Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-05-26

Kingdom of Galicia. $500. ...." 80, 056, gu
Duchy Of Bokavina. ....... 43O,664
Kingdom of Dalmatis .....' ..........' 1898
Lomoardy.-.. ...... 500. -, 0O9,oOt
Venice ~. 495 ,Soe
Hungary -.... ..S, i1i,4ol
Crotia and Slsvonia.. .....' soI lit
Grand Duchy of Pennsylvania. ''..2, ESQ or
Principally of Servi ia ........ $500" ,oI4 ,42e
The Military Frontier 80. i .Oo4,I9I
More than twenty different dialects are
spoken by the people of Austria. German
is the official language. According 10 o
classification made 1916, 5.2S2, l96, or
40 23 per cent. of her inhabitants belong.
ed to the Slavic race. The Gernans mum.
bsTed 7,ol7 ,l95, or 81 cent. The Roman
race numbered s, l02, 463, or not quite Is
per csnt.; the remaining two per cent. con.
sisted of 100000, Sews, $4,000 Armeni.
ans, $1,000 Greeks, and 100000 Gipsiss
Three-fourths of the entire population pro-
fess the Roman Catholic religion. This
members of the Greek Catholic Church are
estimated at 100000. The Reformed
Protestant Church has 2, 2S0,O00; the Lu
therab Church. 1870, 900, and the Uniia'
rian 46 600.
Austria is the leading Roman Catholic
natisn Of the world. All the Limitation.
upon the Papal power, established by Je-
seph II, were removed by the Concordai
concluded in September, 1855. The de.
crses Of the Pope are binding upon the Cath
olics of Austria without previous sanction
from that Government. The Bishops are
empowered to prohibit all books which they
deem pernicious; they have control of the
public schools; they may punish the cler-
gymen and laymen for violations Of the rules
OF the Church, and establish an unlimited
number of monastries. Promises have been
mads TO the Protestant Churches Of a liber-
Reorganization, but they have not been faith
fully kept.
Austria abounds in the elements Of min
ernl and agricultural wealth. All the met
ais except plantina are found in her domin-
ions. She possesses forty gold mines, pro-
ducing about sixty thousand Onnces annually
in Hungary and Pennsylvania; and also a
number Of silver, copper, quicksilver, Tin,
lead, iron, zinc, cobalt, arsenic, antimony,
chrome, bismuth, maganess, and other mines
besides many beds of rock salt, and an i'm
msnss number Of mineral springs. The TO-
tai value of her mineral products, in 1851,
was estimated at 1864, 7Sl forms, Of
forty-nine cents each. Her production Of
iron and coal has greatly increased during
the last quarter of a century. In 1880, she
produced | ,437 $50 cwt. oil raw or pig iron,
and l50.637 cwt. of cast iron. In 1888,
she produced 1000, 900 uwt. of coal, and in
1855, 10000, 600 cwt.
Her agricultural capacities are very great
and much attention has recently been paid
to their development by the introduction of
improved American agricultural i'm plements
and machinery. Altogether the area of the
productive soil OF the Empire is 143 ,362,-
600 acres, of which 81 ,442,200 are wood
land and pasture, and 74,9l9,S acres ar
able land. The total value Of the annual
produce Of agriculture and cattle breeding,
is estimated at ST. 800, 600 1000.
The fsances of Austria are in most de-
plorable condition. Her expenditures, for
a series ofyears, have greatly exceeded her
current income. She has repeatedly been
obliged to resort to new loans and TO expe-
disnts Of a very despotio and discreditable
character, to meet her expenditures. Al
French paper of a recent date estimates her
national debt at about ST. 200, 000,0 900, and
she cannot negotiate even a small loan from
foreign capitalist without great difficulty.
Her army, when on peace footing, COM
pfises about 400, 900 men; and when on
war footing, as at present, from 700 900 TO |
$50, 900 men. She has made great efforts
during the last ten years TO increase her
navy, but j. is insignificant when compared
with the navies Of France or England. 1t
consists of one lins-of- battle ship, thres
screw frigates, five steamships, eight steam
dispatch boats, seven briggs, eleven schoon-
ers, ard fifty gun boats.
Austria has been under the dominion of
the house of Hapsburg since July, 1910
At the death Of Albert, 1901, she had an
area of &c, 544 square miles, since which
period, by wars, marriages, tortuous diplo-
macy, and various other ways, her terrific
~ has been extended to 256, $50 square
miles. For many centuries she has, with
the exception Of intervals Of peace sufficient
ly long to recuperats her energies. been in
a state of almost constant war with other |
European powers. Since the development
Of liberal ideas in Europe, she has warred
with relentless and unyielding ferocity
against their extension, sncountering in her |
chequersd career many terrible defeats; but
'he has been singularly fortunate in nearly |
Ill instances, in finally accomplishing the
ends at which she aimed, in subduing the
movements which provoked
her antagonisu, and in preserving her ter
ritorial dominions. She has been faith
ful exponent Of the maxim, ihst "they should
lake who have the power, and they should
Keep who cam" She has struggled with
iauntless perseverance to acquire new ter
ri,ofy and TO rob the people under her do
ninion Of all participation in and control
,ver their government. Her career has
,sen long, successful, . bloody and
yrsnnical one. Every relic of the Rsyolu.
ion of lS4S, except the abolition Of socsge
vas destroyed soon after the Austrian mon.
rchy was securely rs-established upon its
hrone. The Constitution Of l849 was an.
ullsd; trial by jury wa, abolished; the pub
10 press was crushed down with the ut