The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

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abe tou. la soother official mantesto, the AA events
ore in the light the mien chooses to pat them
Cr: ou fatal truth in it, vis that • part of the
b.
ago' carps, animated by the news et la approach of the
us, broke the orauventiou, and find against tho ad-
=lnelitsry after the ourauder had been declared; bat
Miris stated in this manifesto ot tho tefivtliint which hod
nin Vilma is fain As I told you before, after the
thhOutelser then maim torrarion,lott the most perfect order.
mg people of Visas only took up arm in defence of their
god agarast an illegal siege of the imperial army,
isigbills whokpopulation believed to the lent that no real
ggyekigioa tho tows was intended, and therefor. sufficient
soggy was sot displayed by the besieged till at the very mo.
Mast abode when they fought like heroes. it is not true,
ib
N, mon Pretends, that the imperial palms was set in
soggs`iey the defenders of the town. It es well known that
Lieutenant Nee, rocket booty No. 3 of Windiselopids,
tutor of the toekets by mistake into the imperial palace.
'Meal ether buildings have suffered by the caasoaade. The
Mao of Count liollowr.th has been burst down, brine
Winast re fire by the rockets. It is said that very valuable
Orono have been destroyed.
Os the 2od et Nov., ones the members of the National
ggsgibly wasted to enter the house, they found the doors
asonfeed by the gftnAdiers. ring Field-Marshal Prince
Selowarmoberg Firing the coder to War ow rasa to the
Wpatiee. Oa their remonetraring against such a measure,
he roplie 1 that there was no appeal 'toilet his earmark.
Pan of the deputies, who found their way into the house by
Oak door, 'determined to adjourn to the 15th of Nov.,
when they would again aaseenhle at Vicuna.
Oa the 3 d . f November the military arrangements still
retinae I • the shops were still closed' but it mold be un-
just to any that the officers generally behave as mode-
roblY as oinnuistanees allow. I understand that 18.000
tuserescom had bees find by tit • military; the damage
is estimated at twelve millions of Seim"
Tae following account of some of the scenes anted dur-
ing the Menelaus atVrenos, is 1n... another correspondent :
. V15:4314, Nov. 6.—1 wrote you a short account of
the rate of affairs on the 3rd Nov., which I Mersey you
have rep lad. We hart loon Loh ed umerved from harm
we
by a miracle, the whole town being gives op to pillage
aad mamas during a whole day. I will endeavour to give
you a decryption of the events of the last ketaight, although
say picture that my vet can trona to year mind will
always f.ll far surto( the horrible reality. From the 21rd
Oat (elm the real attack upon the aborts began) till the
28sh, we heard daily th • most tearful cannonading at all the
saberban gates and at the sustrosi on bridge, over
welch the Crestless wan trying to force a postage
Oa MS side, sad which was barricaded and defended
by the national murals an tits other. The Croatians had
someded in entering the Pater through the Brigittenau,
whirs th.y had throws a bridge over the Danube at Nei.
don. Bythan mesas they air r obtained possession of the
pro sugar refineries of Math and %toner, and of the Main
tors-mill, all three of which they plundered and burnt
down. Err ry night ws had the terrible sib owls of seeing
the whole sky reddened with the fin a that were breaking
oat from the itchiest of the bombe and Corneae rockets.
We ere cawing (I think O. was the 25th ) counted thirteen
Ms from oar wisdom., all in the Leopoidnadt. This on.
Actuate suburb suffered most of rill ; the beautiful saloon
elle Odeon was burnt to the around, and three to four
heated pawns, supposed to have compel from the Brigit.
tau, lay buried nude, the Unmans* lead** roof, whirls
fell with a crash on the unfortunate hums, and which Still
lir where it teU, as it will require wicks to raise it.
