The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-09 00:00:00

GERMANY

♦ND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

Intelligence has been received from Vienna to the
3d inst. On that day the imperial troops were in
quiet possession of the ill-fated city. The students
had disappeared, BI6M had escaped, and the disarma-
ment of the National Guards said the workmen was
nearly completed.

Prince WINDISCHGRATZ issued the following pro.
clamation on the 2d :

" PROCLAMATION.

"By 'entering Vienna with the troops under my
orders, in conformity with my proclamation of the 23d
October, I am to announce what measures I regard indis-
pensable for the re-establishment of the legal state of
things, terribly disturbed. The town had, in fact, sur-
rendered on the 30th October; it has, however, by the
most shameful act of treachery, violated the terms then
agreed upon, for which reason, without regard to the
terms of capitulation, I decree as follows:
" ' 1. The city of Vienna, its faubourga, and its en-
virons, within a radius of two miles, are declared in a
state of siege. As long as tlat lasts, the local authori-
ties are placed under the military command, according to
paragraph 9.

" The Academical Legion and National Guard
are ohsolved; the latter with a reserve to its reorgan-
isation.

•` 3. If the general disarming is not terminated, the
Communal Council has to SCE it done within forty-eight
hours after the publication of this proclamation. A last
summons to give up arms shall be issued, and twelve
hours after it is placarded, domiciliary visits will be
made, and any persons found with arms will be treated
recording to martial law. Exceptions to this disarm-
kg are—the guard of safety, the military palace guard,
the guard of the finances, who are allowed to bear arms
and perform service as usual.
" 4. All political associations are closed ; assem-
blages of more than ten persons, in the streets or squares,
interdicted. The caf4 and taverns are to be closed
every night at eleven in the city, at ten in the faubourgs.
All contraventions will be punished by martial Juris-
diction,

" ' The press is limited according to art. 4 of the pro-
clamation of the 23d October (the only paper allowed
by that article is the Wiener Zeitung). No placards or
such like are to be posted up without the sanction of the
military authorities.

" ' 6: All strangers who cannot satisfactorily account
for their reasons of sojourn at Vienna are to quit :
the same is applicable to Austrians similarly situated.
The hotel-keepers and lodging-keepers are ordered to
furnish the names of their lodgers, under penalty of
punishment.

" '7. All persons convicted of having attempted to
tamper with the Imperial troops, who should excite to
revclt, or be induced to such; whoever should not retire
from an assemblage at the first summons of the police, or
any persons taken with arms at a meeting will be tried by
martial law.
" 8. All the barricades in the town and faubourgs are
to be removed by the communal council, and the pave-
ment re-laid.

" ' 9. During the state of slept, the public authorities
are in no manner to be disturbed in the exercise of their
functions ; but, as the military authorities are provi
sionally intrusted with the maintenance of order and
tranquillity in the capital and the environs, the com-
munal council and other authorities who have hitherto
undertaken those duties must first consult the military
authorities.'
" Prince of WINDISCHGRATZ, Field-Marshal.
" Head-quarters of Flitzendort, Nov. 1, 1848."
MESSENHAUSER, the Commander of the Vienna
National Guards having been accused of ordering the
violation of the truce and the renewal of the combat
with the Imperial troop, after the capitulation had been
agreed on, has published the following official
denial

" NOTICE.
" The undersigned, Commander-in-Chief of the Vienna
National Guard, hereby solemnly protests against the
imputation that he, upon the 31st of October, sanctioned
the attack renewed by come of the moveable corps upon
the Imperial troops. He calls upon the Town Council
to prove that he, on the contrary, was occupied from
daybreak in disarming the Guards; and that, at the risk
of his own life, he succeeded in conveying several pieces
of cannon to the bastions, and exerted all his energies
for the restoration of peace and tranquillity. He again
most energetically protests hereby against the imputa-
tion of his having in any way encouraged or ordered a
breach of the capitulation.
(Signed)
" Vienna, October 31."
This protest tallies with two previous proclama-
tions of DIESSENHAUSER of the 29th and 30th, in
which he declares that want of ammunition, over-
whelming force, the imperative duty of preventing
a bombardment and storm, and the defeat of the
Hungarians, render it necessary for him to recom-
mend submission.
The damage done to the city is trifling, but the
faubourgs have been nearly destroyed. Many
houses have been pillaged, and although WINDIscn-
GRATZ has hanged several of the soldiers taken in the
act of pillaging, he has found it impossible to restrain
the plundering propensities of the Croats.
A letter from Breslau, of the 2d, addressed to the
Cologne Gazette, says—
" We received positive news from Vienna yesterday,
by the mid-day railway train of Upper The
capital was entirely occupied by the Imperial troops on
the Ist, about eleven o'clock. On the 31st there was
no fighting until about twelve o'clock, and at three
the cannonade became terrible, especially in the
fau-
bourgs Mariahilf and Schottenfeld. It ceased when
it became known that the line was taken. The Na-
tional Guards then hastened to the bastions to defend
them. At about six o'clock flames burst forth from the
Imperial Palace; the cause was not known, as the con-
flagration was not caused by a shell. The mansion of
Prince Kolleerath and the church of capuchins were
destroyed by shells. Nine companies of the National
Guard laboured to extinguish the fire at the Palace. At
about one o'clock in the morning the Burgthor (the
finest barrier of Vienna) was destroyed by cannon, and
the troops entered the city without any sharp combat.
The Croats wore at Graben. As nothing was known in
the Leopoldstadt of this occupation of th city, the re-
sumption of the combat was expected in the Wiedin.
But between ten and eleven o'clock the troops entered in
great numbers without meeting with any resistance. It
is said that General Bern is a prisoner. All the houses
from which firing took place have been captured and
pillaged by the imperial troops. After the capture of
the Faubourg, the National Guards of the interior town
fought between themselves, some desiring to yield, others
continuing the resistance."

"MESSENHAUSER.

The Prussian Stoats Anzeiger of the 6th states
that the city of Vienna is most rigorously guarded.
Mosza, President of the Academic Legion, anti an
adjutant of MESSENHAUSER, had been taken into
custody.

The engagement of the artillery of the Hungarians
on the 30th ult., appears to have occasioned greater
losses on both sides than was at first reported.
General MOGA, in consequence of a quarrel with
KOSSUT[I, refused to command the Hungarian troops.
KossuTit himself was present with the Hungarian
army, and, it is asserted, led on the left wing. The
Hungarians, as it appears, avoided an actual engage-
ment, and kept a sharp look-out on the few remaining
regular troops, of whose desertion they were appre-
hensive.

A letter from Presburg, which mentions the return
of the beaten Hu❑garian army, adds, that measures