The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

GERMANY.

OCCUPATION OF VIENNA BY THE
IMPERIAL TROOPS.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS AT BERLIN.

Intelligence from Vienna to the morning of the Ist
of Nov.. confirms our previous statements as to
negociationsi having been broken off and hostilities
renewed. The result, however, has been the capture
of Vienna by the imperialists. The whole of the city
was not
.yet in their possession on the let instant, the
quarter in which the university is still holding out.
The Berlin Stoats Anreiger, of the 4th inst., con-
tains the following intelligence : "On the evening of
the 31st ult., the imperial troops entered the inner
town, after having taken all the faubourgs, when,
advancing towards the bastions, upon which white
flags had been raised, they were suddenly received
by a heavy fire. Upon this shells and rockets were
thrown into the town, and the Imperial Library
and a portion of the palace were soon in flames.
The town then nominally submitted, and the Burg
(imperial palace), the Kiirnthnerstrasse, and the
Stephen's-square, were occunied by the mili-
tary, but a brisk fire was still kept up upon them
from the windows. The Burg and Karnthn. r-gates
were stormed and battered in by the troops, and the
Burg carried by assault. The fire in the palace and
library was extinguished, and it is hoped that the in-
estimable treasures of that noble collection will not be
lost. The student' fought like madmen ; and, when
the rest of the city had given in, they still defended
themselves in the vicinity of the Aula, supported by a
parties of the workmen. On the Ist of November
.6g still held out in the Salzgries barracks. The
Auk was taken by the imperial troops, and at noon
the barracks were carried by storm, and several
students taken with arms in their bands. General
Bem is reported to have escaped. Palski and
&butte had not been captured. On the 31st the
Hungarians re-crossed the Leiths, and withdrew. In
addition to the previous stipulation of Prince Windis-
I Brien the city was to hoist the imperial Austrian
standard on St. Stephen's-square, and place all arms,
guns, treasure, &c., in his hands."
Accounts from Braun, of the 30th ult., announce the
organisation of the landsturm there, and a general
rising in the town itself against the imperial troops.
The workpeople seized every sort of arms that they
could find, and up to the latest accounts the greatest
contusion existed.
The deputation of Bohemian deputies who left
Prague to have an audience of the Emperor at 011-
mute, were received by him on the 31st alt., and in-
formed that he could not give an immediate answer
to their demands, but that he would take an early op-
, portunity of doing so.
This answer to the deputation was telegraphed to
Prague on the Ist instant, together with a protest,
signed by the deputies, against the manner in which
they had been received, and stating that it was not
such a reception as ought to be given to the represen-
tatives of the Bohemian nation.
PRUSSIA.—The Berlin journals cf the 4th inst.
contain the following respecting the minis-
terial crisis in that city :—" Our last accounts left
1 the chamber sitting in expectancy of the re-
ceipt of an answer from the king to the address
sent to him, protesting against the nomination to the
ministry of Count Brandenburg. The answer did
not arrive on the night of the 2nd, bit on
the 3rd, in its sitting, the Assembly received a message
from the king, counter-signed by the minister Bich-
man, in which the withdrawal of the order to Count
Brandenburg to form anew ministry was refund ; but
it was known in the Assembly that, in the meanwhile,
Count Brandenburg bad requested to be allowed to
resign, and it was expected that Grabow, President
of the Assembly, would be called to form • new ca-
binet. Berlin was quiet.

THE STOWE ESTATE will, before long, be deprived of
the whole of its timber. A further and Gr more extensive
tale than the last one Is to take place shortly. Pewits am
now employed in marking the 'trio= lots ready for the sue-
Owner's hammer.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—A few days since, at a
public meeting held in the town of Macclesfield, at which
the Marquis of Westminster, Viscount Ebrington, and ether
noblemen and gentlemen were present, for the purpose of
establishing baths sad washbowl's for the labouring Omen,
Mr. John Williams, the member for the borough, presented
t^ the undertaking as i 4' atiOa from l'""elt as a EIWI
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who had risrn from the workiag awe, the stun
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