AUSTRIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 11 July 1857, Page 4

AUSTRIA.

Count Wimffen, a Proestant, has been made commander of the Ist Arm)', which occupies the Province of Upper and Lower Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Styria. The murrain hap |appeared among the cattle at Ungarisch-Hradisch, a station m the Northern Railroad, at a distance of about 100 English miles from Vienna. Until now, only two oxen have died, but a cordon has been established, and the price of meat must ris'*, as there is a great cattle market at Hraoisch. Mariazell, in Styria, which is in possession of a wonder-working picture of the Virgin, has been a place of pilgrimage for ihe last seven hundred years,

and as it is foreseen that more pilgrims than usual will, during this year, visit the holy shrine, the police have given orders that their names need not be entered in the innkeeper's books. A simple ticket, bearing the names of the persons arriving, will be all that the police will require. It. has been definitively settled that the State should, during a period of three years, disburse 70,000 fl. per annum for prizes to be given to the winners of races, which are to be held at Vienna, Prague, Lemberg, Pesth, and Klausenburge. The prizes are to be in hard cash. A Vienna letter of the 7th says :~"Yesterday it was generally stated that an Austrian corps was about to be placed on the Sardinian frontier, but the Imperial Government neither has ordered nor intends to order troops to be concentrated on the western frontier of Lombardy." One of the Vienna correspondents of the 'Augsburg Gazette ' relates that two South Sclavonians forced their (way into the anteroom of the Emperor's audience-chamber, and there related that a plot had been formed against his Majesty, which was to be put in execution while he was in Hungary. Inquiries have been made on the subject, but no reliable informa'ion lias yet been obtained. The Vienna obituary announces the death of the well-known general and ex-War Minister, Count Charles Louis Ficquelmont, in'his 80th year. He was distinguished as a political writer, as strongly devoted to Russia, and as hostile to England.