The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-08 00:00:00

A USTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, dated April 3, says :

The German members of the Cabinet have con
seated to remain in office, but it can hardly be said
that the crisis is over, as the question which was at
issue has been settled in a way which must be highly
displeasing to Baron Vay and Count Szechen, the
two Hungarian Ministers. When Count G. Ap-
ponyi was here, the Emperor told him he should
not object to give his sanction to the resolutions
which had been taken by the Judicial Conference
at Pesth, and the Judex Curies lost no time in for-
warding the glad tidings to the Hungarian capital.
On the 30th of March Count G. Apponyi returned
to Pesth, and informed his friends that the contest
•between the German and Hungarian members of
the Cabinet had been a very sharp one, and that
the latter would have been worsted had they not
nad the support of the Emperor. He further stated
that he was furnished with the necessary powers
for opening the Diet on the 6th inst., and the
Royal Curie (Supreme Court of Justice), on Wed-
nesday the 3d. The news made a very favourable
impression on the inhabitants of Pesth, and for a
short time they believed the representatives of
Hungary in the Cabinet to be " masters of the
situation." On Easter Monday, the Ist inst., it
was generally known at Pesth that there was a
Ministerial crisis, and that Count Apponyi had been
summoned by telegraph to return to Vienna as
speedily as possible. The Judex Curia, was on the
point of leaving for this city when he received a
second telegram, which induced him to remain at
Pesth. I know not what information the despatch
contained, but it must have been of importance,
as copies of the document were sent to the princi-
pal railway stations between Vienna and the
Hungarian capital. During the whole of Sunday
and Monday the inhabitants of this city were very
uneasy, as they feared that Bohemian and Hun-
garian Federalists would be appointed to the vacant
posts if the German Ministers should quit the
Cabinet. Everything and everybody was in sus-
pense until yesterday afternoon, when a Cabinet
Council was held at which the Archduke Reignier
stated that his Majesty would not give his sanction
to the resolutions taken by the Hungarian Judicial
Conference, as he believed the matter had better be
settled by the representatives of the nation. As
the declaration was considered satisfactory by the
German Ministers, they all expressed their will-
ingness to remain in office, but the Hungarians
did not make their intentions known to the Presi-
dent of the Council. The Viennese are well pleased
that the German Centralists have obtained such a
signal victory over the Federalists, but their
triumph will hardly be of any duration, as the
Hungarian statesmen are more than a match for
their political opponents. Prince F. Liechtenstein,
the Commander of the Forces in Hungary, has
come to Vienna, in obedience to telegraphic
orders received from the Emperor. There are no
fewer than 80,000 soldiers stationed in different
parts of Hungary, but the Government is not likely
to have recourse to extreme measures unless there
should be revolutionary movements of a serious
nature. It may be observed that no taxes are now
paid by the Hungarians, who persist in saying that
they will not bear any part of the burdens of the
State until supplies of men and money have been
granted " in a constitutional manner" by the Diet.
We now learn that a memorial, which was signed

by the Ministers of State, Finances, and Commerce,
was sent to the Archduke Reignierin the afternoon
of Saturday, the 30th ult., and that it was placed
in the hands of the Emperor in the evening of the
Fame day. The memorial is said to contain an ac-
count of the actual state of affairs, and the reasons
why the German Ministers deemed it advisable to
retire from office. As soon as the few Bohemian,
Moravian, and Austrian nobles who do not belong to
the Federal party learned that there was such a tre-
mendous crisis, they held a meeting, and resolved