The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Oesterreichische Zeitung states that the walls
of Vienna are covered with numerous placards
calling upon the people in general, and the women
in particular, to pray for the EMPEROR'S re-
turn. The Vienna correspondents of the Cologne
Gazette assert that the EMPEROR'S journey
to Innspruck was not a flight, but an abduc-
tion ; that he left the town in the firm belief
that he was going out for a short drive, and that
when the travelling carriages reached the
party at Schonbrunn, his judgment was on
a sudden overruled by the passionate en-
treaties of the ladies, who shocked his mind
by a frightful picture of the dangers which
threatened him and them at Vienna. The whole
affair is represented as a successful intrigue of the
Court party, who knew the character of the Viennese,
and intended to hurt them to the quick, and force
them to every poessible concession to absolute power,
by depriving the city of the quality of the imperial
residence, from which the Viennese are wont to
derive their importance in their own eyes and in
those of the provinces. A letter from Innspruck of the
23d, in the Deutsche Zeitung, protests that the Tyrol
will be the EMPEROR'S Vendie, but the writer antici-
pates a loss of the old Tyrolese liberties, and a sub-
j ugation by a despotic rule, which hitherto had been
foreign to this privileged part of the Austrian Mo-
narchy. The writer protests, nevertheless, that the
Tyrolese are prepared to sacrifice even their liberties
to the family of Hapsburg.
Hungary also seems to have been well ezp/oite by
the partisans of the reaction. The Breslau Gazette
says that the news of the EMPEROR'S flight arrived
at the Hungarian capital late in the evening of the
IWth, a Government courier having been dispatched by
the Hungarian Minister ,at Vienna. A deputation of
Nobles immediately waited upon the Arch -
PALArnim, and, after a short deliberation,
it was resolved to send the Hungarian Minister,
Prince PAUL ESTERUAZY, to the KING (Emperor of
AUSTRIA, Bing of HUNGARY), to remain with him
according to the terms of the law. An address
was also drawn up and dispatched to his MAJESTY,
requesting him in the most loyal and warm
language to proceed forthwith to his loyal
Hungarian capital, where the warmest welcome
awaited him, and where every citizen was ready to
lay down life and fortune for his beloved Sovereign.
It was decided that an extraordinary Diet should be
convoked for the 2d July, and if necessary 100,000
National Guards called out for the defence of the
throne. The Archduke STEPHEN has, in the mean-
time, been invested with all the prerogatives of
royalty ad interim.
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Vienna was tranquil, though the public mind was
greatly agitated.

The following letter from Prague, dated the 22d
instant, will show that the present state of affairs is
complicated enough :

" PRAGUE, MAY 22.—We live here, since the late
events at Vienna, in a state of the most feverish
excitement. I will explain our position to you in
a few words. Scarcely had the Emperor been car-
ried off (Entfiihrting) when a large portion of the
Viennese aristocracy came in post haste, and imme-
diately entered into close communication with the
nobles here. They regarded the new system of
one chamber and the proposed union' to Germany as a
death-blow to their privileges, and acted accordingly.
They endeavour to form a union with the Czechs, with
them and the other Sclavouic races to tear themselves
apart from Vienna, to form a new state according
to their own ideas. It was they who persuaded the
Emperor to leave his capital, by frightening him with the
idea that his life was in danger. The aristocracy are
playing a fearful stake, and are advancing towards their
own ruin. They wish to make use of the Czechs, who
in their turn will deceive them, and having lost their
footing in Vienna, they will be done for."
A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette writes as
follows from Prague:—
" Nobility keeps pouring in. The words free Bohe-
mians pass from mouth to mouth, and Count Thun has
already declared that he should receive no more orders
from the Ministry, and that, in conjunction with the
National Committee, he should establish a Provisional
Government until the meeting of the Diet. The rumoured
fraternization between the Germans and Czechs is a
piece of bitter irony on the present state of Bohemia.
Heavy clouds are lowering over the land, and the storm
cannot fail soon to burst over our heads. The Czechs
raise their heads and walk more upright than ever, and
the Germans await with anxiety the course of events."