The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-05 00:00:00

France, the Legitimatists, the Or!esnists, and the
(brie, wh,rn •!.
country, but each is in a minbrity it lie:: compared
with the other two, and with the Republicans of all
shades. To destroy the Republic would therefore be
net to restore the Monarchy, but to precipitate France
into new catastrophes which would infallibly deliver
her over to Demagogues and Socialists. Wisdom
and prudence then commands the maintenance of the
existing Constitution until the period of its revision
shall arrive, when the course of action to be pursued
can be determined on according to the then existing
state of affairs."
The Estafette says :—" On Sunday evening and
Monday two columns of Savoyards, Sardinians,
Piedmontese, and other Italians, left Paris, going to
the relief of Italy. A certain number of old Gardes
Mobiles of Paris and Lyons accompany them."
The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the following
official announcement of the blockade of' Sicily :
"The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has ad-
dressed the following circular, dated the 3d of April, to
the Chambers of Commerce of our principal ports :
" The Government of the Two Sicilies has notified
to the Minister of the Republic at Naples, that the Gulf
of Palermo has been placed in a state of siege and
blockade by the naval forces of his Sicilian Majesty.
This blockade will be put in execution from the first day
of• the present month. M. de Rayneval has been at the
same time informed that the Neapolitan cruizers have
received orders to watch all the coasts of Sicily, in order
to prevent absolutely the introduction of arms and all
matters fit for war.' "

Although the arrival of CHARLES ALBERT in Paris
was announced in the official Illonitexr du Soir, it
appears that there was no foundation for the an-
nouncement. The mother of CHARLES ALBERT, the
Countess MONTLEART, who has for some years resided
in Paris, has received letters from the unfortunate
Monarch stating that he had no intention of visiting
Paris, but intended proceeding without delay to
Portugal.
PARIS BOURSE.—WEDNESDAY APRIL 4.
THREE O'CLOCIL—The Funds were very steady all
this day, and the rise made some further progress. The
squabbling in the National Assembly has very little
effect on the Funds.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 141—East Indian, 4—Namur and Liege, 8
—Northern of France, 11 IA —Orleans and Bordeaux, 31/2
—Paris and Rouen, 22—Rouen and Havre, 1134—Sambre
and Meuse, 4—Tours and Nantes, 21%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 29th have been received.
The contents are unimportant.
MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 29.—The Five per
Cents., 10i, paper; Three per Cents., 214. Ex-
change on London, 50 money.

GERIVIANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES

AUSTRIA.

Vienna letters of the 28th state that the Russians
had entered. Transylvania in great force, and had
driven BEM into Wallachia, having taken five of his
superior officers, whom they had subsequently caused
to be hanged. We trust that this last account is not
true. The Magyars have taken many Austrian offi-
cers of superior rank, on whom they could make re-
prisals ; but as the intelligence comes from Vienna
the probability is that -the whole account
is merely one of those useful falsehoods
for the fabrication of which the Austrian Chancery
has ever since the advent of METTERNICH employed
a regular staff of forgers.
It is said that Russia has marched 60,000 troops
into Transylvania. The account of the successes of
GEORGY are confirmed. He has broken the Austrian
line, and threatens Buda, Pesth, Losenez, Belassa,
and the Austrian forces besieging Comorn. The relief
of Comorn is probably the object he has in view.

PRUSSIA.
The Frankfort deputation arrived at Berlin at 5
P.m. on the 2d inst. They were received at the
station by the deputations from the two Chambers
of the Town Council, and were conducted in proces-
sion to the Hotel prepared for their reception on the
Linden.

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RUSSIA
The following is the text of the circular of the
Russian Government to its foreign agents, on the
entrance of its troops into Transylvania :
" The news of the entrance of our troops into Tran-
Sylvania being likely to give rise to false intepretations,
we send you some explanations on the matter. It is
notorious that great cruelties were committed in Transyl-
vania by the Hungarian insurgents, who, headed by the
Polish refugee Bern, have been recently repulsed by the
Austrian army. The terror which, in consequence of
such revolting excesses, was occasioned in the environs
of Hermannstadt and Cronstadt, and the temporary ab-
sence of military forces, which rendered the Austrian
generals unable to defend from pillage those towns
(placed as it were before the eyes of our
advanced posts), caused the inhabitants to in-
velto through the authorities the assistance of
the general in chief of our troops. The
Austrian Generals on their part had, for the same
reasons, expressed a desire to ascertain to what extent
they could calculate if necessary on support from
us. General Luders, who referred the matter to the
Emperor, received, by order of his Majesty, the
reply, that in case the towns of Rermannstadt and
Cronstadt should be seriously threatened by an invasion
of the Hungarian insurgents, at a time at which the
Austrian Government should not possess the means of
protecting them against such great disorder, he was
authorised to send a sufficient force into these two
towns ; that, however, he ought to do that iu the
event of inevitable necessity, and only on the
express demand of the Austrian military autho-
rities. When, after, the granting of this authoriza-
tion, the danger of the towns became more imminent, in
consequence of an advantage obtained by the insurgents
at Mediafels, and when the inhabitants had renewed
their earnest prayers to our General, with an invitation
in due form from the Austrian Generals Puchner and
Schurter, General Luders did not think right to leave
long unaccomplished wishes so expressed. He
consequently caused the two towns to be
occupied by detachments of troops, the effective of which
had been previously indicated by the Austrian Generals.
The inhabitants, especially the Germans, who justly
feared the barbarous cruelty of the Szeklers, saluted the
arrival of these troops with the liveliest marks of joy.
Our soldiers were received with open arms, the population
went out to meet them, and gave them bread and salt;
and a number of German and Wallachian families, who
had been preparing to cross the frontier, abandoned their
intention as soon as they saw that their lives and pro-
perties were assured. Such are the facts in all their
simple truth; they prove that the Emperor, in authn-
rising the entrance of some troops into Transylvania,
was only influenced by motives of humanity, and that
the matter was exclusively local, without any sort of
connexion with armed intervention in the interior affairs
of the empire of Austria. This empire has gloriously
and recently proved by the energy with which it
has crushed four successive insurrections that it is
too powerful to require our material assistance in
Transylvania. Austria is already victorious in
Hungary, and the insurrectional domination will soon
be at an end. Even if Bern, owing to the insufficiency
of the Austrian forces, had succeeded in taking
Hermannstadt and Cronstadt, that would not have
saved the insurrection from the coniplliete defeat which
awaits it. But, however brief such an occupation might
have been, it would have sufficed to give up those two
flourishing towns to pillage and murder, and it was this
misfortune that, in accordance with the Austrian autho-
rities, we were desirous to prevent. Such was
the object of the entrance of our troops; it must con-
sequently be well understood that their presence will
be only temporary. Already indeed lasso our generals
received orders to recross the frontier as soon as the
dangers which threatened the country shall have ceased
to exist."