The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-15 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

Accounts from Berne of the Bth, in the Deutsche
Zeitung of Frankfort, report the proceedings at the
sitting of the National Council on the preceding
day. A very close contest for the Presidency
ensued between Messsrs. OCIISENBEIN and Nix-
uAus, but after four scrutinies M. OCHSENBEIN ob-
tained a majority of eight votes; the numbers being,
for OCHSENITEIN 50, and for NEunlus 42 votes.
The contest for the Vice-Presidency was also very
close. At length, however, Dr. ESCEIEIt, of Zurich,
was elected by 45 out of 89 votes registered. In the
State Council, the Burgomaster PUREES, of Zurich,
was elected President by 33 out of 37 votes; and
M. BRIATTB, of Vaud, Vice-President. The ques-
tion of the disputed elections was referred to a
commission. It is thought that General Duroua
will be brought into the council in a few days.

GERMANY

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THE NORTHERN STATES

AUSTRIA.

VON WELDEN, the new Governor of Vienna, whose
cruelties at Treviso and Palma Nuova have rendered
him so notorious, was expected to arrive at Vienna on
the Bth or 9th.
WiNDISCHGRATZ, who has left Vienna for Hungary,
was, according to the last accounts, at Iletzendorf.
The Breslauer Zeitung, in a correspondence dated
Vienna the Bth inst., states that as candidates for
filling the post of Minister of War in the Cabinet
about to be formed were mentioned Prince SCPWAR-
ZENBERG, BATOR PUCIINER, and ZANINI, who some
months back had resigned in favour of LATOUR.
SCHONHALS, Chief of the General Staff with the
Lombard army, was also among their number.
PULSKT, the Hungarian Under-Secretary of State,
was arrested on the 7th inst. He was the chief agent
of KOSSUTII in the Austrian capital, and is said to
have occasioned the outbreak on the 6th ult. by pre-
venting the marching off of the German Grenadier
battalion, and by distributing the sum of . 50,000
florins on the evening of the day which preceded the
insurrection.
The number of the citizens who fell in defending
the lines is about 800, besides those who have since
died of their wounds.
Upwards of 200 in addition fell in the attack on
the 6th. The loss of the military is yet more con-
iiderable, especially among the Croat 3, some hun-
dred men of whom were destroyed during the storming
of the Burghthor, which was taken after three re-
peated attacks.
Letters from 011mutz of the Bth confirm the intel-
ligence which had been previously received of the
defeat of StsioNicu by the Hungarians. He lost
two pieces of cannon and several men, and retired to
Goding in the Austrian territory. The Magyar
commander did not cross the frontier, but declared
that, should the Hungarian territory be violated by
the Imperialists he would at once invade Moravia.
JELLACHICII has joined the remains of SIMONICII'S
army at Goding.
Accounts from Pesth state that the Austrian Ge-
neral Putuarroincit has been shot by order of. a

council of war.
Commandant FAMMEKSTEIN published at Lemberg,
in Gallicia, on the 3d, a notice from which we give
the following extract :
" As my troops have been fired at from the windows
and cellars, I tun convinced that the state of anarchy
has not been put an end to, and therefore declare
Lemberg and its suburbs to be in a state of siege.
I ordain as follows:-1. A general disarmament. 2.
The dissolution of all the clubs, and the suspension of

the right of meeting. 3. With the exception of the
Bwrauska Gazette, German and Polish, all journals are
into dicted from appearing during the state of siege.
4. The press in general is so far limited that no placard
can be printed and posted up without my authority.
5. A commission shall be appointed to search for arms.
6. All assemblages in public places are forbidden. 7.
All who may resist with arms in their hands, or shall
excite revolt, shall be brought
,to trial before a court-
m ar tial."