REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

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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 1 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