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London, England, 1849-04-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1849.

The Bribery at Elections Bill was on Wednesday
con4dered in Committee, and the division which took
place on the Ist, and by far the most important
clause, may be regarded as conclusive on the fate of
the measure. The fearful extent to which bribery has
been carried at elections, the corruption and in-
trigues that are notoriously carried on, exhibit in the
ei•larest light how utterly inadequate the present
system is to meet Phe acknowledged evil. The law
is easily evaded, and we regret to say even wilful and
corrupt perjury is but too frequently resorted to. The
oaths to be taken by electors against bribery
have a most demoralising and injurious influence
throughout the entire country, more especially in
those small constituencies where a few hundred in-
habitants can return a representative to Parliament,
and where a few voters can turn the scale at any
contest. The sanctity of an oath is brought into
contempt and disrepute by the repeated and familiar
iastances of its violation, and by the perfect impunity
with which it is effected. When we see persons who
are well known to have sworn to that which is "not
the truth" pursuing - their daily avocations, and
mingling freely in society, the horror with which the
offence is regarded by degrees becomes mitigated,
and in time wears away. " Custom-house
oaths" we at one period spoken of as
matters of but little consequence, which
might be taken freely without hesitation or
remorse; and too many, we regret to say, even at
the present day, look upon " election oaths" as of the
same charter, which involve but little moral guilt
if improperly taken.
It is but justice to say that Sir JOHN PAKINGTON
(the promoter of the present Bill) has exhibited an
honourable anxiety to wipe away this stain and re-
proach from the country, and that he has laboured
assiduously for the attainment of his object. While,
however, we bear our willing testimony to the purity
of his motives, we must acknowledge that he has
failed in producing a great and comprehensive mea-
sure, calculated to extirpate this crying abuse.

Melius est petere fontes, quam sectari rivulor."
In ouch cases the sources of the admitted evils should
be thoroughly investigated, and stringent remedies,
striking at their very root, adopted. Sir. J.
PAXiNGTON merely desires to add to the existing
oaths and declarations, to multiply the tests that are
already so highly objectionable. He suggested that
the " elected" should be compelled to give pledges as
well as the electors, that declarations should be made
against " bribery" as well as against " accepting of
bribes." For this purpose ho proposed " that
every Member, before taking his seat, should
make a solemn declaration that he had not,
by himself or with his knowledge, by bi 3 agent
on his behalf, by any gift, loan, or reward promise,
agreement, bargain, or security, procured or induced,
or endeavoured to procure or induce any person to
give his vote to him, or to forbear gising it for any
other person, 'and that luesaccretd not hereafter make
any such gift, &c., sessilischarge any such promise"'
There is no doubt that such a provision would -be
more efficacious` than the present law=ors thessubject,
and it is bylio means impdaiibie that many who
would indirectly encourage breaches of the law, by
tempting; others to accept bribes, would yet refrain
front making distinct declarations, having all the
fufee of oaths that they had not been guilty of such
proceeclings. 'We fear that such persons form a more
numerous class than Sir ROBERT Pam; was inclined to
'believe when he stated " that, he was not disposed
to legislate for such gentlemen. It would, however,
give the unscrupulous and dishonest man an advan-
tage over his opponents, and might possibly give seats
in Parliament to those whom it was meat de-irable to
exclude. It would not either meet the numerous
instances where other influences than mere pecuniary

