3 MAY 1851, Page 14

A Gratz journal states that the price of paper is

rising in Vienna in eon. sequence of the demand being greater than the supply, particularly with respect to ordinary writing and packing paper. Some printing-offices are at a stand-still, and even the Imperial one has been obliged to postpone the printing of several large works. An Italian journal published in Vienna has been compelled to diminish its size; and the journal alluded to adds, that if matters do not improve, several Vienna papers will be compelled to inter- rupt their publication. The scarcity is attributed to the determination of the leading rag-merchants to give the preference to foreign markets, par- ticularly the English one. Numerous parties are clamouring for an in- crease of the export-duty on rags.