The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-06 00:00:00

`THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1848.

a sufficient interval has elapsed—when the republican
generations have marched onwards in the footsteps of
their respective predecessors—when the posterity of
the Revolutionists of February shall pause in the
serenity of the ripened harvests and mellowed vintages
of Democracy, and, looking backwards to the day
when the Republican Constitution was accepted by the
first French Legislature ever elected by Universal Suf-
frage, they behold the colossal creation of the Na-
tional Assembly, they will be better able than ourselves
to distinguish the grandeur of its proportions, the dig-
nity of its aspect, and the sublimity of its attitude.
When Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, with that purely
historic and exquisitely perceptive wisdom which con-
stituted the very texture of his noble and philosophic
character, laid it down as an incontrovertible
axiom that constitutions are not made, but grew,
he spoke exclusively in reference to the gra-
duation perceptible in the progress of know-
ledge from ignorance, and the general unfolding
of the principles of civilization.. He by no means in-
tended to imply that Liberty was incompatible with
the maintenance of Order until the several peoples of
the earth bad passed through probationary stages of
government, such for example as those England has
been destined for many successive centuries to endure.
To assert so mueh would be as ridiculous as to de-
clare that the aborigines of Australia would have to
pass successively, generation after generation, through
the glooms of idolatry, and infidelity, and demon-
worship, through the ghastly shadows of '
Bhuddism, through the sensual and ravishing
magnificence of the classic mythology, through the
misty lore, and the dismal cirques, and the lonely
cromlechs, and under the forest oaks, and among the
rustling mistletoes of the Druidical belief, through
the temples of Thor and Odin, of Juggernaut and
Osiris, of Brahma and Jupiter, before the mind of the
savage would be fitted to receive the beneficent truth
of the ONE GOD, and the divine consolations afforded
by the doctrines of Christianity. Where it cor-
rect to assert that no nation can receive with
safety to itself or advantage to its neighbours
a free and (as far as human nature will admit of it)
a perfected constitution without preparing itself for
that inestimable boon by long centuries of prepara-
tion, it would be equally correct to declare that the
population of an Oriental empire should be instructed
alone in the lonic schools of philosophy, the next
generation in the Eleatic schools of metaphysics, and
so on through the systems of ANAXIMANDIIR and
PYTHAGORAS, Of lIERACLITUS and EMPEDOCLES, Of
PROTAGORAS and PLATO, until in some remote century
the descendants of such men as DWARKANAUTH TA-
GORE might be fitted to understand the celestial
revelations of NEWTON, and the inductive system
contrived by the immortal BACON. No : were such
an erroneous construction placed upon the beautiful
axiom of MACKINTOSH, we should be compelled to
regard him as -the advocate of a sluggish advance-
ment in knowledge and civilization, a notion wholly
incompatible with every other phase of his philosophy.
The experience of others adequately regarded imparts
to extreme youth all the advantages of antiquity.
And it is this which enables a country like France,
young, comparatively speaking, in her knowledge of
political freedom, to avail herself of the venerable
experience of England, and to establish upon a kin-
dred basis a free and generous constitution. In
symbols they are different, it is true, the one being
Republican and the other Monarchical, but in nature,
in vitality, in the vastness of their basis they are
identical. It is folly to regard the fabric of the
French Republican Constitution as built up upon a
foundation of sand, that foundation being, in truth,
as solid and durable as our own. Our Constitution
is based on national experiences, while the new Con-
stitution of France has been constructed upon the
experiences of the whole world, the stones of the
great edifice being cemented together by the sweat of
the national agony and the blood of its prolonged
misfortunes.

