The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-04 00:00:00

GERMANY.

STATE OF AUSTRIA.
In the extraordinary supplement of the Deutsche
-Reform, of the 31st ult., it is stated that, up
to the 29th, afternoon, the combat at Vienna
still continued. Windiechgratz had taken several
suburbs. Negotiations were resumed, but the re.
suit had not transpired. On the 28th the imps.
eialists commenced the attack upon those suburbs
from which the least opposition was expected. Win.
dischgratz bad openly afforded the citizens of Vienne
the opportunity of assembling in the suburbs which
he had captured in order that they might separate
themselves from the armed population.
The above journal is strongly suspected of colour.
ing the intelligence in a way favourable to the imps.
elands. We give as literal a translation as possible
of the further details it furnishes :
On commencing the attack, rockets and grenades,
and a few bombs, were thrown by the army into the
city, so that some houses were Kt on fire. In the
Landatrasse and Erdberg suburbs there were merely
sham attacks; people threw from the houses flowers
on the soldiers A portion of the national gaud
must have thrown their arms away, for large quanti-
ties were found in the river. In the Landsman.
suburb Jellachich deivered an address to the people,
which awakened their confidence. Or the ot.r
hand, the workirg men fought with the greatest
bravery. On the evening of the 28th, Windiscbgratz
took possession of the Erdberg and Landstrasse sub-
urbs, and the Gloggnitz railway station, and pet*.
tested as far as the Franz bridge, so that his batteries
extended all along tte Jagerzeil suburb. At 8, p.n.,
Windischgritz entered the above suburb, and took up
' his quarters for the night at the' Golden Year"
as he had (it is said) anticipated the evening before.
During the night of the 28th Windischgratz took
. possession of the Belvidere, the Schwarzenberg gap.
• den, and, on the other sine of the city, the Leopold.
stadt, holding also the Jagerzeil suburb. During the
. night only musketry discharges were heard et
intervals.

