The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Ban of Croatia, who commands the frontier
corps of observation in the north, is still at
Agram•
The Wiener Zeitung contains the sentences
passed upon thirty-nine individuals convicted of
high treason. Of these twenty-eight are Hunga-
rians, who, with the exception of four or five dis-
missed for want of sufficient evidence to convict
them, are found more or less guilty of acts tending
to overturn the status quo in Hungary. 'Fortress
arrest and hard labour in irons for a term of years,
varying from twenty to five, is the punishment
allotted to them. The remaining eleven are Poles,
connected with last year's conspiracy in Gallicia.
Of these three were released for Want of proof. In.
one or two of the convicts a correspondent re-
cognises old prison acquaintances. The Hungarian
prisoners were all mixed up in the plot discovered
at Hamburg.
The Milan Gazette has a long article on the
Italian Central Railway, to which our attention
has been previously called. It may not be amiss to
recapitulate a few of the facts brought forward :--
"The estates of the Church, Austria, Parma, Pia-
cenza, and Modena, with the Grand Duchy' of Tuscany,
which, by means of the tariff union, will soon be relieved
from many obstructions in the way of commerce, con-
cludedtl:construction
at r
of May,
14lrad 51Ofosr.
aa
oft Romeanltalln the 1
Italian
ecentsrt oal
line of railroads.
Austria has taken upon itself to !complete its own
lines as far as Piacenza and Mantua, contemporaneously
fromthe samejoincommence Pistoja to
Lucca and Florence. The works will
June simultaneously at the five points, Pistoja, Bologna,
Modena, Piacenza, and Mantua, and must be terminated
in four years. On the 26th of June, 1852, the aforesaid
Governments conceded the central line to a company of
shareholders (English, I believe), for a term of 80 years,
with a guilrantee of 5 per cent. interest. This line will
run from Pistoja, already joined to Florence, Lucca,
Pisa, Leghorn, and Siena, and so on to Rope over the
Apennines to Bologna, and from thence to Modena and
Reggio ; a branch goes to Guastalla and Borgoforto, to
join the Austrian lines ; and another will unite Farina,
Piacenza, Milan, and Pavia, and form a junction with
the Sardinian lines. Seventy millions of lire is the esti•
mate of the total amount of cost."

The Ministerial crisis
at Hanover,
PRUSSIA.
is on the eve
of terminating satisfactorily,
de Scheele's Cabinet will The members of M.
remain
believed that this
to
desirable result is in part owing
sian envoy. the judicious mediation of Count Nostitz, Prus-
When the Germ
an fleet was on its illusory as-
cendant, the Duke
silver , of
th punchbowl, in Oldenburghi presented a
biape.of
his name.
to the
officers' mess of the vesseels
hisring . The
bowl has been returned to Royal Highness,
who has announcedthat •
it shall be preserved, in
order to be re-given to some ship when the fleet is
revived.
Capital punishment, by beheading, was inflicted
on Friday morning upon the postilion Schall, con-
victed ultimately, upon his own confession, of the
murder of a cattle dealer, under circumstances of
the most flagrant premeditation and barbarity.
The execution took place within the walls of the
cellular prison of Moabit, in presence of the legal
and communal authorities and other persons ap-
pointed by law. The head was severed from the
trunk by the sword at one blow, and both were
consigned to earth within the precincts of the
prison. The 736 culprits confined. in the peniten_
tiary were not allowed to witness the execution ,
but the chapel-bell, which tolled the while, an-
nounced to them that the sentence was being car-
ried into effect.
Winter has at length made its appearance • the
uraur below thermometer has fallen to 6 Rea'
0
with much snow. s

PRIZE FIGHTING.-At a meeting of the magistrates
for the counties of Warwick, Stafford, Derby, and
Leicester, and the borough of Tamworth, it has been
determined that within those counties every effort shall
be used to put down this abominable nuieenvito