The Lords of the Admiralty have at length shaken
off a portion of the official trammels by which they
have hitherto been fettered and restrained. For
once they have decided upon a case according to its
own intrinsic merits, without being guided or in-
fluenced by precedent, and they deserve the thanks
of every Englishman for the decision at which they
have arrived—a decision which strikes at the very
root of one of the most unwiso and impolitic usages
that had been suffered to prevail in the management
and direction of the British navy. During the last
month (on the 21st ultimo) we remonstrated, in the
strongest terms, upon the fully of paying off
no less than seven vessels of war, mounting in the
whole 136 guns, and manned by no less than 1,330
seamen, all of whom, although in the highest state
of discipline and efficiency, were c ast loose upon the
world, to be plundered by the hordes of miscreants
who infest onr ports of their hard earnings, and then
suffered to starve about the streets, or to oiler their
valuable services to other nations by whom their
merits might be better appreciated than they had been
in their native land. It was, however, the custom.
Money was so complete a drug, that although the vessel
might on the expiration of her appointed time of service
be in the sounde.t condition, she should yet be dis-
mantled, her masts stripped of their rigging, her planks
torn up, and a large and most unnecessary expendi-
ture incurred, and all for no earthly purpose, except,
perhaps, to ascertain to what extent JOHN BULL
would submit to a system so supremely ridiculous.
But the large outlay was by no means the most ob-
jectionable part of the proceeding. It was not merely
the waste of public money, the enormous increase of
the naval estimates that formed the only, or even the
most serious ground of complaint. It was the discharge,
the casting off of men whom no amount of money
could replace, in order that repairs, which were
wholly unnecessary, might be effected, those who,
during three years of active service, had been brought
to the highest state of discipline, who were thoroughly
acquainted with the various duties they were called
upon to perform, who had acquired a love for the "old
ship," (for such attachments are by no means rare
among seamen), a feeling of respect for their officers
and friendship and regard for each other, were I
separated and dispersed, and exposed to the '
&moralization that must result from an un
controlled association with the depraved wretches,
into whose clutches Jack invariably fell when at
liberty on shore. It would take many months to
repair the mischief thus occasioned even if the men
themselves could be obtained at the very moment
when the country required their services. The bad
habits and vicious inclinations acquired during
such a period could not easily be shaken off, and got
rid of. The money also which they had earned like
horses they would have spent like asses in the inter-
val, and be deprived of the means of rendering their
declining years happy and comfortable from the mis-
taken and injudicious course pursued by the authori-
ties, by those who should act towards them as
guardians and protectors, and avert temptation by
every practicable means.
What hope, however, could be entertained of again
collecting these valuable men at the required time ?
In all human probability they would, after under-
going many severe privations, when their money had
been wasted in profligacy and dissipation, have been
compelled to seek for emplOyment under another flag.
Our hardy and well-trained sailors would be
labouring to sustain the resources and advance the
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power of our principal maritime rivals, who would
gladly receive and cherish the precious treasure
which
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exception to the general rule. The Gallant Admiral
under whose command she was placed, has, it appears,
officially certified that she is in every respect fitted
to be again immediately placed in commission with-
out overhauling, and, it appears, from the naval
intelligence, which will be found in another part of
our impression, that their Lordships intend to
act thereon, to cast off the usual dockyard perquisite
of " repairing " and " refitting " a perfectly sound
• and efficient vessel, and, above all, to retain her gal-
lant crew in the service of their country. The Ro-
samond steam-sloop, which has just returned from
foreign service, is also to be kept in commission.
Here then a formidable blow has been struck at the
ancient practice—a raost valuable reform has been
introduced. We trust that the precedent thus esta-
blished may prove the general rule—that hencefor-

ward no vessels will be consigned to the tender mercies
of dockyard superintendents to be dismantled and
repaired unless some urgent necessity should
exist for such a course, and that so long as sailors
are required to the protection of our coasts, and sup-
port the honour of the British flag in every clime and
in every ocean, the tried and practised men may not
be discharged (save perhaps at their own request, and
for sufficient reasons), to be replaced by incompetent
landsmen, who cannot act efficiently until they have
undergone a long course of training.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
In the sitting of Saturday the debate on the Con-
stitution was closed, and the Coustitution itself voted
by a large majority. The Assembly having voted
the last article, a ballot on the whole Constitution
took place, which gave the following result :

