The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-29 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

The Austrian Diet, in their sitting of the 19th,
came to the following resolution :—" The inviolability
and irresponsibility of the Head of the State is to be
strictly observed in the debates." The next para-
graph on the order of the day was respecting the in-
violability of Deputies. SCLIIIBELKA'S motion, that it
be left an open question, was adopted.
In the sitting of the 20th, STROBACK, the Ministe-
rial candidate, was elected President fur the ensuing
month by a small majority over SMOLKA.
The following interpellations were addressed to the
Ministry in the course of the sittings :
M. Kraumer, after stating that the Bohemian glass
manufacture had greatly suffered from the interruption
of relations 'between Austria and Spain, requested to ho
informed whether those relations had been re es-
tablished. M. Kraumer also demanded whether some
other fuel could not be employed on railways in the
place of wood, which was becoming every day more
scarce and dearer.
Deputy Sieber called the attention of the Minister
of Finances to the exportation of tin. He demanded
that the import duty should be increased, as the
mines of Silesia were ruined by the competition of
England and Holland. Ile also demanded that the im-
portation of English lace should be entirely prohibited,
as the fabrication of lace afforded employment to great
numbers of families in Bohemia, who were thrown out
of work by the importation of English fabrications. In
1842 the duty had bee' reduced to 10, and in 1844 to 5
florins per lb.
M. Schmelka and others made an interpeliation re-
specting the disarming of Lower Austria, whether it took
place by order of the Government.

These various interpellations will be handed in writing
to the respective Ministers they concern.
There is no further intelligence from the Hun-
garian army. It appears that the Imperialists suf-
fered considerably in their attack upon Wiesselburgh.
JELLACHICEI charged twice at the head of his Croats
before he broke the ranks of the Magyars, and was
all but made a prisoner by the enemy's hussars in a
hand-to-hand conflict. He was delivered from his
critical position by the cuirassiers of General ZEIS'.
BERG, who had a narrow escape himself. In this
battle two Austrian Generals, four staff. officers, and
fifty-seven other officers of rank fell on the field.
The place was given up to the Croats. Every house
was completely sacked by these barbarians, and the
town reduced to ashes. The Croats were guilty of
the most horrible cruelties.

Meantime the Magyars claim a complete victory
over the troops of the well-known Paster URBAN,
wbo has been taken prisoner. On the 16th the defile
of Jablunka, which leads from Moravia into Hun-
gary, was entirely in the bands of the Magyars, who
had rendered it impastable, even for smugglers. Ac-
cording to the latest intelligence General SCHLICK
was advancing towards Pesth from the Gallician side.
It is thought, however, that the Hungarian army on
the frontiers of Siebenburgen will contrive to hold
him in check.

The report of the surrender of Raab and Comorn
the Imperialists is not confirmed. _ _ _

The lisremsier Diet, on the sitting of the 21st,
voted, after a discussion of nine hours, and the rejec-

tion of a host of amendments, the mended proposal
of the Commission of Finance, empowering the
Ministry to contract a loan of eighty millions for the
service of the ensuing year, 1849, by a slender
majority.
The Assembly, after discussing several other para-
graphs of the " proposal of the Commission," ad-
journed until the 3d of January, when the Finance
Report will be brought forward, and the second
reading of the Bill of Fundamental Rights proposed.
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