The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.


AUSTRIA.

Letters from Vienna of the 3d inst mention a fresh
ebullition of popular indignation in that city, occa-
sioned by the (alleged) interference of the Archbishop
in favour of the expelled religious society of the
Ligurians, a sect affiliated to the order of Jesuits. A
report having been diffused among the people to
the effect that the reverend prelate had made a
formal application to the Ministry to permit the
return of the Ligurians, and also demanded
the restitution of their property, a large con-
course collected on the evening of the 2d, in the
square of St. Stephen's, and saluted the archiepis-
copal ears with the discordant combination of
sounds denominated a " Charivari." The crowd
was composed of students, National Guards in full
uniform, and other highly respectable and well-
dressed persons. Not content with disturbing the
slumbers of the unfortunate prelate, the insurgents
shivered the lower casements of his palace to atoms,
and one individual climbed to a window of the first
story, and tore down the German flag suspended
there.

The angry multitude next proceeded to the hotel of
Count FICQUELMONT, and compelled him to " show"
at a window. The explanations of the Minister were
drowned by discord and shouts. A youth in the garb
of a student intimated to his Excellency that he must
resign the next day, and his speech, which was deli-
vered in stentorian tones, gave general satisfaction.
The crowd then at midnight dispersed.
The elections for the Diet at Frankfort are going
forward. Dr. MUHLFELD has been elected for the
inner town by 99 out of 106 votes. Dr. SCIIILLING,
it is reported, has been chosen as the representative
of one of the Vorstadte.

The accounts from Prague continue to be very
gloomy, and it is expected that open war must soon
break out between the Chechish and the German
populations. The deputation from Frankfort has
been quite unsuccessful.
A correspondent, reverting to the affair of the
Archbishop of VIENNA, fully exculpates the Rev.
Prelate, on the authority of official documents pub-
lished on the 3d. It appears that he merely
requested that provision might be made, out of
the property of the Ligurian Convent, for
those members of the society unfit for parochial
duties, and for the nuns. The resignation of COUNT
FICQUELMONT is expected nevertheless. Prince
COLLOREDO-MANSFIELD, the President of the Ger-
manic Diet, is named as his successor. In Hungary,
COUNT SZECHENZI has taken the place of Count
L. BATHYANY as the President of the Council of
Ministers.

The Liberal party in Vienna are extremely angry
at the attention paid to Prince METTERNICH in this
metropolis by the Austrian Ambassador, whose im-
mediate recal is insisted on.

The Five per Cents. closed on the 3d at 66 67 ;
Bank Shares, 1,000 1,020 ; Nordbahn, 74f to 744.
Exchange on London, 11 30.

PRUSSIA.

The magistrates of Berlin published a notice on the
6th, announcing the imposition of an income-tax of
1 per cent. to meet the unlooked-for demands made
upon the savings banks. Single persons with an
income of 300 rix dollars, families of two with an
income of 400 rix dollars, and families of a greater
number than two with an income of 500 rix dollars,
are liable to the income-tax.

Tranquillity has been restored at Treves.
A letter from Berlin, of May 4, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" All the ambassadors of Russia at
the German Courts are preparing to take their de-
parture. The Russian Minister Plenipotentiary DE
STRUVE, at Hamburgh. is about to give in his resig-
nation, after 50 years of diplomatic services. Geo.
PFUEL, on his way to St. Petersburgh, is to stop at
Posen, ;to resume the system of pacification, inter-
rupted by the departure of General WILLISEN. This
resolution was adopted before the arrival of the last
news."