The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-07 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the
Ist March, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Iberia, which arrived at Southampton last
evening.
The Cortes had rejected the project for substituting
a direct system of election for the indirect one at
present in use, by a majority of 69 against 32.
The report of the Board of Public Credit showed
that it was unable to obtain more than 22 contos from
the late Minister of Finance on account of 250 contos
taken from the dividend endowment, in virtue of the
law of the 31st of April, 1848. The board strongly
urged the necessity of scrupulously respecting its
endowments, whatever they may be, when once de-
creed by law, and this is the sole security left to the
bondholders.

The Portuguese steamer of war -Minden° had re-
turned to Lisbon from Gaeta, with the Count of
PANEFIEL, who brought a letter from the Pori,
which was much appreciated by the QUEEN.
The Duke de SALDANIIA was about to submit to
the Cortes a project of law for admitting into the
army, upon petition, all Royalist officers amnestied
at Evora Monte in 1834.

The exchange on London had risen to 531 for bills
at three months, with abundance of paper, and few
takers. On other cities the rates were nominal—
say Paris, 53 ; Amsterdam, 42i ; and Hamburgh, 4S
Portuguese Five per Cent. Stuck had been in de-
mand, and considerable transactions had taken place
at 50 to 51 ; the Four per Cent. were quoted 41 to
42 ; Bank of Portugal Shares 35 to 30 milreis dis-
count; Bank of Oporto Shares, 35 to 40 premium.
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The operations n stocks and shares were for Lisbon
Bank notes, which Were at a discount of 42Z per
cent.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

The Wiener Zeitung of the Ist of March publishes
the following account of the part taken by the Rus-
sians in the recent battles in Transylvania :
" General Engelhart, having received information of
the onward march of the perjured Szeklers on the 4th,
undertook a forced reconnaissance against Petersburgh,
with a Russian battalion of 150 Cossacks, and two pieces
of ordnance supported by one battalion of Romani. The
enemy, perceiving their numerical strength, attacked
us at an hour's distance from Cronstadt, between Ko•
nigsberg and Petersburgh. The Cronstadt garrison,
alarmed for the result,sent two more Russian battalions,
with six guns and a squadron of Savoy dragoons, who
joined the ranks in two columns. The battle lasted six
hours, and ended with the flight of the rebels, who
poured volley after volley upon the Russians. The
latter, however, with their excellent artillery, suc-
ceeded in breaking the adversary's centre. The strength
of the enemy was from 8,000 to 9,000 foot, 500 horse
well equipped, and six field-pieces. Their retreat was
so precipate that only three prisoners could be taken.
One Russian officer and a sergeant gunner, and three
men of ours were killed, three Cossacks wounded;
whereas the enemy had cart-loads of slain to transport."
The twenty-fifth army bulletin states that Prince
WliantsencaaTz transferred his head-quarters on
the 24th instant from Buda to Seatvan, and on the
25th to Gongyos, by which move his communications
with General SeuLtcses corps are restored. Colonel
URBAN has had another affair with the rebels near
Bistritz, in Transylvania, when they were completely
routed. For the purpose of obtaining accurate infor
mation of the insurgent position, the Colonel left Jsad
on the 18th, marched through Bistritz over Heiden-
dorf, and dispatched a circumventing column, under
Major WIESER, against Szerefalva. lie himself
brought up the chief force to Bayersdorf, there fell in
with the Polish legion, and carried the place at the
point of the bayonet. The foe was driven back upon
Magyaros, after a sharp and victorious conflict. The
rebel, Colonel RITZKO, severely wounded, two officers,
and 200 men were taken, together with three cannon,
one waggon, ammunition, and baggage. On the
Austrian side, Lieutenant-Colonel Count BAUDISSIN
died fighting for " Kaiser and Vaterland." Colonel
URBAN then returned to his post at Bistritz, having
achieved the object of his enterprise. He speaks
highly of the behaviour of the troops. In Upper
Hungary the division of General Baron RAMBERG,
consisting of the Gotz and Jablonowsky brigades,
re-occupied Eperies and Kaschau on the 21st.
A Vienna letter in the Breslauer Zeitung corrobo-
rates the former rumours of serious dissensions
between the two Austrian Generals, WINDISCHGRATZ
and JELLACBICII. The cause of their quarrel is, as
asserted, the hostile disposition and the severe
measures of the former against the Sclavonic tribes.
Baron JELL/kettles', whom the Sclavonians elected
to the sovereignty of their country, and whose
power or weakness depends on theirs, has long
opposed the anti Sclavonic tendencies of the Coin.
:Lander-in-Chief, and the disaffection against
the Imperial Government, which now prevails at
Agram, and throughout Croatia, has at length forced
him to doff the character of a subordinate commander,
and to act and speak as the prince and representative
of a great and inderendent people. This line of con-
duct has been effective, though it failed to tell on the
prejudices of the prince. The late reverses of the Itn
periulists in Hungary, the successes of the insurgents,
and the necessity of Russian interference in Transyl-
vania, are for the most part caused by the inactivity of
Baron JELLAcnicu and his Croats, or to their
lukewarmness whenever decency compels them
to make a forward motion. The Agramer Zeitung
has not minced the matter, and it is to be presumed
that Baron JELLACIIICII has been equally candid at
head-quarters; the Crofts will not assist in subduing

the Hungarians unlesi their independent' is gua-
ranteed to them. They call their war against Hun-
gary a war of liberation, which they do not mean
to fight for the bens fit of Austria, and much less for
the purpose of bringing themselves under Austrian
rule.