The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-17 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

Advices have been received from Vienna to the 10th.
The Wiener Zeitung had not up to that day pub-
lished any official details of the surrender of Pesth.
It is supposed that the Imperial army will go into
winter-quarters there, as the cholera has broken out
among the Austrian troops, and has committed fear-
ful ravages. Comorn still holds out, and as no bulle-
tins have been published, it is to be presumed that
the Imperialists have not been very successful in
their efforts to reduce it. A bulletin has been pub-
lished in Vienna, announcing a victory said to have
been gained by Colonel MAYERHOFER over the Hun-
garians at Papanova on the 2d instant.
The Ministry and the Diet are now at open variance,
in consequence of a protest made by Count STADION
against the first article of the proposed constitution,
which declares that all the powers of the State emanate
from the people. In the sitting of the 3d, before any
discussion commenced, Count STADION protested
against the introduction of this paragraph, and the
Diet immediately adjourned to the Bth. On their
reassembling the following resolution was proposed
by ft Deputy named PINXAS:—'

" The 'Diet protests its grief at the declaration of the
Cabinet, which was pronounced on the 4th of January,
1849, and before the commencement of the debate, and
which expresses the views of the said Cabinet on para-
graph 1 of the draft of the fundamental rights. After
this declaration, any, even the most loyal feelings,
which might show themselves in the division on this
paragraph, cannot any longer be considered as a free and
unfettered resolution, but must appear in the light of the
expression of an opinion which was forced upon the
Diet. The Diet cannot but consider the terms and the
motives of the said declaration as jarring with the dig-
nity of free representatives and incompatible with the
position which the Imperial manifestoes of the 16th of
May and the 6th of June, 1848, granted to the Con-
stituent Diet." .

In the course of the discussion the Minister, Count
STADION, read the following declaration :
" Candour and determination are the first duties of
the responsible advisers of a Constitutional Monarch.
Acting up to the spirit of this principle, the Cabinet in
its declaration of the 4th inst. gave a plain intimation
of its position in the debates of this House on the Con-
stitution in general, and on par. 1 of the fundamental
rights in particular. The Cabinet, acting for the Crown
and for the people, and agreeable to popular opinion,
determined the right on which the political relations of
the Austrian Monarchy are based. In doing this we
did our duty, and we protest against the supposition of
our declaration opposing any free declaration of opinions,
the more so since the principles of our declaration are
identical with those which were enunciated in the pro-
gramme of the 27th of November, when they were wel-
comed not only by this House, but by the whole coun-
try. Our declaration cannot possibly preclude the ex-
pression of loyal opinions ; on the contrary, it will be
the standard under which all true friends to legal liberty
and the greatness of our country will rally."
On a division the motion of PENKAS was carried by
a majority of 196 to 99.
It is said to be the intention of the Government to
dissolve the Diet and to octroyer a Constitution.
VIENNA, JAN. W.—Accounts received from 01-
mutz state that the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPII has
been attacked by rheumatic fever, and is compelled
to keep his bed. No further intelligence from Prince
WINDISCHGRATX.

The army, it is said, intends to make a protest,
through the Minister of War, against all the points
of the fundamental law, which especially concerns it.
Field-Marshal RADBTZKY again. demands a rein-
forcement of 40,000 men. Conscriptions are being
carried on, on a large scale, in Switzerland, and the
Swiss recruits are to be received with peculiar dis-
tinction by the veteran General. There seems to be
but a very slender hope of any pacific termi-
nation of the Italian differences, and the
Brussels Congress, if it takes place (though for some
inexplicable cause it seems to be questioned now), is
not likely to lead to the important results which were
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at first connected with it.
It has been proposed to fix the dividend of the
Bank at 46 florins for the second semestre of 1848.
The Commission of the Bank, in its sitting of the Bth,
had fixed it at 25 florins.