The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, dated November 24, says
—lt is said that the French Government has
recently touched on the question of the cession of
Venetia, and also that its meddling in such a delicate
question was taken in very ill part. According to
the Vienna correspondent of the Pestit Lloyd, the
Marquis de 11Ioustier was told by Count Rechberg
that Austria had the same reasons for keeping
Venetia that France had for appropriating to her-
self Savoy and Nice. It is believed here that the
diplomatic relations between Russia and Sardinia
will be renewed very soon after Francis IL has
quitted Gaeta. It is a positive fact that one or
other of the European Sovereigns has• recently lent
money to King Francis, but it is not in my power
to say which of them. The Venice correspondents
of the Viennapapers now speak of the approaching
emission of State notes at a forced course in and for
the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. The provincial
employes will receive their salary in such notes, and
the authorities will take them in payment of taxes.
Doubtless the troops will be paid in silver as here-
tofore, as the Government cannot venture to give
them offence. Two or three days ago one of the
Austrian papers hinted at the advisability of
parting with Venetia, but it was done in
suih a cautious way that the general public did
not know what was meant. The 2'ieste Zeitung
states that Lieutenant E. has absented himself
from Borgoforte without leave, which must be un-
derstood to mean that he has gone over to the
Sardinians. • There is no truth in the report that
Austria has communicated with Prussia on the sub-
ject of Lord John Russell's famous despatch of
the 27th of October. It is again reported
that federal troops are to enter Holstein, but
I am not inclined to believe that tne German
Diet will take a step which would hardly fail
to give offence to England, France, and Russia.
While at Stuttgardt the Emperor Francis Joseph
had a long interview with the King of Wurtem-
berg, but there is no good reason for supposing
that any matters of European importance were
discussed. It is said that the Austrian Govern-
ment has strongly advised the Elector of Hesse
to avoid a quarrel with the newly formed Diet
on the subject of the Constitution of 1831, to
which the nation clings with a tenacity which is
but rarely found in Germany.
There is now a very strong feeling here in favour
of Richter, as the counsel for the Crown displays a
most unseemly animosity towards him. During tie
last two days he has requested the Court not to
permit three witnesses, whom be himself bars
brought forward to prove the guilt of the defendant
to'swear to the truth of their evidence, and on two
occasions the Court yielded. Yesterday the counsel
for the Crown displayed so much malevolence

that the audience murmured loudly, for which
offence against decorum it was severely repri-
manded by the presiding judge. The day before
yesterday the Staats-Anwalt, as he is here called,
put several irrelevant questions to a witness, but
he was not once called to order by tha Bench.
One of the questions was, what the witness—a
commissary-general—would have done if Richter
had laid 10,000 ducats down on his table. The reply
was, that as Richter had not done so it was useless
to ask him (the witness) what he would have done.
The examination into the conduct of the Gray Sis-
ters employed in the hospital on the Wic den is not
yet ended, but it is already evident that they
have long grossly neglected their duties. It
must, however, be observed, that Hospital in the
suburb Gumpendorf, which is under the super-
intendence of the Sisters of Charity, is perfectly
well cared for.

A charge of having incited to sedition has been
brought against the editor of the Military Gazette
for having stated that a soldier was obliged to
march in boots which were not in good condition.
Although the weather is not bad for the season
the English mail is overdue.