The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

TEE RECEPTION OF THE ARCHDUKE

MAXIMILIAN IN VENICE.

Intelligence has been received froth Venice which
entirely confirms a rumour which was made yester-
day. At half-past four on the 23d instant the
Archduke Governor-General arrived at Venice,
where he was coolly received. One reason why
but few persons were assembled to receive
his Imperial Highness was, that the higher
classes at Venice were at dinner when he
arrived ; and another, that the 23d was the
anniversary of the battle of Novara. Early in
the morning of the 24th there was little or no
wind, and consequently the Austrian standard,
which is at the top of the immense mast that is
planted on the Place of St. Mark, hung listlessly
down, but as the atm got higher the wind freshened
and the flag began to wave majestically to and fro.
Gradually a crowd assembles in the Place of St.
Mark, and stares with might and main at some-
thing which is fluttering just above the Imperial
standard. What is the object that attracts such at-
tention, and induces the Venetian badauds to bid
defiance to rain and wind I It is the Italian tricolor;
which has been attached to the upper part of the
Austrian standard during the night. When the
authorities arrived on 'the spot, and orders were
given to lower the flag they ,could not be imme-
diately executed, because the halliards had been
removed. During the night between the 23d and
24th three tricolors were hoisted ; one was on the
Place of St. Mark, another on the flag-staff
which is in the arsenal, and arthird was affixed to
the top of a sentry-box. The Austrian authorities
seem to attach but little importance to the demon-
stration which has just been made at Venice, and a
military man who has recently arrived from the
Loriabarclo7Yenetian kingdomassiareante that "such
tricks are very frequently played in There
are persons who suspect the police or the military
authorities of having hoisted the revolutionary flag
in order to serve some particular purpose, but those
who best know the Italians are least inclined
to doubt that they were the authors of the
insult which was offered to the Austrian standard.
There was the usual official illumination of the
Place of St Mark in the evening of the 23d. In a
fortnight or three weeks the Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian will remove from Venice to Milan. It.
is very generally related that the Austrian Govern-
ment has resolved to defer the destruction of the
railroad between Milan and the Austrian frontier
near Novara, but it is difficult to believe that the
ruler over 39,000,000 of souls can intend to take
such a petty revenge. Austria justly considers her-
self one of t'•e first of European Powers, but unfor-
tunately for her own reputation she sometimes
acts as if she were one of the last. After granting
a general amnesty and abolishing her vexatious
and most injudicious passport system, Aus-
tria cannot afford to spite Sardinia by refusing
to complete the line of railroad to the fron-
tier. There have been several Cabinet
Councils held hero lately, and it is believed Hun-
garian 'mattersioave been discussed at more than
one of them. - A person who is capable of giving
correct information on such a delicate subject as-
sures me that the Emperor has declared that no
"principiel" changes can be made in the organiza-
tion of Hungary. In a word, the unity of the Em-
pire will be strictly maintained, but everything will
be done to improve the administration of the diffe-
rent Crown lands, and to satisfy the " leg timate"
wisheS- of the inhabitants. The Credit Bank has
established a branch bank at Pesth, and will ad-
vance money at five per cent, on the produce of the
soil.—Times Vienn'a Correspondent.

M. George Petrovich, the President of the Senate of
Montenegro, is at Berlin, and it is said that he has come
t 3 complain of the conduct of his nephew, Prince Daniel.
The order given by the Porte to the Kaimakans to
emancipate the press in the Danubian Principalities has
greatly alarmed the Austrians, who seem to fancy.that
Moldavia and Wallachia will soon be as troublesome to
them as Sardinia.

A great number of the large trees in the Champs
Elyt.des are undergoing the process of being stripped of
their rough outer bark to a height of 20 feet and upwards,
with a view of destroying the worms that are bred and
harboured in the interstices of the bark, and which, by
piercing the trees with innumerable boles, prevent the
sap from rising, and cause their premature decay.
MEXICO.—The United States Senate has.refupfd to
ratify the praposed treaties between the United Sta es
and Mexico, • which were migned by Mr. Forsyth, the
American Minister at Mex:co, on the 11th of February.
These treaties were five in number, depending one on the
other, and the whole combining an arrangement., the
object of which was to extract Mexico from its financial
embarrassments, to bring a commercial fleet to its coasts,
and upon its frontiers a crowd of emigrants, who would
ir, a few years give new life and activity to the maritime
and internal commerce of that reput lic.
THE BELGIAN TROOPS AT WATERLOO.—Au interest-
ing ceremony took place at Brusstls on Tuesday. A
committee of patriotic Belgians, including M. Van
&floor, a member of the Senate, and several mem.
bers of the Chamber of Representatives, waited upon
Gen. Eduard, and presented him with a sword of honour,
in acknowledgment of the service which he has rendered
his country by refuting, in a series of letters in the
lndepoidance Beige, the accusations brought by certain
foreign historians against the conduct of the Belgian
troops at the battle of Waterloo. The get.eral,remarked
that there was really no foundation for that calumny,
which only originated in a half-jestiag allusion
dinbeaenn
obscure English contemporary pamphlet, and had
incautiously adopted by later authors.—[Fudge.)