The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

Intelligence has been received from Vienna to the
21st. The city is completely surrounded by troops,
and it is rumoured that the Hungarians who were ad-
vancing to the relief of the city have retreated in
consequence of the desertion of two of the Hungarian
regiments of Hussars to WINDISCHGRATZ.
The Allgereine OesterrichiBche Zeitung of the 19th
instant says :
" It was with universal indignation that we received
the news that the Hungarians—notwithstanding all the
fine phrases and notwithstanding all the accounts of out-
post fights, with which the Hungarian faction daily used to
entertain the public—will not appear before Vienna.
Fortunately we do not want the Magyars. History will
sit in judgment over their conduct."
The EMPEROR has issued the following manifesto,
which has producad a great effect in Vienna: -
MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR.
" When the acts of violence committed in Vienna on
the-6th of October compelled me to quit a city which
had become the theatre of the most wild and degraded
passions, I was still induced to hope that the rebellious
infatuation of a portion of the population would not be
of a continuance. I was led to expect from the usually
sound judgment of the inhabitants of my capital and
residentiary city, they would themselves exert all their
energy to restore the honour of the law by the bringing
of its transgressors to condign punishmeni, and to re-
store within the shortest possible time the endangered
security of life and property to the city.
" This expectation has been disappointed. Not only
have the authors of the insurrection in Vienna succeeded
in retaining the authority which they had forcibly as-
sumed by an act of horror which has but one parallel in
history, and of commanding the city which was partly
paralyzed by fear, and partly in a state of the wildest
intoxication, and thereby prevented the return of legal
order within the walls of Vienna—nay, even beyond
the walls did the influence of their anarchical endeavours
extend.
" Treasonable connexions were formed with a neigh-
bouring province; to every part of my states emisFaries
were sent, under the pretext of guarding endangered
liberty, even were perfect order had prevailed, fur the
purpose of there planting the standard of rebellion, and
abandoning my hitherto peaceful country, which was
anticipating the legal development of free institutions,
to the horrors of civil war, of anarchy, and destruction.
" Since my accession to the throne the weal of my
people has been the object of my life. The history of
my government, the history of the last seven months
especially, will at some future day testify to this.
"But I should be guilty of unfaithfulness to the
sacred duties imposed upon me by Providence were I
any longer to tolerate a course of procedure which hur-
ries the throne and the monarchy to the very brink of
ruin, and is calculated, in place of the constitutional
liberty accorded by me, to bring about a state of un-
baunded despotism.
"Impressed with these duties, I am compelled, with a
bleeding heart, to meet the rebellion which now shams-
lessly rears its head in my residentiary city, as well as
in all other places wherever it may appear, to oppose it
by force of arms, and to combat it till it shall have been
completely quelled, arid tha murderers of my faithful
servants the Counts Latnberg and Latour are given over
to the avenging hand of justice.
" For the attainment of this object, I send from divers
parts of the monarchy my armies against Vienna, the
seat of the insurrection, and by these presents commit to
my Field-Marshal Prince Windischgratz the command
of all the troops throughout tha whole extent of my do-
minions, with the sole exception of the Italian army,
under the command of my Field-Marshal Count Ra-
detzky.
" At the same time, I give the Prince the full requi-
site powers, in orde r that peace may be restored, ac-
cording to his own judgment, within theshortest possible
time.
" After subduing the armed rioters and restoring
peace, it will be the task of my Ministers, in unison
with the members of the Constituent Diet, to bring
about, by legal regulations respecting the hitherto
licentiously abused press, the right of association and
popular armament, a state of things which, without in-
fringing liberty, shall secure authority and respect of the
laws.

" Whilst in the full consciousness of my duties and
my rights, I hereby make known to my people these my
unalterable fixed resolutions. I depend upon the sin-
cere and energetic support of all those who have the weal of
their Emperor, of their country, of their families, and of
true liberty at heart, that they will recognize in these
my present resolutions the only remedy of securing the
monarchy from dismemberment and themselves from
the horrors ofanarchy and the rupture of all social bonds.
" FERDINAND.
(Countersigned) " WESSEMBERG.
" Olmutz, Oct. 16, 1848."

A telegraphic dispatch, addressed by Prince
,WIN-
DISCHGRATZ to the Major-General PREBOU, orders
him to treat the National Guards in the same manner
as those of Bielitz ; the officers to be sent to Olmutz,
and the soldiers disarmed and sent to their homes.

The Cologne Gazette, under date Oct. 21, ten A. 11.,
says the Prince WINDISCHGRATZ has taken possession
of the island of Lobau, with 2,600 men. Provisions
are becoming very scarce in Vienna. The Com-
mander-in Chief announced in the Communal Council
that he was not able to protect the whole extent of
the city with the men at his disposition, unless he was
allowed to take the offensive in case of need. Neither
the Council nor the Diet would undertake the re-
, sponsibility of authorising such a proceeding.
The Austrian Lloyd's of the 19th announces that
the two imperial Commissioners, MM. %VRLCKER
and MoSLE, had arrived from Frankfort. The Ber-
liner Zeitungshalle informs us that those gentlemen
did not stay at Vienna, but set out immediately for
Olmutz. The two Commissioners issued a declaration,
dated Passau, 19th inst., in which they profess that
their mission is one of peace and reconciliation. They
deny that Prussia, Bavaria, or other German troops,
have received orders to march into Austria. Their
proclamation is wound up by the following wishes :
" Hail to Austria, and to the glorious house of her
Emperors! Hail to Vienna! Our most ardent wish is
that Austria and Vienna may as speedily as possible
combine prosperity and merry enjoyment of li'e with
constitutional liberty, unlimited but lawful, and practised
with manly maturity, as it is existing among the free
English, and in their flourishing capital."
The latest accounts from Vienna have come via
Berlin. A letter from that city, dated Oct. 23, con-
tains the following
" On the evening of the 21st inst. Vienna was being,
plundered by the rabble of tho population. The Hun-
garian cavalry had gone over to Auerspertr. The Reich-
stag was not allowed to assemble, and tke members
the Right had placed themselves under the protection of '
the diplomatic corps."

A letter from Innspruck of the 16th inst. states,
;hat some companies of iitiemen, which had marched

towards Vienna to support the EMPEROR, had re-
turned in consequence of an insurrection which was
ready to break out in Southern Tyrol,. the result of

:he events in Vienna.

PRUSSIA.

Intelligence has been received from Berlin to the 23d,
On the 22d the Posen question was debat< d in

the Assembly, and was decided, after a stormy dis-
cussion, in favour of the non-separation of the Grand
Duchy into a Polish and a German part, and conse-
quently in favour of its non-annexation to the German
Confederation, by a majority of 7.
The Commander of the Burgher Guard has issued
another proclamation, in which he states that he en-
tertains a firm confidence that a reconciliation be•

tween the Burgher Guard and the workmen will be
effected soon, and that he trusts no further disturb-
ances of public quiet will take place. The admonition
addressed to the workmen in this proclamation is
very warmly expressed, and shows that, nevertheless,
strong apprehensions are entertained that another col-

lision between the Burgher Guard and the workmen
might mile. These apprehensions are by no means
unfounded if it is considered that much excitement
still prevails among the workmen.