The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-10 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna of the sth, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" The news that Russia has ad-
tressed new propositions to Vienna, and that Aus-
tria has communicated them to the Western
Powers has not revived any hopes of peace. These
propositions will no doubt have the same fate as
those that preceded them ; Austria herself indeed
does not appear to believe that they will be ac-
cepted by the Western Powers. They arrived
here on the Ist, and were brought by Prince Ser-
;ins Galitzin. The cause of the postponement of
Baron Hess's departure for the army is to allow
rime for the reply of the Western Powers to the
Russian propositions to be known."
A letter from Vienna states that Riza Bey,
who was present at the Conferences before the ar-
, rival of Ali Pacha, had left that city for Paris.
The Ambassador of Saxony in Vienna, M. de
Konneritz, gave a grand dinner in that city on the
tth, at which were present Prince Gortschakoff,
Count Arnim, and Prince Galitzin.
It is stated in a Vienna letter of the sth that it
is intended to establish there a Discount Bank on
t large scale. The same letter states that the trade
in swine has become very considerable in Hungary;
in the course of the preceding week the agents of
two English houses bargained for the purchase of
10,000 pigs to be delivered in May, June, July
and August.

SWEDEN.

A letter from Stockholm, in the Assemblee Na.

tionale, says —" Several regiments of the Swedish
army have received orders to come here as soon as
they shall have concluded the exercises which they
go through every year in the month of May, in the
different Military departments of Sweden. It ap-
pears to be the intention of the Swedish Govern-
ment to assemble a considerable force this summer,
and t form a camp in the neighbourhood of this
capital. In addition to the fitting out of several
vessels of war, the Swedish Government has just
ordered that a squadron of gun-boats shall be
armed, and placed under the command of Commo-
dore Prince Oscar, the second son of the King."
A letter'from Hamburg, speaking of the expedi-
tion of English and French troops to the Baltic,
says :--" A colonel of the French staff lately passed '
through this city on his way to Stockholm, via
Copenhagen. It was said that he was charged by
his Government to obtain from Sweden a point of
territory, favourable for the landing and provisional
•ncarnpment of an expeditionary corps of French
troops. If this concession cannot be obtained from
the Swedish Government, it was added that Bomar-
Amid and some of the adjacent islands would
he fixed on for the landing of the troops
Ind the general depot of warlike stores and
ammunition, and the French Government would it
hat case construct fortified works on these islands,
to protect the troops from any coup de main that
might be attempted by the Russians."

SPAIN.
MADRID, Bth.—The Cortes yesterday voted the
third constitutional basis, It to-day rejected, by
a majority of 119 to 18, the vote of censure on the
Governor of Madrid, proposed by the democratic
deputies.

The Ring of Bavaria arrived at Rome on the
27th, under the incognito of Count of Augsburg,
and on the following day paid a visit to the Pope.

The late Cardinal Oppizzoni, Archbishop of Bologna,
has left all his fortune amounting to 100,000 scudi
(5,400,000 fr.), to the Banca do Misericordia, a charitable
establishment in that city.
The c nomercial accounts from New York yesterday
describe a tendency to improvement in the stack-mar-
ket, owing, in a great measure, to the advices from
England of the reduction in the Bank rate of discount
at the beginning of last month. The shipments of specie
and the delay in the receipts from California consequent
upon the San Francisco banking difficulties still operated
unfavourably, and but for these circumstances there
would apparently have been more buoyancy, the con.
traction of business Jeing such as to reduce the de-
mand for money to a point much below the ordinary
supply. Illinois Central Bonds were at 76, New York
Central at 92k, and Erie Railroad stock at 511. Ac-
,ording to a circular of Messrs. Blake, Howe, and
Co., of Boston, the most flattering accounts are given of
the growing crops in the West. Notice had been
published that the Crystal Palace at New York must be
cleared of all goods by the 30th of June, and the ownen,.
of imported articles were requested therefore to take
them away as soon as convenient, the Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington having meanwhile issued a
liberal letter of instructions for their passage at the
Custom-house.