The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

C.E.RMANY

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THE NOIITHERN STATES.

SAXONY.

Intelligence has been received from Dresden to the
3d instant.

The following additional details of the circum-
stances attending the insurrection will be read with
interest:—

The hostile disposition manifested by a portion
of the people had induced the Government to take
extraordinary measures. At one o'clock A.M. several
detachments of infantry entered the palace; six can-
non were placed in the cavalry barracks, which were
flanked by infantry ; other cannon were placed at the
arsenal. The artillerymen marched behind their
guns, and were received with shouts by the people,
who crowded the bridge. All the entrances of the
palace were closed, and the people gathered round
them. The people began to obstruct the passages of
the streets. The delegates of the city formed a
committee of public safety ; the people broke
open the church doors and sounded the tocsin.
The Communal Guard got under arms. The
people proceeded to attack the arsenal, but the regi-
' ment of Prince ALBERT fired three times on them.
Fire were killed, and many wounded. The people
then took possession of the Hotel de Ville, and dis-
played the tricoloured flag from the balcony, amid
cries for vengeance. Stones were thrown at the
windows of the Royal palace. At five o'clock four
cannon were placed before the Royal palace, at-
tended by bodies of light cavalry. The Communal
Guard was fired upon by the troops, and several
persons were killed. The pavements were torn up,
and barricades formed as high as the first-
floor windows. Stones were strewed in the
streets to prevent the cavalry from act-
ing. The people then attacked the arsenal once
more, but a cannon was discharged from the inside
upon them, killing many of them. The committee
of public safety declared its sitting permanent. The
people demanded arms from the committee. Dr.
NIINKWITZ, Lieutenant-General HEINTZE, and others
addressed them from the balcony, and exhorted them
to patience, promising them arms and ammunition.
The committee sent a deputation to the KING, who
received them with emotion, but refused to listen to
them. A kind of provisional government was then
formed. M. TZSCHIRNER undertook the direction of the
revolt. The old city and some of the suburbs were in
the hands of the masses by seven o'clock. They spoke
no longer of Germany, but called for a republic.
With slight intervals the firing continued on both
sides all night. At three in the morning, on the sth,
the combat recommenced at Schlosgassee.
The German Reform, in its evening edition of
May 5, says the people were successful in retaining
possession of what they had taken. The KING and
Royal Family had fled to Konigstein. The Provi-
sional Government had addressed a proclamation to
the people, calling on them to fight bravely, and to
defend their newly-acquired liberty. A truce had
been entered into between the troops and the revolu-
tionary Government, by which the latter are left in
quiet possession of their power.
DRESDEN, MAY 4.—Schiener,, Heabner, and Todt,
who have constituted themselves into a Provisional
Government, have issued a proclamation, stating that
by the flight of the King and the Ministry the king-
dom is left without government, which will be
administered by them in the name of the Saxon
nation. They demand the most strict obedience
from all, and state that they will send Parlia-
mentaries to the troops, desiring them to sub-
mit to the decrees of the Provisional Government.
They address the soldiers, calling upon them to
inaiatain the laws and defend the rights of the
country, which are now in danger. The King also
has issued a proclamation to the Saxon nation in which
the speaks of his readiness to sacrifice all to
the wishes of his people, and is ready to do so in the
present instance. But that so long as the great States
of Germany, so long as Prussia hesitates to recognise
and accept the German Constitution as propounded
by Frankfort, it can scarcely be expected that
Saxony should give in her adhesion ; that
the Prussian Government has called upon
the National Assembly to propound another
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knowledged the German Constitution, Saxony will
immediately stand forth and do the same.
The King concludes by stating that he will return
to his capital as soon as possible, and that, during
his absence, the Government will be carried on with-
out interruption.
This proclamation is countersigned by Ferdinand
Zschinsky.—Dresden Papers.
The Prussian troops arrived at Dresden on the sth,
and it is said that on the 6th a telegraphic dispatch
was received at Berlin, announcing the suppression of
the insurrection.

AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, AND
RUSSIA.

The Wiener Zeitung of the 3d May gives the fol-
lowing official report :—" 60,000 Russians, with the
full complement of artillery, divided into three co-
lumns, each consisting of 20,000 men, have already
marched by the passes of Rodenthurin and Tomos,
through the duchy of Bukowina and Boganostampi
into Transylvania. The Imperial Austrian Colonel
DORSNER, assisted by four other Austrian officers,
has been appointed leader of the Russian columns.
Colonel DORSNER is then to organize the boundary
troops. He is invested with full powers to nominate
all superior officers, including captains. At :Okna,
on the frontier of Transylvania, a Turkish reserve
corps of 40,000 men has stationed itself in
conjunction with the Austrians. At Brody 50,000
Russians are posted, at Tomashow 40,000, and at
Micholwitz, on the Gallician boundary, another
body of 40,000 men. Eight reserve battalions are
to march thither and occupy an encampment, where
they disciplined in martial exer-
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battalions,el 1,200 cavalry, and 15
rifleise exer-
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brigades, to
astbein the Austrian service, are forthwith
to go to Hungary.

Baron VON HAMMERSTEIN, cavalry general, is to
remain at Lemberg, where an encampment is to be
formed of one Jager, and ten infantry battalions, and
one regiment of hussars. It appears from this that
the number of troops which are to operate directly
and indirectly against Hungary amounts to 236,000
men. General WELDEN has issued a summons for
the immediate formation of a rifle brigade, from his
heal-quarters at Hungarian-Altenburg.
But if Austria is supported by Russia, Hungary
has also her allies. General BEM has issued a pro-
clamation calling upon the Poles to assemble beneath
the national standard, and form an alliance with
Hungary, and Poland in one week will be up and
doing. Large bodies of young men are daily leaving
Posen to join their friends in Gallicia, who are pre-
pared to raise the standard of independence. A corps
d'arm6e of 60,000 Hungarians have taken possession
of the pass of jablunka, and are by this time co-
operating with the Polish army of independence.
The Hungarians have taken Raab, and are close upon
Presburg, the only Hungarian town of consequence
(with the exception of Buda) at present in possession
of the Austrians. In Buda a Croatian garrison is
located, their communications are cut off, and it is
only to save Pesth from bombardment that they are
not attacked by an overwhelming force.
The army of JELLACHICII has been completely de-
stroyed near Peterwaradin4and'theßanjhimself is a:fugi-
tive. Gen. BEM has complete possession of the Bannat,
iind is, prepared to oppose the entrance of the Russians
into Transylvania. He has addressed a letter to
FUAD EFFENDI, commissary of the Porte in the Da-
nube principalities. The object of the note is to
reclaim certain funds taken by the Austrians out of
Transylvania, some belonging to the Saxon nation,
others the oroperty of private individuals. These
BEM demands in behalf of the Hungarian nation. Ho
then courts the alliance of the Porte with the Hun-
garian Government, and solicits protection for the
Hungarian subjects in Wallachia. In conclusion, he
adds the protest of the citizens of Hermanstadt
against any interference on the part of the Russians,
as they are perfectly contented with the present
Government.

The road to Vienna and Oltnutz is open to the
Hungarian army under DEMBINSKI and GEORGY ; the
Czechs and Germans, since the intervention of the
Russians, are not disinclined to make common cause
with the Magyars, who may possibly be in possession
of the capital of the empire and of the person of the
EMPEROR before the arrival of his Muscovite de-
fenders.