The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-30 00:00:00

FRIDAY

rig ._I FRENCH'

REPUBLIC

The case for the prosecution in the trials at
Bourges closed on Wednesday, and the defence com-
menced. BARBES was called on, but declined defend-
ing himself. SORRIER was then called on, and M.
BAUD, his counsel, addressed the jury in his defence.
RASPAIL defended himself. He denied his complicity
in any plot for the overthrow of the Government on
the 15th of May. The manifestation on that day was
only in favour of Poland. FLOTTE was next called,
but declined making any defence. The counsel for
QUENTIN next addressed the Court. The Court rose
at six o'clock.

It was announced at Toulon, by a skip which left
Naples on the lath, that a steam-frigate had just
entered the bay with, as it was supposed, Admiral
BAUDIN on board. There were in the roads a French
steamer of war, an English ship of war, and a Spanish
frigate. In the course of the week fourteen large
trading vessels and eight steamers had left Naples for
Messina, with troops. The renewal of hostilities was
looked for towards the end of the month. Naples
was tranquil.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 29.
THREE o'CLucx. —The rise which commenced yester-
day, on the news of the defeat and abdication of Charles
Albert, made some further progress to-day, on its being
known that the French Government was not inclined to
interfere. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 25; ditto
(90 days), 25 12k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STUCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, 814 —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon),
113/, —East Indian, 3%—Luxembourg, %
Northern of France, "—Paris and Orleans, 3334 —Paris and
Rouen, 2034—Rouen and Havre, ll%—Tours and Nantes,
2,/8.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 23d have arrived.
The report that the differences between England
and Spain were likely to be settled had been renewed,
and had obtained some degree of credit. Senor de
MORA was daily expected in Madrid from London.
Count DE LAS NAVAS died on the 23d, from scarlet
fever, which is very prevalent in Madrid.
MADRID BOLSA, MARCIE 23.—Five per Cents ,
10i paper; Three per Cents., 21i, both paper.
Exchange on London, 60.

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES,

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MARCH 24.—The EMPEROR has issued a
command, countersigned by his Ministers, by which
the sale and the purchase of any articles of vertu
belonging to the collection of the Vatican and of the
museums of Rome, Florence, and Venice, which may
be offered by a resolution of the said revolutionary
Governments, is positively forbidden throughout the
whole of the Austrian States.—Hanburgh Papers,
March 27.
The Voss Gazette says that the French Govern-
ment has addressed a note to the Austrian Cabinet,
urging the latter rather to consent to make some
sacrifices than to peril the peace
i of the world by con-
tinuing the war in Italy, as, f the war continues,
the French Government will be unable much longer
to resist the ardent desire of the nation and of the
army, and will be forced to consent to the march of
the French troops into Italy.
The rumour of the capture of Pesth by DEM..
DINSICI is, as we anticipated yesterday, without
foundation. Baia, on the Danube, has been taken by
the Magyars.
The Pesth journal of the 23d says that General
Pucimut is near Grosswardein; JELLACHICH oper-
ating against Szegedin, while ScHLlcx is reported to
have passed the Theiss.
WINDISCIIGRATZ is before COIIIOI7I, which still
holds out. The country about Raab and Tyrnau is
swarming with guerilla bands of the Honved, who
cut off the supplies of the Imperialists, and wherever
they meet with isolated detachments of the Austrian
troops, fall upon them. In fact, Austria only pos-
sesses in Hungary the ground that her armies
occupy for the time being, as the instant they are
withdrawn from any locality the people are again in
open insurrection.
The Sclavonians complain of the new Constitution,
which they say destroys their nationality. A Scla.-
vonic deputation had an interview with the EMPEROR
at 011mutz on the 20th. Professing to represent a
population of three millions of people calling them-
selves Selavonian, they pray for the preservation
of their national privileges of language and cus-
toms, endangered, as they imagine them to be, by
the new Constitution, which speaks of a strong
and direct compact between them and the
other lands of the Austrian monarchy. They,
farther pray to be allowed an annual Diet, and hum-
bly protest against the influence of Magyars in the
civil administration of their communes; an interfer-
ence that has again been renewed. The EsirEnort
in a brief reply, referred them to the Royal mani-
festo of October 2, guaranteeing " perfect equality of
laws for all the nations under his sceptre." His MA-
JESTY assured the deputation that in future no race
of people shall domineer over another, and that,
shielded by free institutions, every nation shall re-
form itself. The petitioners withdrew after receiving
the Imperial promise that everything will be done
to protect their just rights.