considerations are brought to bear upon the electors
—where the new Member may endeavour to procure
situations, either in the public offices or in private es-
tablishments, for the friends or relatives of the voters
—or where the proprietors of land may endeavour to
induce their tenants and dependents to give their
suffrages contrary to their conscience.
We cannot, therefore, although fullyrecognising the
numerous abuses that have arisen, regret the failure
of the present Bill. Its practical success might pose
sibly induce Parliament to refrain from passing other
more comprehensive enactments that would com-
pletely abate the nuisance. As the veteran Member
for Montrose truly remarked, it is " the extension of
the suffrage and the vote by ballot that will alone
afford simple and adequate remedies for the evil."
The extension of the suffrage, and we, would add the
equalization of the electoral districts, would
remove the temptation to candidates ; a few
votes could not then turn the scale, or
ensure the election of the parties willing to corrupt
their constituencies, while the ballot would also
operate most powerfully, inasmuch as there could be
no certainty that those who were willing to barter
their consciences for money, who were led astray by
the men sacra fames, would not betray their
tempters, and give their votes according to their
secret predilections, and not to the promises that had
been wrung from them under the operation of undue
influences. The voice of public opinion has at length
been heard ; the nation demands that these con-
stitutional guarantees for the purity of both
the electors and the elected should be conceded, and
the reasonable request cannot long be evaded or post-
poned. A body of enthusiastic Reformers within the
House will force the Legislature to these all-impor-
tant questions, and when the feeling out of doors is so
strongly and unequivocally testified, those who may
speedily be obliged to come before their constituencies,
and to request a renewal of the confidence formerly
reposed, will have to look closely to their recorded
votes, and to: consider how far they arc in accordance
with the expressed wishes of those they
again desire to represent. Bribery and
corruption at elections, mutt be got rid of,
and the: great desideratum can only be obtained
by the extension of the suffrage, the equalisation of
the electoral districts, but, above all, by the "ballot"
being the only mode by which the suffrages of the
constituencies can be taken, Away with the farce
of calling it "an un-English system," while it is
acted on in clubs and private societies, where every
Member of Parliament has himself so frequently had
recourse thereto, and must be fully aware of its bene-
ficial results.

At length Mr. Rocrucg will have an opportunity
of returning to the natural arena for his abilities—
Parliament. A new writ for Sheffield having been
ordered to issue last evening, the electors of that
borough will find themselves at once called on to
decide upon the proper candidate. As to the nature
of that decitiun we are already satisfied. A worthy
successor to the legislator who has so long and so
ably represented the constituency at Westminster
will be looked for; and a worthier successor could
not be found in the United Kingdom than JOHN
ARTHUR BOEDUCR. This we are certain is the con-
viction of every Liberal possessor of the elective
franchise in Sheffield. The reputation acquired by
Mr. ROEBUCK, the fact of his being no party man, but
a consistent advocate of the rights of the population,
will ensure his immediate and unanimous acceptance
by every Liberal in Sheffield.

One of the Protestant Sovereigns of the Confedera-
tion has at last protested, boldly and explicitly,
against an arrangement which would render the
Prussian Monarch the Lord Paramount of Germany.
There is a manliness in the proceeding of the King
of WIRTEMBURG which extorts respect by its cour-
age, if it fails to win admiration by its prudence.
After presiding over the destinies of his people during
a period of thirty two years, the Sovereign of Wir-
temburg feels a very natural disinclination to shrink
from an independent potentate into a kind of pro-
consul to a parvenu Emperor. With every am-
bition to forward the dream of a national con-
solidation, he recoils from the prospect of sinking into
a Prince subservient to the imperial sway of the
house of Brandenburg. Here we fear is the great
difficulty to be overcome before:anything like German
unity can be realised.: The jealousies of the monarchs
will interfere with the patriotic aspirations of the
multitude. The disguised cupidity of power on the
part of FREDERICK WILLIAM will lead to such an
estrangement between himself and others of the con-
temporary rulers of the Confederation as must mate-
rially diminish the chances of a satisfactory settle-
ment of the hopes of fatherland.
While the recent occurrences at Stuttgard be-
tray a " split" among the Protestant princi-
palities, it is certain that nothing will
interfere with the unanimous coalition of
the Catholic Principalities. Unless some medium
course be traced out for the removal of all
existing differences as to the investiture of some more
acceptable candidate with the Imperial authority at
Frankfort, there is every probability that the nine-
teenth century will witness the revival of that great
confederacy of the Liga which reached its culminating
point in the seventeenth—that Liga which was to
Catholic Germany whist the Sonderbund was to Ca-
tholic Switzerland. And futurity can alone decide
whether such a revival might not evoke from
the crowd of this generation some second
TILLY, some redoubtable warrior, half-priest,
half-soldier, half fanatic, half-hero, with the
gallantry of ROLAND, the contrivance of SPINOSA,
and the circumspection of 14.1oNTEcucum.
Before the German races can really effect anything
to their ulterior advantage, in the way of compacting
so many separate principalities into one solid and
harmonious nationality, the Princes of Germany
must renounce their competition for the crown, and
the p eoples of Germany must forego all their pernicious
endeavours to secure to themselves the predominance.
The aim of all must be to render Germany ONB.
Not to render it Prussian, or Austrian, or Bavarian—
but ONE—one in its policy, one in its power, and one
in its patriotism. It will not have been forgotten
that Prince METTERNICH pronounced the achievement
of Italian independence to be a geographical impossi-
bility. For that and for many other erroneous doc-
trines the proprietor of Johannisberg is now rusti-
cating down at Brighton. His MA. STY of Prussia
would act wisely if he so disclaimed all desire to in-
terrupt the attempts at consolidating the nationality
of Germany as to prevent the necessity of the popu-
lation dispatching him from Berlin in an
old scratch wig and a pea-jacket to join a kindred
fugitive at St. Leonard's. It is true that
the imperial diadem has been rejected by FREDERICK
'WILLIAM himself, and that that refusal has been sub-
sequently repeated by the members of his Govern-
ment—but both the language employed by himself
and by his Ministerial advisers is sufficiently am-
biguous to keep his partizans still on the tenterhooks
of expectation. Besides this, it is preposterous to
assert that Prussia is no voluntary cause of the pre-
sent complication of affairs in regard to the negotiation
of a satisfactory settlement with the Central Diet at
Frankfort. The fact is patent to the whole of Europe
that the determination which dispatched the depu-
tation from Frankfort to lay at the feet of the
King of Pnussee the crown of the Emperor of
Germany was the result of those consummate in-
trigues which had been long fostering under the in-
fluence of the Berlin Cabinet. But for those in-
trigues, we are satisfied that the question of German
unity would have been long since brought to a happy
conclusion. It is to the prejudice of the reputation
of FREDERICK. WILLIAM that he has not merely ob-
structed the advance of the Teutonic races to their
final blending together in one magnificent nationality,
but that he has tarnished the fair fame of those races
in a very remarkable manner, by his atrocious de-
claration of war against Denmark, for the spoliation
of her peninsular dominions.

