The total value of the imports and exports, including bullion and specie, to and from all countries, in the five years 1860-64, was as follows: 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 284,807,000 25,056,665 321,726,000 30,563,970 25,891,015 351,319,000 33,375,305 The exports and imports of the province of Dalmatia, which enjoys commercial freedom, are not included in the above statement. Subjoined is a table showing the number and tonnage of vessels which entered at the principal ports of Austria in each of the 1863 and 1864: years The following tabular statement shows the strength of the commercial marine of Austria. It gives the number, tonnage, and crews of all the vessels belonging to Austrian subjects on the 31st of December, 1864 : Of great importance for the commerce of the empire is the 'Gesellschaft des oesterreichischen Lloyd,' a trading society established at Trieste in 1833, and which commenced in 1836 to run regular lines of steamers to the chief ports of Turkey, Egypt, and Greece. The company possessed in 1865 a fleet of 74 steamers, of 12,500 horse-power. Austria possessed, in June 1864, a network of railways of the length of 3,450 English miles, constructed at an expense of 748,627,030 florins. Of this sum, 417,346,319 florins was subscribed in ordinary shares, and the rest was obtained in the form of loans. The Government has guaranteed an interest of 5 per cent. on rather more than one-half of the whole capital, represented by the shares of five companies, the Southern, Theiss, Galicia, Reichenbach-Pardubitz, West Bohemian, West Elizabeth, and State railways, with a total capital of 461,260,478 florins. Subjoined is a tabular statement showing the length and cost of construction of the chief lines of railways in Austria in the year 1864: The money, weights, and measures of Austria, and the British equivalents, are as follows: Tafeln zur Statistik der Oesterreichischen Monarchie, zusammengestellt von der Direction der administrativen Statistik. 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Philip, Count of Flanders, born March 24, 1837; lieutenant-general in the service of Belgium; married April 25, 1867, to Princess Marie of HohenzollernSigmaringen, born November 17, 1845, sister of Prince Charles, Hospodar of Roumania; 2. Princess Charlotte, born June 7, 1840; married July 27, 1857, to Archduke Maximilian of Austria, elected Emperor of Mexico July 10, 1863; widow June 19, 1867. King Leopold II. is the second sovereign of Belgium, the youngest kingdom in Europe. Leopold II. has a civil list of 2,751,000 francs, or 110,0407. An additional sum of 1,450,390 francs, or 58,0167., is granted for court expenses and dotations to members of the royal house, making the sum total allowed by the country to the sovereign family 4,201,390 francs, or 168,0561. The kingdom of Belgium formed itself into an independent state in 1830, having previously been a part of the Netherlands. The secession was decreed on the 4th of October, 1830, by a Provisional Government, established in consequence of a revolution which broke out at Brussels on the 25th of August, 1830. A National Congress elected Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg king of the Belgians on the 4th of June, 1831; the prince accepted the dignity July 12, and ascended the throne July 21, 1831. The Crown had previously been offered to, but was refused by, the Duke de Nemours, second son of King Louis Philippe of the French. It was not until the year 1839, after the treaty of peace concluded between King Leopold I. and the sovereign of the Netherlands, that all the States of Europe recognised the new kingdom of Belgium. |