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GERMANY.

The Vienna correspondent of Galignani writes as
follows on the 24th
The very decided improvement in the actual value
of our paper currency, and our public securities, which
has just taken place, is chiefly owing to the satisfactory
new; which we continue to receive from your city; the
public here consequently look forward with the liveliest
hope to the consolidation of the Prince-President's
power, by the anticipated majority of the universal
suffrage of the French nation. If the course of good
order and strong government, under the Presidency of
Louis Napoleon, be fully successful, then also will Austria
soon extricate herself from her present financial embar-
rassments; and then also, I am inclined to think, she
will seen be in a position to prove to the world at large,
that she has been as unfairly judged as she has been ill-
treated for a long time past by several of herneighbours,
but more particularly so by her old ally on the other side
of the British Channel. It is true the Minister of
Finance has still to contend with a most obstinate and
sinister opposition on the part of our haute finance, who
have been carrying on their -operations against him for
the last three years, because he would not truckle to
their usurious terms for the negotiation of those loans,
that had become indispensably necessary in order to
meet the increased expenditure of the State, ever since
Vie breaking out of the revolution in 1848. By recent
measures the usual facilities of raising enorTous
sums by way of loans and discount from the National
Bank have been considerably curtailed, and thus the
wings of our ' high-flyers' have been somewhat clipped.
Indeed, there are serious indications of an intention on
the part of Government to introduce radio?'
reforms
the organization of that important pc institution,
which will doubtlessly also accelerate the
_re-estsblish-
men: of our currency on a sound and satisfactory basis.
The diplomatic relations between the English and
greatly
Aus-
trian Governments seem to have improved, and
some people incline to think that the event of 2d Decem-
ber and the present aspect of affairs in France may
have greatly tended to
promote a better understand-
ing between the two cabinets. Be this as it may, the
Austrians, I believe, sincerely desire to see the old feel-
ings of friendship between the Courts of St. James and
Vienna permanently restored. The decided deficiency
of the crops of grain and potatoes this year throughout
the whole of Germany,. as also in Switzerland and Hol-
land, begins to give rise to serious apprehensions.
Prices have of late almest everywhere considerably ad-
vanced. The number cf strangers and visitors from all
parts of the empire at present at Vienna is altogether
unprecedented. All our hotels aro full. Trade is flou-
rishing, as au unusual amount of money for Christmas
purchases is being circulated by all classes of society."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
RENDSUIIIIG.—The Commissioners appointed for
regulating the Holstein boundaries have been stopped
in their work, because the Danes want to consider
the Eider as the boundary, whereby the Kronen werk
of Rendsburg would fall to them, while the Commis-
sioners of the Germanic Confederation want to place
the lino further north, whereby not merely the Jiro-
nenwerk but Friedrichsort, the Danenwald, and
Friedrichstadt, would fall to Holstein.