The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-16 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Cabrera is still in the province of Vich, and his
inaction gives rise to a variety of conjectures. It is
positively stated that his health will not permit him
to continue the post of the chief of the Catalonian or
Aragonese partisans. General Enna, commanding
the Queen's forces in the province of Girona, attacked
on the 3d, on the extreme frontiers, the Carlo-Repub-
lican band of Plandamunt, and killed or wounded
several of his men. The remainder sought refuge on
the French territory. The blockade of Berga still
continued on the Ist, but a convoy of provisions,
coming from Cardona, was able to enter the town.
It is stated that Manresa, a town with a population
of 15,000, is threatened with the same fate. A new
republican band has made its appearance in the neigh-
bourhood of Figuera, but its efforts appear to be
directed towards La Jonquiere.

It is stated
of
in
opinionweA hasll-UinS arisen
quarters that a serious
difference
TrisßenlbAet.ween the mediating
Powers and the Government of Austria on the subject
of the city of Venice. The British and French re-
presentatives at Vienna are said to have declared to
Baron Wessemberg, the ,Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, that in consequence of the mediation accepted by
the Imperial Cabinet, the latter was bound to abstain
from any act of hostility against Venice until the
future fate of the city should be fixed by the medi-
ating Powers. The Cabinet of Vienna is said to have
replied
.to the declaration, that in signing the armistice
with King Charles Albert, the Austrian Government
reserved its full right to adopt such measures against
Venice as might be necessary to recover possession of
it, the more so as the armistice in question declared
expressly that Venice should be surrendered to the
Imperial troops, within three days after the ratifica-
tion of the armistice by King Charles Albert. The
Baron de Wessemberg added, that the period of
the armistice was concluded at Milan, the city of
Venice was dependent, in fact, on the Sardinian Go-
vernment, and that consequently the engagement
contracted by King Charles Albert to surrender Ve-
nice to Austria could not be weakened by the refusal
of the present Venetian Government, a revolutionary
Government not recognised by any foreign Power,
and much less by Austria. Neither did Baron
Wessemberg conceal from Lord Ponsonby and
M. de Lacour, that as soon as the Sardinian fleet
should have quitted Venice the Austrian Government
would attack it by land and sea. The Sardinian
fleet quitted the waters of Venice definitively on the
afternoon of the 7th instant, after having embarked
the Sardinian troops. The Austrian fleet was pre-
paring hwinstant to
concentrating bl o
cka blockade
histroops Venice,
take
It is added that the French
Government had in consequence determined to send
several ships of war to Venice, and to make at the
Welder'
assault. 8
same time a diplomatic remonstrance to the Cabinet
Generalth e e i city 'on
by the
of Vienna, to require it to abstain from continuing
the war against Venice.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 11th contains a letter,
dated Vienna, Bth instant, which states that " all
well•informed and influential men believe, that al-
though Austria has accepted the offered mediation of
France and England, she is determined not to cede
an inch of her Italian territory."