The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-26 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pacha, which arrived at Southampton yesterday,
we have received intelligence from Lisbon to the 19th.
The Government has succeeded in contracting for
a loan of 180 contos (three fourths in bullion and the
remainder in notes) with the Bank of Portugal. It is
rumoured that SALDANHA. is likely to resign, in
which case it is probable TERCEIRA will be called on
to form a Ministry.
The price of funds was nominal ; there were no
purchasers.

GIBRALTAR.

Accounts from Gibraltar are to the 16th.

Sir R. WILSON left Gibraltar on the 12th instant,
in the Polyphemus, for Malaga, where he was most
graciously received by the authorities. The new
Governor, Sir R. W. GARDNER, landed and was
sworn into the government on the 14th, 36 hours after
the former left.

Two steamers were about to be sent to destroy the
boats of the Moorish pirates, from whom the Poly-
phemus rescued the brig. The EMPEROR having
replied that he had no authority over them, Mr. RED.
MON'S claim on the Government of Morocco, which
Sir C. NAPIER was sent here to enforce (17,000 dol-
lars), the EMPEROR left it to the arbitration of two
merchants of Gibraltar, Messrs. COWELL and Ross,
who reduced it to 10,000 dollars.

GERMAN Y

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

Accounts have been received from Vienna to the
21st inst.

The Vienna Gazette, of the 18th, states that Mar-
shal WALDEN has published a bulletin declaring that
a dispatch had been received from Marshal NUGENT,
stating that the garrison of Essegg had capitulated
on the 14th, at nine in the morning. The fortress
was immediately occupied by the Imperial troops.
In it were found 614 pieces of cannon of every size,
2,000 quintals of gunpowder, considerable stores,
and 34,000 florins. Marshal WELDBN has also pub-
lished the 23d bulletin of the army of operations in
Hungary. From this bulletin it appears that General
GLASEW had driven the enemy from Altarad. After
an obstinate combat, the batteries raised on the right
bank of the Marot against the fortress were de-
stroyed, and '23 pieces of cannon taken. Altarad was
then bombarded from the fortress. Marshal ScHILK
had joined the brigade of General GOETE, and taken
up a position near Torus to attack the insurgents in
flank. Mrshal SCUATZIG had taken up position near
Miskoloz, with a considerable body of troops.
The same journal states that large masses of Rus-
sian troops are moving from the interior of Russia to
the frontiers of Gallicia, and to Moldavia and Wal-
lachia.

The Breslau Gazette states, in rather a positive
meaner, that the town of Szegedin, situated in the
heart of Magyar Hungary-, has surrendered to the
Imperial army, which has levied a war contribution
on the inhabitants of half a million of florins. The
Ba❑ JELLACHICH had his head-quarters at Szolnok,
and every preparation was being made to strike a
great blow. Accounts to the 12th instant had been
received at Pesth, from Debreczin. MEssastos was
still Minister of War, and KOSSUTH more fanatic than
ever. Massaaos has written to Prince WiNniscx-
GRATZ to say that he would defend himself to the last
extremity, and would die rather than surrender.
Since the proclamation of Prince WlNDisc is-
GRATZ on the subject of sending supplies
to KOSSUTH, 60 vehicles, containing mili-
tary stores, proceeding towards Debreczin,
had been seized. No official accounts had been
received from Transylvania. It was reported at
Vienna that the capture of Cronstadt by the bzeklers
had been attended with scenes of horror, such as could
not have been looked for in our day. Another report
speaks of the capture of General Bum, and of the de-
feat of his corps. The University of Pesth will, it is
said, be transferred to Tyrnau, and its superior tri-
bunal to Presburg.
JELLACHICH, who is out of favour with the Est
PEROR, is, it is said, about to abandon the Imperial
cause and to rouse the Croatians and Sclavonians,
with a view to form an independent kingdom. WIN-
DISCHGRATZ, who is himself a Magnate of Hungary,
has protested against the Ministerial scheme of cen
tralization, and declines to continue in the command
of the troops should the Ministry persevere,in their
scheme. The Minister BRUCK has been dispatched to
Pesth to pacify him. It is said that the Court of
Olmutz and 180 of the Magnates of Hungary have
simultaneously applied to the Archduke STEPHEN to
act as mediator in the Hungarian affairs.
It was rumoured in Paris yesterday that fearful
troubles had broken out in 'Vienna, and that the
German troops and the Croats were fighting against
each other in the streets. The rumour did not, how-
ever, gain extensive crndit.
A letter from Vienna, of the 19th, states that the
Austrian army in Italy had received orders to enter
Tuscany and the Pontiticial States.

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE ENTRANCE
OF THE RUSSIANS INTO TRANSYL-

VANIA.

An extraordinary supplement of the Wiener Zei-
tang, of the 21st, contains news from the seat of war
i❑ Transylvania, to the effect that after the engage-
ment which General PUCIINER had with the
Hungarians at Hermanstadt on the 21st instant, his
communications with the Banat and the city of Canis-
burgh were cut off, and the country around was de-
vested by the Hungarian insurgents, who made a deal
of booty, which they carried to their head-quarters
at Klausenburg. The devastation of the country
acted at once on the towns which were
held by the Imperialists, and where soldiers and
inhabitants alike were suffering from want of food.
The inhabitants of these towns (for the most
part Saxons) were moreover threatened by the
guerilla warfare of the Szeklers, and they appealed
to the Russian General LUDERS, who occupied the
Wallachian frontier, for his protection. General
PUCUNER, too, cut off as he was from all hopes of
reinforcement, and surrounded by the enemy, was
hardly pressed to call in the help of the Russians, to
save his troops and the population which he was to
protect. General PUCIINER saw the necessity of
attacking the leader of the Hungarians and Szeklers,
General 13/111f, before that chief's successes could
increase the number of his troops, but he was
too weak to risk the chances of a battle. Though
he had no instructions on this point, General
PUCHNER yielded to the urgent necessities of the
hour. His determination was ripened by the news of
fresh successes which the Szeklers had obtained at
Kronstadt, which town they threatened. The Rus-
sians were consequently sent for to protect the two
cities of Hermanstadt and Kronstadt. This was on
the first inst. Russian troops, to the number of
6,000, entered Kronstadt that very day, and, on the
4th inst. Hermanstadt was taken possession of by a
detachment of 4,000 Russians. The safety of the Saxon
capitals being thus provided for, General PucnNER was
enabled more effectually to oppose the insurgent hordes
which pressed him on all sides. Being informed that
General BEM intended to lead the Szeklers again
against Hermanstadt and that that General's
troops were marching from Stolensburg upon Salz-
burg, General PUCUNER directed the march of his
troops upon the latter :own, where they arrived early
in the morning of the 4th instant, and where they
found General Bsm's corps, to the number of 9,000
men, with 29 pieces of artillery, in an advantageous
position in front of the town. General PUCHNER
ordered a feigned attack to be made upon the enemy,
and he succeeded in inducing General BEM to quit
his favourable position and to pursue the Imperial
troops to the heights around Hermanstadt. A ge-
neral attack was then made by the Imperialists
and the affair ended with the retreat of part of the