The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-17 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

At Vienna arrests still continue. The Govern-
ment is greatly alarmed by the discovery that there
exist* a secret society, calling itself the Club of
Mars, which obeys the orders of chiefs residing out
of the Austrian dominions. It numbers 4,000 mem-
bers in Vienna alone.

It is said that, alarmed at the difficulties encoun-
tered by the Austrian army in Hungary, and fearful
of the intervention of Russia in Transylvania, the
Austrian Government has proposed an armistice to
the Hungarian Magyars, for the purpose of entering
into negotiations for the settlement of the existing
differences. In the meantime the llungarians appear
to hare the advantage over the Imperialists in every
direction. The latest intelligence is that an Hunga-
rian corps d'armee has taken possession of Sandeez in
Gallicia, and is organizing Poland against the Impe-
rialists. The Servians and the Croatians are also in
open rebellion against Austria.

PRUSSIA.
been received
Accounts havefrom Berlin to the
13th. The result of the el • ections for the Second
Chamber are now known. The German Reform,
moderate journal, sums up the total results of the
elections for the Second Chamber
Conservatives, 158 Radicals ; thus
follows :-192
majority
of 34 to the former. The National, the
hencht f Demo-
cratic organ, on the contrary, gives a decided
majority
to the Left. Its figures tend to show that 162
belong
to the Left, 22 to the Centre, 148 to the •
Right, and
18 uncertain.
All the orators of the Left have been returned,
while very few of the speakers on the Ministerial side
have secured their election. The greater number of
the orators of the Left have been returned for more
than one place, and as the seats which they resign
will be sure to be refilled by Democrats, we may
reckon on a decided Democratic majority in the
Second Chamber. The First Chamber is composed
almost exclusively of Ministerialists.
The Ministerial crisis in Bavaria still continues.

FRANKFORT.

A meeting of Austrian Deputies was held on the
12th, at which a very general feeling was expressed
that it was their duty at once to quit the German
Parliament. The subject was ultimately referred to
a Committee.

From sixty to seventy Members from the Right
and Centre, principally Deputies from the non-
Austrian States, have appointed a Committee to de-
termine whether positive proposals shall be made to
the Austrian Government in answer to its late mani-
festo. A minority in this latter meeting have agreed
that the true course of policy to be pursued by the
Assembly would not suggest the return of any an-
swer, but would render it imperative to commence
the second reading of the Bill of Constitution as soon
as possible.
The Frankfarther Zeitung, the organ of the Ans•
trian party, is very bitter against Prussia.

ITALY.

TUSCANY.

The news of the flight of the Grand Duke of
TUSCANY is confirmed. It is said that it was by the
aid of Sir GEORGE HAMILTON, the British Minister,
that the GRAND DUKE was enabled to " steal
away." Sir GEORGE HAMILTOX, in anticipation of
his flight, had ordered the Bellerophen, 84, the
Thetis frigate, and the Porcupine steamer, to Leg-
horn, where they arrived on the sth.
The Porcupine sailed on the 7th for Piombino,
where the Grand Duke of :Tuscamv embarked on
board her, and on the same day, the Bellerophon and
the Thetis sailed for Leghorn, in the direction of the
South West, to join the Porcupine.
It was rumoured at Leghorn that he was gone to
Elba, but it was generally considered that Gaeta or
Naples was more probably his destination.