Oa the 2sth October the Leopoldstadt and Londoner,
goo a mare firing of tour hours and a chsperata resistance
at the lines (suburban dikes), were taken by storm. Roth-
Mader teed zloaks), Cr rata, and soldiers, method in to-
gether, although the Rothmintler were the first; and
aim shall I forget the savage yrU with which they embed
ion the street—at first they ware kept at bay by the national
inns who hid posted themselves with three tield.pieees in
haat of their captain's house (four or five doors blow our
hoer 1, and these mad, a last and detonate rand, but soon
mks the tremendous odds against them, for the Croats
=den in Monti, they went towards the inner town,
costinisally with much effect as they retreated. Be-
fog the fight in :he street was ended, the red runCes
kid bosun to enter the houses and shops. There had
been a command issued that the doom of the houses were
to be left open to urn as refuge for the national guards,
but of which they did not avail themselves, preferring to
retreat into the inner town. 8o the red mantle;
who followed at their keels found the doors of the
loam open, which in the confusion could not be
ant in time to k. ep them out. Five of them
rushed into our house together, firing at the porter,
who stood under the gateway. They fortunately
aimed him, and he instantly jumped into a sewer which
happened to be open. The ruffians then seized upon hi
wife, and holding a dagger to her throat, demanded money.
At this terrible moment two cavalry officer, who nest likely
were anxious to escape from the firing in the street, galloped
into the yard, and saved us all from a dreadful fate. A
few minutes afterwards, a wounded Cordite otil•cr, the
lint.-col. of the regiment, was carried in, and instantly
pa orders that sobo y in the house should be molested.
Re had been wombed in the Mad from the window of a
Wass, his aideedmatop tranediately ordered the house to
M searched, and all the inmates (14 in number) were mur•
bred ; but I must do the lima:colonel the justice to say
that he was very angry when he heard of it. However,
Amu* few who think as he does. In our neighbourhood
ths rues have been &wad—everywhere pillage, and in
many instances attruspand by murder. A dreadful
soma was acted under our windows, which we unfortunately
witnessed. A prisoner ma brought out of a house,
bared in some of the military clothing which
had been distributed among the garde mobile. The mop
naidisry fell upon him, and attar cutting off his ears killed
Ma in the mat barbarous manner, net by shooting or stab-
bing him, which would have speedily terminated his suffer-
lags, but by bodies him about the head with the butt•end of
their guns till be was more than half dead; then they dragged
bias sat of sight. But this is not a enlisry instance, for I
mull hare spoken to a military officer who has seen
the prisoners murdered by hundreds outride the
his... They hunt everywhere to the workmen,
Mica& guards, and especially the students It is m-
atting to human mature to record such enormities;
bayou cannot judge correctly of the course and possible con.
eiquences of the revolution, order you are acquainted with
bets, which, if seen in a pubic journal, you might think
wen usgprations or urtruths.
Bat I must orntinno my series of events. Siusday eager
isg, the 29th Oct., the town hang out a whit, flag is =
eLuitulatices, when suddenly the white flag
sad a column of smoke rising from
the .....towar of St. Stephen's, gave Mho W the
lobate which had not yet surrendered (Wisffew,Bleekth ,ilf
fiebetufald,), that tnt Hungarian many whir bag
bra *Spaded for weeks to COW to the kl ofthe bleiteded
town was already armed at Schnabel. Raw woe
Mend into every heat at this news—tho WIN= in
its whits flag, whih it had hung out in imilinelen of the
Ism, and .dMirod it would defend itself le the lent man.
The Sudsy prod A irs 'doily. Early on Monday Morning
(athii tosaollOct. we Ward the distant report of artillery, which
,te the =Was ishabitasts that the two snubs
Ise art In a skint lee the skarn arm wen
Was, and the Crest/ma =A. Irish bed Ws hi
be two sights in our streets, were nearchs3 01l to Mit=
Maly ha the HWilliriuts. Many of them mover reward
ken dot Wady eagegetsent ; they see rid to have dirtied
Orelfally ; NW of their mended, who could bear to he
beleght es for, were takes to the artillery barracks does Is
111, air hawker d eskers sorted the field of battle ; bat
the Was Euiperises seifferrd still more, as thousands of
M are NM to bar been driven into the Danube, and the
wokssabaly saw of their defeat arrived the same evening.
