Smyrna times., 1859-05-19

TO- Kinsdom of Bohemia 4,SU0 10
IL. Duchy Of SIlesla 4!5'j2l
IL. Kingdom of Gallcia 5O3OIO4I
Is Duchy OF BakOvina 43O'6O4 /
4. Kingdom of DalmatIa 452,33l
10. Kingdom of LOmbardy 5'OOO'ooo
l6. Venice 2'l93'.65
~ Hungary 9,14I 4Sl
IA CroaIIa and Slavonia 9j7, 1856
10. Grand Duchy of Pennsylvania 2.2SJ.3!2
70 Principally of Servia o!i'l3o
2l. The Military Frontier l'Oo4''9i
More than twenty different dialects are sPo-
ken by the people of Austria. German is the
official language. According to classification
made in 1916, 5,282, 1876, or 40S per cent. OF
her inhabitants belonged to the Slavic race
The Germans numbered 7,9l7,l95, or 2l per
cent. The Roman race numbered 8,lO2,4G3,
or 81 per cent. The Magyars, 5,4l0,173' or
not quite 10 per cent; the remaining two per
cent. consisted of 6OO,O0O Jews, $4,000 Armc-
mans, $4,000 Greeks, and 100000 Glpsles.-
Three -fourlhs of the entire population profess
the Roman Catholic religion. The members OF
the Greek Catholic Church are estimated at6a
millions. The Reformed Protestant Church
has 2 228OOOO The Lutheran Church, l,270,-
OO0 The Unitarian, $4,000.
Austria is the leading Roman Catholic nation
I of the world. All the limitations upon the
| PapaI power, established by Joseph Ii, were
removed by the Concordat concluded in Sep
tember, 1855. The DEGREES Of the Pope are
| binding upon the Catholics of Austria wIthou
previous sepctOn from that Government Th'
Bishops are empowered to prohibit all book
which they deem pernicious they have con
troll over the public schools they may punlsi
clergylnen and laymen for violations OF th
rules of the church, and establish an unlImte
number of new monasterles. Promises haV
been made to the Protestant Churches of lib
eral organization, but they have not been faith
fully kept.
The finances of Austria are in most deplc
rabe condition. Her expenditures, for sGrIe
of years, have greatly exceeded her current ii
come. She has repeatedly been obliged 10 r.
sort to new loans and to expedents Of a yer
! despotic aud discreditable character, to met
} her expenditures. A French paper of receI
, date, estimates her national debt at about 81
! 200, 100000, and she cannot negotiate even
3 small loan from foreign capitalists, wltho
great difficulty. Her army, when on q pea'
footing, comprises about 100000 men al
d when on a war footing, as at present, fra
s 700 600 to 100000 men. She has made gre
: efforts during the last ten years to increase h
Il navy but it is insignificant when compar
n with the navies of France or England. 1t CO
ssts of one line of. battle ship, three screw t
gates, five steamships, eight steam despatc
). boats, seven briggs, eleven schooners, and ri
It gun-boats.
;. Austria has been under the dominion OF
ii house of Hapsburg since 1878. At the dea
IA of Albert, she had an area OF 26,534 squa
is miles, since which period, by wars, marrlag
10 tortuous diplomacy, and various other wa
her territory has been extended to 256,5
n. square miles. For many centuries she
to with the exception of intervals of peace su
lie ciently long to recuperate her energies, bt
la in a state of almost constant war with OF
~ nc European Powers. Since the development
i'd liberal ideas in Europe, she has warred
he relentless and unyielding ferOcity against Il
're extension, encountering in her Chequered car
many terrible defeats but she has been sin
in larly fortunate in nearly all instances, in I'm
ind accomplishing the ends at which she aimed
ce, subduing the revolutionary movements wi
or provoked her antagonism, and in preser'
~ territorial dominions. She has been fat
veil exponent of the maxim, that they should
in who have the power, and they should keep
oO CAM
the -
the OF General Baraguay DE Killers is to
eral mand one of the French divisions IN the
the with Sardinia. He served under the first
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