Number of voters ... 769
Absolute majority ... 385
For the Constitution 729
Against it ... 30
This result was hailed with cries of Vive la Repub-
lique ; Vive la Constitution.
The President then declared, in the name of the
French people, that the National Constituent Assembly
had adopted the Constitution of the French Republic.
M. Dufaure, the Minister of the Interior, next as-
cended the tribune, and stated that the Government
was of opinion that this great act should not be promul-
gated in the ordinary form, but that it should be the oc-
casion of a national solemnity. He accordingly pro-
prosed that the Assembly should immediately retire into
its bureaux to appoint a committee to regulate, with the
Government, the forms of that solemnity.
The Assembly acquiesced in the demand, and ad-
journed amidst new cries of Vice la Republique.
The project of M. MATHIEU (de la Drome) to
issue 400 millions of paper money, to be receivable
by the Government in payment of the taxes, customs,
&c., has been rejected by the Committee of Finance,
M. LEON FAUCIIER is appointed reporter.
M. ACHILLE FOULD, the banker, presented to the
Committee of Finances on Saturday the report of the
sub-committee on the project for compensating the
holders of Treasury bonds and the depositors in the
savings' bank for the losses which they sustained
under the decrees which compelled them to accept
stock at a price higher than that at which it could
be sold in the market. The report is in favour of the
project.
The Moniteur publishes the following circular,
addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the Pre-
fects of departments, on the subject of the election of
President of the Republic :

" PARIS, Nov. 2.—Monsieur le Prefet, the National
Assembly has just fixed the election of President of the
Republic for the 10th of December. France is called on
for the second time to pronounce on the constitution of
one of the great powers of the state. This election will
be in all times a grave and solemn proceeding. Charged
temporarily to execute the resolutions of the National
Assembly, the President of the Republic will exercise
considerable influence over the destinies of the country.
It is he who by all the branches of the administration is
in communication with every right, every interest, in all
parts of the territory; he influences the good dispense-
don of justice by the character and learning of the judges
whom he chooses; he disposes of all the armed forces
of the Republic; he represents France before other na-
tions. The choice of the citizen who is to receive this
high and difficult magistracy will always be one of the
greatest acts of popular sovereignty. In the present
time special circumstances give it even greater import-
ance. The Republic has been established for eight months,
but by painful necessity it has injured interests and
wounded convictions. It encounters adversaries, who
endeavour to create for it embarrassments, enemies who
aspire to overthrow it, in order to substitute for it either
a violent and demagogical dictatorship, or one of the
forms of monarchical government, which during the last
fifty years have by turns showed their impuissance to
govern the country. All these hostilities will perhaps
meet at the ballot which is about to be opened for the
election of president. , They will endeavour to place a
representative of their subversive ideas in face of the
Assembly, which haas so firmly and with such intelli-
gence founded a Republican Government on the old and
respected bases of our social order. In this great strug-
gle the conduct of the government, to which the National
Assembly has temporarily delegated the Executive Go-
vernment, is clearly traced out. It reduces itself to
securing the liberty and purity of the election, to obtain-
ing the sincere expression of universal suffrage. You
have already comprehended that the government is
bound to allow every citizen to appreciate in perfect in-
dependence of mind the merits of the candidates who are
proposed to him. Ido not mean to interdict you from
voluntary intercourse with those under your administra-
tion ; but on the contrary, I wish that this intercourse
should be frequent, and that you should confer on the true
interests of the Republic. It will be easily conceived that
its future well-being depends in part upon the citizens
who shall first be called to preside over its destinies;
that the nation, in the choice it makes, should confide in
one whose past life has been without reproach, whose
patriotism is incontestable, of a manly and energetic re-
solution, and of approved services to the Republic, rather
than to vain and delusive promises. But whether they
may be enlightened or not, convinced or not by your
councils, the electors must be left free in their choice.
Be cautious of calling in aid of your opinions their in-
terests, their ambition, their tears, or any of the bed pas-
sions which may mislead them. -Do not encourage local
pretensions, do not talk of unbounded favours, of lighten-
ing of taxation, of gratifications which no government
can afford them. I know that the whole country may
legitimately claim material ameliorations. Cause it to
be comprehended that the Government is actively occu-
pied with these things, and that all your declarations
may be the expression of a firm and sincere will, without
ever becoming one of those means of seduction which are
too frequently employed. By abstaining from tilt se
manoeuvres, the Government has,fulfilled:only one-half of
its task; it must also prevent others from using them. Our
laws punish acts of violence or corruption at elections. I
intend that these laws shall be firmly executed. You
will watch attentively over the proceedings of party, and,
if necessary, make a report upon them to the Procureur
of the Republic. You will exact from all that respect
for the freedom of election which you have youselves
expressed. I signalise to you an enemy which you must
endeavour to combat—the negligence of the electors.
You will cense those whom a fatal indifference may keep
from the ballot to understand that they are guilty to-
wards society and towards themselves. At a time at
which a bad election may place in question all that the
National Assembly has adopted since six months on be-
half of order and liberty, expose social order, without de-
fence, to attacks as formidable as those of the month of
June, one cannot understand the quietude and refraining
from Toting of those who have the right; they would as-
sume on themselves the most terrible responsibility, and
you must make them feel that. We are about to make a
second trial of universal suffrage; let us meet it with con-
fidence; let us place our hope in the inexhaustible re-
sources of good sense and patriotism which France pos-
sesses; let us so act as to obtain the free and enlightened
vote of our fellow-citizens. It is impossible that this vote
can expose to us the hazards of a new revolution. I
will send you, in a few days, instructions on the pre-
parations of the electoral lists, the holding of the col-
leges, the investigation of the ballot, and on all the
details of execution of the decree of the 28th October.
On this occasion my object is only to call on you to
reflect on the great political act which France is abourto
accomplish, and on the attitude which you must take,
in the name of the Government, under the new cir-
cumstances.—Accept, M. le PlCat, the assurance of
my most distinguished consideration.
" J. DUFALTRE."

