The Sun. — 1848-09-09 (London, England)

THE NORTHERN STATES.  FRANKFORT-UN-THE-MAINE  Letters and dispatches from Frankfort to the 6th instant, inclusively, have arrived. The excitement which prevails as to the Schleswig• Holstein question has become something tremendous, not only in the Imperial city itself, and at the Hanseatic towns, but throughout almost the whole of the independent states of Germany. The Assembly, after a stormy discussion on the 6th, rejected the armistice, the decision spreading like wildfire through the city, and causing a general feeling of satisfaction.  The Cologne Gazette, in the postscript, dated the 6th instant, half past one, says, " The Ministry resigns."  At Hamburgh the excitement continued to be almost indescribable, and the abhorrence of the conduct pursued by Prussia towards the Duchies is as profound as it is becoming universal.  Intelligence one day later from Vienna has been received. In the Wiener Zietung is published the financial account of the Austrian empire, for the nine months ending July 31, 1848, and also for the separate month of July last. It appears by that account that the receipts during the former period amounted to 91,298,835 florins, and the expenditure to 119,554,205 florins, thus showing a deficit of 28,255,370 florins, instead of—as anticipated when the budget for this year was struck—a surplus of 3,687,650 florins for those nine months; so that, for all practical purposes, the deficit for that period is same 31,943,120 florins. It must be borne in mind, however, that no revenues had been derived from Lombardy and Venice since the middle of March ; from Hungary since the beginning of April ; or from Liebenburger since the 24th of June. Those circumstances will account for a deficiency of about twenty millions of florins. The revenues from other parts of the empire have sensibly diminished, in consequence of the stagnation of commerce, and there has been an increased war expenditure. During the month of July last the receipts were 7,213,267 florins, whereas the expenditure amounted to 14,276,396 florins, being a deficit of more than seven millions of florins. On the 29th ult. the value of the notes of the Austrian National Bank in circulation was 202,790,153 florins, and of the convention coin and silver bars in deposit only 32,236,098. In consequence of the false statements given in the public journals and pamphlets, respecting the late occurrences in Vienna, the Minister of the Interior has announced officially that a strict investigation into the affair of the 23d is now pending and will be laid before the public. He concludes by saying : " The reports width have been circulated, relative to the killing and wounding of children, drowning the fugitive workmen in the Danube, and other cruelties, laid to the charge of the National Guard and the Committee of Security, are mere idle inventions."  In a second public notification the Minister o ;he Interior says:—  " The Minister of the Interior has received repeated notices that the Guard of Security have been opposed, and murdered in the discharge of their duties, and have been personally attacked and assaulted. This guard being a public organ, the Minister of the Interior warns the public that, by opposing it, they are guilty of heavy transgression against the polioy authorities, and are liable from three days to three months' imprisonment, according to circumstances. " Whoever impedes the Guard of Security in the discharge of their duty, whether by menace or force, even if there be no weapons nor unlawful assemblages, is guilty of a breach of the public peace, and liable to close imprisonment from six months to five years.  "Vienna, Sept. 1, 1848. " The Minister of the Interior, "