The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-18 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC•

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The opening of the Stnsbugh Railway as far as
Epernay, which was to have taken place on the 19th,
and at which the PRESIDENT was to have been pre-
sent, has been indefinitely postponed. The reason
given for the postponement is the health of the PRE-
SIDENT, which is so precarious as to render it impru-
dent, it is said, for him to venture to encounter the
fatigue of attending a public ceremony; the nal
reason, however, is the fear that, as at Havre, the
people may exhibit more loyalty to that Republic of
which the PRESIDENT is the chief, and to the Consti
tution which he bas sworn to defend, than may be
agreeable, not to the PRESIDENT himself—for he is,
we believe, sincere in his professions, but to those
Jesuit instruments by whom he is surrounded and
ruled, and by whom he will be, ere long, betrayed.
The illoniteur du Soir contradicts a statement made
by the three leading Legitimatist journals that an appeal
to the people was about to be made by the NAPOLEON
party, and that the Councils-General are about to de-
mand an immediate revision of the Constitution. The
illoniteur adds, that the Constitution is, for a certain
period at least, the supreme law of France, and to de-
mand a revision before the day fixed would be not
only a revolutionary act, but a crime.

The Minister of nuance has reduced the interest
on Treasury Bonds to 5 per cent. on those issued at
three months' date, to 51 per cent. on those at six
months', and to 6 per cent, on those at one year.
A Cabinet Council was held on Thursday at the
Elyree, in consequence of the receipt of important
intelligence from Germany. It appears that Austria
has asked the assistance of Bavaria, and that the King
of BAVARIA has consented to occupy Vienna and in
vicinity with 50,000 men, in order to enable
Austria to send the whole of the present garri
son of Vienna to Hungary. The French Government
is greatly alarmed at this step, as the public excite-
ment which will be created in France-by the intelli
gence will be so great that the Government will be,
probably, driven, in spite of itself, into a war.
A third battalion, on a war footing, is about to be
formed in each infantry regiment of the line.
The letter of the Archbishop of PARIS, on the sub
jrct of the affairs of Venice, was published without
the knowledge of the Archbishop. It was intended
merely as a private communication to M. DR Toc-
QUEVILLE.
The Aloniteur publishes a decree, signed by the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, appointing General Ex
CELMANS Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour,
in place of Marshal MOLITOR, deceased. A second
decree promotes General PETIT, Commandant of the
Hotel of the Invulides, to the rank of Grand Cross of
the Legion of Honour.
General OUDINOT will bring back to France with
him a considerable body of the troops under his orders;
not more than 15,000 men are to remain to garrison
Rome.

PARIS' BOURSE—FRIDAY, Auu. 17.
TIIREE O'CLOCK.—The Treasury has given notice
that, commencing with this day, the interest on its bona
will be diminished. For the future they will be delivered
on the following conditions:—At 5 per cent. for those
from three to five months; at 5i per cent. from six to
eleven months; and at 6 per cent. for one year. This
step was considered in the market to be satisfactory. The
Rente was again firm all d4y, and closed with a further
advance. The Five per Cents. opened at 89f. 35c., and
closed at 891. 40c.; alter the Bourse, however, they were
done in the Coulisse at 89f. 30c., effered. The Three
per Cents. closed at 541. 30c., being a slight advance on
the last price of the day before. Bank of France Shares
are 5/. lower, closing at 2,275 f. Roman has closed
better, the last price being 74i. Railway Shares were
❑ot much negotiated. Exchange on London (30 days).
j 37,i; ditto (90 days), 25 27k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, AUGuST 17.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—East Indian, 4—Northern of
France, 3% dis.—Paris and Rouen, 21.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived.
General NARVAEZ was endeavouring to reconcile
MON and SARTORIUS, so as to avoid a break up of the
Ministry, but during the course of the negotiations
NARVAEZ was suddenly seized with cholic, which has
confined him to his bed, so that the question still re-
mains unsettled. General Don PEDRO CHACON, who
held the office of Minister of War during ESPAR-
TERO'S regency, has been appointed Captain-General
of Burgos.
MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 11.—The funds have main-
tained a small advance, which took place after the closing
of the Bolsa yesterday, and the Three per Cents. were
done out of doors at ono time as high as 25b. They
closed at 5-16, s buyers, 7-16 sellers; Fly:, per Cents..
10i to 11; Coupons, 7 sellers; Passive Debt, 3 13 16,
buyers, 4 sellers. Exchange on London, 50 60.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

