The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-29 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Sunday.--The carrying of articles con-
traband of war in Austrian vessels is prohibted,
and will be punished accordingly. Austrian ves-
sels on the open sea must submit to search. The
only Austrian port to which captured vessels can
be taken is Trieste, but they can only be sold
when condemned as lawful prizes by a competent
court.

There is a letter from Vienna in the Augsburg
Gazette of May 23, which is well calculated to re-
move all doubt, if any should still remain, as to the
future policy of Austria. The article bears a semi-
official stamp, and its more salient points we give:
After lamenting that circumstances should have
loosened the ties which have for the last 40 years
connected the two great German Powers with
Prussia, the Governmental writer proceeds to say,
that the complete disregard displayed by Russia
for the dignity and interests of the other Powers is
the sole cause of her present isolated position. No
one can be ignorant of the exertions which Austria
has made to effect a compromise, such as Russia
could have consented to without sacrificing her
honour or losing her consideration, " but unfor-
tunately a deaf ear was turned to all well-meant
proposals." Things have i t length come to such a
pass that Austria and her allies (German) find them- -
selves opposed to Russia, " becausethe policy of great
States can never be regulated by sympathies or an-
tipathies." It is then asked whether the interests
of Austria, Prussia, and Germany are really en-
dangered by the war waged by Russia against the
Porte, and naturally the reply is in the affirmative.
That Austria and her allies neither intend to adopt
the sentimental policy of the Kreuz Zeitung party
nor to play into the hands of the democracy is evi-
dent from the treaty which was concluded by the
two German Powers on the 9th of April. After
this comes the standing cause of complaint which
Germany has against the Russian Government.
It is affirmed that, in spite of all complaints
and reclamations, Russia had, in defiance of
treaties, during ten whole years, systematically
allowed the sand to accumulate in the Sulina,
" and now she has unnecessarily and wantonly
abused her power by making the mouth of the
Danube totally impassable." If Germany a few
years since was comparatively indifferent about the
fate of the Danube, such is no longer the case.
" Now that there is one great Customs-Union,
it is important that the question of the Danubian
Principalities should be settled in a way that will
be in accord with the interests, not of Austria alone,
but of the whole of Germany. In this matter the
interests of Moldavia and Wallachia are the same
as those of Germany, and the Porte has no reason
whatever to oppose them. Russia alone has an
interest in preventing the produce of German and
Austrian industry from finding its way into the
Black Sea. The Customs and Trade-Treaty be-
tween Austria and the Zollverein would have been
attended with very different results if the Russian
occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia had not
inflicted such a deep wound on the first-mentioned
country." Some politicians are inclined to fear
that the smaller German States will refuse to ac-
cede to the Austro-Prussian treaty, but this is con-
sidered highly improbable. The article closes
with a remark that this is the first time since the

dissolution of the Roman Empire that the power
and influence of the non-German kingdoms and
provinces of Austria and Prussia have been placed
at the disposal of a confederation " whose object it
must be to check all violation of right, and any
violent and undue assumption of power in Europe."
The Government organs still speak of the resolve
of Austria not to countenance any attempt to
weaken Russia, or to deprive her of any part
of her territories, but no one who is in posses-
sion of his senses can well doubt that if at the
conclusion of the present war Russia is as powerful
as at present, Austria will have everything to fear
from her. In the opinion of the Emperor Nicholas,
this Cabinet has been guilty of heinous offences.
It refused to be the ally of Russia in a bad cause,
and by its menacing attitude on the Servo-Monte-
negrin frontier it prevented the outbreak of a re-
volution on which her Generals had evidently
counted. The Wanderer truly observes:—" By
agreeing in principle with the Western Powers,
Austria so effectually ruined the Russian plan of
action, that all the sacrifices hitherto made by
Russia have been in vain ; and those which she will
be compelled to make surpass all calculation."