The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-16 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

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VIENNA, MARCH EL—The Diet is dissolved, the
soldiers surrounded the Palace at Kremsier, while
Count Stadion convoked a number of the members
of the right and right centre. He immediately made
known to Orem the Imperial resolution to give the
whole monarchy a constitution, which he had laid
before them, and at the same time to dissolve the Diet.
All the Members, without exception, protested against
this measure. There was an early sitting at, seven
o'clock in the morning. At eight o'clock the Im-
perial proclamation dissolving the Diet was appended
to the walls of the palace and other public places
in Kremsier. Three battalions of soldiers had
meanwhile arrived. The door of the hall
of the Assembly was closed, and guarded
by the soldiers. The Deputies were per-
mitted only to go to the bureau of the President to
receive their certificates, and only five Members
were admitted at a time; others who attempted to
effect an entrance were held back by crossed bayonets.
The Deputies Fischhof and Pratz were imme-
diately arrested. M. Lehner and several others
were hotly pursued, but effected their escape.
Reports on this point, however, are contradictory.
Fischhof
and Pratz arrived at Vienna on the Bth,
under a strong escort.
VIENNA, Maacu 9.—The Allgemeine Zeitung
of the 10th says A report is in circulation here
that a bloody battle was fought on the banks of the
Theiss, in which the Imperialists were beaten."—
Vienna Papers, March id.

THE SALE OF THE STOWE COLLECTION OF EN-
GRATINGS.—YeS te rd ay the sale of the first portion of
the Stowe collection of engravings was completed at the
rooms of Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, and attracted
a very full attendance. Although the lots sold did not
realise such high prices as those of previous days, still
the interest attached to the various productions appeared
to be greater throughout. Among the most curious and
interesting were the following:—" Eleanor Gwynn with
her two sons, Charles Earl of Beaufort, and James Lord
Beauclaire;" she is represented on a bed of roses, her
children as Cupids withdrawing a curtain. King Charles
the Second in the distance; by Henry Gascar—sold for
8 guineas. " Letterpress to Grainger's Biographical
History of England," 4 vols., 8 vo., 1775, mounted on
folio paper, together with the 36 portfolios lettered
fur the purpose of illustration—sold for 8 guineas.
" William Penderil, of Boscobel, in the county of Salop,
tatis sum 84 (oval), suspended in an oak;" by M.
Beyher, with two columns of metrical lines beneath.
This excessively rare original, from the collection of Sir
Mark Sykes, sold for 61. 17s. 6d. " Mother Damnable,
of Kentish-town, sitting in Hovel by Fire, two Cats
suspended downwards, clawing each other, representing
her coat of arms, in the upper corner, with metrical lines
in two columns underneath." This unique original half-
sheet, printed in the year 1676, from the Bindly Collec-
tion, sold for 51. 7s. 6d. " A Burlesque upon the Popish
Plot," in two parts; two large folding sheets, with
metrical lines beneath the lower part of each sheet, being
!.I?2eln, entitled " A True Narrative of the Horrid
Hellish Popish Plot." " Titus Oates in the Pillory;"
around are seven oval portraits of the conspirators, with
view of their punishment beneath, half-sheet, executed
in Holland, In 1685, with a poem, " The Doctor De-
graded," &c.; sold for 1/. 6s. The day's sale amounted
to 176/. ls., and the gross amount of the sale has been
2,3591. 19s. 6d.