The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-23 00:00:00

BADEN.

The Post Gazette of Frankfort publishes the fol-
lowing letter of the 17th inst., from Rastadt, in the
Grand Duchy of Baden :—" The Austrian garrison
has been obliged to leave the town by order
of the Executive Commission. The Provisional
Government sent to the Grand Duke, who is in
Alsace, an invitation to return to his states,
but he has demanded three days to reflect. The
people who surround him render him bad service by
recommending him not to return, for we constantly
hear the soldiers and citizens say that they wish for
their Grand Duke back. There is nowhere any talk
of the Republic. The soldiers have refused to allow
Messrs. Struve and Blind, the well-known republican
leaders, to enter the town, and it is even said that M.
Brentano, member of the Provisional Government,
has caused them to be arrested."

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MAY 17.—The Wiener Zeitung of this
day states' that, in consequence of the transport of
military, the train on the Northern Railway from
Vienna to Presburg, and vice versa, will not run on
that day (17th).
The Wanderer of this day contains a pro-
clamation by his Majesty the Emperor to
the Hungarians, dated Schonbrun, May 12, and
countersigned by Prince Schwarzenburg. The pro-
clamation, after adverting to the lamentable fact, that
a few lawless men had led away his faithful Hun-
garian subjects into open war against their Monarch,
places before them the disastrous consequences of
this crime, which visit not only the authors, but
falls upon thousands and tens of thousands of
guiltless heads. His Majesty then states that he
has requested the assistance of his confederate ally
the Emperor of Russia to restore legitimate order,
and exhorts the Hungarians to regard the Russians,
not as their foes, but as the friends of their country,
who will aid them in making common cause against
their enemies, and deliver Hungary from the
ignominious yoke of native and foreign miscreants.
The Journal du Commerce says that the whole of
tie Imperial army is now making a movement from
the frontier of Moravia to Oedenburg, to commence
a new campaign with the aid of their Russian allies.
Large bodies of the Russians have already
arrived, and 25,000 of them will form the
extreme left wing of the army of operation,
which, advancing from every point at the same time,
will surround the Hungarian army in a semicircle,
and will either beat or repel it. But unhappily it is
not known exactly how the Hungarian army is at
this moment disposed between Eperies and Barbfield.
It is generally believed that a very bloody engage-
ment will take place near Krosno.
Travellers from Klauserburg state the Hungarian
Republic was proclaimed in that city on the 29th
April, and inaugurated by a religious ceremony.
An order was at the same time issued, that all men
between 18 and and 40 years of age should take
up arms. The Saxons and Romans who refused to
do this were obliged to leave the city.
The rumour of the victory of Bern over the Rus-
sians in the defiles of Rothenthum, is fully confirmed,
and this victory accounts for the non-appearance of
the Russians in Hungary in such force as would
enable them to undertake offensive operations, a non-
appearance of which the Vienna Ministerial journals
bitterly complain. That both Russians and Aus-
trians have been defeated is evident from the fact
that strong entrenchments are being thrown up round
Vienna, and every preparation is made to enable the
city to stand a siege. No one knows anything
of the whereabouts of Jellachich ; and his army
have disappeared from the scene in a marvellous
manner, but bands of stray Croats occasionally reach
Vienna, and the Hungarian General Penzel, against
whom Jellachich was dispatched, contrives to make
unresisted progress through the south of Hungary.
Probably; when we get Hungarian accounts, we
shall find that Penzel has defeated Jellachich and
dispersed his• forces. Benedek, who had been by
Deckla into the Zips to cover Gallicia and the moun-
tain districts, has been defeated by Dembinski and
driven beak to Tyrnau, and the army of Dembinski
occupy the positions of which Benedek was sent to
get possession. Dembinski has concentrated his
forces in excellent positions near the mountain cities
of Shemnitz and Cremnitz, from whence he can
advance on Tokay, the Gallician frontier in Comorn