The canvass for the Presidency is carried on with
great activity. The club of the Rue de Poitiers will
oppose the candidature of General CAVAIGNAC, but
will not support that of Lours NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,
neither will it start a candidate of its own. A pro-
position made to the Club of the Instit ut to support
General CAVAIGNAC, gave rise to a very animated
discussion on Saturday, which was postponed to
Monday. The majority of the members are in
favour of General CATAIGNAC, but GARNIER PAGES
and the other members of the old Provisional Go-
vernment support M. DE LAMARTINE, who is only
opposed by the majority because they consider that
his chance is not so good as that of General CAVAIGNAC
Several of the tradesmen of Paris have applied to
the Government to relax the law of lotteries, so as to
permit them to dispose of their stock in trade by way
of raffle. On this subject the Monitair says—
" Several booksellers and publishers of the capital, not
being able, on account of the difficulty of the times, to
find a regular sale for their books, have had the idea to
sell them by a lottery, with premiums drawn by lot for
the advantage of the subscribers; and they demand the
authorisation of the Government for this operation.
Similar demands have been submitted to the Minister of
the Interior by several other branches of trade. These
demands affect public morality, the interests of the
working classes, and general questions of political
economy. Political morality is interested in the ques-
tion of lotteries; the influence which operations of this
nature, if they became frequent, would not fail to exer-
cise on the habits of the ;population, must be thought
of, precautions are to be taken, great reserve is ne-
cessary. The working classes demand relief from their
too real sufferings; and it is to labour that they ap-
peal. As regards the resumption of labour, what will
be the immediate or distant effects of the means which
are proposed? In fine, in the point of view of the
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show that the commercial and industrial situation of I
France is improving. At Paris, it says, confidence is 1
increasing in every branch of business. The different
railways find their receipts very considerably in-
creased, and several establishments for carrying goods
lfave been obliged to increase the number of their
horses and employes. In the west of France the fairs
have of late been well attended, and those of Raillon
(Maine et-Loire) famed for the quantity of leather
sold there, and of St. Maurice, at [3rissac, are parti-
cularly mentioned as having been well attended. At
Nantes, the several tanneries are becoming more active,
and at Chollet the weavers find work becoming
abundant. At Rennes and St. Malo work is more
plentiful, and there is no apprehension felt for the
situation of the working classes during the winter.
The workmen of Elbeuf, Roubaix, and St. Quentin
are employed; the fabrication of tull is beginning to
revive at St. Pierre-les-Calais, as well as the products
in mercery at Vervins. In the Nord the Monitezer
says, the number of hands, lately unoccupied during
one-half or two-thirds of their time, are now not suf-
ficient for the employment offere 1. From Alsace,
the customs-return proves that the cotton manufac-
ture is advancing; at Lyons, the workmen are begin-
ning to perceive, the report says, that their real inte-
rests call on them to work ; the demands from Eng-
land and the United States have produced higher
prices which are now nearly about the same as at this
time last year. "At the present time," says the
Moniteur, "more than three-fourths of the looms are
at work, and everything leads to the idea that busi-
ness will not stop short in this course of improve-
ment. A command of twenty thonsand tunics given
by Sardinia to three establishments of Lyons, have
not a little contributed to the happy impulse given to
this commercial revival." The strike of the weavers
and spinners has ceased at Grenoble and
Vienne, and the workmen have returned to
their factories now abundantly supplied with work.
In the south, business improves, though not to the
same extent; the fairs of Aubenas, Privas, and Rodez,
were lately well attended, and cattle, linen, and leather
found ready purchasers. In the centre, the cloth
manufactures of the department of the Indre are em-
-1 ploying a considerable number of men. The works
on the various railways are giving employment to a
vast number of men ; the central line in the depart-
' ments of the Cher and the Haute-Vienne; that of
Strasbourg; in the Marne, the Haute-Marne, and
the Meuse; the Nantes line in the neighbourhood of
Angers; the Avignon line, from the Durance to the
Petite-Hotesse ; that of Lyons through half of its
extent; and, in fine, that from Creil to St. Quentin,
throughout almost its whole length, furnish work to
a great number of men. The article of the Monitcur
then dwells on the extreme cheapness of bread and
wine, and declares "that the abundance of the year ha,
in no small measure contributed to the present well_
being of the working classes; everything, it says,
seems to imply that the winter will pass over more
easily than could have been lately hoped for. 'No
doubt,' says the article in conclusion, that when
France shall have issued from the crisis which was
long smouldering :on under a false appearance of
prosperity, and the development of which was pre-
cipitated, but not caused, by the accession of the
Republic, national commerce, purified by this cruel
trial, will again raise up its head more flourishing and
solid than ever.' "

