The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-19 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, May IG.—Positive information has to-
day been given that the Austrian Government has
never expressed a wish for the dismissal of either
one or other of the Sardinian Ministers. The report
that a reconciliation between the two Governments
is on the point of taking place is totally unfounded.
The Vienna ,diplomatists believe that the
Dresden Journal received its information rela-
tive to the .non-ratification of the treaty of
peace between England and Persia from Baron
Seebach, the Saxon Minister, or rather the Russian
agent at Paris.

-The murrain has made its appearance at Olachan,
near Olmutz, where there is one of the largest
cattle fairs in Austria. In two farms seven animals
fell sick, and five of them died ; the other two
were knocked on the head, as were three more
which bad a suspicious look about them.
The National Bank cashier Reiter, who had dis-
appeared leaving a deficit of 360,000E1., has been
arrested, but no money was found upon his person.
The man affirms that he has spent the whole sum
in playing iu lotteries, but naturally his statement
obtains no credit.

The distribution of the prizes took place yester-
day in the Augarten, and the British machinists
had every reason to be satisfied with their share of
them. Gold medals were allotted to the following
English firms :—Messrs. Barrett, Exal, and An-
drews, for locomobiles and thrashing machines ;
Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, for locomobiles
and thrashing machines ; Messrs. Garrett, for
locomobiles and thrashing machines ; Messrs.
Howard, for ploughs and harrows ; Messrs.
Ransomes and Sims, who had tha largest
collection, for locomobiles, thrashing machines,
ploughs, arc. ; Messrs. Davy, Brothers, for a
new kind of locomobile ; Mr. H. Clayton for
a brickmaking machine ; Messrs. Hornsby, for
locomobile and thrashing machines. Large silver
medals were awarded to Messrs. Coleman, Turner,
and Company, and Priest and Woolnou;h. Small
silver medals were given to Messrs. Lloyd, Smith,
and Ashby, Housman and Son, and Dray and
Company, Messrs. Burgess and Key, Hunt,
Lyndon, and Wright obtained bronze
medals. Great good humour prevailed at
the distribution of the prizes, and each person who
appeared before the Archduke Francis Charles, the
father of the Emperor, to receive his medal, was
honoured with a flourish of trumpets. A sturdy
Tyrolese woman, who had obtained a prize for a
bull, was received with a grand flourish and a hearty
hugh. The good women was, however, nothing
daunted, for she nodded and smiled on the high and
mighty of the land with extreme good humour, and
probably addressed some of them a la Tyroliennc—
that is, in the second person singular.
The so-called " winter harbour," which is being
formed between New Pesth and Pesth Island, is
6,000 feet long and 720 feet broad. The vessels
which it will contain in winter are 20 gun-boats,
150 steamers and steam-tugs, 150 barges for the
transport of corn, and 80 or 90 floating mills. The
entrance to the harbour is about 150 feet broad.

ITALY•

NAPLES, MAY 11.

We have already announced the death of Mr.
Blandford, an English gentleman lately arrived in
Naples, under very painful circumstances, but the
reports of the case have hitherto been defective
from the fact of Mr. Blandford having been too ill
to make any deposition. The following details,
however, hem his friend, the Rev. Mr. Bremley
Moore, who was with him during his illness may be
relied on.
Mr. Blandford had only been in Naples five
days when, on the evening of the 25th ult., he
left his hotel (Les Iles Britanniques), at about a
quarter-past 11 o'clock, for a short stroll in the
Riviera, di Chiaja.
.0n his arriving just opposite
the Church of S. Giuseppe he was overtaken by
a man who, having passed him, knocked off his
own cap, as if by some preconcerted signal, and
then endeavoured to seizes him by the throat. Mr.
Blandford instantly drew back, and struck the man
severely in the face with a stick, thus eompellinr,
him to retreat, but almo6t at the same moment he

received a blow on his head from one of two ruf-
fians who were closely faowing him, from some
blunt instrument, which prostrated him instantly,
and it is supposed that they either jumped
upon him or kicked him, causing severe internal
injuries in the abdomen. As there was some slight
moonlight, he was able to perceive that there were
three men, and that the one who first attacked hita
was a short man, and wore a jacket and a peaked
cap. Iu consequence of his cries and struggles the
ruffians were to 4 much alarmed to sneered ill their
attempt at robbery, beyond his hat and his cane,
and effected a precipitate retreat. As soon ai be
had recovered his consciousness Mr. Blandford
reeled across the street and reached some non
who were standing at the door of a cafe,
not one of whom would come to his assist-
ance. He then managed to proceed, with great
difficulty, as far as the house of Mrs. Corby,
an Englishwoman long resident in Naples, where
he was placed in a carriage, and conveyed to his
ho'el. Mr. Roskilly was immediately called in,
and he, together with Dr. Bishop, and a Neapolitan
surgeon, were in constant attendance. On the
third or fourth day after the attack the head was
considerably relieved ; but on Sunday, the 3d, it
was evident that internal inflamma,ion had set inf
and on the following Thursday, a few mina( s after
mid-day, he died.
This melancholy event has excited the utmost
indignation and regret among not only the English
but foreigners of all nations.
Upwards of forty persons known as capable of
such acts of aggression have been arrested, and 3
reward, with free pardon, has bem offered to anY
accomplice who will reveal the name of the Baal;
who gave the blow. A good clue has been found
to him.

We learn from the Polish frontiers that the net
Russian Customs' thrill, with its numerous redue'
tions, is neither more nor less than a myth.
Russian company intends to construct a rt.-diva
from Kieff to Odessa, with a branch line to BrodY.
the capital is to be 120,000,000 of siver roubles, 80
millions of which are to be raised by subscription)
and 40 millions to be borrowed from the .133 A
" which is to receive a certain number of serfs s°
security." Government guarAntees 4 per Conti;
The railroad will be 1,400 verst-i, or about I,l°'
English miles, in length.

Baron Gros is to leave Paris on the 20th in°
upon his mission to China.

The Dresdner Journal statesthat, in consequence
of the note addressed by the Danish Government ic
answer to the remonstrances of the Gerol.!
Powers, the latter have agreed to suspend making"
motion on the subject at the Diet in Fran''
fort,