The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

A USTRIA.

The Austrian journals, just received, contain the
following report of the first sitting of the Austrian
Diet at Krernsier, on the 22d inst.:—
" The first sitting of the Diet has taken place. Eve,
on Sunday the apprehension was entertained that there
would not be a sufficient number of Deputies to form a
quorum; but on the following day they continued to
arrive by every fresh train, and in the evening more than
two-thirds of the whole number were present.
" At tea o'clock this morning a solemn service was
performed in the cathedral church, by tho Bishop of
Olniii!a; the National Guard were out, and nearly all
the Members were present.
"At eleven o'clock the sitting commenced in the au-
ditory of the palace ; it presented the appearance of a
temporary theatre, built up in haste by a hand of actors,
rather than the hall of sessions for one of the first Im-
perial assemblies.
"As nearly as possible, however, the Deputies were ar-
ranged as in Vienna—the Pules and ultra-German party
occupying the left, and the Czeschs the right.
" The Minister Stadiun only appeared for a few
minutes ; Kraus and Bach remained.
" M. Smolka occupied the l'r,sident's chair, and
declared immediately that the time having expired it
was necessary to proceed to the election of a new Pre-
sident.

" Deputy Schmidt vainly demanded a delay of some
days. This proposition was rejected, and the election o

a President proceeded with; 248 Members then voted.
At the first scrutiny- it appeared that M. Strobach had
ohta;ned 122 votes, and M. Smolics. 121. Neither of the

can,lidates having obtained an absolute majority, a new
scrutiny took place, when it was ascertained that of '255
votes, M. Smolka had obtained 131, and M. Strobach 124.
M. Smolka was then declared duly elected. The result
caused considerable surprise.
" M. Meyer was then elected first Vice-President, and
Losser, of Salzburg, second Vice-President. Thus
the Presidency of the Austrian Diet is composed of a
Pole, a Moravian, and a German. The Czechs have
been completely thrown out.
" The Deputy Schuselka then pronounced a discourse,
in which he made a report of the last acts of the Diet at
Vienna. lie affirmed that the Diet, which sat in plenum,
had protested at head. quarters in Vienna against its
transfer; but that no reply had been vouchsafed. The
Assembly,' he said, had resolved to meet on the 13th
November ; but in order not to provoke divisions, we
have decided to come here; not that by this act we recog-
nise that either the Crown or the Ministers have the right
to transfer the Diet according to their own pleasure. I
must, therefore, declare, in th face of all Europe, that the
Government has not the right to transfer the Diet where-
soever it pleases ; but, in order not to augment the
inisorlei of Vienna, provoked in the first instance by the
ultra-Democrats, and now by ultra-dipLanatists and
military men, we have therefore decided to come hither.
The object, in view may be attained anywhere. I will
not now make any proposition, but simply make this
declaration.'

"The President then proposed that the sitting should
be adjourned till Saturday, 25th, at eleven o'clock ; and
no member having offered any opposition, the House ad-
journed at half •past one.
" On the Ministerial bench were only the Ministe rs
Kraus, Stadion, and Bach. The other ministers took
their seats as deputies."
The Weiner Zeitung has the following:—
" The former commander of the Academic Legion,
Joseph Argino, portrait painter, who was sentenced to
death by martial law, has, in consideration of the better
sentiments which ho evinced during the September dis-
turbances, and those of October, as well as because he
energetically assisted and endangered his own person
for effecting the disarmament in the suburbs of Vienna,
received lull pardon from Prince Windischgratz."
The widow of the unfortunate ROBERT BLum
arrived at Vienna on the 20th, to demand the body
of her husband. The Austrian authorities coolly
informed her that the body had been dissected. Such
horrors as this were not committed by the most ardent
terrorists during the worst periods of the Reign of Ter-
ror in the first French revolution. It is the Abso-
lutist alone who carries his malignity beyond the
grave, and insults even the corpse of his victim.
Dr. BECHER and Dr. JELLINICK, editors of the
Radical, were shot by orders of Prince WINDISCH-
GRATZ on the 23d. BECHER was a British subject,
having been born in Manchester, and the protest of
Lord PONSONBY against the execution was not at-
tended to by Prince WINDISCHGRATZ. BECHER was
charged with the publication of certain articles which
appeared before Vienna was declared in a state of
siege, and while full liberty of the press was guaran-
teed. We trust that the British Minister will not
confine himself to protests.
The Hungarian Minister of War, MEssAitos, has
received full powers to carry on negotiations for the
settlement of the Hungarian disturbances with the
two Generals WINDISCHGRATZ and JELEACHICII.