According to the Moniteur du Soir, M. TRIERS
has publicly declared that he will not take office
under Louts NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, should the latter
be chosen President of the Republic.
Marshal BUGEAUD and General CLIAtioAnNIER
have withdrawn from the contest for the Presidency.

The following are the Members of the Committee
of the Assembly appointed to devise some special
solemnity for the consecration of the Constitution :
MM. Ducoux, Berger, General Bedeau, Bixio, Tre-
lat, Jules de Lasteyrie, Arago, Havin, Coquerel,
Landrin, Delaporte, Senard, Guuin, Beaumont (de
la Somme), and Desgeorges.

The passing of the Constitution was announced to
the citizens of Paris, at seven o'clock on Saturday
evening, by the discharge of 101 guns from the espla-
nade of the Invalides.

The French Government has advertised for tenders
for 39,400,000 kilogrammes of coals (about 38,000
tons), for the use of the Post-office steam-packets.
The adjudication is to take place on the 20th of Nov.
These coals are to be delivered in the course of 1849
at Calais, Ajaccio, I3astia, Marseilles, Malta, Athens,
Constantinople, and Alexandria, in different quanti-
ties. Out of the whole quantity 14,000 tons are to
he delivered at Malta. The coals must be either
English, French, or Belgian, with the exception of
14,900 tons, which must be Cardiff coal.
Ueneral GOURGAUD has left Paris for Frankfort.
lie passed through Bru.sels on the 3d inst.

The French Five per Cents. were done rather lower
on Sunday in the Passage de l'Opera than they closed
on Saturday at the Bourse. After having gone as
low as 661.40 c., they rallied, and closed at 66g. 60c.,
rather offered than demanded. The number of specu-
lators present was not very great.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 4.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Luxembourg. I,—Orleans and
Bourileaux, —Paris and Rouen, 134—Rouea and
Havre, 6 1A•

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have arrived.

On the 29th the first railway that has as yet been
established in Spain was opened with all due solemnity.
This railway is from Barcelona to Mataro. The
15th of December is the day fixed for the reassem-
bling of the Cortes.
MADRID BoLSA, OCT. 30.—Transactions in the
Three per Cents. are quoted at 18 5-16 and k cash,
and they are reported at to I sellers after the close;
Five per Cents., 91 sellers, and 9 to it buyers after
the close; Coupons, 5 sellers; Passive Debt, 31
buyers, sellers ; Bank Shares, 42 buyers. Discount
on Notes, 1i to 2; Exchange on London, 48 60.