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"On the morning of the 29th the attack began on
the Wieden, Marimba, and Schottenfeld suburbs, in
which resistance had been determined upon. At the
same time a column of smoke issued from the interior
of the city, as a signal of distress, calling upon the
Hungarians—although in vain—for help. The Hun.
garian vanguard did indeed show imelr ; but without
making any attack, withdrew immediately again to
Bruck.
"The Polish General, Bern, at the head of the stn.
dents, had withdrawn into the interior of the city, and
appeared resolved to continue the contest. On the pre.
vious day, the students had removed all distinguishing
marks from their hate, in order to avoid being recog-
nised by their outward appearance. On the forenoon
of the 29th Windischgratz gave orders to suspend the
fight, and accorded a truce. Numerous parties then
came out to parley, but Windischgratz still insisted
upon his former demand for the disarming of the
working men and students.
" Pillersclorf and Polezki, the two members of the
Diet who had returned from Olmtitz without having
had an audience of the Emperor, desired an interview
with Wiudischgtatz, which he declined. Towards
noon three carriages arrived with other persons de-
groin of a parley. They did not find Windischgrats,
as he had gone with his staff towards Bruck, in order
to reconnoitre the position of the vanguard of the
Hungarian army. Thither the parties also went, and
their return was anxiously expected in the course of
the afternoon of the 29th..
So far the Deutsche Reform. We have as yet no
journals or letters from the Austrian capital. Mora-
vian paper., however, have arrived, and they bring
the following intelligence :—During the 28th the
roar of artillery was heard, without intermission, till
8 p.m. ; from that hour till Bit partly subsided. The
fight chiefly raged in the neighbourhood of the Bel-
videre (in Lerchenteld), Briggittenau, andin the vicinity
of Leopoldstadt. Leopoldstadt was still in the hands
of the Viennese, and in the suburb s the Imperialists
had not gained a foot of ground.
In an extraordinary supplement of the Breslauer
Zeitung, published on the 30th ult., the statement
that the bombardment of Vienna had commenced, and
that the troops had attacked the city on all sides, wu
fully confirmed, as well as the account of the all bat
total annihilation of the battalion which attacked the
first barricade, and of its subsequent capture by the
troops. It is further added that the 11 (not 12) can-
non which defended the first barricade had been eta-
tioned behind the second one ; so that if the contest
continued in that way every barricade would be the
scene of a sanguinary combat. On the other hand,
the statement that the troops had penetrated as far
as the Karla Theatre was neither confirmed nor con-
tradicted. It was generally believed in Prerau and in
Breslau, that an attempt would be made to take
the city by storm. Travellers who had left Floris-
dorf on the evening of the 28th state that Vienna
was harming on all sides. The armed population of
Vienna were fully resolved to fight to the last. It is
asserted that they had compelled all foreigners, under
pain of being shot, to join their ranks. On the other
hand, Windischgretz had declared that all persons
taken with arms in their hands would be imme-
diately executed, so that the foreigners stand a poor
chance of escape.
The Wiener Zeitung, the official organ of the
Austrian government, continues to insert—notwith-
standing the prohibition of Windischgriez—not only
accounts of the state of affairs in Vienna, but even
leading articles on the question of the day. Even if
the conductors of that journal were willing to obey
the injunctions of Windiechgretz, and to publish only
official articles, it is not likely that the insurgents
would rest satisfied with such documents.
Numerous Hungarian families, chiefly belonging to
the anti-revolutionary party, have fled to Breslau and
Prague. With reference to the future position of
affairs after the capture of Vienna—supporang that
such an event really occur—the Breslauer Zeitung
remarks that as a garrison of 60,000 men at least will
be required for that city, as the war with the Hunga-
rians (nearly every one of whom is a soldier) will re-
quire an immense army ; as hostilities have recom-
menced in Italy, and as Radeteki is demanding rein-
forcements, it is not clear how Austria can conjure the
storm arising
.on all sides. Meantime, the Stacenski
Jug, the moot influential journal in South Hungary,
or rather is all Slavonia Proper, holds out the pros-
pest of a fierce national contest with the Austrian
government, which (it observes) is just now employ-
lin the Slavor lane as the mere tools of the dynasty.
The following is the conclusion of a remarkable article
in the above journal—an article which secures addi-
tional importance from its being copied into the lead-
ing Prague pipers :
Shall we—eighteen millions of Slavonians and three of
Rnmanen—shall we again shed our blood in order to »-
I erect the German and Austrian throne, and resuscitate the
German Emperor and Magyar King No—never again—
never shall the Slavonian army replace the Emperor Ferdi-
nand on his throne ; and cursed be the hand who attempts
it. Again, hcwever, may the Emperor raise his head, bat
only oaths Emperor of the United Slavonian Empire. As
for the Austrian Emperor and the Magyar King, let him
rest in eternal peen..
It is asserted in the Breslin journal above quoted
that the deputation of the Diet received from the Em-
peror the promise that he would re-consider his or-
donnance respecting the transfer of that assembly to
Kremsier. It adds that Minister Kraus had left
Olmtitz for Vienna, and that the landsturm had been
organised in Silesia in favour of the Viennese. At
8, P.M.' on the 28th, it adds, the suburbs had been set on
fire in live or six places, by the rockets thrown in
from the army. The French residents in Vienna left
on the 27th, under the protection 01 the French am-
bassaeor. All the flour in the steam-mills on the
Danube (some 20,000 cwt.) was saved by the Vien-
nese from the fire which destroyed the windmills
themselves, so that the supply did not fall into the
hands of the imperialists. The gunners of the Vien-
nese are principa' ly deserters from the artillt ry corps,
and are capital marksmen. It is stated that there are
160,000 armed men in Vienna, under the command of
General Bem ; 10,000 regular Hungarian troops, and
26,000 of the :ancleturm were on their march to
Vienna, where they were expected on the night of
the 28th. There was no want of provisions. The
large cellars in the Koh'markt were stocked with
victuals, which were delivered out in rations by
General Bem. When those provisions were exhausted
all in the possession of private individuals would
be used, pro ban.) publico. tie to the 27th there
were enough members present in the Diet to form a
house. That Assembly had declared that it had
neither the right nor the desire to remove from
Vienna, and that it would suffer no one to compel it
to abandon the city.
The following paragraph appeared in the Ber-
liner Zeitung-Halle of the 31st tdt. 'Windiechgrits

