The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-14 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Baron de Seebach, Minister of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, has issued the following reply to the despatch
of Count Rechberg, relative to the Duke of Saxe
Coburg's speech on the proposed reforms in the
Constitution of the German Confederation :

" To COUNT DE TRAUN, AUSTRIAN CHARGE DE
AFFAIRES AT DRESDEN.

" Sir,—You sent me, with a note dated the 6th
inst., a copy of a despatch from his Excellency
Count Rechberg dated the 4th, and in which Count
Iteeliberg, alludes to a declaration published at
Gotha, as also to the words spoken by his Highness
the Duke, my master, in reply to a deputation
which read to hica that declaration, and handed
him said address, and in which Count Rechberg
says that his words are equivalent to a revolution
of the federal pact.
" Acknowledging the receipt of that document,
I have at the same time the honour, after consult-
ing the wishes of his Highness the Duke, to make
the following reply to that despatch As the
words of his Highness prove, which have been
printed in the public journals, they concern only
the address which was read and presented to his
Highness.' Count Rechberg says, that the decla-
ration mentioned in the address places the Aus-
trian Empire, as regards its relations with Ger-
many, on the same footing as Denmark and the
Netherlands.
" I cannot suppose that Count Rechberg is serious
in attributing to his Highness the Duke, my mas-
ter, such a view of affairs, especially as his High-
ness has given a convincing proof, on the occasion
of the late war, that his Highness, far from placing
the Austrian Empire on the same footing as Den-
mark, was ready to take up arms for the guarantee
of the provinces of Austria not included in the
German Confederation. He, therefore, could not
have conceived the idea that the German provinces
of the Empire do not belong, and ought not to
belong, to Germany.
" Count Rechberg declares that his Highness
cannot deny that the object of forming a pretended
new party implies the absolute disavowal of rela-
tions based upon treaties which exist between his
Majesty and the other Princes of the Confedera-
tion, and he adds that any approval of the tenden-
cies of such party are equivalent to a renunciation
of the federal pact.

"I protest fOrmally against this interpretation of
the sentiments of my master.
" Whatever may be the object of the party alluded
to by Count Rechberg, not only the subjects of his
Highness the Duke, 'but his Highness the Duke
himself, have the right to exact, when they
express the wish or the hope of a reform of inter-
national law, that no one should suppose that such
reform should take place except with the assent of
all parties interested.

" It is not ten years since the Imperial Govern-
ment formally asked the German Governments to
participate in a reform of the Federal Constitution,
and proposed modifications which, as regards some
German States, would have led to a serious diminu-
tion of the privileges granted to them by the Vienna
Con gress. _ _

" 'Perhaps the Imperial Government will take
into consideration that, besides Austria and Prussia,
there arc 18,000,000 of Germans who not only are
not satisfied with the Federal Constitution, but the
majority of whom look upon it with regret, because
it lessons the esteem felt for it abroad, and does not
offer sufficient:means to provide efficacious support to
any member attacked, or to the nation itself."
Baron Seebach concludes as follows :

" His Highness the Duke, considering any change
which would not harmonise with the interests of
the Imperial state as out of place, being personally
attached to his Imperial Majesty, being intimately
connected with the destinies of the Austrian mo-
narchy by the possessions of his house, would have
many
reasons to desire the grandeur and power of
Austria, if reasons of patriotic interest did not
speak louder.
" The present state of things cannot last much
longer. His Highness, the Duke, has nothing
dearer to his heart than to see the German Diet in
a position to point out the bases upon which, con-
sulting the interests of his Majesty and those of
the rest of Germany, the Confederation may be
placed upon a footing to render it capable of self-
el e fen ce.
" The fusion of various parties which have
hitherto been at issue on constitutional doctrines,
this fusion which is the result of sympathies which
the straggle sustained by Austria aroused in Ger-
many—this movement emanating from the desire
to give efficacious support to Austria, might even
now, show that it was more deserving of Austria's
approval than her displeasure.
" However this may be, this is the sense in which
his Highness the Duke understands the present
movement, and as a German Prince, he feels that
he cannot look upon it in any other light, as a
member of the German Confederation.
" DE SEEBACI!.
Gotha, Sept. 14, 1859."

ITALY.
The Eco della Borsa of Milan announces that
the banking house _of Noseda and Barocco, at
Milan, has subscribed 100,000 fr. towards Garibaldi's
fund for purchasing muskets.
By order of the Modcnese Government, the re-
maining works of Fort Rubiera, situated between
Reggio and Modena, are to be demolished.
A letter from Rome of the 6th says :
"The despatch of' Cardinal Antonelli to the Mar-
quis de la Minerva, which is dated the Ist, states
that after so many acts of striking hostility against
the Holy See from the Government of Piedmont,
the Pope thinks it necessary to break off all diplo-
matic relations with that power, and has ordered
his passports to be sent to the Piedmontese repre-
sentative. The Marquis received t`iis despatch at
La Ruffinella, near Frascati, and replied that he
would lose no time in quitting Rome. The Marquis
has just deposited the archives f his legation at
the French Embassy, and will leave to-morrow
morning. A wish had been expressed to make a
:remonstration in his honour, but General Count de
Go-on addressed the following note to his officers:
The Chargé d'Affairs of Piedmont has re-
ceived his passports from the Pontifical Government.
He desires a manifei:tation in his favour, which
would be a political act. Our duties here do not
allow us to tolerate external manifestations. The

General
of Division, knowing the nobleness of
oh~-fader of his brave subordinates, has himself
warned M. de la Minerva that he should prevent or
repress any manifestation of the kind. If, there-
fore, this warning should be slighted, our action
must be the more rigorous that it would appear to
imply a doubt of us, which neither can nor must be
without its being known what such a course would
cost.'