terdayf at ten in the morning, the bombardment of
the city commenced, and was continued till midnight.
The inhabitants of the suburbs defended themselves
bravely, but the soldiers did not give way to them.
After a very severe conflict, the soldiers carried the
barriers at several points. In three hours the Croats
had taken SO barricades. At seven in the evening
four points of the suburbs were on fire. In the
Wieden and the Landstrasse between 30 and 40
houses have become a prey to the flames. At 11 at
night nothing was decided, but the troops were ad-
vancing victoriously."
The Preussische Skats Anzeiger contains the fol-
lowing account, dated Vienna, the 29th ult.:—
" The Communal Council of Vienna has issued the.
following proclamation :
" Citizensl—The Commander-in Chief of the National
Guard has communicated to the Communal Council the
intelligence that the National Guard and the Guard
Mobile, as well as the Academic Legion, have resolved
to throw down their arms and submit to the conditions
imposed by Prince Windischgratz. A deputation, com-
posed of the members of the Communal Council and of
the National Guard, has repaired to the Prince for the
purpose of makiez this communication to him.
" THE COMMUNAL COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF VIENNA.
" Vienna, Oct. 29, 1848."

On the morning of the 29th a deputation of the
Communal Council repaired to the head- quarters in
order to induce the General-in-Chief to desist from
his resolution of putting the city in a state of siege
even after its capitulation. The Prince, however, re-
fused to comply with the proposal, and demanded
unconditional submission. He nevertheless promised
that he would not fire any more on the city through-
out the whole of that day, in order that the inhabi-
tants might hay.- time for reflection. At half-past
two in the afternoon the Viennese again opened their
fire in several quarters, but this demonstration soon
ceased.

On the evening of the 29th the Communal Council
assembled in consequence of the Prince's reply, and
called to its deliberations the Commander-in-Chief
and all the other officers of the National Guard, in
order to deliberate whether the city could be any
longer defended, and whether it would be advisable
to continue the resistance.

M. MESSENHAUSSER declared that he was quite
ready to continue the defence, if the Communal
Council would command him to do so; but that
the position of the Imperial troops were such as to
give the city no possible chance of an effectual
resistance.

The Council then proceeded to vote, and the reso-
lution to submit immediately was carried by a
majority of two-thirds of the votes. On the same
evening a deputation repaired to the Prince to in-
form him of their unconditional submission, and the
proclamation above quoted was immediately posted
about the streets. The deputation was to entreat the
Prince to command the Imperial troops to lend a
strong hand to the communal authorities to effect the
disarmament of the city. In consequence of this de-
claration hostilities ceased, and on the 30th the troops
occupied the glacis without encountering any resist-
ance. On the same day the inhabitants of the
suburbs had already for the most part laid down their
arms. As early as the 29th, 27 companies of the
National Guard, in the suburb of Wieden, are said to
have deposited their arms. It is also stated that the
National Guards in the city repelled the attacks made
by the workmen on the Imperial Palace, and that
General BEM has been carried wounded to the Hotel
de Londres.

The Municipal Council published a notification that
the workmen of the armed corps, and the Garde
Mobile, receiving the pay of the commune, and the
poor National Guards who received the assistance of
the commune, should continue to receive it, after
giving up their arms, and until industrial relations
should be re• established.

The following telegraphic dispatch was received at
Berlin on the evening of the 30th, from the Prussian
Envoy at the Court of Austria :
"lleitring, near Vienna, Oct. 29, one o'clock P.M.
" During this night nearly all the suburbs of Vienna
have been taken by assault by the Imperial troops, The
cannonade as well as the firing has ceased. The city
is capitulating."
The lithograpic: report of the board of correspon-
dence in Berlin, of Oct. 29, says :
“M. Arago, Minister of the French Republic, has
just received intelligence that Prince Windisctigratz has
entered Vienna,"

Prince WINDISCHGRATZ, on the 30th, at twelve
o'clock, sent the following telegraphic dispatch to
Baron IVESSEMBERQ, the Minister President :
" Vienna unconditionally submits this day. My sol-
diers 'yid enter Vienna to-Jay."

And the following official notice was posted in the
streets of 011mutz on the 30th

"According to a telegraphic dispatch frem his Serene
Highness Prince Windischgratz to the Minister Presi-
dent, Baron Wessemberg, Vienna has unconditionally
surrendered and the Imperial troops occupy the city to
day.

"LEOPOLD, Count LAZANZRY,
" Vice-President of the Government.

