The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 24th have arrived.
The Gaceta publishes a decree for the reduction of
the disposable force of the army, in consequence of
the profound peace which exists in Spain. The third
battalion of each regiment, and a third part of the
Engineers and Artillery, will proceed to the pro.-
vinces, there to form the reserve, the officers alone
retaining their pay, and those who may hereafter
desire to pass to the same condition half-pay. The
Cortes will assemble at the period previously indi-
cated, and there will be no speech from the Throne.
The Marquis of MIRAFLORES will be President of
the Senate.

We are happy to be enabled to state positively that
Dr. 011ivant will be the new Bishop of Llandaff.
Lord Augustus C. Lennox Fitzroy, Captain in the
Coldstream Guards, and second son of the Duke of
Grafton, is to be Equerry to the Queen.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Canada and the other
North American colonies.

GERMANY

AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Lloyds of the 24th publishes various appoint.
ments :—Count Gyulai is appointed to the command
of the first division of the army ; Count Dahlen takes
the portfolio of War ; Radetzky is appointed governor
in Italy; Haynau, commander in. chief in Hungary;
Lieutenant Field-Marshal Baron Hammerstein, go-
vernor of Galicia; Lieutenant Field-Marshal Count
Wratislaw, governor of Lower Austria ; Gorzkowsky
is appointed commandant of Olmutz ; Simunich,
governor of Arad; Lieutenant Field-Marshal Puchner
is appointed civil and military governor of Venice.
Various other minor appointments are gazetted. The
Austrian army is divided into four divisions, under
the respective chief commands of Wratislaw (Austria
and Tyrol), Radetzky (Italy), Haynau (Hungary),
Hammerstein (Galicia). The Ban Jellachich is
placed at the head of the Grauzer or border troops.
These four great divisions are subdivided into four-
teen smaller divisions. Baron Hess remains chief of
the staff.

The Cologne Gazette says—" The demolished
works of Ofen are now being restored ; the costs are
estimated at 246,000 florins. The Imperial troops
have already taken possession of their winter quarters.
Eighty-four villages have been already supplied with
garrisons of at least one battalion each. It appears
from a report of the Minister of War, that the total
number of arms taken from the Hungarians are
660,151 muskets, 2,897 pistols, 216,000 swords, 2,073
lances, and 500 cannons of various calibre.
The following is the official letter which General
BEM addressed to the SULTAN from the camp of
Widdin

" Sire,—l have always fought against the Emperor of
Russia, your enemy and ours. My last acts which were
done in Hungary were prompted by the same spirit.
" Your Majesty is acquainted with the obstacles which
there checked the success of our arms. I now place my
services at your Majesty's disposal in combatting our
common foe the Emperor of Russia. As a guarantee of
my zeal and devotion, I declare my readiness to embrace
Islamism.—l have the honour, &c.
(Signed) " General BEM."
The French Minister at Vienna has refused to
grant any more passports to political refugees.
The Wanderer, a Vienna paper, states that eight
of the newly appointed county commissioners in Hun-
gary have declined accepting office ; others, who had
accepted, have resigned. Among them are PAUL
SOMISCH, late member for the county of Barany and
leader of the Conservative party at the Pressburgh
Diet of 1847; GEORGE MAJLATII, jun., late Lord-
Lieutenant of the county of Barany; Kim; SENYEY ;
NERMENYI, late Lord-Lieutenant of the county of
ITolna ; KOHENZY, Administrator of the county of
Ochdenburg ; the Count PECHY EMANUEL: in short,
all the heads of that party, which previous to March,
1848, sided with the Government. These gentlemen
protest that, under present circumstances, it is im-
possible for them to benefit their country.
Letters from Cracow of the 13th inst., in the
Breslauer Zeitung, state that a large corps of
Russian troops was expected to :arrive in that town
on the 15th inst., on their way to the north. There
is now but a small Russian garrison at Cracow, and
that garrison, too, is to leave with the other troops.
A strong Austrian corps, consisting of two regiments
of foot, i 3 preparing to occupy Cracow after the
Russians have left that town.

TUESDAY EVENING,