The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN STATES

A serious collisionA UtooSkTpßlacleAbetween the work-
menti
and the military at Vienna, on the 23d, in
course of which several lives were lost. The skir-
mishing (says the Allgemeine Oestereichische Lei_
tung) continued till nightfall. A large body of in-
surgents, driven back by the military, barricaded
themselves on one of the islands formed by the Da_
nube. At ten at night six of the workmen had
died of their wounds, and sixty-one were more or
less severely wounded. A National Guard was
stabbed in the back and died immediately. Near the
station of the Northern Railway three shots were
fired from a house, whereupon the doors were forced
by the sappers, and in the struggle which ensued
some lives were lost."

The workmen were at length defeated, and tran
quillity was restored on the 24th.

An article in the Wiener Zeitung of the 24th states
that there was nothing political in these disturbances,
although some incendiaries had endeavoured, though
in vain, to impart a political character to them.

PRUSSIA.
The cholera is on the increase in Berlin.

MANN made a motion FRANKFORT.
roil' a
respecting ent, onthet2hsethr,eblalt.
In the German P l'
Austria to Germany. M. P
EISENMANNsaid, the
iEonissENof"
Austrian Secretary-at-War, Count
the LATOUR, had,
before the Gth of August,
made an ill-omened pro-
nunciamento on the matter of German cockade.
He (M. EISENMANN) hoped at the time that the rest
of the Austrian Cabinet
would not sympathise with
Count LATOUR'S separatist tendencies.
was fallacious. A later declaratThat hope
the Cabinet
confirmed the secretary's pronunciamelon
ofnt ;—the Ger-
man cockade has never been
worn
the
Austrian army. Ribands of the Germanrn in
colours
were indeed added to the standardsof
regiments, but it was only at Vienna, and o lsofme
n
one day. M. EISENMANN added, conduct .._ y or
like this
was worse than disobedience—it was an infamy. He
(M. EISENMANN) knew the policy of the Austrian
Ministers. They wished to join a variety of nation-
alities by means of a common administration and re-
presentation. An army presenting a Babylonian
medley of tongues was to be spread over the whole
surface of the country. But such an army, and in-
stitutions like these, were repugnant to German
unity. Unity was the great end and aim of the pre-
sent movement; it must be gained, and even enforced.
The Ministry ought to treat the Austrian Cabinet in

the manner pointed out in the Premier's well.known
letter. M. EISENMANN then moved the following re-
solutions :
" 1. Considering that Austria, by a common adminis-
tration and representation with Gallicia and Northern
Italy, would cease to be a German State:
"2 . Considering that so intimate a union with foreign
nationalities would preclude the union of Austria with
Germany and jeopardize the German Ministry:
" 3. Considering that an army composed of Germans,
Poles, Croatians, Slavonians, Bohemians, and Italians
cannot by any means be considered as a German army.
a fact which the Austrian Cabinet themselves have ac-
knowledged, but that it may be dangerous to the liberty
of Germany;
.„

"The German Parliament declares this union of va-
rious nationalities to be inadmissible ; it demands, on
the strength of the precedent of Prussia i❑ Posen, a
separate administration, a separate representation, and
separate armies for those countries, and commissions
the central power to take energetic steps to insure obe-
dience to these demands of the Parliament?'
M. EISENMANNs second motion is the following :
"1. Considering that the Hungarians are sorely
pressed by the Croatians, 80,000 of whom are said to
have invaded Hungary:

" 2. Considering tfiat'the Hungarians received no assist-
ance from Austria, and that, on the contrary, it appears
as if Hungarian independence was to be sacrificed by
means of the Croatians:
"3. Considering that Hungary has made a decided
demonstration in favour of the German empire, and
especially of the German Parliament, and that the con-
dition of the Hungarians make them trustworthy allies
of Germany; and
"4. Considering that Germany is interested in seeing
Hungary strong and united,—from all these considera-
tions the German Parliament resolves to petition the
central power to negotiate with the Austrian Govern-
ment in favour of Hungary, and to grant the Hunga-
rians advice and effective assistance against the Croats."
An early day has been appointed for the discussion
of these questions.

M. BE&KERATII, the Imperial Minister of Finance,
reported on the state of the Federal Exchequer—a
common fund which was formed in 1815. He said
he had found 2,900,000 florins in the Treasury ; this
included the moneys destined for the maintenance of
the federal fortresses. Some of the lesser states have
been irregular in their contributions, and they have
been called upon to fulfil their obligations.
General PEUCICER, the Minister of War, next came
forward to answer some inquiries of a rather deli-
cate nature. Some portions of a private letter of his
to his son at Berlin were, about four weeks ago, pub-
lished by the Opposition journals. The sentiments ex-
pressed in these letters had greatly incensed the pub-
lic—indeed, they were by no means to his Excellency's
credit. The letter stated that the Ministry
were anxious with all possible speed to suppress the
democratic unions throughout Germany, and to trans-
fer the odium of this act from the individual states to
themselves. This motive had induced them, when
alone at Frankfort during the absence of the Regent,
and before a complete Cabinet was formed, to publish
the notorious order to the War-offices of the indivi-
dual states.

