The relapse of the Austrian crown, just reported, is catastrophic; it must be, with 40,000 of them to the pound sterling and 10,000 tothe dollar. The parity before the war was 24.02 to the and although nothing approaching that has been seen for years the depreciation was not so absolutely violent as to damn all chances of reccyery. In fact, from time ito time the crown did show some interesting recoveries. For instance the fluctuations during last October were as much as about 40 per cent., and the same in November. During October the low quotation was 5,500 to the £, and the high one 9,000. On this latter figure a small improvement took place at.
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