The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-11 00:00:00

latter are married, and the oldest is that of Schaumburg,

Lippe, arid the youngest the Imperial Prince of Brazil,
Among the 20 sovereigns without descendants capable
of succeeding them, eleven have brothers, four have for
presumptive successors other collateral relations, viz.,
the King of Denmark and the Duke of Modena an
uncle, the Elector of Hesse a cumin, and the Queen of
Spain her sister. Four other sovereigns, the Landgravo
of Hesse Homburg, the Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechin-
gen, •nd the Dukes of Anhalt-Bernburg and Bruns-
wick have not in their line heirs capable of succeeding
them."

The court-martial sitting at Pesth has issued a
decree dated January Ist, summoning the following
Members of the late Hungarian Government to ap-

pear before the Court :—LOUIS KOSSUTH, INIESZAROS,
SZEMERF, PERCZEL, CASIMIR BATTHYANY, IiTIENNU
BATTHTANY, ItAmEls, and others. A term of 90
days is assigned to them for that purpose.
The Wiener Zeitung of the 4th instant publishes a
report signed by the whole Ministry respecting the
long-expected provincial constitutions and regulations
for the elections of representatives to the provincial

Diets. The report commences with a review of the
Austrian revolution, anti of the reforms which have al-

ready been accomplished. It mentions the law respect-
ing the newspaper press and the right of asso-
ciation ; the creation of parishes, which is to
be more fully developed, whenever the dif-
fel ent branches of the administrative authori-
ties shell commence active operations ; the taxa-
tion of the land ; the political and judicial organisa-
tions, &c. The measures necessary to the organisa-
tion of Gallicia, Dalmatia, the Bukowina, and the
Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, are nearly complete,
while for Croatia, Slavonia, and the military frontier,
they are ready, and will shortly be laid before the
Ranperor for his sanction. It has been necessary in
many cases to consider the exceptional condition of
affairs, which the report says must for the present be
maintained in order that the consolidation of the
empire may not again be interrupted by fresh hostile
disturbances. Meanwhile the including the provinces
in the constitution of the empire, and the reforms
established in parochial matters, and the organisation
of the administration of the country, have placed the
preliminary measures on such a footing, that upon
their basis a new element towards the erection
of the constitution has been obtained, and an
important wheel in the machine of the State, so that
the constitution can be put in operation in the se-
veral provinces. For Bohemia Austrian above and
below the Enna, Salsburg, Styria, Carinthia, brain,
Moravia, Istria, with Gore and Gradisca, Tyro], and
Voralberg, and Silesia, the projects of the several
constitutions and regulations for the election of
Deputies to the Diet have been prepare I. The Minh,
terial report then states the principles upon which
they have been drawn up. From these we shall only
mention that the division into three electoral bodies
is adopted, and that the census for the election of
deputies to the provincial diets is to be the same as
for the imperial diet; in the larger towns the higher
classifications of the industry tax are the standard. The
formation of the electoral districts is to be determined
by the political divisions of the several provinces. As
a rule, each political district is to send one deputy to
the provincial diet. The electoral body of the highest
taxed is to meet in each province as an electoral
assembly, but in the larger provinces the particular
interests cf each political district are to be token into
consideration. In fixing the electoral districts for the
towns, cities, market and industrial towns, the number
of the population or their historical and industrial
importance are to be considered, and where
several combined have to elect one deputy,
the geographical position as well as the
equality of interests is to be taken into con-
sideration. The voting is to be viva voce, and the
duration of the provincial diets is fixed at four years.
The constitutions themselvea are to afford to the ad-
ministration, apart from all narrow centralization,
that degree of power which the Imperial Constitution
permits to be placed in their heeds. The periods for
the election of Deputies to the Imperial Diet, nod
for the convocation of the provincial diets are to be
fixed by the Ministers whenever the necessary
prepsrations shall have been completed, and the
political authorities shall have assumed the
discharge of their functions, the parishes,
together with their administrative and repre-
sentative organs formed, and the electoral lists
for the provincial diets prepared and completed. The
period that must elapse before these various measures
have been accomplished, is to be employed, by the
Ministry in the preparation of the necessary measures
and projects of law. At the conclusion of the, report,
the Ministry ask the Essrunort to sanction the ,rejects
for the provincial constitutions and electoral vegula-
tions, to sign the necessary patents, and to co/Manama
the Ministry to carry them out.
The report is dated the 29cla Dec., and received the
Imperial sanction on the 30th. The latest number of
the publication of the lawn of the empire contains the
constitution and electoral regulations fer Austria be-
low the Eons.
The Chambers of Hesse Darmstadt have decided
by a large majority in favour of the adhesion of that
!Itchy to the Trace King's ',segue.