The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-01 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES

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AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
THE FALL OF OFEN.
VIENNA, MAY 27.—The Wiener Zeitung, in an
extraordinary supplement, gives the following state-
ment :—" Since we are to this moment without any
official report from Ofen, because all communication
is interrupted with that place, we give the follow-
ing account, which may be on the whole depended

"On the 4th of May GEORGY approached Ofen,
where he took up a position on the Blocksberg and
the Schwahenberg, and neared Ofen itself as far as
the Bombenplatz. Major• General i!ENTZI refused to
accept the demand to capitulate, and opened so brisk
a fire upon the insurgents that they were obliged to
fall back. On the same evening he also bombarded
Pesth, from which fortress many of the enemy's shots
proved fatal to the Imperial troops ; after this the
insurgents remained passive for several days, and
constructed a pontoon at the Island of Csessel. On
the 9th, the Hungarians commenced a heavy bom-
bardment of the fortress from their mountain position,
in consequence of which Pesth was bombarded on
the morning of the 10th, from five till seven o'clock.
One of the bombs here fired a house, the Trattner
Karal a.

"The third and heaviest bombardment of Pesth
commenced on the evening of the 13th, at 7 o'clock,
when several houses were fired by the rockets.
"On the night of the 17th, at 10 o'clock, the
Hungarians first stormed Ofen, and in many
places the insurgents succeeded in gaining the
walls, but they were repulsed with the loss of four
to five hundred men killed.
" They stormed it for the second time on the night
of the 19th, at one o'clock, but they did not succeed
in gaining the ramparts, and were again beaten back
with the loss of several hundred troops.
" At last they stormed the city for the third time,
in the night of the 20th, at eleven o'clock. In the
morning of the 21st they overpowered the fortress
with an immensely superior force.
" After the storming of the fortress, Colonel Cicco-
PIEN was found dead, and Major-General HENTZI
covered with severe wounds, but still living.
" All the officers of the Croats and Borderers were
recklessly mown down. The castle and houses from
which officers had been hunted were given over to
plunder.
" The Major of the Borderers, who kept the
tete du:pont,' with about 200 men, gave orders, as
soon as he saw the storming of the fortress and the
successful approach of the rebels, that the bridge
should be blown up. His orders not being instantly
obeyed, the Major himself applied the match to the
mine, when the powder exploded through the opening,
and killed the Major on the spot, without, however,
doing any injury to the bridge.
"The loss of the Hungarians at the storming of the
fortress is given at 250 privates and 40 officers.
" At Oren GEORGY commanded 30,000 men."
From the above melancholy report it appears that
the Hungarians have been in possession of the fortress
since the morning of the 21st, while up to this day,
being the sixth day, we have hid no official intelli-

gence whatever respecting the fate of Ofen, or even
of its valiant garrison. There is, therefore, a slight
gleam of hope that these details may be overcharged,
and the more so since all the copies of this extra sup-
plement of the Wiener Zeitung have been confiscated
by the Government, and the editor arrested.
P.S.—FOUR O'CLOCK IN TOE AFTERNOON.—Ac-
cording to intelligence just arrived, Orsowa is so
closely besieged by the Magyars that the occupation
of this important position by the insurgents is scarcely
a matter of doubt. All the steamers belonging to
the Danubian Steam Company, which had retired to
that station, have been compelled to go down the
stream to Wallachia, where are the 30,000 Russians
who have been expected in Orsowa for weeks.
The EMPEROR returned to Vienna on the 25th.
Vienna is at this time suffering from famine in
consequence of the suspension of all communication
with Hungary. This famine is likely to extend to
the other German portions of the Austrian dominions,
which have hitherto drawn their chief supplies of
provisions from Hungary.

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The account of the defeat of the Russians by
DEMBINSKI is confirmed ; they lost 2,000 killed and
20 pieces of cannon. General SASS commanded the
Russians.

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from the best authority that
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
OaLa Elliriewlefriwas brought to Rendsburg this
SCIILESWIG HOLSTEIN.—The Himburgh corre-
spondent, in an article dated Altona, 26th May,
morning at four o'clock. On receiving the intelli-
gence that the Russian fleet was approaching Copen-
hagen, he is said to have exclaimed that under these
circumstances it was impossible for him to consider
himself any longer bound by his word of honour."
We have already stated that commercial letters
received at Amsterdam from Revil announce that 20,000
Russian troops had been embarked at that place, and
were about to proceed to Copenhagen to assist Den-
mark in the Schleswig-Holstein war. A letter from
St. Petersburgh, in the Limburg Zeitung, dated the
21st, says that the fleet was to sail in eight days.
The bombardment of Fredericia continues.—llam-
burgh Papers, May 29.

FRANKFORT.
The Archduke JOHN has refused to abdicate his
power as Regent of the Empire in favour of the King
of PRUSSIA. The Grand Duke of BADEN has gone to
the Castle of Stotzenfels, which is one of the palaces
of the King of PRUSSIA. The Prussian troops are at
Hanae.

PRUSSIA.
Advices have been received from Berlin to the 28th.
The congress of the representatives of the German
sovereigns have completed their labours,iand the Ger-
man constitution, which they have drawn up, will be
promulgated in a few days.

BAVARIA.
An outbreak took place on the 23d in the camp of
Danno werth. Several soldiers shouted for liberty
and the Republic of Hecker, and threatened the staff
officers, who were obliged to retire.

The Gazette de RUSSIA.
l'Allemagne Occidentale, dated
Cracow, May 20, contains an account of a grand
council of war having been held at St. Petersburgh,
at which a protest was made against Russian inter-
ference in the affairs of Europe. The EMPEROR was
much irritated, and received this advice with a bad
grace, even insulting some of the senators. The
President of the Council, JERMOLOEF, rose and told
the EMPEROR that NAPOLEON by his obstinacy ruined
himself, and his MAaesTr might meet the same fate,
and then the General quitted the Chamber.
The same journal contains intelligence, that several
plots against the EMPEROR have been discovered at
St. Petersburgh. Many officers, and even generals,
were arrested, and instead of being sent to Siberia,
were at once hung. It would appear that the army
is discontented, and that is the cause of the Guards
having been sent from St. Petersburgh.

cotton market yesterday was extremely
SOUTHAMPTON, PRIDAy MORNING.—The Havre
dull. Sales 355
bales, without any variation in prices. The Sarah
Sheafe, with 1,277 bales of cotton from Charlestown,
and the Belisanic, from Martinique, had arrived at
Havre yesterday afternoon.