The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-10 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

Ad vices have been received from Vienna to the 3d
instant.

General IVELDEN has declared his determination to
banish from the city all foreigners, as well as all
Austrians not Viennese, unless they assign the most
satisfactory reasons for the necessity of their residence
in Vienna.

The state of siege, far from being relaxed, is likely
to be enforced with additional severity, and, in short,
both the civil and military authorities aro equally
despotic. An illiberal decree had been issued by the
Ministry, prohibiting the hawking of papers and
pamphlets, and the posting of political placards.
Even bills relating to matters of business are only
to be posted in such localities as the authorities may
be pleased to appoint. The daily and weekly papers,
moreover, must be sent to the Stadhauptmannsehaft
as soon as printed, an arrangement tantamount to a
partial revival of the censorship, and considered as such
in Vienna. The scarcity of bullion continues.
The publication of magniloquent bulletins reporting
apocryphal victories by the Ban JELLACHICH con-
tinues. According to his last bulletin, he fought
with from 8,000 to 10,000 Hungarians, captured
many thousands, slew many more, while, after all
this capturing and slaying, 8,000 effected their es-
cape. Arithmetic is, apparently, not numbered
among the sciences to the study of which the Ban
JELLACHICH has devoted much attention. Prince
WINDISCHGRATZ, it will be remembered, described
the battle of Weisselburgh as being, on the part of
the Hungarians, " a wild flight." General GEORGY,
the Hungarian General, has published a bulletin,
claiming for the troops under his command a bril•
liant victory on that occasion, and certain it is that,
even upon that showing of Prince WINDISCIIGRATZ
himself, the Imperialists suffered severely.
The Wiener Zeitung of the 3d contains the follow
in g army bulletin from Prince WINDISCHGRATZ, dated
" Head- quarters, Dec. 31 ;"
~ The rapidity of the progress of the operations
scarcely afford me sufficient time to make the public ac-
quainted with the leading events. A campaign which,
days, has advanced all the co-
lumns directed against Pesth—the left as far as Kaschw;
in the course of fourteen
that which crossed the Jallumka to Newstadt; the 3d
from Tyrnaun, in the direction towards Neutra; the
4th from Presburg to the gates of Kormen; the main
army, after the victory at &Winn and Moor, to Offen;
and, lastly, the right wing column, from Steinmanger
and Kormen, in the direction against Szallas Egeraeg
and the northern banks of the lake of Plattim— cannot,
in the very extreme of things, leave much leisure for a
systematic relation. Tho various columns which have
b
hitherto been separate, and whose leaders have been act-
ing independently and according to their own disposi-
tionsti yn of the great problem. way of precaution, will now combine for the
This solution cannot be dubious. !A well-disciplined
army, ready for battle, which in spite of privations and
obstacles goes triumphantly to the field, animated by its
noble leaders and the justice of the cause which it de-
fends, opposed to a band of rebels who have ceased to re-
gard anything as sacred (for they recklessly destroy the
latent prosperity of the people), led by fanatics who have
emerged from the subordinates of the army or of the
law, and who have not the remotest conception of military
tactics or the conduct of an army—cannot for mo-
ment leave the issue a matter of doubt.
"The misguided and deceived
people are beginning to
awake out of their dream. Many a man who has been
entrapped has returned repentant, and that worthless
drama will soon close which was enacted by traitors and
madmen to the terror of their own land.
" All must succumb to that eternal law that evil can-
not thrive. Thus the war in Hungary begins to assume
a more definite duration. The lawless bands vanish
before the legal power, and he who yet has anything to
lose flies for protection to the returning legal authority.
" The extreme wing under Field-Marshal Count
Schlick had entirely pacified the whole district, from the
Carpathian Mountains southward across Kasehan.
" The rebels had fled into the interior of the Torner
Abbanjvarer country, which country was formerly ty-
ranni,ed over by the empowered commissioners, Kus-
suth, Trany, Farkaszany, Count Haller, Pulizky, and
Ladislusltjhazy.
"Field-Marshal Count Schlick was engaged in re-
storing interrupted order in all the cities, with a view to
diminish as much as possible those burdens which the
entrance of a large body of soldiers necessarily involves
throughout the devastated country, to encourage the
right -minded, and to bring back the misled to their
duty."

The Deutsche Allgenzeine Zeitung states that
Pesth surrendered to the Imperialists on the Ist. The
rumour is probably without foundation. Nothing
was known of such an occurrence at Vienna on the
3d, and had the surrender of Pesth actually taken
place General WELDEN would have been but too glad
to have publicly announced it.
The Danube and the Waag are so completely frozen
over that they can be crossed at any point with the
heaviest artillery.

