The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

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AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienna, April 15, says :—" The
French and Austrian Governments have not yet
come to an understanding, and the diplomatists are
nearly at their wits' end. Count Buol still insists
on a general and simultaneous disarmament as a
preliminary to the Congress, and the Emperor of
the French declares that he will not dismiss a single
man until the Congress has met.. The French Go-
vernment would not object to accept the Austrian
proposition in principle,' if this Cabinet would
leave the question of disarmament to be settled by
the Congress, but Count Buol has received positive
orders from his Sovereign not to make any further
concessions. One of the mediating Powers is said
to have complained of the chicanery' of the Aus-
trian Minister for Foreign Affairs, but the report
cannot be true, as it is a notorious fact that he has,
from the very commencement of the negotiations,
displayed the utmost candour and good faith. 'The
only well-founded charge which can be made
against Count Buol,' says a German diplomatist,
that he, in his extreme anxiety to maintain
peace, has displayed less firmness than ho ought
to have done: The opinion above ex-
pressod is almost universal here, and the
Minister for Foreign Affairs is generally accused
of being too submissive to the mediating Powers,
who have displayed a fear of the Emperor
Napoleon which must necessarily encourage him
to persevere in his aggressive policy. In a day
or two the great question of the day is likely to
enter into a new phase, for Prussia begins to. exhibit
symptoms of a resolve not to allow her interests to
be separated from those of Germany and Austria.
It is not in my power to say that an alliance has
alfeady been concluded between the two great Ger-
man Powers, but negotiations to that end are cer-
tainly going on. It is whispered that 200,000
Prussian soldiers will soon be collected in the Rhenish
provinces, and that Austria has offered to the Prince
Regent of Prussia the supreme command of the
Federal Army. A distinguished officer, a day or
two since, told me that I had in one of my recent
letters greatly underrated the force which Austria,
Prussia, and Germany could, on an emergency,
bring into the field. " Austria," said he, " can
keep 650,000 men on foot, Prussia 400,000, and the
other German States about 200,000. If we sup-
pose that 250,000 men are in garrison, depot,
and hospital, Louis Napoleon will still have to
cope with a million of well-armed men, whose
fathers proved to the first Emperor of the French
that they could fight well in a good cause."
The following article, which appeared in a recent
number of the evening edition of the Wiener
Zeitung, shows what kind of spirit prevails in the
highest military circles :
" In a few days it will be half a century since Austria
waged the fourth war which she had with France after
the outbreak of the great French revolution. In the three
previous wars Austria had allies, but in 1809 she stood
alone, and saw oppased to her the tremendous coalition
which was formed by the French autocrat, the greatest
warrior of the day. Austria did not blench. The free-
dom of Europe,' said she in her proclamation, ' has sought
shelter under the banner of Austria,' a banner which was
raised in the midst of an army of 100,000 men. At the same
time the Landwehr (militia) was called out, and every man
who was between 13 and 48 years of age was liable to themoned to take up arms. The Archduke Charles, at head
of 900,000 men, advanced into Bavaria, the Archduke John
led 80,000 against Italy, and the Archduke Ferdinand
36,000 against Warsaw. Opposed to the Austrian armies
were 200,000 men, half of whom were Germans, under