The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES

AUSTRIA.

Letters from Kreensier of the 12th state that the
Ministers BACU and STAniox have resigned, the
President of the Council having persisted in his wish
to dissolve the Diet.
Accounts from Vienna of the 18th give fearful
accounts of the havoc produced by the overflowing of
the Danube. A letter from Vienna of that date,
published in the Prussian State Gazette, of the 21st,
says, the ice on the Danube and the Danube
Canal, which, in consequence of the sudden thaw,
began to loosen during the night, so completely
blocked up the Danube Canal, that the water rushed
from the sides over the banks, and soon laid the
suburbs of Leopoldstadt completely under water.
At one o'clock many of the streets near the Danube
were seven feet under water, and the basement
stories, shops, stables, and cellars, were completely
flooded. Several craft, floating down the Danube,
were shattered to pieces against the masses of ice ;
and at the chain bridge the blocks of ice were piled
up almost as high as the bridge itself. Eye-witnesses
assert that the impending danger is as great as that
of the awful devastation of 1830. Great apprehen-
sions are entertained for the night. Several lives
have been lost.
Fong o'CLocx, r.sl.—The waters have unhappily
not abated. The Jazerzeile and Leopoldstadt are
flooded to a great extent, and the people are going
about from one street to another in boats, there being
no other possibility of communication. One of the
pillars of the large bridge on the Danube has been
carried away, and injured four of the pillars of the
railway bridge.
The Wiener Zeitung, of the 18th, gives a detailed
account of this event, and states that, on the night of
the 17th the water, providentially, began to sink, and
hopes are entertained that it will pass off without
causing much more damage, which, as may be sup-
posed, has been very considerable. In many houses
in the suburbs the water reaches the first storey, and
whole families have been
plunged into ruin. In the
says—" The ice, which had
neighbourhood between Vienna and i'resburg the ice
also
hsehoAwlsistirnidaincatLiolnoys
dof a rise.
scarcely become firm, began to move yesterday
morning, when it stopped below Vienna, and so filled
the canal, that only a narrow stream of water ap-
peared between the masses of ice near the Ferdinand
bridge. The entire of Jazerzeile was two feet under
water. On the Rothen Thurmther the water stood a
foot high. Several piles of the Danube bridge were
carried away.
As the water continued to rise up to half-past three,
especially among
the utmost anxiety prevailed, the
inhabitants of Leopoldstadt.
At six o'clock the danger was even yet more ap-
palling, but towards morning the water sunk ; never-
theless, at noon-day, it has risen so high that the
fish-market is under water.

BAVARIA.
NUREMBURG, JAN. 15.—1 n consequence of the
sudden thaw, the Pegnitz arose at midnight to a
height not remembered by the oldest inhabitant be-
fore. Many lives, it is said, are lost, and the damage
sustained by the warehouses lying along the banks
must be very considerable.

WIRTEIVIBURG.
STUTTGARD, JAN. 16.—The unusually high stand
of the water in the Neckar and the neighbouring
rivers caused the bursting of a brick drain to a depth
of 15 feet, by which the railway communication be-
tween Nordheim and Heilbronn was stopped. The