The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-10 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Breslau Gazette of the 6th says, "The public
mind in Vienna is much taken up with reports of a
comp d'etat—reports which are even current in mili-
tary circles. The day named for putting it into
effect is the 611 or 7th hitt. The military measures
are really formidable ; under a circle of six miles
round Vienna all the houses are full of soldiers.
There are at least 50,000 men in Vienna, and 50,000
more could be poured in by the railways in the course
of three or four days."
The Vienna Gazette of the 4th contains the report
of the Minister of Finance, in which he proposes
various measures for reducing the expenditu,e and
increasing the receipts. The Minister declares that
the amount of bank-notes in circulation has not been
increased since June last, that the amount at present
is 251,172,465 florins, whilst since the same date
5,859,328 florins in cash and notes had been paid over
to the bank by the State, without counting the Sar-
dinian indemnity and the new loan. The Minister
fixes the debt :due by the State to the Bank at -225
millions of florius, of which 24 millions will be
covered by the Sardinian indemnity, and 60 millions
by the new loan. The remaining 141 millions
would be the subject of ulterior consideration. The
Minister further announces that, as soon as the dele-
gates of commerce from all the provinces shall have
met at Vienna, a commission shall be formed for the
re-organi-ation & f the Bank.

The measures for the reduction of the expenses are
generally indicated in the report; those for increasing
the receipts consist of new taxes in Hungary and
Transylvania, where the nobles have hitherto been
exempt from tax-paying ; a forced loan in the Lom-
bardo Venetian States; and by
1. Payment of the arrears of the loan, 41 per cent.,
amounting to 26 millions of florins ;
2. The redemption of the Treasury bonds of the
Lombardo-Venetian territory for a sum of 14 mil-
lions of florins.

3. The redemption ( f the paper money of the Ger-
man provinces, three millions;
4. Fourteen millions of the Sardinian indemnity
were to be paid up in 1849.
5. The redemption of mortgage assignations and
central assignations of 1842, would reduce sixteen
millions of the floating debt.
6. The operations of credit for the redemption of
the Lombardo-Venetian Treasury bonds will bring in
a considerable amount of specie.
Finally, The issue of Imperial Treasury bonds will
reach, for the present, the sum cf fifty millions of
florins; they will replace all the paper money in cir-
culation, in addition to the bank-notes, and moreover
cover the current expenses of the State. They are to
bear 3 per cent. interest.

The Vienna papers state that the Archduke
ALBRECHT has left the Austrian capital for the army
in Bohemia. The ARCHDUKE'S head-quarters are to
he at Theresienstadt.

Letters from Klagenfurt announce a serious illness
of GEORGE; the late Hungarian General.
The Wanderer has letters from Chumla, stating
that Katerr, late Hungarian General, who lately
entered the service of the Porte, has been appointed
to the post of Governor and Commander of the for-
tress of Shuinla.

The Prussian Itioniteur of the 6th inst. informs us
that the sittings of the Council of Administration
have been resumed, and that the Council is occupied
with definitively settling the project of the Constitu-
tionin order to present it to the Parliament.
The Cologne Gazette of the Bth publishes a tele-
graphic dispatch, dated Berlin, Jan. 7, announcing
that the Ministerial crisis was over, and that on that
day the Chambers would receive a royal message,
proposing the oath to be taken to the Constitution,
and accepting the same with some slight amendments.

" To bear is to qk
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when HOOD pathetically portrayed the sorrows of
the sempstress, or sadly told us how
" Evil is wrought
By want of thought
As well as want of heart."
The list defies enumeration I—but in all these and FIRE AND NARROW ESCAPE.—Last night (Wed-
a million other instances think you not that the Pen nesday), shortly before ten o'clock, a fire of a very
has done more service to the Commonwealth than alarming character, and nearly attended with a loss of
the Sceptre or the Sword ? Yes, authors—authors human life, broke out in the
buildings,
belonging to Mr.
who worthily employ the trust imposed on them—
Marsh, No. 21, Great May's. St. Martin s•
lane. Whilst some of the inmates were sitting in
are the benefactors of the people. Shall we not a lower room, their attention was suddenly attracted by
then, for the sake of the many who benefact us' an unusual noise proceeding from the first floor. The
help the few who may stand in need of succour ? servant went to ascertain the cause, when, on opening
the door of one of the rooms on the first floor, in the oc-
It is no charitable alms that we would proffer. cupation of a gentleman named Walter, a huge mass of
The labourer is worthy of his hire, and whether it flame shot forth, which completely prostrated her. She,
walay way,
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comes from the publisher or the pension list, it is lainodwehvnevrlnsrrucgeieveednedunianlamrmakn g
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the public who is the real paymaster. It is a man named Phillips, living on the second floor, made an
fair day's wages for a fair day's work attempt to descend the staircase, but so fiercely did the
tire eycend, and SO demse was tbe smoke, that ho was
The author of the "History of England," has obliged to make to •.ne of the trtics and by getting out
received a noble guerdon for 'his magnificent compo- of the window, succeeded in escaping a borribbi death.
sition ; but every writer has not the immediate popu. Two valuable dogs in the top of the premises were sal-
larity of MACAULAY, nor every publisher the generous located by the smoke and heat. Owing to the exertions
power of Messrs. LONGMAN. The hill of fame is of the firemen, the flames were extinguished by derun
o'clock, but not until considerable damage was done by
proverbially as steep as the descent to Avernus is fire and water, that portion of the premises in which the
facile; and can we not of our wealth give a disaster commenced being burned out, and the rest of the
honse seriot, ly injurA by heat and water. A spark
fragment to smooth that rugged way, and cheer the
from a lighted candle fulling neon some bedding, it is
behaved, was the cause of the accident.r
desponding hearts which sicken at its incessant
difficulties and delays ? Can we longer insult the The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne left
genius of our countrymen, and proclaim to the world , town on Tuesday afternoon for Bowood Park, Wilts.