The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

Letters from Vienna of the 10th state that Lord
PALMERSTON has signified to Lord Poxsomn- that
England joins France in insisting that the proposals
made by Austria on the 9th of August shall be
adopted as the basis of the negotiations on the subject
of the settlement of the Austro-Italian question.
These proposals included the abandonment of Lom-
bardy by Austria, and by them Austria refuses to
abide since RIDETZIT'S victories.

In reference to the disorders of which Vienna was
:he theatre, on the 12th, the Wiener Zeitung says—

" The events of to-day, the theatre of which was the
Ministry of the Interior, cannot but deeply grieve every
true lover of liberty. The burghers most cherished
right—the sanctity of his domestic hearth—was grossly
violated; and the circumstance is the more to be re-
gretted, for this house is a house of the nation, and the
man whose privileges were thus invaded and (threatened
was the First Minister of the nation. There can be no
liberty without law, and no law unless the same is re-
spected. How can liberty become the sure bulwark of
our people—after the noble example of England—if the
first officer of the State is to be compelled by threats,
demonstrations, and violence, to assent to that which the
law does not sanction?

"The National Guard, which was hastening to the
protection of the Minister, was compelled to retire. The
mob then forced the doors, and entered the apartments
of the academic legion.
" It is not liberty, but liberties, which are the aim of
a certain party, and as long as this is the case we can-
not hope for any improvement in the state of our affairs."
In the sitting of the Austrian Diet, of the 11th,
questions were put to the Ministry relative to the
affairs of Italy, and as to the conditions on which the
mediation had been accepted. Baron Ds, WESSIIS.
BERG, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, requested that
he might give his reply in writing. M. Dcwalmoza,
said that their mediation had been, in fact, accepted,
andithat negotiations were going on.
The Breslau Gazette has the following from
Vienna, 11th instant :

" The following are the demands made to the Empe-
ror by the Hungarian deputation, with his replies:—
" May it please your Majesty to order-1. That all
the Hungarian regiments who are not actually before
the enemy may return
ceive the orders of the Hungarian Ministry. 2. To or-
derimmediately into Hungary to re-
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the army which is in Hungary, under pain of punish-
ment, to act against the insurgents, whatever name or
whatever standard they may usurp, and to do its
duty for the defence of the country and the maintenance
of the integrity of Hungary. 3. The Hungarian nation
wishes to regulate the question of nationality and
administration between it and the Croation nation,
according to the bases of liberty, equality, and frater-
nity. Croatia is now under military despotism, and its
inhabitants cannot express their wishes or their desires
to the Hungarian Legislature. Your Majesty is, in
consequence entreated to order that the Croatian nation
may be delivered. from this despotism, in order that they
may freely manifest their wishes, and that Finnie, which
has been occupied in a perfidious manner, and the Sela-
vonian Consulate may be immediately given up. 4. The
Hungarian nation feels no doubt but that your Majesty will
not only oppose the efforts of the reactionists who have
only their own interests in view, but will punish them.
5. The Hungarian nation demands, in fine, that your
Majesty will sanction the laws voted by the Hungarian
Diet, will come to P esth, and support by your royal
presence the authority of the Legislature and of the
Constitutional Government. We the more anxiously
desire that your Majesty should accede to our prayer, as
a refusal would shake the confidence, and make it im-
possible for the Ministry to maintain internal tranquillity
and public order.'"