The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-21 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Allgemeine Zeitung contains the following :
" Three Archdukes have been sent to announce to the
Great Powers the accession to the throne of the new Em-
peror— one to Frankfort, one to Berlin, and the third to
St. Petersburgh. Ordinary envoys are to announce this
historical event to the Courts of Paris and St. James.
Wherefore this distinction in the choice of envoys? To-
wards France it is easily explained. The Sovereign of
Austria need not send an Imperial Prince to announe his
accession to the President of the French Republic; but
this cannot be said as regards England, the land of
royalty, of aristocracy, and etiquette par excellence.
" What will be said at London, where both rank
and position are held in such high estimation, and
where the slightest breach of etiquette is looked upon
almost as a crime in the higher circles ? What
will be said on this preference given to the Court
of St. Petersburgh over that of St. James, on the
important occasion of announcing the accession of a
new Emperor to the throne of Austria ? We must ad-
mit that the Austrian Ministry considered twice before
they took this important step, which may be at tended with
serious consequences ; and if we are not mistaken the
only object was, that emancipated Austria wished to
make a demonstration against the perfidious policy of
Lord Palmerston towards the Imperial State, so much
shaken since the commencement of this fatal year, until
Radetzky interposed his sword, declaring: So far
and no further.

We are rejoiced to find the Austrian Government
thus giv'ng vent to its discontent with, and dislike of
England, because there can now be no reason whatever
for maintaining an Ambassador Extraordinary at the
Austrian Court, when the actual work required can
be much more effectually done by a man of busing ss,
accredited as Chargé d'Affaires, at about half
the salary paid to the Ambassador. The
" higher circles," those who look upon" almost the
slightest breach of etiquette" as " a crime:" will no
doubt be shocked and horrified at not having " our
Ambassador" to call upon and to dine with at Vienna;
but the industrious classes will no longer consent to
pay an enormous salary to " our Ambassador" when
they can get the work of the nation more effectually
done for less than half the money ; and the fact that
" our Ambassador" is recalled, never to be re-accredi-
ted, and a man of business sent to Vienna, in his stead,
will enlighten the minds of the Anstrian and teach
them that in England political power is rapidly
passing away from the "higher" to the "industrious
classes."

It is said that propositions of marriage have been
made to the young EMPEROR through a diplomatic
channel.

There was nothing certain known in Vienna from
Hungary. The rumour that Presburg had been
taken is acknowledged by the Austrian Government
to be without foundation. That there hes been
much hard fighting may be gathered from the fact
that the wounded are brought into Vienna every day
in great numbers, and that the victory was with the
Hungarians may also be assumed from the silence of
the Austrian Government, as there can be no doubt
but that had the battle been even a drawn one the
Imperialists would have claimed the victory.
A division of JELLACUICR'S Croats has been de-
feated by the Hungarians at Kittsee. They attacked
the Croats in the trenches which they had just forti-
fied, carried them by storm, and put every Croat to
the sword.

The Cologne Gazette says—" The Committee of
Finance propose to grant a loan of sixty millions of
florins instead of eighty, as demanded by the Govern-
ment. The Minister of Finance has submitted to the
Financial Committee a declaration of the Cabinet,
stating that the concessions made by their Emperor
FERDINAND are recognised by his successor as duties
which have devolved upon him with the Imperial
crown. The position of Hungary with regard to the
rest of the monarchy could not yet be determined.
The Minister declared in the course of the converse-

tiol that tit v.-7's no apprehellcion tliA- the xwnple
of Prussia wopl I he followe,l by Austria, bocawe it
would h utt-r!v impracticable here, even if ti'e Go-
vernment desired it."

The Imperial war council in Te:neswar has issued
a proclamation, enumerating many gross excesses
committed by the Hungarians, and threatening se-
vere reprisals if these excesses are continued.
The Frankfort Deutsche Zeitung, of the 17th,
states, in a correspondence from Kremsier, under
date Dec. 11, that one of the Deputies, a Ru-
thenian peasant, named KOEYLICA, had returned to
his home in the I3ukowina, and had been proclaimed
king, with a body-guard of 1,000 armed peasants.
The new Sovereign, acting as he proclaimed, in the
name of the EMPEROR, dispossessed the public
functionaries, and distributed the property of the rich
landowners amongst his followers. In the same cor-
respondence, it is asserted that the Minister of Finance,
KRAus, had drawn out of the bank twenty millions of
florins, in anticipation of the eighty millions which he
has demanded from the Diet.