The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" The Count of Berkendorf, aid-de-camp to the
Emperor of Russia, arrived from Warsaw this evening,
commissioned by the Emperor, to announce to the King
of Prussia the conclusion of the war in Hungary.
Georgey, appointed Dictator, after the departure of
Kossuth, submitted with all his forces at Arad
on the 13th August to Marshal Paskiewitch.
The corps of General Bern has been destroyed by
General Luders."

The semiofficial Patrie confirms this intelligence
by the following :
" A dispatch has been received to -day at the Russian
Embassy, announcing the complete submission of the
Hungarians. This news was brought to Warsaw by
Col. de Paskiewitch, son of the Commander-in-Chief of
the Russian army. It was Georgey who came to this
grave determination, in consequence of the defeats sus-
tained by Kossuth and Bern, and which led to his being
appointed Dictator. Honourable conditions were granted
to him before his glorious army laid down their arms."
The following details (adds the Patrie) are given
in a private letter from St. Petersburgh, dated 16th :
"This morning Prince Theodore Paskiewitchjhas
brought to the Emperor the news that George.), had
written to Count Rudiger and to the Prince of Warsaw
to announce that he was ready to lay down his arms, but
to the Russian army alone, declaring that he would con-
tinue the war to the last rather than surrender to the
Austrians. Marshal Paskiewitch accepted the proposi-
tion of submission. On the 14th he left for Grosswar-
dein, where he will cause the Hungarian army to file off
before him, with Georgey at their head. Georgey
hopes to obtain a pardon and a general amnesty for his
troops, and gives himself up to the mercy of his enemy
by way of expiation. General Boutourline has been
sent to Marshal Haynau to announce this news. At the
same time we have received the news that General
Luders had just beaten and entirely destroyed the army
of Bern, near Hermanustadt. Eighteen guns were taken,
and a mass of men killed or made prisoners. Bern has
disappeared, as has also Kossuth, after having abdicated.
Georgey was elected in his place, and profited by this to
make his submission."
The following letter has been addressed by the
Archbishop of PARIS to the members of the Peace
Congress :
" TO THE MEMBERS OP THE CONGRESS OF TEE FRIENDS

OP lINIVERBAL PEACE.

PARIS, AUGUST 17.

"Gentlemen,--I have been profoundly touched by the
visit which Messrs. De Larochefoucauld-LiaLcourt, Vic-
tor Hugo, Coquerel, and Eau Burritt were good enough
to pay me, and by the letter which you have written to
me to offer me the presidency of the Congress of the
Friends of Universal Peace.

" This, gentlemen, is an honour, the full value of which
I feel, and for which I should never be able adequately
to express my gratitude.
"I think with you, gentleman, that war is a remnant
of ancient barbarism ; that it is accordant with the
spirit of Christianity to desire the disappearance of this
formidable scourge from the face of the earth, and
to make strenous efforts to attain this noble and
generous end.
"Perhaps, alas! the time has not yet come when it
will be completely possible for the nations to enter upon
the path of peace. Perhaps war will continue for many
years longer to be a cruel necessity.
" But it is allowable, it is praiseworth, it is noble, to
labour to make the peoples understand that they, as
well as individuals, should endeavour with the least pPs-
sible delay to terminate their differences by pacific
means, and that humanity and civilisation will have made
immense progress on the day when an end shall have
been put to these fratricide! contests.
" I beg you, therefore, gentlemen, to inscribe .my
name amongst those of the friends of the Peace Con•
gress; but it causes me deep regret that I cannot, on
account of my health, accept the honour which you
have so kindly offa-ed me, of presiding over you.
"If my physician, who strongly urges me to take a
trip into the country, to prevent my health becoming
worse, would nevertheless consent to let me put it off for
a few days, and if my neuralgic pains were not too
violent, it would afford me sincere pleasure to be present
at one of your sessions.

" Receive, gentlemen, together with the expression of
these sentiments, the assurance of my most distinguished
consideration.

" f MARIE DOMINIQUE AUGUSTE,
"Archbishop of Paris."
The congress was to hold itk first meeting yester-
day. M. VICTOR HUGO MIS to officiate as president
and to make the inauguration address. The vice-
presidents are Messrs. Cobden, Vesschers, Coquerel,
Deguerry and Durkee ; and secretaries, Messrs.
Joseph Gamier, Henry Richard, Elihu Burritt, and
A. Cochin.

Among those who have signified their intention to
be present at the congress are the following :
Messrs. Cormenin, Bastiat, Bouvet, Wolowski, Emile
de Girardin, Larochefoucauld-Liancourt, Roussel,
Van Hoorebeke, Suringar, and many others. M. de
Lamartine would have acted as President, but
the bad state of his health will not permit him to
do so.

The Council of State has made its report
on the case of M. DD LESSEM The report states that
that gentleman did not carry out his instructions, and
that he entered into arrangements injurious to the
honour of France. The fact is, M. DE LESSEPS has
been sacrificed to M. DE FALLOUX, who betrayed
him on his arrival in Paris, with a JUDAS' kiss. The
veteran diplomatist was no match for the wily young
Jesuit.
We read in the Presse—" In a note which was
yesterday dispatched to Gaeta, the Ministry declares
to the POPE that General OUDINOT has exceeded
his instructions in giving up the full powers with
which he was invested to the commission of Car-
dinals, and particularly for having the air of
legalising, by his silence, all that the commission
has done since the day of its installation. The
French Government, adds the note, considers it its
duty to warn his Holiness that, from this moment,
France and her representatives at Rome will reserve
to themselves the high hand in all the acts of the
Government; that in the event of the POPE, his
advisers, or any one of the intervening powers wish-
ing to oppose this decision, the representatives of
France have orders not to pay any attention to their
protestations, and, in case of fleet to call in the aid
of the army of occupation to make the just rights of
the French Government respected. If, as we have
good grounds for believing, those are the terms of the
dispatch which has been transmitted to Gaeta, we
declare bAorehand, without fear of being mistaken,
that the Ministry will obtain by its threats exactly
the same result that it has hitherto obtained by its
supplications."
The !foniteur says :—" The Constitutionnel, in its
number of the 15th, gives an account of several fires
which have recently broken out in the departments
of the Drome and Isere, and which it states to have
been the result of an organised plot against public
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