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her misadventure- to the owner of the establish-
ment, who at once let her know that she had
been victimised by two adroit thieves. Her
despair, when she realised this fact, may
be imagined: She at once repaired; crying
bitterly the Whole Way, to the police commissaire
to lodge her complaints On exariiining the bag
which one of the two rascals had left in her
charge, it was found to contain 30 cent. pieces,
made up into three rotileaux
The 21fOitipiii• contains the itslial announcement
in its non-official part, that the hrliperor will re-
ceive at the Palace of the Tuileries, on the Ist
of January, the members of the corps diploma-
tique, the constituted authorities, and the depu-
tations from the National Guard and the army.
It is needless to say what importance is attached
in advance to what his Majesty will say and do
on this occasion—and he knows it:

AUSTRIA:

VIENA, Dec. 15, 1860.

6dAiiEgiOldEicT.)

The Vienna Odzetie has at iehgtii pliblished, in
its number of this day, the appointment, which has
been announced for some days past, of M. Schmer-
ling to the post of Home Secretary. The nomi-
nation was made and known of for several days;

and, I might add, was "discounted" (to use a
monetary term?--that is to say, all the bearing
and consequences of the substitiition of this emi-
nent gentleman for 111. tioluchowAy had been
calculated and commented on in advance.

In itself, the publication of this appointment in
the Gazette was not calcUlated to produce any
great effect. The case would have been other-
wise, had it been followed by the official publica-
tion of the liberal programme which M. Sehmer-
ling is reported to hai-e succeeded ill inducing
the goiierniiielit ot Via; t 6 ,ddpi; Unfortu-
nately) IiONVMPi Oil this latter subject the official
sheet remains mute, and the semi-official journals
only too_well imitate this reserve,

Id say the num,'
Schmerling's appointment had at first aroused
have been very much modified within the last few
days etttfaitde itith office Old the fetireihent
of his pteiletotsbi• are iio longer regarded in the
likht,ota hreVoltitioti.;' Nay; it is_ now doubted
Whether they will lead even to a "solution" of
thepreient situation. The best proof
.of this lies
in the faCt that alread3, sortie ,very threatening
ministerial ehangeS are Considered imminent—
such as, for example, no less a dice, &Hong others;
than the retirement of Count Rechberg himself,
and his replacement as Minister for Foreign
Affairs by M. Hubner, formerly Ambassador of
the Austrian Government at Paris, and who
would also take the presidency of the Cabinet.
Although I am far from believing that these
and sortie other sitililar rintiofirg Will lie actually
redlisbd; 00y otigihate in
sources ordinarily well-iiifornied; I Cahn& aVoid
regarding their existence as an evidence of the
unsettled state of affairs generally, and as a proof
that them inisterial crisis has not yet reached its
termination. Besides, there is nothing which
induces me' to conclude that the " provincial
statutes" are to be withdrawn, although this
iheasilre i the first; and an indispensable one, if
it is really meant to glue satistattion td the inha-
bitants of the hereditary proVinees of the empire.
It no longer appears; in fa6t; that the GoVernment
is seriously disposed to yield; in thb case of Him-
gEirY‘ td thoge derilati4, 4hiCli have
assumed so concrete a form in the resolutions
come to by the Pesth Comitatzs. These resolu-
tions., which will not be long in making the tour
of the entire' country, very plainly call for. the
retirement of the. Government represented by
Baron Vay; and its fdplaeetneut by a teapousible
Ihingaridn 'Ministry: Meanthile; hoWetet the
dpi.;enitnent ifiay lie Coiistitnted; the Othilitatus
of lie th gbeni detetiffined to he eciiiterit with
nothing less than the giispeitsiort of the 16. vying
of taxes, and of the recruiting, which are, no
doubt, most efficacious means, if persevered in,
for compelling the Government to consent tosthe
Diet being convoked and the Ministry reor-
ganised,

It is true that taxon Vay does not recognise
the validity of the reidiationa Come to by this
body, seeing that that assembly is Constitiited
and is acting in open opposition to the "Instrne
tions 7. promulgated by M. Vay for the reorgani-
sation of such bodies; but what signifies whether
they be recognised by the Vienna Government or
hot, so long as 0,, inhabitants of Hungary. on
their parti recognise the lawfulness of the Pogth
resolutions, and recognise them so effectually, by
refusing to pay the takes; arid by opposing the
progress of the recruiting for the army, until such
tithe tis the Viet shall have pronounced upon the
qiiestioft
This reirnsal of taxes and td fiirrtisli soiclies to•
the Imperial army, has already, it may be &Medi
been acted upon for several weeks ; 'and the
resolutions of the Comitatus of Pesth have only
served to make this course of action more general.
In the situation• in which the government thus
finds itself—Venetia on one side and litingary on
the other—its most violent partisans cannot shut
their eyes to the fact that the Emperor could not
resort to force without exposing the monarchy to
the greatest dangers. The contrivances on.which
the Cabinet had especially reckoned for counter-
acting the Hungarian movement present at this
mordent very small chances of success. For
example, it was thought that the southern Slave
gees might be won over, and alienated from
Hungary, by proclaiming the re-union of Croatia,
Dalmatia, and Slavonia, into a kind of independent
vice-royalty ; but Dalmatia at once protested
most energetically against any such arrangement.
In Croatia, as well as in Slavonia, the inhabitants
have also withdrawn their consent to this scheme,
on the ground that the arrangement was made
between the Court of Vienna and some " men of
fruit" of its own selection. In•short, the rnajo--
rity of the inhabitants of the southern Slave
states continue to regard a close confederation
with Hungary, as the surest guarantee for the
future, so .far as concerns the welfare of all the
ancient annexed provinces of the kingdom.