The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-11 00:00:00

Gr, DECEMBER ll, lB4B, -

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES

AUSTRIA.'

Letters frcm Vienna of the sth state that the ab-
dication of the Emperor FERDINAND had produced
an excellent effect in the city.
The ex-EmPEnon was, it is stated, displeased at
the executions which took place in Vienna. It was
considered certain that an amnesty would be granted
to the insurgents of October, and an appeal be made
to the Hungarians to lay aside their arms.
The Cologne Gazette says the EMPEROR intends to
separate himself provisionally from all his family,
which has produced a very favourable impression ; in
fact, immediately after the act of abdication had been
signed the whole Imperial family will break up—the
ex-EMPEROR and his Consort for Prague ; the Arch-
duchess SorrilA and the Archdvke FRANCIS JOSEPH
for Munich ; the Archduke FERDINAND D'ESTE
for Berlin and Dresden, where his Highness
went to communicate to those Courts the abdication
of FERDINAND and the succession of FRANCIS JOSEPH.
The Ministers are at present with the EMPEROR.
Prince WINDISCHGRATZ has intrusted the command
of the army pro tem. to General GRUBER, and
remains at Vienna, for the purpose of receiving the
EMPEROR. Preparations are being made at Vienna
to receive the EMPEROR, who is expected to arrive
on Thursday. He intends immediately to hold a
grand review, on which occasion the troops are to
take the oath. It is not expected that he will make
a long stay at Vienna at this time, but repair to
011mutz, and there remain until the commence-
ment of the new year, when he will return to the
capital, where it is confidently expected that the Diet
will then assemble.
The new EMPEROR has confirmed the Ban Jim-
Lecrircu in all his offices.
With regard to Hungary the greatest uncertainty
prevails. Some of the public journals take a favour-
able view of the question, and expect that the recent
offers which have been made by Hungary will be
accepted, while others as confidently assert that the
new EMPEROR will open the campaign at once. Prince
WINDISCHGRATZ has drawn up a list of all the officers
who still hold out against the repeated invitations
made to them, and have not quitted the rebel Hun-
garian ranks, and re•entered the Austrian army.
This list is to be placed in the hands of the soldiers, who
are empowered to arrest and hand over to court-
martial any officer named in that list, wheresoever
they may meet him.
Klausenburg has surrendered to the Imperial
troops.
The Wiener Zeitung says that the city of Arad,
a very strong place on the Maros, near the Hunga-
rian frontier, on the Transylvanian side, and contain-
ing a population of about 15,000 souls, was born •
barded on the 10th and 11th, for the fifth time.
There was not a house left standing uninjured.
The Wiener Zeitung omits to say whether the
bombardment was made by the Imperial troops or
the Magyars. The large fortress of Lippa, on the
Maros, in Toronta, was taken from the Magyars on
the 11th, by the Wallachians, after an obstinate
resistance.
A letter from Presburgh states that the Hungarian
troops suddenly quitted that city on the morning of
the 30th ult., without waiting to be attacked, taking
with them 150 pieces of cannon and the muskets of
the National Guard, whom they had disarmed. It
was said that the Hungarian army had occupied an
advantageous position near Wieselburgh, Arad, and
Comorn. It was further reported that M. MESSAROS,
the Hungarian Minister of War, had fled.
Prince WINDISCHGRATZ publishes the following
documents in. the Wiener Zeitung

" My dear Field-Marshal Priiice Windischgratz,
" All my actions have ever been swayed by my love
for the people confided to my Government, and thus it
shall remain till my death. I feel that I must make a
great sacrifice to the public welfare, and I do it from a
calm and sincere conviction, and unswayed by any in-
fluence whatever. I transmit to my nephew and suc-
cessor my boundless love and gratitude to my army, of
which I shall never forget the bravery. In order to
honour that bravery i❑ the person of their noble Ge.•
neral, and in order to give to you, my dear Prince, a
token of my deep sense of the service you did to the
state and the dynasty, I send you the Grand Cross of
the Order of St. Stephen. " FERDINAND.
" 011mutz, Nor. 30."
" My dear Prince Windischgratz,
" My army has at all times, but especially during the
late troubles, justified the confidence placed in it. No-
thing else could be expected since you were their Gene-
ral. You bore in your silent heart that deep grief for
which I cannot offer you any compensation, and you op-
posed your loyalty and honour to rebellion, and then
you hastened to Vienna and quelled the insurrection by
your courage and prudence.
" I consider it my first duty to give you a full recog-
nition of your merits and virtues, which to me are a
guarantee for your standing by me in future as a firm
pillar of the throne in the constitution. My dear
Prince, you will assure the troops under your command
of the proofs of their faith and gallantry being indelibly
engraved on my heart.

011mutz, Dec. 2.

" FRANCIS JOSEPH

The following address, signed by a great number of
the most respectable citizens of Vienna, was presented
:o the Ministry on the Ist inst. :
.

" The undersigned, inhabitants of Vienna, cannot but
inform the Cabinet of the heartfelt sympathies and the
cordial assent which the opening speech of the Pre,i-
dent of the Cabinet, and the principles on domestic and
foreign policy laid down in the same, have created in

their— hearts. They consider this Ministerial pro-
gramme as a faithful and full expression of patriotism;
they consider it as the standard which leads Austria
on to prosperity and glory ; they greet it as the first
dawn of a brighter future, as the early promise of a
full bloom of those young seeds of liberty which Aus-
tria's Sovereign scattered over the blooming fields of his
vast countries.

"Let the Ministry, relying on the general confidence,
strengthened and borne by the consciousness of the as-
sent of well-disposed persons, persevere in striving for-
wards to the goal they aim at; may they overcome all
difficulties that are in their way; may the voice of con-
fidence, which we are the first to raise, echo from all the
counties of Austria—may it shield them in the fight—
may it wreath their brows after the victory.
" Vienna, Nov. 30, 1848."