While, however, this sinister influence has been
exercised over the fortunes of Germany by the
policy of the Prussian SOVEREIGN, it is certain that
the policy of the Austrian Government would have
been no leis inimical to the cause of the general
Confederation, but that the statesmen of Vienna have
been themselves embarrassed by the necessity of
employing great armies against the Lombards and the
Hungarians. But for the perils which threatened the
Court of Olmut z, both from the countries in the vicinity
of Pesth and those in the neighbourhood of Milan,
it is tolerably clear, from a knowledge of the bygone

history of the principles actuating at all times the
Monarch of Austria, that FRANCIS JOSEPH would
long ago have striven to counteract the selfish in-
trigues of FREDERICK WILLIAM, by intrigues no less
selfish in his own behalf, if not by an open appeal to
arms, and by the defiance of all antagonists. Had
such been the position of the Viennese Cabinet, that
it could have directed the whole of its energies upon
the Maine, Russia would not have remained
passive while the struggle was proceeding.
The AUTOCRAT would doubtless have found an
opportunity for siding with the Austrian
EMPEROR, and would doubtless have guaranteed the
Imperial Crown of Germany to FRANCIS JOSEPH, on
the condition that every assistance should have been
subsequently afforded to his own designs upon
Moldo-Wallachia, and through the Danubian pro-
vinces upon the Ottoman empire in general, and the
great city of Constantinople in particular.
The security of Germany is the fact of the
prevailing embarrassment of her sovereigns.
Prussia is prevented from doing violence to
the national cause through a dread of the
vengeaace of contemporaries and the opprobrium
of posterity. Austria is withheld from the same
venture by the perils with which she herself is
already surrounded, and especially by the danger
threatening her from the triumphant legions of Hun-
gary, led on from city to city under the victorious
banners of Louis Kossyru. Russia is restrained
from dictating terms to the Confederation through
the pro-occupation of her attention by the events
now transpiring on both sides of the Danube, as well
as through an me e of that great democracy which she
would not tempt again to traverse the desert plains of
Lithuania, to ravage her fields, to massacre her serfs,
to desolate her cities, and to bring the destruction of
fire and sword into the streets of Moscow, and the
saloons of the Kremlin.

At present the duty of Germ any is to follow the
advice of WILLIAM of Wirtemburg—to tarry. Pre-
cipitstion would be more dangerous than procrastina-
tion. Let Germany pause before she arrives at any
definitive decision, conscious that in so doing she is
best fulfilling her glorious, though temporarily clouded,
destinies.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

haveroceiverl the Paris papers of yesterdly.

