The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

Intelligence has been received. from Vienna to the
21st. The city is completely surrounded by troops,
and it is rumoured that the Hungarians who were ad-
vancing to the relief of the city have retreated in
consequence of the desertion of two of the Hungarian
regiments of Hussars to WINDISCHGRATZ.
The Allgetneine Oesterrichische Zeitung of the 19th
instant says :
"It was with tniversal indignation that we received
the news that the Hungarians—notwithstanding all the
fine phrases and notwithstanding all the accounts of out-
post tights, with which the Hungarian faction daily used to
entertain the public—will not appear before Vienna.
Fortunately we de not want the Magyars. History will
sit in judgment over their conduct."
The EMPEROR has issued the following manifesto,
which has produced a great effect in Vienna::

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passions, I was still induced to hope that the rebellious
infatuation of a portion of the population would not be
of a continuance. I was led to expect from the usually-
sound judgment of the inhabitants of my capital and
residentiary city, they would themselves exert all their
energy to restore the honour of the law by the bringing
of its transgressors to condign punishmeni, and to re-
store within the shortest possible time the endangered
security of life and property to the city.
" This expectation.has been disappointed. Not only
have the authors of thq insurrection in Vienna succeeded
in retaining the authority which they had forcibly as-
sumed by an act of horror which has but one parallel in
history, and of commanding the city which was partly
paralysed by fear, and partly in a state of the wildest
intoxication, and thereby prevented the return of legal
order within the walls of Vienna—nay, even beyond
the walls did the influence of their anarchical endeavours
extend.
" Treasonable cornexions were formed with a neigh-
bouring province; to every part of my states emissaries
were sent, under tre pretext of guarding endangered
liberty, even were perfect order had prevailed, for the
purpose of there planting the standard of rebellion, and
abandoning my hitherto peaceful country, which was
anticipating the legal development of free institutions,
to the horrors of eiiil war, of anarchy, and destruction.
" Since my accession to the throne the weal of my
people has been the object of my life. The history of
my government, the history of the last seven months
especially, will at some future day testify to this.
" But I should be guilty of unfaithfulness to the
sacred duties imposed apon me by Providence were I
any longer to tolerate a course of procedure which hur-
ries the throne aid the monarchy to the very brink of
ruin, and is calcrlated, in place of the constitutional
liberty accorded V me, to bring about a state of un-
bounded despotism
" Impressed Witt these duties, I am compelled, with a
bleeding heart, to meet the rebellion which now shame-
lessly rears its head in my residentiary city, as well as
in all other places wherever it may appear, to oppose it
by force of arms, and to combat it till it shall have been
completely quelled, and the murderers of my faithful
servants the Counts Lainberg and Latour are even over
to the avenging hand of justice.
" For the attainment of this object, I send from divers
parts of the monarchy my armies against Vienna, the
seat of the insurrection, and by these presents commit to
my Field-Marshal Prince Windischgrata the command
of all the troops throughout the whole extent of my do-
minions, with the sole exception of the Italian army,
under the command of my Field-Marshal Count Ra-
detaky.
" At the same time, I give the Prince the full requi-
site powers, in order that peace may be restored, ac-
cording to his own judgment, within theshortest possible
time.

" After subduing the armed rioters and restoring
peace, it will be the task of my Ministers, in unison
with the members of the Constituent Diet, to bring
about, by legal regulations respecting the hitherto
licentiously abused press, the right of association and
popular armament, a state of things which, without in-
fringing liberty, shall secure authority and respect of the
laws.

" Whilst in the fall consciousness of my duties and
my rights, I hereby make known to my people these my
unalterable fixed resolutions. I depend upon the sin-
cere and energetic support of all those who have the weal of
their Emperor, of their country, of their families, and of
true liberty at heart, that they will recognize in these
my present resolutions the only remedy of securing the
monarchy from dismemberment and themsel►es from
the horrors ofanarchy and the rupture of all social bonds.
" FE RDINA ND.
(Countersigned) " WESSEMBERG.
" Olmuts, Oct. 16, 1848."

