The whole number of vessels engaged in commercial traffic at the close of 1880, as per accompanying table marked F, was 8,192, aggregating a tonnage of 331,438 tons burden, of which 536 vessels of 283,464 tons burden were seagoing vessels; of these last, 75 were steamers, having a tonnage of 62,101 tons burden. Hungary does not possess any steamers, but of the total sailing-vessels, viz, 461, with a tonnage of 221,365 tons burden, 147 vessels of 66,535 tons burden are Hungarian. Compared with 1879 the totals of Austro-Hungarian vessels manifest a decrease of 34 vessels and an increase of 766 tons.

TRAFFIC OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN VESSELS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

The accompanying table marked G shows the foreign countries with which Austro-Hungarian vessels carried on their sea traffic in 1879. The total arrivals in all foreign countries aggregated 4,963,210 tons; of the total tonnage the steamers had 3,844,865 tous, or over 77 per cent., of which 42 per cent. was with Turkey and 25 per cent. with Greece. The traffic with the United States is put down at 279 sailing Vessels of 165,905 tons burden. It should be understood that this trade was not necessarily direct to the United States, or even between this empire and the United States, or any of the countries named, as the table shows simply the arrivals of Austro-Hungarian vessels without regard from whence they came.

AUSTRO HUNGARIAN LLOYD STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

This well known steamship line, established in 1836, has now a capital of over 16,000,000 florins, on which for the last three years dividends of 13.71, 9.52, and 8 per cent. were paid. At the end of 1880 the number of steamers was 72, of 17,100 horse-power and 92,685 tons burden, and 4 steamers in process of construction. Their steamers run from Trieste and Fiume to every important sea port of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, also to Calcutta and Hong-Kong. The different lines amount to 17, comprising a distance of 23,682 German miles. It is contemplated to open up at an early day a line from Trieste to New York, touching at several Mediterranean and Continental Atlantic ports.

DANUBE STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

This line was established in 1830, being a pioneer steamship line and at present the only one of importance on the Danube. At the close of 1880, their capital stock was over 42,000,000 florins, on which they paid during the last three years 10, 7, and 5 per cent. They possessed 185 steamers, of 16,679 horse-power, also 719 iron and 31 wooden tugboats and 5 dredges, of 89 horse-power. The line confines its traffic to the Danube from Regensburg through the Sulina mouth as far as Odessa, and a part of the Drave, the Theiss and the Save, aggregating a distance of 4,430 kilometers.

NAVIGATION THROUGH THE SULINA MOUTH OF THE DANUBE IN THE YEAR 1880.

The total number of ships passing out in 1880 was 1,813, with a tonnage of 658,063 tons burden, being a decrease of 449 vessels and 139,491 tons when compared with 1879. The percentage of the tonnage of the steamers for both years was 71 per cent. of the whole. The quantity of grain cargoes amounted to 4,251,331 quarters, being a decrease of 1,143,398 quarters in comparison with 1879. The receipts, including pilot and light dues, amounted to 1,800,000 francs or a decrease of 397,353 franes when compared with 1879. The decrease was caused generally by the unfavorable harvests of 1879.

The following table gives the nationality of the departures in 1880 compared with 1879:

X.-MISCELLANEOUS.

Railroads. The total number and length of railroads, in kilometers, in Austria-Hungary on the 31st day of October, 1881, compared with the same on the 30th day of June, 1880, were as follows:

The number of passengers carried by these lines during the first ten months of 1881, compared with like period of 1880, was as follows:

The freight, in tons, carried during the same periods was:

The total receipts and the amount per kilometer of line for the same periods of time were as follows:

The piercing of the Arlberg progresses satisfactorily. The distance. reached on the 1st of October last was on the east side 1,405 meters, and on

the west side, 1,062 meters, making an average daily advance of 4.58 meters on the east side, and 3.03 meters on the west side. This tunnel when completed will be over 10,000 meters long, and will open up to the Tyrol and the western part of Austria an outlet through Switzerland and France to the Northern European seaboard. The railway extending from Innsbruck to Bludenz, is being built by the Austrian Government. It is estimated that from five to six years will be required to complete it.

POST-OFFICES.

The letter department comprises letters, correspondence cards, printed matter, and samples, of which the numbers carried by the post-offices of Austria and Hungary during the year 1880 were as follows, showing an average of 12.76 letters and 3.4 papers to every inhabitant of Austria, and 5.6 letters and 2.3 newspapers to every inhabitant of Hungary:

In connection with the post-offices is carried on additionally a package post, which reported during the year 1880 the following traffic, viz:

The number of post-offices, employés, and the receipts and expendi tures for Austria and Hungary for 1880 were as follows:

TELEGRAPHS.

The telegraphic service for the empire for 1880 compared with 1879 increased 300,687 pay dispatches, and the receipts show a surplus over expenditures of 40,417 florins in 1880 against a deficit of 653,528 florins in 1879, which last result was partly owing, it is affirmed, to the recent establishment of the word-tariff and "urgent" telegrams.

The following table gives certain interesting statistics relative to the telegraphs of Austria and Hungary during the year 1880:

Austria, therefore, had in 1880 one telegraphic station for every 116 square kilometers and 8,670 inhabitants, and 225 dispatches for every 1,000 inhabitants, while these data for Hungary were 179, 15,790, and 157 respectively. Of the telegraphic instruments used in Austria, 3,623 were Morse, 64 Hughes, and 6 multiplex instruments.

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY.

Apart from the regular army, each country has in time of peace its own organization of home guards, which in case of war are combined under one command. In August, 1880, the state of the army, regulars and reserves, on a peace and war footing was as follows: