The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-19 00:00:00

RLSSON V. JORDAN.

This was an undefended action on a bill of exchange,
and was the only other case tried.

FRAN CE.

A hostile meeting took place yesterday after- I
noon near 'Vincennes and Saint Mande, between
M. Francis Lacombe, a writer in the Assembles
Nationale, and, M. Charles Blanc, brother of M.
Louis Blanc. The cause of the meeting was the
publication by M. Lacombe of an article on
Louis Blanc in the Assemilie Nationale,
in which that vatleman was severely treated. M.
Francis Lacombe was wounded; but very slightly, the
b having been deadened by passing through a thick
great coat and striking a ports nionnaie. The fol-
lowing note on the affair has been published :
•• M. Cb .rl' s film,., to ving considered that an article
b„ the Assemb ea A.Vali)hale was offensive to
AI. Blanc, his brother, wrote to M. Francis La-
combe, the .auth.)r of the article. a letter, which has led to
a reparation by arms. A xr.,eting has taken place at
Valc ones between MM. Charles Blanc and Fran
I..ae(;mbe. The latter having been struck by a bail in
the ;ett V:igh, the witnesses declared that honour was
stitiilled, and put an cud to the combat.
" MIRY, NIEUWERKERKE, seconds of M. C.
Blanc.
" ALPHONSE DE CALONNE, XAVIER DE MON-
TEPIN, seconds of M. F. Lacombe.
" Saint Mande, April 17."

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, APRIL 14.—The Wiener Zeitung of this

day says—
" BUCHAREST, Mance( 24.—We have just heard
from Cronstadt that the outposts of Bem's army
arrived there on Tuesday, several unimportant
skirmishes having taken place in the vicinity of
Zai:len on the previous Alonday.
" On Wednesday the Russian troops under General
Engelhardt quitted Transylvania, covering the retreat
of the Imperial Austrian troops. These brave
soldiers, who, during the past month, have often
testified by act and deed that they are faithful to
their colours and to their Emperor, are now in the
most lamentable condition possible; they have no
ammunition whatever ; consequently every attempt
at resistance would have been utterly futile.
" Omer Pacha, Commander.in-Chief of the Imperial
Ottoman troops, in order to protect the frontiers
against marauders, has made all the troops march
from Bucharest aryl Statina to Kimpulang; they are
to be replaced by troops coming from Galary and
Braila.
" Kaimakam Kantakazeno has given orders through
the Minister of the Interior that all the miserable
fugitives arriving from the various frontier villages,
. who have been compelled to leave house and home,
shall be received with the greatest hospitality in
Wallachia, even without passports or the other usual
formalities, and everything shall be done to ameliorate
their sad condition."
The Vienna papers of the 14th confirm the intelli-
gence of the victory of the Hungarians, and afford
positive information of the occupation of the important
position of Waitzen by the Hungarians. The details
of this action, as given by the German papers, are to
the effect that Prince Windischgratz, at the head of
his best regiments, opposed the progress of the Hun-
garians in the direction of Comorn, and that he was
backed by the corps of Gotz and Jablonowski. A
fierce engagement ensued, in which the superior
tactics of the Magyars proved irresistible. Gene
ral Gota and many of his officers fell while fighting
in the streets of the city of Waitzen. The Imperial
troops were driven back and partly routed. The siege
of Com()rn has been stopped in consequence, and part
of the Imperial army besieging that fortress has
marched to Wa.itzen to the rescue of General Ramberg,
who still attempts to stop the progress of the Magyars
fwm Waitzen to Comoro. The garrison of that fortress
has meanwhile made a sally upon the remaining
Austrians, and carried off pdrt of their heavy
artillery. Such are the statements of the Austrian
pres, and of the correspondents of the German papers.
If we are to believe them there is nothing to pre-
vent the Hungarian General Georgey from cotnniu-
nicating with the garrison of Cornorn, and if the
rumour prove true of General Dembinski having
crossed the Danube, and led his troops to Weissen•
burg, nothing is lett to the Imperialists but to retire
to Haab, for neither Pesth nor Buda can be held
against a superior force.
From Transylvania we have no news except ru-
mours of the vaguest kind. General Bern does not
appear to operate in that province ; on the contrary,
be expected at the Hungarian head-quarters &A
IVeinzen.

Prince Windisci!gratz has resigned the supreme
command in Hungary, sad General Welden has
succeeded him. Hammerstein will remain in Lem-
berg. General Pergen, who was in Hungary, will
go to Braun, awl General Perin, who was in Brunn,
to liungary. 'The General of the Ordnance, Nugent,
will go tc Grata to organize a reserve corps, and is to
be succeeded by General Buritz.- General Castiglione
will suoveed Bolitz at CElenburg. .
The Wiener Zeitung contains a dispatch addressed
by the Austrian Cabinet on the sth inst. to the
imperial Plenipotentiary, M. de Schmerling, at
Frankfort. 'tins document, which was taken by
Count Rechberg at the same time with that of the
Bth instant, addressed to the Court of Prussia, may
be said to boo composed of ten different heads. 1. A
resueV that the Vic.lr-General of Germany, Arch-
duke John, will continue to hold his high office
until such time as definitive arrangements as to the
Cewral Government have been made. 2. The Ger-
man iet, instead of having endeavoured to form one
gnat and powerful Germany, has attempted to create
an ideal empire. 3. The Central Diet has, by
paragrao 2, done all in its power to render Aus-
tria's union with Germany impossible. 4. The Na-
tional Assembly, by the resolution taken on the 27th
ult., respecting the election of an hereditary head
of the Empire, has departed from the projected plan
of federations, and attempted to form one united
stata in a way which is incompatible with the inde-
perdence of each separate German Government. i.
The National Assembly, by its resolution of the
28th ult., which ordains that the constitution it has
drawn up shall alone be law for the empire, as
also by its arbitrary declaration that it will remain
in ! ermanance until the fleeeting of the Parliament to
be nereAfter convoked, has entered into an illegal path
in •vi,ich the different Governments cannot follow it. 6.
A usLria is unable to enter into a confederate state, as
teiderstr.od by the Central Diet, though it by no means
r.signs its right-% secured by history and treaty.
7. 'lbis is the opinion of his Majesty the Emperor,
anti fl ()al this he will not depart. 8. As his Ma •
jestv, in a dispatch of tae. 4th of February, pro-
ellEWSFArk -,ted against bein subjected to a central power
g
stealin env other German Prince, so lie is no
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e...-,e7-577::e --ecel determined not to subject, on any plea what-
e'•: : . . et:-eie': .;*Y the constitutional legislative power to be ex
!'-- '-.7.4".e'.---- - d by bim, in unison with the representa-
rle
'.,__- ,:. r',--,..;"5„;:4-1 '9l7it bodies in Austria, to any extraneous legislae.
'0,,, - --'',,Ae.platifee Assembly. 9. That as Count Rechberg, who
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„_.:1:;'f....:,-;,:r.,2 hi# been appointed your suceesscr (M. de Schuler-
' - - ling' s) is on his way to Frankfort, there is no obstacle
Nie L ) !:`.; to your return to Vienna. 10. A 3 to the Austrian
Depgties, they must consider their mission as at an