The National Assembly on Priday rejected a mo-
tion for the reduction of the navy e.ttimat?s by a
majority of 301 to 293,
The sehims, among the members of the Bonaparte
ftmi!v is complete, and the Constilutionnel, the organ
of Al. Tumns and the Orleanitts, thus endeavours to
turn it to account :

M. Napoleon Docapar:e, as if to justify more com-
pletely the measure taken with respect to him, has
just published a letter in which he attacks the policy
of the President, whose friend he calls himself, and
attacks the Cabiret from which cnly a few days ago
ho accepted the title of atnbassiclor; and he attacks the
six millions of citizens who nominated the actual Pre-
sident of the Republic for the sake of ensuring a happy
reacticm of order against anarchy. M. Napoleon Bo-
naparte need not defend the cause of the Constitution,
unless, indeed, ageinst that disorgenizieg party towards
which he sums now to incline; nor need he take the
deferce of the President in hand nnlets he should do
so against the Republicans de la Ve111.7, who have su-
ficiently manifested their sentiments by pursuing with
their hos'ility end insults the candidate of the 10th
December, and yet it is with sect persons that M.
Napoleon Bonaparte seeks to become reconcilr.d."
The authors of the pieta pens of Boulogne are at
their old tricks ; it is to be hoped that the PRESIDENT
will discover the true character of the reactionary party,
to whom he has confided power, before it is too late.
The following letter has been addressed to the Cen-
tral Bonapartist Committee by M. NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE:—

"Madrid, April 13.
"U. le President,—l thank you for the offer which
you have made me, in the name of the Committee, to
propose me vs a candidate for the Department of
the tieine. Nothing could be mere flattering than for
me to be elected representative of the people for Paris.
"You well know my political opinions: a partisan of
order and friend of the President, whom I defended
when ho was attacked by reactionnaires. I did not think
it necessary to have recourse either to the men or the
forms of past times to cure the wounds of our country.
"The only means of safety appear to me to be, re-
spect for the Republican Constitution, frankly applied;
regard for the people; a democratic conciliation in the
interior ; and a grand, wise, and energetic policy
abroad. This alone is worthy of France and a Bona-
parte. This is the path which I shall follow, if my
fellow-citizens of Paris call upon me for their repre-
sentative.

" Your devoted fellow-citizen,
" NAPOLEON BONAPARTE."

The following order of the day was issued by
General OUDINOT to the troops previous to their em-
barkation fur Civita Vecchia.

" Soldiers,—The President of the Republic has con-
fided to me the chief command of the Mediterranean
expeditionary corps.
" This honour imposes great duties upon me, which
your patriotism will help tne to fulfil.
" The Government is resolved to maintain, every-
where, our former legitimate influence, and will not
suffer the Italian people to be at the mercy of a foreign
power or of a minority. It has uncharged us to plant
the French standard upon the Roman territory in tes-
timony of our sympathy.
" Soldiers and sailors, children of the same family,
you will unite your efforts and your devotion, and this
fraternity will enable you to support with joy dangers,
privations and fatigue.
" On the soil on which you are going to alight you
will encounter at every step monuments and remini3-
cences which will powerfully stimulate your instincts of
glory. Military honour commands discipline as well as
bravery; forget it not! Your fathers enjoyed the rare
privilege of causing the French name to be cherished
wherever they fought. Like them you will respect the
property and the manners (mceurs) of friendly people, in
its solicitude for whom the Government has ordered that
all the expenses of the army shall be paid for in money.
You will consider these principles of high morality on
all occasions as your rule of conduct.

" By your arms and your example you will cause the
dignity of the people to be respected, who are suffering
no less from license than despotism.
" Thus Italy will be indebted to you for what France
has been able to acquire for herself, viz., order in liberty.
" The Uenerzl in-Chief,
(Signed) " OUDINOT DE REGGIO."
The names of Louis BLArsc and CAUSS IDIERE
were publicly exposed in front of the Palais de Justice
on Wednesday, as having been condemned par con-
tumace. There were crowds of persons present who
presented offerings of flowers, so that before the
exposure was completed the scaffold and pillory on
which the names were exposed resembled a flower
garden. The Reforme, after quoting the law of the
Provisional Government, abolishing the punishment
of the pillory for political offences, thus comments on
the exposure of the names of LOUIS BLANC and CAUS-
SIDIERS, as an act of petty spite, to be expected only
from men of the mental calibre of ODILON BARROT
and LEON FAUCIIER. " What," says the Reforme—
" You come in this cowardly fashion, and with your
hangman's hands buffet your political atagonists, who in
their benevolence pardoned you at the moment of crisis
even to the extent of committing treason ;—what thus to
execute in effigy, upon the place of shame, and in the
midst of revolutionary Paris, two men among others who
call themselves Caussidiere and Blanc, it is to dishonour
justice, it is to violate decency, it is to descend btlow war
and the most unlicensed violences of civil strife; it is to
exhaust the vengeance of cowards. The savage who
scalps and then eats his enemy is more civilized than
those academician professors of moderation and virtue
who nail honourable names to the stake."

