AUSTRIA. [From the Times Correspondent.] Vienna, October 9.

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AUSTRIA. [From the Times Correspondent.] Vienna, October 9.

A friend, a military man, who has just returned from Presburg, has favoured me with some authentic information as to the women and children now confined in the castle of that city. He states that the report of Pulsky's children being there is erroneous, but that Kossuth's two sons and one daughter, as also two of Guyen's children, are in the hands of the Imperialists. Piefzel's wife and the two Baronesses Splenyi are also inhabitants of the castle. My informant tells me that the little Kossuths are so totally without pecuniary resouices, that General Haynau was moved by compassion to contribute £10 in the hands of tbe Governor of the castle for their benefit. The tutor of Kossuth's children, who was concerned in the rebellion, has been moved by the authorities,

but the governess has been left with her helpless charges. The Ladies Splenyi are any* jthing but cast down, and exhibit "a bold Unblushing front," boasting as of yore, of their high and mighty connexions. Madame PeTzel would willingly have her children with her ; but her husband in his hurry to escape left her so completely without money, that she has not wherewithal to defray the expenses of their journey. Another officer who has just arrived here from Coraorn, informs me that he had when ihere an opportunity of seeing Asserman's aMe-de-camp, who having laid aside the modesty and timidity of her sex, had not only donned the Honved uniform, but had been actively engaged in 14 battles. This second Joan of Arc is about 20 years of age. The Honved officers who have just left Comorn are by no means humbled by their late disaster, for not content with parading the streets of Pesth in full uniform, they appeared in the theatre a few nights since with their sabres at iheir sides. As was to be expected, a proclamation appeared next morning, prohibiting their wearing side-arms for the future. The uniforms were not mentioned, as it is known that their wearers have no other clothes. It is to be hoped that the execution of the unfortunate men at Arad and that of Count Baithyani will induce these misguided men at once to retire into private life, instead of by their arrogant behaviour exciting the desire of revenge which is latent in the breast of every Imperial soldier. I have to-day received a letter from Pesth, which informs me that Count Battbyani was shot between halfpast 5 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the 6ih. My correspondent states that the unfortunate man stabbed himself in the throat with a small dagger, and that the report of his having stabbed himself with a needle is incorrect. In a few days the whole affair must be cleared up, as, nolens, volens, the Ministerial organs must give some account of what has taken place. It will gire you some idea of the simplicity of even the more educated classes here when I inform you of what I heard at dinner yesterday.. I had expected, considering the company assembled, that the charge of unnecessary cruelty would be brought against the authorities for executing Batthyanni, and the insurgent chiefs at Arad, but I confess I was not prepared to hear my liberal friends disapprove of the proceeding " because men of such high rank had been the sufferers." Yet these are some of the very persons who in theory lire the great champions of paragraph 27 of the Constitution, which runs thus — "All Austrian subjects are equal in the eye of the law, and are subject to the same courts of justice." The Pesteur Zietung, which has this moment been brought in, contains the sentence of Count Bauhyani. There is not a word in it of his having been privy to the murder of Count Laiour, as was stated to be tbe case of the Pesth correspondent of the Osterreichischie Correspondent. The Count was condemned to death for high treason, he having in a placard called upon his countrymen to resist the Imperial authority after the Hungarian Ministry had been dissolved by Royal rescript on Oct. 3, 1848. The late magnate's property is also confiscated. We learn from Presburg that several vessels full of Comorn Honveds had arrived there. The officers, by their conceit and arrogance, produce the same impression upon the citizens and Imperial troops as their comrades have done in Pesth. 1 much fear that this silly behaviour will lead to some sanguinary scenes, as the Austrian soldiers are completely tired of the blustering and swaggering of the Magyars. The Russian corps under General Grabbe has left Comorn, and is on its way back to the Russian territories. The German question is still pending, as is evident from the reply of the Prussian Minister Schleitnitz to the interpellation of Beckerath. Prussia still clings to the idea of a confederation on the basis of the draught of the German Constitution of May 26, but that will never suit Austria. I believe, however, that Prussia (has already accepted the proposal to form a Provisional Central Government as made by Austria. The Ost Deutsche Post is of opinion that there is not a single treaty which supports the Russian claim for the extradition of the Widdin refugees, and relates that when Prince Nangerly and his father were accused of having formed a plot against the life of the Sultan they took refuge in Russia. When the conspir< tors were claimed, the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh not only refused their extradition, but granted the Prince letters of naturalization, and actually subsequently sent him as first "dragoman" of the Russian Embassy to the Turkish metropolis. The Lloyd of to-day, in a leading article says that the statement of tbe Times that Austria and Russia would make a c»sus belli of the rejection of their ultimatum "is positively false." The article^ alluded to is evidently from a Ministerial source, and proves to me that our Go-

vernment has since I wrote my letter of the 28th "drawn in its horns." Should my presumption prove correct, we shall probahly see that the Austrian Internuncio, Stunner, will desire to be recalled. The Lloyd takes infinite trouble to point out the difference be* tween breaking off the diplomatic connexion existing between two countries and making a casus belli of a question. I grant that I was wrong in attributing the latter intention to our Cabinet, for I now see that it only wanted to bully Turkey into compliance with its wishes*