A paper has recently been published showing the position of
the- Austrian Church. Its property is estimated at 35,000,0001., on 2,256,000/. a year, a sum which must be grossly under-estimated-. The Hungarian Church, for example, is one of the richest in the, world.
• No settlement whatever has been arrived at in the. Danish question. TheGovernment has offered Holstein a constitution, on condition oi the incorporation of Schleswig into the monarchy ; but the proposa- ls rejected by Germany, and disapproved by Great Britain and France. A supplementary proposal has, therefore, been put forward to cede Southern Schleswig to Holstein, and grant the latter absolute, free- dom, on condition that it shall cease to be a member of the Germanic-- Bund, and that Denmark shall be declared a neutral territory. - This arrangement will scarcely be discussed, more especially as the true Danes are indignant at the thought of concession, and prefer war.. Theisix weeks' grace granted to Denmark is rapidly wearing away,. and it its close the. Diet must either enforce its decree or abandon the contest. The latter alternative is improbable, but the action of Germany from her cumbrous organization always appears slow and confused, an impression not diminished in England by the absence of German news in the papers usually relied on for intelligence. The netWork of correspondents, spread over Southern Europe, does not extend either to Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, or St. Petersburg; and German papers themselves, with one exception, are painfully local in'their news and information.