The loan of 25 millions of the city of Paris was
adjudged to Messrs. BECUZT, at the rate of
1,105 f. 40c. per obligation.
The Constitutionnel makes the following remarks on
this subject:—
"The rate at which the new loan of the city of Paris
ha; been taken proves that the Prefect of the Seine was
perfectly right in postponing the adjudication from the
26th of March last. This delay has produced to thecity
a profit of 2,505,000 f., arising from the difference of the
rate of the adjudication at present, and that previously
offered. However, the price of 1,105 f. 40c., at which
MM. Bechet, Lethomas and Co. have taken it, will give
an interest of 54 per cent. to the holders of the bonds,
taking into account 1 per cent. per annum distributed
each year in primes. The loan of 1832, which was for
40 millions, was tendered for at the rate of 4 per cost.
interest, and per annum distributed in primes; and yet
the quotation of the Five per Cents. was then 97f. 85c.,
which gave to the bondholders 5 1-10 per cent. on their
capital. It is thus seen that the fidelity of the city of
Paris to fulfil all its engagements will not have been
without profit to it in this new operation."
The reactionaries intend, it is said, to start the
Prince DE JourriLLE as a candidate for the Upper
Marne.
The streets were patrolled during the whole of
Thursday by strong bodies cf troops, although there
was no appearance of any disorder to justify these
precautions ; probably it is intended to carry the
elections, in a reactionary sense, by military coercion.
The Government has removed three regiments of the
garrison of Paris on account of their loyalty to
republican principles, and General CHANGARNIER has
replaced them by the troops who, in 1830, fired upon
the people.
PARIS BOURSE—FRIDAY, APRIL 27.
Thump. o'CLocK.—As the snd of the month ap-
proaches, the speculators for a rise resume their courage,
and the Funds are consequently rising. The accounts
from Germany are also considered favourable, and have
had some effect. The Five per Cents. have advanced +
same amount.
n ( 3 0 ig
p( r cent., and the Three per Cents. to nearly the
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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. APRIL 27.
Boulogne and Amiens 13—East Indian, 314 Great
Indian Peninsula, si,l—Namur and Liege, B—Northern
of France, I 11/B—Paris and Orleans, 3314—Paris and, Stras-
bourg, 4%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant. There was no
Bolsa on the 221

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, APRIL 19.—The Ost Deutsche Pea con-
tains a very remarkable official document relative to
the formation of a triune kingdom in the heart of
Austria, namely, of the kingdoms cf Croatia,
Sclavonia, and Dalmatia. This triune kingdom
is to form the centre round which the other
Selavonisn countries of Austria are to group
themselves; this triune kingdom is never to
enter into any treaty which Austria may form now
or subsequcntly with Germany, without the concur-
rence of two-thirds cf the Members of its Diet.
Linder the designation of triune kingdom is corn-
prised—(A). Croatia, including the province of that
name and its military Loundary district, the Croatian
coast lands, the island of Marino, the harbour and free
towns of Friume, and their districts : (B). Sclavonia,
including the province and military boundary : (C.)
Dalmatia, including all appertaining thereunto and
the islands of Quarner, now depending upon the ad-
ministrative Government of Trieste. The Sovereign
of the triune kingdom shall in the spirit of the
Pragmatic Sanction be the reigning Emperor of
Austria, the kingdom itself haring its own respon-
sible Ministry and its own Diet. The entire army
of the triune kingdom, regular as well as irregular,
shall, in accordance with ancient privileges, be sub-
ject to the Ben.—Hamburgh Correspondent, April 23.
VIENNA, APRIL ‘4l.—The renal of the British
.
Ambassador, Lord onsonby, by Lord Palmerston,
has produced an unfavourable impression, although
the official journals intimating the announcement
endeavour to dispel any apprehensions that may arise
from the fact. At the first receipt of the intelli-
gence on the Bourse the funds fell, but happily they
had recovered their tone.