PARTICULARS OF DEMBINSKI'S VICTORY
OVER. THE RUSSIANS.
We are at length in possession of the intelligence
brought by Prince OaLorr to Vienna from the head-
quarters of PASKIEWITCII, and cautiously suppressed
by the Imperial authorities. The grand Russian

army has ben completely routed by the Hungarians
A bulletin from DEMBINSKI, dated Gyongyiis,July
24, speaks of a second great victory he has obtained
over the Russians between God°llo, Szanta, and

Jaszbereny, after having attacked them by sur-
prise in the night between the 22d and 23d ult.
The Russians did not make a stand, many officers

fled in their shirts ; others were cut down or taken
prisoners. Two regiments of Russian Cuirassiers
were nearly annihilated. The Russians rallied and
fought desperately ; but about nine o'clock in the
morning a brilliant cavalry attack, made at Szanta,
decided the contest: The Russians left 1,600 dead
on the field, and lost 18 cannon, besides 2,000 pri-
soners. All the baggage was captured subsequently
in Hatvan and Gyongyos, then 14 cannon, 800 pri-
soners, besides more killed and wounded. DE!11
EINSRI expected he should be in Waitzen on the
following evening—namely, the 25th ult.
KOSSUTH has issued a new proclamation to the people.
" The CREATOR of the Magyars," he says in it, " has
brought the Russians into the land alone that they
may there find their graves." He goes on to say
that 5,000 Russians have already died of cholera,
and 10,000 more have been attacked with that disease.

He consoles the Hungarian nation respecting the
Russian intervention by saying, very appositely, that
GOD chasteneth those whom he loveth. He gives the
strength of the insurgent army as follows :-50,000
men, he says, are at Comorn ; 30,000 on the Theiss ;
VETTER has attacked JELLACHICII with 40,000 soldiers;
beyond the Danube great national camps are form-
ing; and in the Zipfer region, among the Carpathian
mountains, the brave and hardy inhabitants have
again taken up arms in the rear of the Russians.
" Our enemies," says he, " swim like islands in the
ocean. The people is the huge ocean, on whose will
it depends to cover those islands for ever with its
waves."
There is little doubt but that the Magyars are at
. .

this moment in possession of Buda-Pestit. Raab is
still in their hands, and although the Austrian forces
concentrated in the neighbourhood of Presburgh
amount to 27,000 men, they do not dare to attack the
Hungarians at Raab, or to attempt to check the sallies
of the garrison of Comorn. Indeed, the Hungarians
threaten both Presburgh and Vienna. Several of the
Hussars have appeared in the suburbs of the former
city, and the greatest dread of an attack is entertained
by the Imperialists of both cities.
The Emperor of RUSSIA has sent for Prince
WOII.OISZOW to Warsaw in order that he may have
the advice and assistance of that able General in con-
ducting the Hurgarian war. The departure of
WORO/sZOW from his command in the Caucasus will
afford to SIIAMIL an opportunity of which he will
know well how to avail himself.

The behaviour of the Hungarian troops inaßaab
showed their high discipline, and formed an honour-
able contrast to the violence of the Imperial marauders
in the same town, who plundered, sacked, and
murdered under the eyes of their very EMPEROR.
No private property was touched, and none of the
German inhabitants, few of whom, indeed, remained,
were molested on account of thedemonstrations of
welcome with which they had received the Austrian
troops. KOSSUTH notes became once more the cur-
rent money.
The Vienna lithograph correspondence says, that
in the last sally from Comorn all the battery com-
manders on the Austrian side were killed or wounded,
and that only one or two men were left to each
cannon ; at a twelve-pounder battery only one
cannonier remained alive, all the others were cut
down, and the battery could not be saved. Of the
3d battalion Baumgarten Infantry only a very few
returned.
The Ministerial Presse of Vienna writes :—" It is
remarkable that Prince SCIIWABZENBERG should
arrive almost at the same time as LAMORICIERE at
Warsaw. It is more than probable what indeed has
been talked of for some time in Ministerial circles,
that the GERMS OF A CLOSE ALLIANCE MAY BE
FORMED from the entente cordiale which now exists
between the Cabinets of St. Petersburgh, Vienna, and
Paris. The focus for the essential interests of these
powers appears to fall on Germany.
It is reported that the great powers of Russia and
Austria, finding themselves unable with their united
armies to crush the Hungarians, have determined on
requiring the assistance of 50,000 men from Bavaria.
It is lamentable that so much blood should be spilled,
so much human misery produced in- an attempt to
destroy the only constitutiOliat Ira" well-governed
state which exists in the east of gairok.
GENERAL BEm.—A prisoner,:who, like most of the
new Austrian recruits, was a mere boy of sixteen or
seventeen, was lately brought owe supposition that