The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

One of the journals which receives communica
tions from the Government, having stated that the
Minister of Commerce was about to propose modifi-
cations op the tariff of customs, the Constitutionnel
says it has made inquiries, which enable it to declare
that there i* no intention of diminishing in any way the
protection afforded by the tariff to national indubtry.

AUSTRIA.

The Vienna Gazette of the 23d publishes the fol

lowing :—" After his defeat at Waitzen, Georgey,
during his retreat, made several attempts to enter
into negotiations w ith the Russian Generals Rudiger
and Tscheodajeff, and with Marshal Paske witch.
But as his letters only spoke of a desire of mediation,
of a pcification, and not of a submission without
r'serve, they were sent back unanswered. On the
11th of this month, General Rudiger received a letter
from Georgey, dated Alt-Arad, announcing that, in
consequence of the dissolution of the Provisional
Government of Hungary, he felt called on to arrive
at a solution ; that he was accordingly decided to
submit without condition ; that he and all the officers
of his corps d'armee were ready to lay down their
arms before the army of his Majesty the Emperor
of Russia. Georgey, at the same time, ex•
pressed the conviction that the other chiefs of corps
d'armee would follow his example and offer their sub-
mission. Marshal Paskewitch accepted the absolute
submission of Georgey and his troops, in order to put
an end to the effusion of blood, and to preserve a
part of the states of the empire of Austria from the
ravages of war. The column of Georgey was in a
desperate situation. General Rudiger received orders
to disarm it. The 138 cannon of Georgey's corps,
the ammunition, the horses, the arms, and the stores
of all kinds have been deposited at Grosswardein in
the hands of the Austrian troops. Marshal Paske-
witch has already taken measures for giving up, as
soon as possible, the insurgents encamped under the
guard of the Russians, and for placing them at the dis-
posal of their sovereign, the Emperor Francis Joseph."
The Minister of Finance in the Magyar Cabinet, M.
Fuschek, is said to have been arrested at Arad, as has
also M. Perinyi, President of the Upper Chamber.
At the same time, the personnel of the Ministry,
and the materiel for making bank•notes fell into
the hands of, the Austrians.—The German Reform
ad lbates that the garrison of Comorn have laid
down as the condition of this submission
a complete amnesty in favour of the sol-
diers of all ranks ; and they demand that
their officers who occupied grades in the Austrian
army shall return to activeßefo service. if this be refused
they have, says the
and
the l
threatened to defend
themselves to the last mannupwith
tahset
fextremity, and
then to blow themselves
of the journals again declares that the Magyar
forces
assembled at Orboa a seem disposed tocontinue
Generalthe
struggle, as do also the guerilla. bands.
Gruzine had lac Vienna for Tetneswar with the reso-
lutions of the Emperor r lative to the Magyar army.i
A lert, r from Vi.nna of the 23d, addressed to the
Indepoulance f thussels, says that great dis:atisfac-
tam existed in Vienna in consequence of the delay of
the Minister of Finance in issuing the new loan. By
retarding the issue the Minister hoped to effect the
loan on more favourable terms. The Austrian bank
notes were at 17 to 20 per cent. discount, and bills on
foreign countries paid the same rate.
The same journal has the following :
"We receive from a traveller, who lately passed
through Bohemia and Hungary, curious information re-
lative to the issue of bank•notes in those countries.
After the events of Vienna in 1848 the Austrian
Government, after having published the most severe or-

donnances against the exportation of specie, was obliged,
in consequence of the almost complete absence of gold
and silver, to authorise the bank of Vienna to issue
notes of 15 kreutzers and six kreutzers. Some bankers
of Vienna were also authorised, on depositing equivalent
values, to issue bank-notes of 10 and 20 kreutzers. All
these modifications only served to make specie
scarcer. Thu;, not only Kossuth and his Provisional
Government issued such notes, but a number of towns,
villages, and private individuals did the same. Bohe-
mia is literally inundated with them, notwithstanding
the prohibition of the Government. At Eibogeu
(Carlsbad), notes were issued for five kreutzers, and pri-
vate persons issued some for 1; the hotels and cafit
have them with their address inscribed. We have seen
some lo three kreutzers, with the issuer's likeness on
them. Although these notes are of value only in the
town, or at most the district where they are issued, yet
Bohemia is inundated with them to such an extent that
the postmasters give them to travellers; and when these
latter complain, the others reply that they have nothing
else to give. The details show what immense embar-
rassments the Austrian Government will have to sur-
mount to liquidate these notes, and bring back the cir-
culation to a regular state."

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