It was to a question concerning this unfortunate
letter that General PLUCKER declared he did not con-
sider himself responsible for his private acts and
letters.

He was next called on for an account of the cele-
bration of the Gth of August throughout Germany,
and he said that the martial salutation ( Wafengruss)
had everywhere been executed with the greatest en-
thusiasm. Hanover had, indeed, made an exception,
but Hanover had since acknowledged and made up
for the omission. As for Prussia, in that state his
order could only refer to her federal contingent. He
had since been informed of the impracticability of
concentrating this contingent in one place. The
King of PsusstA had now pledged himself to devote
the whole of his army to the German cause in gene-
ral, and to the REGENT in particular. He (General
PEUCKER) wished Hon. Members would look to the
spirit, and not to the form of the transaction.
The Minister's reply was not discussed by the As-
sembly, but a motion was made by the Members of
the Lett petitioning the House to record its displea-
sure at General PEUCKER'S conduct.

BELGIUM.
The following official contradiction of M. LEDRU
ROLLIN'S representation of the conduct of Belgium
in the Risquons-tout affair appeared in the ilioniteur
Beige of Monday :
In the sitting of the National Assembly of the 25th,
M. Ledru Rollin expressed himself in the following
terms respecting the Risquons-tout affair:—` In Belgium
assembled the majority of the Ministers of the Callen
Government, and they entered into a conspiracy, with.
out meeting with any impediment on the part of the
(Belgian) administration. English vessels appeared in
the Scheldt, and threatened to seize on Antwerp, at the
first movement in the country. I ask if that affair of Bel-
gium, which appeared so inexplicable, is not sufficiently
explained; and, above all, I ask whether the Belgian Go-
vernment, having a perfect knowledge of the facts, has
ever forwarded to the French one any complaint on that
subject? It never has.' We cannot refrain (continues the
Moniteur Beige) from showing the complete incor-
rectness of the foregoing assertions. M. Ledru-Rollin
r.fers to the alleged silence of the Belgian cabinet with
regard to the circumstances which preceded and accom-
panied the invasion of the Belgian territory. That is
the first error, one altogether inexplicable in the mouth
of an ex-Member of the Provisional Government. So
early as the 10th of March (the invasion occurred on the
29th) the Belgian Cabinet complained to the Provisional
Government of the plot :which was hatching in Paris.
These frequently-renewed complaints were repeated
more warmly than ever at the time of the Risquons-tout
skirmish. M. d'Hoffschmidt, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, rendered an account of these complaints in his
tdrarcetjoronmstrahnicsesBpteoetchhe:l7rOvGiseionntlaelmGenoVernment
speech in the senate on the 31st March. The following
we have
oitbsfrta‘hvnaerßdxeepublic, and that. Government has given us the
formal assurance that it as a complete stranger to those
ridiculous manoeuvres. In the last conference which
took place between the Prince de Ligne (the
Belgian ambassador) and M. de Lamartine, the
latter asserted anew
i the non. participation of the Provi-
sional Government in
.those acts, and fully acknowledged
our right to repel by force such attempts. In one of
the conferences with our Ambassador M. do Lamartine
begged of him to give the Belgian Government the most
positive and formal assurances of the intention of the
Provisional Government not to make in Belgium or else-
where a republican propaganda. I have received the
same assurances from the French Charge d'Affaires, M.
Peruier.' It clearly. results from this official document
(adds the Illonzteur.) that not only the Belgian Govern-
ment made complaints, but that the French one frankly
acknowledged the justice of them. No one imagined
thatthe:,
i in
wouldh
fivetmonths later a fable respecting English
vessels e Scheldt, or a monarchist conspiracy in
Brussels, be set forth in order to justify a
criminal coup de man now under investigation at
the Antwerp assizes. Is. it necessary to deny that
of which the Belgian Government
complaisant spectator,. if not the official protec-
a conspiracy was hatched in Brussels by the ex-Minis-
part .of the charge is absurd, the second
itwts‘eiarrbs:orthhale f odiousconspiracy
firstandar ridiculous. Belgium has been at all
times a hospitable country for all unfortunates. The
shelter it affords now to the Ministers of the Monarchy
of 1830 it granted formerly to the men of the convention
and of the empire. And that fact was recently recalled,
in terms as dignified
as kind, by M. Quinette, the Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary,in Brussels of the French republic.
—(Here M. Quinette s words are quoted.)—That hos-
pitality, in some respects traditional, will be practised
by Belgium with the utmost loyalty, without ever al.
lowing it to be turned to the favouring the plots of men
of disorder, or the designs of any kind of conspirators.
Every insinuation contrary to the above declaration is
not worthy of being discussed. We repel it as a ca-
lumny."