The peace has not been again disturbed at Gratz.
General NUGENT has entered it with a division of his
troops. Count WicKiNnunG has left Gratz for 01-
inutz.

The Hungarians are adopting the plan of firing all
the places through which they pass, and carrying
away all the provisions, in order to obstruct the ad-
vance of the Imperial troops.
It was currently reported in Vienna on the 25th
that RADETZKY had died of apoplexy.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 22.
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3 per Cent...
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1 per Cent..
Loan, 1834 •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • 132
Ditto, 1839 •• •• .• •• •• •• •• • .....
Bank Shares •• .• ••••••••••.• •• .• •• —1,084
Esterhazy's Loan
RAILWAYS.

The N0rthern............
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Venice,-Milan ........
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DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 23.—The Gazette de Berlin,g
announces that the negotiations for peace between
Germany and Denmark will soon be commenced at
London. Count REVENTLOW, at present in Copen-
hagen, will return to his post at London, as Ambas-
sador from Denmark, as soon as he has received his
final instructions. On the other side, General VA-
HOLM has set out for London, in order to communi-
cate to the British Government the views of the Da-
nish Government on what concerns the principal liti-
gated points.

ITALY.

ROME.

Intellig,ree has been received limn Rome to the
20th. At that date tranquillity had been completEly
restored. T'-)e POPE had not quitted the Quirinal,
but had installed the new Ministry in office, and ap-
peared to have loyally accepted the new order of
things. The following is the

" PROGRAMME OY THE NEW ROMAN MINISTRY.
" Rome, Nov. 18, 1848.
" Called to the Ministry in the midst of extraordinary
circumstances, and at a time when a refusal on our part
would have had the effect of placing in certain peril the
constitutional form of Government which is at present in
force in our State, we should be frightened with the gra-
vity of affairs and of the times, if we were not supported
by the thought that our political programme is in per-
fect harmony, not only with the principles proclaimed by
the people, but also with those which, after ripe delibe-
ration, have been accepted by our legislative Chambers
—principles which will SQ/1,0 to regulate all our actions
as long as we remain in power. Among these principles,
there is one which has received, by a solemn act, the
assent of the Prince; and as regards another, a promise
has been made that he would concert with the new
Ministry, in order that analagous propositions should
be presented fur the acceptation of the deliberative
Chambers.

" The principle of the nationality of Italy, proclaimed
by our people and by the Chambers a hundred times,
and ace. pted by us, has been sanctioned without reserve
by the Prince, at the time when, with paternal zeal, he
recalled it to the recollection of the Emperor of Austria,
in his letter to that Prince. Considering that, in order
to gain this good, we must think it indispensable to exe-
cute the deliberations adopted by the Chamber of
Deputies concerning the independence of Italy, our firm
resolution to put in practice these deliberations is no-
thing else but a frank adhesion to the wishes of the re•.
presentatives of the people. No one will doubt our full
adhesion to the programme of the sth of June, which
was received with so much enthusiasm by Inc deliberative
Chambers. The Convocation of a Constituent Assembly
at Rome, and the drawing up of a federative act, are
principles and maxims which we find laid down in the
opinion expressed by our Chambers, for the convocation
of a Diet at Rome, destined to discuss the general in-
terests of our common country.
"At the present day, when to this opinion, to that
fundamental maxim, comes to be joined the assent of
the Prince, who also wishes to submit the decision of it
to the Chambers ; of the Sovereign whom the whole of
Italy has saluted as the initiater of her liberty and in-
dependence, our heart beats at the idea of the proximity
of the moment when we are allowed to hope that we
shall at length see the birth of that federal compact,
which, respecting the existence of the isolated states,
and leaving intact their form of government, will serve
to insure the liberty, the union, and independence of
Italy. This work will be perfected, in our opinion, when
the glory of Rome and the venerated name of a Pontiff
will have associated in the accomplishment of it.
"We present ourselves with this programme before
the people and the Chambers. If the people accord to
us their confidence, we will use all our efforts to con-
tinue to deserve it. The Chambers are about to be called
together, in order to prove to us if they will accord to
us their confidence, and it is permitted to us to hope
thst we shall receive it if their political principles con-
tinue to be, at the present day, what they were in times
past.

