Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA. Nov. 10.
•
On Thursday last a Committee of the German
Diet-was formed, whose- duty it will be to examine
into the justice of the complaints of the nobles
and commons of the Duchy of LaurOburg. The
same Committee will also take into consideration
the separs!e motion made by the representative of
Hpnover. which in substance was, that if Den,
mark should not discharge her obligations towards •
Holstein and Truenburg within- a given time,
4 the Bund should declare invalid all those ordin
ances and arrangements 'made by the Dani'Sh Go-
vernment in Holstein and Launenburg that are
contrary to . federal law and to the engagements
entered into by Denmark.
It is no longer publicly the question of Count
Buoi's quitting office, but it is a positive faCt that
his enemies are doing all in their power to
undermine him.
,The men keep more in the
background than they did a few weeks. since,
but:the Austro-Russian. 4' crinoline" has recently
been brought into the field and placed in the.
front rank. Almost all the Austrian ladies of high
family have either sons or brothers, whom •they
wish to see well placed and .4 decorated," and they
are therefore extremely willing to contribute to the
downfall of a Minister who is confessedly opposed
t ) ("action which would willingly--in order to
serve its own priVate purposes—again place Austria
at the feet of Russia. One or two of the haughty
dames in' question appear to be gifted with the
spirit cf prophecy, for they have already " in per
feet confidence informed their particular friends
that the star of the Minister for Foreign Affairs
will set while the year 1858 is yet yoUng. The
news of the day is that the high finance world-of
Vienna will to-morrow give a grand dinner to M.
Desseps, of Barcelona and Suez celebrity. 'Baron
Bruck.gave the first impulse to the thing, and it is,
therefore, not unlikely that he may te-morrow
make a speech as unstatesman like' as that which
he delivered at Trieste on the 25th July. The
dinner, to which 'some 80 or 00 person have been
invited, is to take place in the great dinning roomat •
Munsch's (hotel). Blron An seltn Rothschild •
has persuaded Baron Bruck to take the chair:
Originally the committee intended,: to invite the
Diplomatic Clrps, but they are said to have
received a hint 4• from a high quarter" that it
might be better not to do so.
The Wiener Zeitung of this morning contains
two ordinances—the one -'lmperial, the other
Ministerial—which. form new links in the Ultra.
motrane chain that enthralls • this Empire.
Aeeordin to the Imperial decree, which beers
date November 4, 1857,• a theological faculty is to he
formed in the University of Innsbruck, and
placed under the direction of the Jesuitl. The
Ministerial ordinance,whielt relates to theappoiitt-
meat of teachers and catechisers in the higher arid
lower preparatory schools is a realisation of Article
eight of the Coneordat, hich piaci. a the teachers
in the Thman Catholic schools throughout the

empire under clerical. .superintendence. M.
Siornsehekt the Bishop of Gurk and Levant,
who was deputed by the Cardinal-Archbishop
of Pr-,gue, one of the. two Papal Commissioners
to visit and reform the Convents in Upper
A'astria and zityria, has just been at the
Benedictine Convent of Seitenstatten, As was
the case at Mc"k, the *unfortunate monks were.
"placed kin'a moral rack" for some days. The
Bishop bittetly upbraided_ them for indulging in
,such eApensive luxuries as articles of furniture
mate of hard wood (oak and beech), and ordered
them to be content in future. with deal. The
reverend 'gentleman then subjected the under
clothing of the followers of St. Benedict to very