The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-28 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, dated November 22, says :
" When the civil and military Governor of Tran-
sylvania, General Prince de Lichtenstein, was lately
summoned here by telegraph, it was supposed that
modifications were about to be made in the Govern-
ment of the province. But it is now known that the
object of his coming here is very different; namely,
to confer on the military measures which it is
thought necessary to take without delay in Tran-
sylvania, to defend the frontier of the Empire
against grave eventualities; the Government hav-
ing learned that a number of Hungarians and
Italians, assured of the co-operation of the Govern-
ment of the United Principalities, are disposed to
make an attack on Transylvania in preference to
one on the Illyrian coast."

Voss's Gazette of Berlin, of the 24th, says :
" The elections of the municipal council are nearly
terminated. Out of the 27 members already
chosen, 15 belong to the Liberal party, and 12 to
the Conservatives. The five members which remain
to be elected will be taken from among the Liberal
candidates. Out of the members whose term of
office has expired, 16 have not been re-elected, and
15 of those are Conservatives. The Liberal party,
which took part in the communal elections for the
first time in 1858, acquires by the present voting a
majority in the municipal council."

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.

The Hamburg American Company's ship
Hammonia, Captain Schwensen, from New York,
on the 15th inst., has arrived off Cowes.
She brings 107 passengers, 45,000 dols. in specie,
for England, and a large cargo consisting of 1,600
tons of hops, cotton, &c.
On the 27th inst., off the Lizard, she spoke the
Dutch barque Alexander, for Batavia.
The reports from the Southern States were more
satisfactory. The Savannah merchants had
written that pending political agitations will not
be suffered to interfere with business. At Charles-
town business was suspended, la*, dispatches had
been received stating positively that the legislature
had not passed the bill authorising the banks to
suspend specie payments, and that the banks will
not suspend. From Mobile news was generally
more cheerful. From all parts the intelligence was,
that slave and cotton lands were declining in value.
The New York Money Market was easier. First
class paper was quoted Bto 9 per cent. Bankers
lend on call at 7 per cent., and were curtailing
to protect their gold.

AN ACTOR MORTALLY STABBED IN THE PRE-
SENCE OF HIS AUDIENCE.—The New Orleans Bee of the
29th records the following tragic occurrence of the pre-
vious night :—" At ten o'clock last night a shocking
tragedy was enacted in reality on the stage of the German
Theatre or Concert Hall, in Poydras-street, between St.
Charles and Carondelet. They were playing in the drama
of " The Wolf," and at that moment were acting a scene in a
gambling-house, where a young man is fleeced of his last
dime, and when he charges the gamblers with cheating is
stabbed and killed. John Kruger was playing the part of
the gambler, Emile Stener that of the ruined young man.
Kruger had not been furnished with a stage dagger by the
property man, and borrowed a real one from officer Berwin,
who was the special policeman in Concert Hall. In acting
such scenes with real daggers on the stage, the person who
strikes the blow keeps his elbow out further than the point
of the weapon, and the person who pretends to receive the
fatal thrust leans backwards, so that the striker's elbow
coming against his breast stops the motion. Stener was un-
happily somewhat intoxicated, and when he should have
thrown himself backwards he suddenly stooped forward,
and before Kruger could check the impetus of his arm the
dagger had gone into the right side of Stener's neck, open-
ing a gash to the backbone. The unfortunate actor was
instantly carried off the stage, and sent to the Charity Hos-
pital mortally wounded, while Kruger was taken to the
lock-up by officers Dalton and Berwin. The curtain was
down but a short time, the pool of blood wes washed up,
and then it was announced to the audience that the drama
could not be concluded, but that a farce would be substi-
tuted. The audience applauded, up went the curtain, and
for a whole hour the fellow-actors of Stener exerted them-
selves to make fun, while the auditors laughed and ap-
plauded as Hine spilling of a man's lifo-blood was a mere