PRUSSIA.

The following is the reply of the Prince of PRUSSIA
to the New Year's address of the town council of
Berlin :

" I receive with thanks your wishes for the welfare of
me and mine, upon the renewal of the year, as well as
for your assurances of inviolable attachment to the King
and his house. May the reflections that are connected
with the ominous events of the last year meet with a
solution productive of good to our country. How much
easier it is to overturn than to re-constitute has been
amply proved by the past. Berlin is still sighing under
the deplorable results of this truth. May order and
legality, now reviving in your city, be consolidated by
rational enjoyment of liberty. Then will your wish that
my love for my native city should increase be fulfilled.
(Signed) " Prince of PRUSSIA.
" Berlin, Jan. 4."
Count MENZEROFF, the Russian Envoy to llanover,
arrived at Berlin on the .sth inst.

Prince WALDEMAR still continues in a most preca-
rious state.

ITALY.

Letters from Gaeta state that several magnificent
presents had been made to the POPE on Christmas-
day. The King of NAPLES sent him an offering of
600,000 ducats, and the Queen of SPAIN a donation
of 500,000 colonnates.

The following proclamation has appeared at
Rom e':—

"To the people of the Roman State—The Junta of
State having, in conjunction with the Ministry, given all
its attention to the framing of a law for the convocation
of the General Assembly of the Deputies of the People,
a law called for by the whole State, and by the gravity
of our actual political condition; and having, moreover,
done everything in its power to induce the Chambers to
receive and adopt the said law, that universal suffrage
might give birth to a Government, sufficiently strong
to resist the imminent shock of social division
and dissolution, the Junta and Ministry have
found all their efforts vain. The deliberative
Chambers, not being in legal number, could not only not
approve, but not even discuss this law. Another obstacle
arose from the resignation of Prince Corsini, senator of
Rome, which deprived the Junta of one of its members.
On the other hand, the urgency of the measure became
more pressing, and the danger increased in proportion
with the delay. To defer a measure which offered itself
as the only means of salvation, would be mining the
State, and betraying the confidence of the people. The
members of the Cabinet, and the remaining members of
the Supreme Junta are, therefore, convinced that, being
in pow er, in presence of so great a danger, it is
their duty to triumph over difficulties, and after the im-
mediate publication of this law, to support provisionally
the weight of Government till the meeting of the As-
sembly, leaving the rights of every one untouched.
Whatever legality may be wanting is compensated by
the supreme law of the public welfare, a law which
justifies every act relating to it. The people cannot re-
main without a Government. A people that desires to
deliberate on its own affairs cannot be left unheard.
And therefore, in providing provisionally for this want,
in acceding to this universal will of the people, we yield
to the empire of necessity for the general weal. Guided
by this supreme law, we shall continue provisionally to
direct public affairs, each of us attending to his peculiar
department, and deliberating conjointly on every subject
which may exceed the special powers of any one of us.
And beginning by the most urgent and important act,
namely, the convocation of the General Assembly, we
decree and ordain as follows:

(Here follows the text of the Bill concerning the con-
vocation, the leading points of which have already been
published.)
(Signed) "F. CAMERATA, F. GALEOTTI,
G. GALETTI, L. MARIAN',
E. E. MUZZARELLI, P. STERBINI,
C. ARMELLINI, P. CAMPELLO.
" Rome, Dec. 20."

The Genoa Gazette states, from Rome, 30th ult.,
that the Minister of War has opened a new conscrip-
tion, and offers 60f. premium to whoever shall present
ten individuals for enrolment ; the grade of corporal
to those who shall present twenty ; and that of ser-
geant to those who shall present forty. Any person
offering 100 men is to have the grade of sub-
lieutenant.

By a decree of Lieutenant Marshal GERHARDI,
dated Verona, 27th ult., all Lombardo-Venetian
subjects who have left the territory without leave are
to be enrolled in the Austrian regiments not serving
in Italy. Those who have taken service against
Austria are, if taken, to be considered guilty of high
treason, and can never be treated as prisoners of war.
Seven weeks are allowed to those who have left the
State to return and claim their pardon.

IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.—The High Sheriff of
Westmeath had convened a Couny Meeting for the 22d
instant, to petition Parliament for an alteration of the
Poor-law and the restoration of trading and commercial
interests to the footing contemplated by the' Act of
Union.

Wo bad again a small supply at our corn exchange
to-day, and all descriptions of grain met a dull sale at
about the quotations of last Friday.
The weather has suddenly become very severe here—
intensely cold with heavy rains.