Tway morsiag, the 31st October.—The Wieden was
rim by ekes, and the town was bombarded from the
liiinertasaberg Garden. We ma see the whole Wieden
hem the huh of our house, and I amen you it was • sight
Ire aner begot—to we the Mate and Courevs rockets
Wes thrush the air like limy serpents, all directed to-
rtilla, riveted My. The oars was deafening, and ono
el hearths yells 1111111 lassie of those demons the
Vai • Wry tuba forward to storm the barricades,
Weft air nil Mwpise like Indiana. The rase after-
ark at Wiwi five o'clock, the " Burg-Thor "
was takes abase a most desperate reebtasoe. I went
lbe gay beim yesterday to look at the gate,
Mir is MIN with shot, sad yet they would not tom
mama had they not set fire to ono of the gates, which was
ems may battered down. It is said that the quantity of
Mini yet bin is 'enormous. It soma their object in star-
k, the berg was to prevent its being set on fire by the
weiper*, who threatened to do so ; but yes Won there
lie plum all sides of the Burg, so that they were still shut
at kw re town. Oa the Ist Nov. the town capitulated,
be* the Iniversity and the Stabanthor ; bre the poor
*akar GM Warm had buricsdai this INISINIIII4 sal
leered Int Wry wadi war die by sends ark OW
than sestorkr, it May wall Maw the krligera di
V hkr rye- The askitarre slain* beigre
Win Wie—l mesa re three were Wee Uwe, firth—
Were rest efforts to avert re kaginding
beim him MLitt=
Vistas. You wadi seareely ba-
be" II Illidlde that haws beings could sown without a
marsow Or Mom awl to whisk Soy have been
heeni 4,•
he .----• isestad-daCt has bees risk reward ?
eaaaarik:a*Wlrt Peritoarst ant: the
antvfllees arkilflagr:
=Abdo, zkhe
Oke,gsw ow is hand, isnensat of what
*Ma and eammien. On
::=T'ses 31441111.1 1, re soldiers were aestatanded
wart lainsituosiaiviaal* Uu'illthll le they iskrafird• kr
at the barricades, they pesters&
into ties iota* who they
pry
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_____ a,. . discovered that their asperse
7:teakira, Zs hen la yet nobody knows. Way lave
the es of the town woe deed sell •
orkkh so
_ktiletroed,.._____
,ofre?s,cellar. to loft is every lease. Dna
yes m";r7rguilesei P• ?mute a student. You will Ines
barbarous roads of UM riddle sees,
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yes- how dull 64. °amble, Les chin descriptios
risen .te as, and how different from the Ara reels ! I
fa ama this leeraieg fOr the first 11111114 11111 l Ma
the 4 pesos- who hire, ill the Leopoldstadt, in Ws Wast dam
theueele,...._..,_••••!
..stood, and
. who gave us some peresairs d
ee..',.7.`fa I 'I not know when I began this later. Tin
=nn ZS tamed into a hospital for the wounded, wad
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.. a Luber of refugees in it, about fill
CreetemhZ.M.,(ll fls.ray, the building was find by dm
th,......._
...le Pad beinnthe entrancesto mantels:spa :
7•.7 st ft:derma ad children ars said to have boos
.1714,1;1.e..8 . 11.0 i oto reaped. The Rod Menthe are
bers:2te ••2 daggers, 2 pistols, • loaf :tau with a
out .„7,.1Lee,9 at
. lye pOLUt as a needle, and a hatchet
km h„C"`Tuk,Ze_thil- All hey* not rod maths, t some
and th..,,,.n red caps, wide red trowsone, and nd beets,
tegis-44: le if they had bogs dipped le 'Moot Ors of
Euairse kea",_afiell was bresight Isefore his earn asd
rare &ewe "mli arsesSaated 47 prow us the
adept,' t (Voider t), which eves
tee nob. ki 001I-
ia ear we.. ore seen Machias pass= repo
'' sevens Vim, but my heart revolts at the