had issued on the 27th a proclamation to the effect
that as the 48 hours' truce had expired, he would no
longer rest satisfied with the former conditions, but
would require the heads of General Bens,
pnlekp, and Dr. Schulte, and would make ever,
homeowner responsible for whatever courted on Ins
premises. Should a shot be fired from any house, or
an attack be made from it on the imperial troops, all
the persons found in it should be put to the sword
and the house itself burned. In reply to this pro-
clamation, Dr. B,hutte set a price of 2,000 gold ducats
on the head of Windischgra•z."
According to the ScAksische Zeitung the Hungarian
Lindner= had'. broken out," and on the 27th and 28th,
thousands, armed with pikes, had entered upon the
Austrian territory ; the Jame corps during the attack
on the first barricade in Vienni, had lost 1,350 men.
During the whole of the day of the 28th the city was
bombarded.
The Preussiarhe Stoats dinzeiger, of the Ist inst.,
adds but little to the foregoing intelligence. It states,
however, that up to half-put 2, e.n., on the 29th,
cannon was still fired. In general, the above official
paper copies or confirms the news given by the
Deutsche IWorm.
PHUSSIA.—Our correspondent at Berlin, writing
on the evening of the 31st ult., says : —All this evening
and no to the present time, an immense crowd (many
bearing torches) has been and is standing near the
locale of the constituent Assembly, which is still dis-
cussing a motion to the effect that the cause of the
people of Vienna be declared to be that of Germany in
general ; and that the lath r be aided in their pa-
triotic endeavours. Yesterday the Assembly voted
the abolition of the nobility as a separate caste, and
prohibited the use of letters of nobility in public
documents.
" P. 8.-9 P.m.—The crowds are increasing le *he
neighbourhood cf the well-known • gendarme market.
The result of the dismission in the Assembly has not
yet transpired. The excitement is intense.

NAPLES, Orr. 26.
Naples still continues tranquil ; but a change of
ministry is daily expected. We are still waiting d►
'patches from England relative to the Sicilian ques-
tion. The Ocean, 110, Capt. Pothers. has left the bay
of Naples, with the &sorrels', 120, Capt. Titian, for Toulon ;
the S i!ort, sts amer, for Sicily ; the laa is ordered home (rain
Syracuse. Admiral Rancho will remain with the Friedland,
and a few other ships of the French squadron between
Naples and Sicily during the whole of the winter. We have
in the bay If Naples at the present moment Hibernia, 101,
bearing the fin; at Vice•Admirel Parker; Queen, 190, Capt.
Bruce; Sup:rb, Capt. Corry; Rodney, 90, Capt. Collier;
Vengeance, 61, Capt. bashington ; and the Terrible, war-
steamer.

RUSSIA.—A connapondent gives the following
eat, mint .espec•ing the Itiis.ian force in the Black Sea anu
in Moldavia end Wallachia. The news is, he says, from ofB-
- sources:—lt will be remembered the Russian cabinet
advised the Turkish governo ent to send a force into Mol-
davia to quell a rebellious movement in that principality.
A Rt.ssian force aeon after occupied that district of the
Turkish dominions, which has since been augmented to
50,000, with a reserve of 2.1,000 men on the frontier. These
troops are provisioned far one year. The Rus.ian naval
kece is the Black See mussists 01 6 line-of battle ships of 120
guns; 10.•: St eons; 800-gun frigates; 24 sloops of war; 19
steamers, of _OO-horse power; with store ships and gun.
boats, all provisioned for a year.