AUSTRIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 388, 23 July 1856, Page 5

AUSTRIA.

The Times correspondent at Vienna, writing under date of the 22ml March, states that the news relative to the expected return of Count Buol from Paris, at the beginning of April, is fully confirmed. He adds:—lt is generally stated here that Russia intends to do away with her prohibitive system in commercial matters, and it will be well for the revenue if she does so, for there never was a better organized smuggling system than that which has long been established on the Austio-Russiau and PrussoRussian frontiers. It may be observed that, since the introduction of the new tariff into Austria, smuggling has almost ceased on the Swiss aud Saxon frontiers. Formerly almost every Vienna tradesman who dealt in the socalled ''fashionable" article sold smuggled goods, but such has long since ceased to be the case, as the import duties, except oa a few articles, are not unreasonably high. £5, As soon as the news of the birth of the French ij/Prince was known here, te egraphic instructions were sent to Count Buol to offer the congratulations of the Imperial Court. It is believed that when the intelligence of the safe delivery of the Empress Eugenic is officially announced, the Emperor Francis Joseph will address an autograph letter to the Emperor Napoleon in which his congratulations will be repeated. Since Count Orloff litis obtained such a firm footing at Paris, Austria has become more desirous than ever to remain on good terms with France.