" C. E. MAZZARELLI, President,
" S. GALETTI,
" PIERRE STERBINI,
" J. LUNATL"

The POPE having accepted the resignation of
Prince C. ALDOBRANDINI, commandant of the Civic
Guard of Rome, has appointed, on the proposition of
the Minister of the Interior, Colonel JOSEPII
LIEN°, in his stead. During the 16th Prince Ros-
PIOLIOSI distributed bread, wine, and cheese, to the
crowd, on the Monte Cavallo. The new Ministry
has ordered all the arms of the Swiss Guard at the
Palace of the Quirinal to be removed. By order of
the Pope, the Castle of St. Angelo is guarded by
soldiers of the line and the Civic Guard. A civil
guard mobile of 1,000 men is to be immediately es-
tablished, to act along with the troops who have re-
turned from Vincenzi. The Argentine theatre is
to be illuminated a giorno, in honour of the new
Ministry.
It appears that the hauteur of the unfortunate
Count Rossi had made him personally disliked by all
classes of his countrymen ; as an illustration we
quote the following from the Contemporaneo
Prince Barberinl having been named member of a
I'errinsc o:1 13e a timerbe rtihe
i
wished to speak with him. am now reading then
commission created by Rossi, conceived himself obliged
to go and thank him fur it. He was no sooner announced
gi
inform
rt o
m read it.
that A f
from the antecliatiber than the Minister said, Give me
servant
aGnatzreetttet;
rtiCd to be
Gazette,' replied he, when I have finished the Prince
may enter.' The Prince was kept in the antechamber
accordingly, and an hour puss( d before he obtained an
audience. Was there ever a more aristocratic minister
than Rossi ?"

Some disturbances have taken place at Pisa, in con
sequence of the election of two deputies of the old
Chamber. The Prefect and First Councillor of the
Prefecture succeeded with difficulty in persuading

the people to retire. At I.Aghorn, GUERAZZI
been elected by 167 votes, az:d at Rosignano by 102.

TURKEY.
Letters from Constantinople to the 15th have been
received.

On the 11th, M. MU:ILRUS, the late Turkish
Minister at Athens, and recent!y appointed to go in
the same quality to Vienna, arrived at Con,tanti-
nople in the Government steamer Esseri-Djedid.
which was sent to the Pirmus and placed at his
disposal. On the day of his arrival he went to the
Porte, and paid visits to the Grand Vizier and the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.

GREECE.

Intelligence has been received from Athens to the
19th inst.

On the 9th the KING opened the Legislative
Chambers in person, with the following speech :

" Senators and Deputies,
Again united in this place, under the protection of the
Most High, let us give Him thanks, and let us join our
efforts in the interest and happiness of our deer country.
The constitution—that indissoluble bond of our political
system—offers to us, by the free action of its disrosi-
Lions, the surest guarantees for the consolidation of the
national prosperity. The rt plating of the necessary ex-
penditure of the state, by means of discussing the budget
in proper time, and the vote of the other projects of law
which will be submitted to your grave deliberations, will
produce a praiseworthy economy, and contribute to faci-
litate the march of my Government. My relations with
foreign Powers are amicable. A degree of gratitude
which is peculiar in itself, attaches us to the Three
Powers, in consequence of the benefits conferred by
them on Greece. In priding myself, gentlemen, oft the
striking proofs of wisdom manifested by the Greek people
for the establishment of public order, in the midst of
grave and critical circumstances, I express the joy with
which that conduct has penetrated my heart. Grievous
events, in contradiction with the sentiments of the Greek
nation, have momentarily disturbed tranquillity in some
parts of the kingdom ; but they have served once more
to mark the enlightened patriotism with which the
people are animated. Confident in the noble sentiments•
of the nation, let us advance with zeal in the work to
which we are called, the co'isolidating of the prosperity
of the country, by invoking to that effect the Divine as-
sistance. I proclaim the opening of the present Parlia-
mentary session."

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.

NZWGATE AND I.E-AIDENZIA2.2I..

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A fair average business was transacted here t )- day at
full prices. Beef, from 2s Ed to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 2d
to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 4s 8d
per 81bs, by the carcase.