A telegraphic dispatch, addressed by Prince ,WIN.•
DISCMGRATZ to the Major-General PREROU, orders
him to treat the National Guards in the same manner
as those of Bielitz; the officers to be sent to Olmutz,
and the soldiers disarmed and sent to their homes.

The Cologne Gazette, under date Oct. 21, ten A.M.,
says the Prince WINDISCIIGRATZ has taken possession
of' the island of Lobau, with 2,600 men. Provisions
are becoming very scarce in Vienna. The Coen-
mander-in• Chief announced in the Communal Council
that he was not able to protect the whole extent of
the city with the men at his disposition, unless he was
allowed to take the offensive in case of need. Neither
the Council nor the Diet would undertake the re-
sponsibility of authorising such a proceeding.
The Austrian Lloyd• of the 19th announces that
the two imperial Commissioners, MM. WELCKER
and Mosr.E, had arrived from Frankfort. The Ber-
liner Zeitungshalle informs us that those gentlemen
did not stay At Vienna, but set out immediately for
Olmuta. The two Commissioners issued a declaration,
dated Passau, 19th inst., in which they profess that
their mission is one of peace and reconciliation. They
deny that Prussia, Bavaria, or other German troops,
have received orders to march into Austria. Their
proclamation is wound up by the following wishes :
" Hail to Austria, and to the glorious house of her
Emperors! Hail to Viennaf Our most ardent wish is
that Austria and Vienna may as speedily as possible
combine prosperity and merry enjoyment of lire with
constitutional liberty, unlimited but lawful, and practised
with manly maturity, as it is existing among the free
Engli.h, and in their flourishing capital."
The latest accounts from Vienna have come via
Berlin. A letter from that city, dated Oct. 23, con-
, tains the following :

"On the evening of the 21st inst. Vienna was being
plundered by the rabble of
the population. The Hun-
garian cavalry had gone over to Auerspero. The Reich-
stag was not allowed to assemble, and tie members of
the Right had placed themselves under the protection of
the diplomatic corps.
A letter from Innspruck of the 16th inst. states,
that some companies of sidemen, which had marched
towards Vienna to support the EMPEROR, bad re-
turned in consequence of an insurrection which was
ready to break out in Southern Tyrol,: the result of
the events in Vienna.

PRUSSIA.
Intelligence has been received from Berlin to the 23d.
On the 22d the Posen question was debated in
the Assembly, and was decided, after a stormy dis-
cussion, in favour of the non-separation of the Grand
Duchy into a Polish and a German part, and conse-
quently in favour of its non-annexation to the German
Confederation, by a majority of 7*
The Commander of the Burgher Guard has issued
another proclamation, in which he states that he en-
tertains a firm confidence that a reconciliation be.
tween the Burgher Guard and the workmen will be
effected soon, and that he trusts no further disturb-
ances of public quiet will take place. The admonition
addressed to the workmen in this proclamation is
very warmly expressed, and shows that, nevertheless,
strong apprehensions are entertained that another col-
lision between the Burgher Guard and the workmen
might ensue. These apprehensions are by no means
unfounded if it is considered that much excitement
still prevails among the workmen.

HUNGARY-
The Hungarian Diet has issued the following
decree, dated Oct. 10, 1848, on the subject of the
llungarian troops in foreign countries :
" Our dear, bleeding country, reckoning, in its su-
preme struggle for its satety and existence, upon the
patriotic assistance. of its children, the National Assem-
bly decrees and orders, in the name of the country
" All the Hungarian' soldiers stationed in Italy, in
Bohemia, in Moravia, and in Gallicia, or in any other
foreign country, shall
return to their native country, to
take part in its defence of its constitutional liberty,
legally sanctioned by the royal oath. Confiding in its
certain hope the Hungarian nation counts upon the
brave Hungarian soldiers surmounting every obstacle,
even to cutting their way by arms, to fly to the succour
of their friends and their brethren. The Hungarian
nation, proud that her children have driven the rebel
Jellaehieh from her soil, waits with open arms her brave