30 DECEMBER 1848, Page 7

In the Austrian National Assembly, on the 20th December, Strobach

was elected President in place of Smolka, who acted as President of the Assembly during the period of the Vienna insurrection. This was deemed a Ministerial triumph.

The sitting of the 21st, which lasted nine hours, was chiefly occupied with a debate on the credit to be voted to the Government. After the rejection of a host of amendments, the amended proposal of the Com- mission of Finance, empowering the Ministry to contract a loan of eighty millions for the service of the ensuing year, 1849, was adopted, by a slender Majority.