The very unfavourable reports that have been
spread abroad relative to the declining health of
Count Stadion are greatly exaggerated. That nob'e-
man has indeed been ill, but his attack was the remit
of over exertion, both mental and bodily, consequent
upon the immense pressure of public businEss. A
few days rest vas almost restored him, and he is
Expected at Vienna to resume Lis functions in a very
short time.

There is to be a conclave of Bishops at Vienna, and
it is the intention of the Communal Council to come
to an understanding with them on the subject of
politico-religious affairs. A sketch has been already
drawn up, and is to be submitted for discussion.
The recent Constitution has granted immense pri-
vikges to non-Catholic Christians, whose position
hitherto has been painfully shackled, not only as to
the performance of public worship, but as to their
private rights as men and as citiz?ns.—llamburg,h
Correspondent, April 23.
The news from Hungary continues to be favour-
able to the Magyars. Advices from Neutra, an
inland city on the left side of the Danube (near
Cemorn and Presburg), state that the _Hungarian
outposts were within sight of that town on the 20th
instant. This news, which is very unfavourable to
the Austrians, is mentioned by the Oesterreiehische
Correspondent, a serni-cfficicial journal. The Wiener
Abendblatt states that General VOGEL, at the head of
12,000 Austrian troops, was on his march from Gal-
lieia to Hungary when the Magyars surprised his
corps in the defiles of Munkatsh, and almost totally
routed it.

The estimates of the strength of the Imperial army
before their recent defeats, as given in the German
papers, show an army of 50,000 men near Perth ;
General WOULGEMUTII has 22,000, and the corps
round Comorn amounts to 16,000. These 88,000
men are opposed by the Hungarian Generals
GEORGEY, DEMBINSKI, DAMIANITECII, and KLAPKA,
with an army of 90,000 men. The losses of the Im-
perialists must have been fearful during the list few
months, for a bulletin of Prince WIND:SC/ICH,: TZ at
the commencement of the war stated the Austrian
forces in Hungary at 92,000, and that General's
last bulletin makes an estimate of 50,000 troops
under his command. No less than 42,000 Impe-
rialist soldiers were either killed, or wounded, or
missing, from December, 1848, to the end of March,
1849.

The National Assembly of Debreezin has, on the
proposition of KOSSUTH, decreed a levy of 200,000
men. The Hungarian people eagerly respond to the
appeal, and the no'.)les arm battalions of infantry and
squadrons of cavalry at their own expense. The
Hungarians have now 35 regiments of Hussars.
General BEM is before Temessvar ; he was received
with great enthusiasm at Debreczin, where he de-
livered a speech in French. KOSSUTH replied in the
same language, and presented him with a diamond
from the crown of Hungary. The place occupied
by this diamond has been filled up with a small gold
plate, on which is engraved the name of BEM, and
the date on which he gained the victory in Tran-
sylvania.

DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS AT GRAN.
The Kolner Zeitung, aad the other German papers,
confirm the news of a two days' battle in the vicinity
of Gran. A courier from the scene of action arrived
at Vienna on the night of the 21it instant, but the
news which he brought was not published by the
military commander of that capital. A postscript to
the second edition of the Miner Zeitung of the 27th
instant gives an extract of the Hun-
garian intelligence which had come to Co-
logne that morning, to the effect that
the great blow had been struck, and that the battle
at Gran had ended with a defeat of the Imperialists.
The Hungarians are stated to have advanced to the
banks of the March, the siege of Comorn has been
raised, and Pesth evacuated by the Austrians. The
Constitutionelle Zeitung confirms this news, especially
respecting Comorn and Pesth. No details are as yet
given, but the course of former events, which has
long pointed to this result, leaves no doubt of the
authenticity of the statements of the Kohler and
the Constitntionelle Zeitung, neither of which can be
accused of any sympathy for Magyar successes and
Magyar news.
General WouLcamurn's corps was defeated on
the 20th, at Sempre, by the Magyars. 4
Buda as well as Pesth is at the present moment
in the hands of the Hungarians.
The siege of Comora is raised, and GEOAGY has
reinforced the garrison of this important fortress,
and re-victualled it.