Since yesterday the palace of the Sardinian Lega-
gation has been frequented by a host of persons, who
have gone to visit the Marquis de la Minerva.
The French gendarmes guard all the approaches to
the palace and patrol the streets in order to prevent
any public manifestation. M. de la Minerva, it is
said, has written to the Ambassador of France to
complain of the French general for having informed
his officers that he (M. de la Minerva) desired a
demonstration on his departure, and that it was
their duty to prevent it. The letter was drawn up
in such sharp terms that the Duc de Grammont con-
tented himself by writing that he had no reply to
(rive. The Sardinian Minister intended to leave
r,
the Papal States by a steamer touching at Leghorn ;
but in obedience to orders from his Government, he
is to return by land."

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, OCT. 11.

The State balance-sheet for the administration
year (Verwaltungsjahr*) 1858, which has to-day
been published, is in substance as follows :
" The ordinary receipts amount to 274,502,17 //711. Tho
sums raised by means of direct taxation were—land tax,
62,689,071f1.; house tax, 12,186,49311.; trade tax, 9,545,066f1.;
inheritance and legacy tax, 48,7991 ; income tax,
9,800,661f1, ; and sundry other direct taxes, 219,3031 ;
making a total of 94,489,483f1. The sums produced by the
indirect taxes were—tax levied on the necessaries of life on
their passing through the gates of the different cities (ver-
sehrungs Steuer), 40,647,0371 ; excise, 19,530,4701 ; salt
duty, 28,647,12111.; tobacco duty, 26,404,587f1. ; stamp
duty, 31,613,532f1. ; State lottery, 6,896,558f1. ; post depart-
ment, 2,234,208f1. ; customs, 2,475,17711. ; stamping metals,
measures, weights, &c., 88,817f1. ; sundry duties raised in
the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, 246,00411. ; duty on
gunpowder and saltpetre, 9,03711.
" The amount of revenue produced by indirect taxation
was 158,792,5481 The revenue from State property of
various descriptions was 4,469,8071 The surplus of the
sinking fund, 9,981,251f1. ; and sundry receipts, 6,769,0881
" The extraordinary receipts—the principal item in
which is 5,661,020f1., as indemnification for the loss suf-

fered by the State domains in villenage and soccage—were
8,038,5461 Thus, the total revenue during the year 1858
was 282,540,7236., being 15,755,1246. less than it was in
the preceding year.
" The ordinary outlay of the State was 315,037,1016. ;
the expenses of the Court were 6,689,0476. i ; the mainte-
nance of the Chancellerie of his Majesty, 42,1466. ; the
Council of the Empire, 231,4756. ; the Conference of Minis-
ters, 33,5486. ; the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2,150,5316;
the Ministry of the Interior, 26,136,570; the Ministry
of Finance, 25,043,9046. ; the Ministry of Justice,
15,630,0246. ; the Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs and
Public Education, 5,684,4841 ; the Ministry of Commerce
and Public Works, 18,439,7436. ; the War Department,
96,162,0616. ; the Naval Department, 5,655,0006. ;
the Supreme Police, including the gendarmerie, which
figures for 6,774,988f1. 10,033,0606. ; the book-keep-
ing, and sundry other inferior departments, 7,142,1796.
The interest on the National Debt was 95,963,279f1. ; the
extraordinary outlay for the army was 3,985,483f1. As the
total expenditure was 319,022,5846., and the total revenue
but 282,540,7236., it follows, as a matter of course, that the
deficit was 36,481,8616." _ _

The foregoing figures tell their own tale, and
plainly show why the State balance sheet for 1856
was so long kept back. If the deficit during 1858—
a year of peace—was 36,481,861f1., what is it likely
to be in 1859 ? Immediately after the famous
speech made by the Emperor of the French to
Baron Hubner Austria began to arm, and
the balance-sheet of the National Bank for the
month of September would seem to indicate
that the extraordinary expenditure of the State
during the first seven or eight months of the
year was between 130,000,000fi. and 140,000,000f1.
For the moment I am unable to say what im-
pression the State balance sheet has produced, but
the probability is that it will induce the nation
loudly to demand the privilege of exercising some
control over the expenditure. Extravagance is the
principal cause of the disorder of the- finances, and
it is not unlikely that if the revenue was half as
large again as it is, certain parties in the State, who
appear to have no correct idea of the value of
money, would manage to plunge it into debt and
difficulties.

* It begins on the Ist of November and ends on the 31st
of October.

t One of the items is 1,495,3551, which was paid by
young men of an age to bear arms as the price of oxemp-
tion from military service.
I In 1857 they were 2,414,977f1. more.