951 45,327

685 440 549 220

2,737 754 10,511 11,389 !

According to United States statistics : the immigrants into the United States comprised in 1896, 34,196 Austrians and 30,898 Hungarians; in 1897, 18,006 Austrians and 15,025 Hun- garians; in 1898, 23,118 Austrians and 16,662 Hungarians.

III. Pkincipal Towns.

The following were the populations of the principal towns on December 31, 1890:—

USTHIA :—

Krakau

76,025

Laibach. 30,691

Vienna

1,364,548

Czernowitz

57,403

Koloniea. 30,160

Prague

184,109

Pilsen

50,693

Budweis. 28,730

Trieste

158,344

Linz.

47,560

Salzburg. 27,741

Lemberg

128,419

Pola.

39,273

Tarnopol. 26,097

Gratz

113,540

Przemysl.

35,619

Wiener-Neustadt25, 324

Briinn

95,342

Reichenberg

31,033

Aussig. 24,083

Religion.

In Austria the relation of the State to the religious bodies is regulated by the statutes of December 21, 1867, and of May 25, 1868. In these the leading principle is religious liberty, the independence of the Church as regards the State, saving the rights of the sovereign arising from ecclesiastical dignity. Full liberty of faith and conscience is secured, and the enjoyment of civil and political rights is independent of religious profession. Every religious body legally recognised has the right of ordinary public worship, the management of its own affairs, and the undisturbed possession of its premises, endowments, and funds for the purposes of worship, instruction, or charity. Recognised religious bodies in Austria are : — The Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Greek- Oriental, Evangelical (Augsburg or Lutheran, and Helvetian or Reformed), the Evangelical Brotherhood, the Gregorian-Armenian,