We hare received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The only additional intelligence from Piedmont i-
contained in the Patrie, which states that a tele-
graphic dispatch has been received from Toulon, an-
nouncing that two of the Piedmontese Generals were
killed in the late action, and which publishes a letter
dated Alessandria, March 24, from which the follow-
ing is an extract :--
" There have been few examples of a more inveterate
combat. The troops fought hand to hand. The bat-
talion of Lombardy fought with fury; its loss was dread-
ful. The Duke of Savoy had several horses killed under
him. His uniform was pierced by a ball, and torn by the
thrust of the lance of a Croatian."
Brella, to which one portion of the Piedmontese
army has retired, is 20 leagues to the north of Turin,
and Borgo Manero, to which the other portion has
retired, is 12 leagues east of Brella, between the
Lago Maggiore and the Tesio.
The National calls upon the Government to send at
once a French fleet to Genoa and Venice, and to
march a French army into Savoy and Nice ; and when
we remember the intrigues of Austria after the French
Revolution of 1880, to get possession of the fortress
of Alessandria, and bear in mind the proverbial
perfidy of Austrian diplomatists, we must admit that
the National is not altogether without justification ;
at all events it requires a degree of faith which falls
to the share of but few to place that implicit reliance
on the Austrian promises, which it appears from the
Patrie of last evening, M. ODILON BARROT is in-
clined to place in the—" All that we have to do,"
says the Patrie, "is to act diplomatically." The
uncle, had he been living and President of the Re-
public, would perhaps have been of a different opinion
from the nephew.
The Committee of the National Assembly on
Foreign Affairs met on Wednesday evening, at nine
o'clock, having been specially summoned in conse-
quence of the receipt of the important intelligence
from Piedmont. The Minister for Foreign Affairs
was in attendance on the Committee.
M. DE HUBNER, the Secretary to the Austrian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived in Paris on
Wednesday, on a special mission to the PRESIDENT
of the Republic. The object of the mission of
M. DE HUBNER is stated to be to give to the French
Government the most distinct assurances that the
object of the Austrian Government, in taking pos-
session of Piedmont temporarily, is only to bring
about as soon as possible a definitive peace, and that
she has not the slightest idea of territorial aggran-
disement ; at the same time, Marshal RADETZKY has
been ordered to refuse to grant any armistice which
may be demanded by the Sardinian Government,
unless France and England enter into a guarantee
that Sardinia shall henceforth abstain from disputing,
under any pretext, the right of Austria to the pos-
session of Lombardy, and unless Sardinia will en-
gage to reimburse Austria for the expenses of the war.
M. DE HUBNER has been twice received by the
PRESIDENT of the Republic.
In the sitting of the National Assembly on Wed-
nesday the budget of the Minister of Public Works
was voted by a majority of 505 to 52. The following
were the result's of the various proposals for voting
money to the railways :
The Assembly adopted 4,000,000 francs instead of
5,000,0001. demanded by Government for the Tours and
Bordeaux Railway.
For the Tours and Nantes 3,125,0001. was adopted
instead of 5,000.0001.
Orleans and Vierzcm, 1,016,419 f. was adopted.
Vierzon to Chateauroux, 480,000 f. adopted.
Chateauroux to Limoges, 1,000,000 frances, instead of
2,500,000 f. demanded by Government.
Vierzon to Bee d'Allier, 3,000,0001. adopted.
Bec d'Allier to Clermont, with branch to Nevers,
1,500,000 f. instead of 2 500,000 f. was adopted.
Ve r,ailles to Chartres, 6,000,000 f. adopted.
Chartres to Rennes, 1,000,000 f. instead of 2,000,0001.,
adopted.
Montpellier to Nismes, 2,000,0001., adopted.
Paris to Lyons, 34,000,0001. instead of 35,000,0001.,
adopted.
Lyons to Avignon, grant suppressed with consent of
the Ministers, as the works had not been commenced.
Paris to Orsay suppressed, but 10,000,0001. granted
for expense of survey.
M. PROUDHON has been sentenced to a fine of
3,000 francs and three years' imprisonment for having
written in the journal Le Peuple a libel on the PRE-
SIDENT of the Republic, and M. DUCHENE, the pub-
lisher of the Peuple, has been sentenced to a fine of
1,000 francs and one year's imprisonment for the
publication of the libel. " These severe sentences,"
says the National, " recal the worst days of the
Monarchy."