The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-05 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.
The following intelligence has been received from

the capital of the Austrian dominions--intelligence
which brings our dispatches up to the 2.lTth instant,
and which corroborates in a great measure the ideas of
M. DE LAIWITINZ in regard to the probable dis-
memberment of the empire founded by RUDOLPH of

Hapsburg.
The Academic Legion have sent a letter to the Com-
mandant, Count COLLOREDO, and have at the same

time addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants of

Vienna. The former is as follows :

" The Academic Legion to the Commandant.
" Your public question demands a public answer.

It is true that the public thoroughfares are not the
most fitting place for a lather to concert and settle
family arrangements with his sons. You have, how-
eves, chosen publicity, and we have accepted it.

Neither the father nor the sons have occasion to be

reserved. We depend upon your patriotism. We
honour your courage. We respect your judgment.

But the Academic Legion also is pa-
triotic, and has confidence in its own

judgment, though it does not overrate it, and should

its► honour, and the wulfare of the country require it,

would gladly sacrifice its very existence. We have,
however, as you observe, reiterated and seriously
tested the question of our existence. It is not the
advice of individuals, nor one•,ided representatives,
which have determined us to abide by our post ; but
the deep-rooted conviction of all, that it is now, more

than ever, our duty energetically to protect and che-
rish the well-being of our country in common with
the National Guard.

The Academic Legion will not disiolve itself. It
stand and fall by the conquests of the 14th March
15th of May.

will
and

" The unanimous voice of the inhabitants of Vienna,
the sympathies of our high-minded Burghers, are to
us a sure guarantee that our exertions are acknow-
ledged, that an existence is desired, and as soon as
the voice of truth shall prevail, as soon as lying and
calumny shall be forced to quit all their hiding
places, the inhabitants of the empire of Austria will
gratefully and affectionately acknowledge the Acade-
mic Legion.

" Mr. Commandant—We cheerfully greeted you
as our leader; it will give us pain when you quit us.
The German Academic cap would never cover a
nobler head than your's, but it will nevertheless be a
cap of honour when you have laid it aside.
" The Ministers have addressed a circular to the in-
habitants of Vienna, stating that their intentions are
suspected, and are blamed for the absence of a pro-
gramme, which acknowledges an established plan ;
that the existence of a Ministry without public
confidence, without a plan, without a clear and
defined course, is impossible ; that consequently
it is the duty of even a Ministry ad interim to sub-
mit its actions, its views, and plans to the public
judgment; that the programme of a Ministry, how.
ever, which has to project a constitution is found in
that constitution itself; that the 25th of April has
publicly attested the sentiments of the Ministry,
whether it be liberal, commensurate with the demands
and requirement of the times, whether it pays regard
to the civil liberty, to the welfare of all classes of the
inhabitants on this point, twelve of the provinces,
and the residentiary city itself have already given
their judgment. None of the assurances of this pro-
gramme have remained unfulfilled ; freedom of
speech, and liberty of the press have been
conscientiously secured. No privilege of the
Burghers have been diminished, neither pre-
judice nor partiality have been arbitrarily
exercised. The constitution was and is the basis
upon which the actions of the Ministry rest. It will
be the irrevocable guide of their actions until another
direction shall be prescribed to the acts of the Go-
vernment by a new fundamental law. Confidence
alone can consolidate the Government; and a Govern-
ment thus supported can alone energetically and
powerfully carry out the interests of the country.
The Ministers, therefore, justly claim this confidence
so long as the posts assigned to them remain under
their charge. They at the same time declare that
they will maintain all the liberties of the constitution
of the 25th of April ; to accede to all subsequent con-
cessions, powerfully to oppose anarchy, disorder, and
every reaction ; to acknowledge the Diet alone as
empowered organically to regulate the laws of
the country ; to re-establish peace in the residentiary
city ; to maintain union in the provinces, and to use
their utmost exertions to effect the return of the
Monarch to his capital.
"It the Burghers give them full support they will be
able to carry on these measures; but should they re-
fuse their co-operation, the Ministers will deem it
their sacred duty to relinquish their functions.
Signed in the name of the Ministry,
" PILLERSDORFF."
The Wiener Zeitung of the 31st May says, that
the EMPEROR, by a decree, dated Inspruck, May 22,
has abolished corporal punishment, the stock, and
brandmarks, until a new legal code on these points
shall have been issued. Searching of private resi-
dences is to be done only upon a given judicial order,
and ameliorations have been introduced into the sys-
tem of arrest.
The birthday of the EMPEROR was celebrated on
the 30th without excitement. The National Guard,
the armed Burghers' Corps, and the Academic Legion
attended divine service. In the afternoon there was
a solemn presentation of twelve field- pieces to the
National Guard and two pieces to the Academic
Legion. His MAJESTY has received an urgent invi-
tation to visit Hungary, and has promised to comply
with this request so soon as the times shall admit of
it. The Arch-Duke STEPHEN, Palatine of Hungary,
arrived at Inspruck on the 27th. His Imperial
Highness, previous to his departure from Hungary,
addressed a few words expressive of his confidence in
the Hungarian people, his happiness, being placed at
their head, in being able, in their name, to ex-
press to their MONARCH the unshaken attachment
of the Hungarian nation to his MAJESTY and the
Imperial dynasty. The Archduke Palatine has
also addressed a proclamation to the troops, to the
military of Transylvania, the Barret, and Sclavonia,
stating that the EMPEROR has been obliged to remove
from Vienna to Inspruck ; that while he thinks it
his duty to inform the military and magnates of this
circumstance, he feels assured that they will be
deeply pained at the circumstance ; that he has,
meanwhile, undertaken the supreme command, and
sees, in the combination and intimate union of the
military and the inhabitants, the sacred guarantee for
the maintenance:of peace, exhorting them stringently,
and in agenuine military spirit, to obey the behests 01
the Hungarian Ministry ; that by virtue of an Imperiti
command the military will, as soon as possible, take
the oath to the constitution, and ever maintain that
allegiance for which Hungary has been renowned
for centuries.
The Allgemeina Zeitung of the 31st states that,
in consequence of the proclamation of the Ministers
respecting the withdrawal of the military, Counts
DIETRICUSTEIN and Horos were set at liberty ; but
that a guard of honour was placed before the resi-
dence of the latter. His post as commander of the
National Guard has been filled up by the election of
Count Pastrusca. Count Mosrscuccom, Count
BRECNER, Baron PEREIRA, and the two professors,
Drs. flyz and ENDLISCHE, have lied.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE.
On the lat instant the German Constituent As-
sembly met again, under the presidency of A. TAN
GAGERN.
Among the notices of motions was one for an
offensive and defensive alliance with the French Re-
public.
The names of the Committee " for International
Questions" were read. They are—
Heckscher ••• ... for Hamburgh.
Jaup „. for Darmstadt.
Raumer.........f0r Berlin.
Esmai ch ... ... for Schleswig.
Schubert for Koningsberg.
Z:schara ••• for Bernburg.
Worm ... ••• for Hamburgh.
Gervinus .. for Heidelberg.
CUCUTIIUS for Munich.
V. Wydenbruch ... ••• for Weimar.
Henzel ...
... for Breslau.
Schuselka ... ... ... for Neuburg.
Arndt ... for Bonn.
Gombardt ... for Munich.
Hofken ... for Heidelberg.