ITappears,l lmu t z ,
thatei'snrec,greu
that o
the
thee tr 0
03
pOst h the work-
men and students refused to abide by the capitulation
made by the Communal Council, and attacked the
troops of WINDISCHGRATZ at the same time that the
Hungarians under KOSSUTH attacked Jk,LLAcnicu ;
and from the following dispatches of Wiriotscit-
GRATZ (the latest that have been received) it is evi-
dent that on the 31st ult. he was not in possession of
Vienna, and the fighting was stil going on.
The Preussische Staats Anseiger publishes the fol-
inv"aAde
lowing declaration of Prince WlNDiscnoitATz :
ctloierpsAuosftrniaunnsgoairli,aarindin
as far as Schwechst. I have attacked them with part of
stuorgaecni
advance
nicieasthviesnmtuorrendintgo
thrown them back, on which occasion they suffered my troops, together with those of the Ban, and have
con-
siderable loss. Some detachments are pursuing them. I
make this known hereby in order to calm the apprehen-
sions of all right-minded people, and as a warning to the
evil-minded, who thought to find a new chance for their
machinations, and, in fact, did not refrain from violating,
in the most disgraceful and perfidious manner, the sub-
mission agreed upon.
"Prince WINDISCHGRATZ, Field-Marshal.
" Head-quarters, lletzendorf, Oct. 30."
The Breslauer Zeitung has the following state-
mentshave entered
.a"sed at six o'clock P.M. There
from Florisdorf, dated the 31st ult.:
" The capitulation has not taken place, and tho bom-
bardment
T he
followingh as continued
is the
e telegraphicsince
dis p
alt
et
h ceased
relative
is a conflagration in the vicinity of the University-square
tsoi xGuardh those
hs o'clockgesent
ey ienn
bombardmentt
ttosh the
me
—e e
asserts
and of the Church of the Augustins. A -sl9are
Municipal
by the Burgthor and have already arrived on the Ste-
phaus Platz. The fire has seized the Church of the Au-
gustins and part of the Burg. The sp. tre and the roof of
the church have broken down.

"RENNBERG, General."
The slaughter has been terrific on both sides, but
the Imperial troops have been the greatest sufferers.
Accounts from Ratibor state that a general revolt
took place at Brunn, upon the 20th, in favour of the
people of Vienna; that the citizens, joining the in-
surgents, fell upon the military, overpowered and
disarmed them ; and that the Landsturm in the dis-
trict has also risen in the same cause.

Several Hungarian regiments have left Prague to
join their countrymen.

PRUSSIA.

On the 31st ult. some disturbances took place at
Berlin, in consequence of the rejection by the Diet of
WALDEces motion, calling on the Government to aid
the Viennese. The following amendment, by ROD-
BERTUS, was, however, almost unanimously agreed to.
" his MAJESTY'S Government is summoned to
empty immediate and most energetic measures with
the Central Power, in order that the freedom of the
people,
°endangered in the Austrian-German coup..
tries, and the menaced_ existence of the Austrian
Reichstag may be protected, become a fact, and peace
thereby restored."

This, however, did not satisfy the crowd, who
threatened to force the Assembly and to ill-treat the
Ministers. The Burgher Guard, under REMPLER,
however, succeeded in dispersing the mob, by using
the butt-ends of their muskets without firing, and
order was re-established.

The following telegraphic dispatch, addressed by
the Minister of the Interior to the President VON
MOLLER, was received at Cologne

" BERLIN, NOV. 1, Two O'CLOCK, P.M.
" Disturbances yesterday took place on the Gens-
darmen-market during the sitting. The Civic Guard
has re established order, and only one person has been
seriously wounded. " EIC UN] ANN."
Not only has nobility been abolished in Prussia,
but all letters and all orders are also abolished.
At the sitting of the Assembly on the 2d of No-
vember, the following letters were communicated
to it

" I have the honour to inform you that, in conse-
quence of the state of my hfalth, I have received my
dismissal from his Majesty as Minister President mid
Minister of War.

(Signed)

" PFUE I, ."

" I beg to inform you hereby that his Majesty has
been pleased to accept the resignation of the Minister
President and Minister of War, Vo❑ Pfuel, and to
charge me with the requisite full powers for the compo-
sition of a new Ministry. In consideration of this, I
trust to your adjourning the Chamber for a few days.
(Signed) " COUNT BRANI)ENBURG,
Lieutenant- General."

The excitement occasioned by the appointment of
I3RANDENBURG, a professed reactionary, was immense,
and was increased by the publication by EICHMANN
of a proclamation threatening the intervention of
troops. At half past seven the Burgher Guard com-
mander published two addresses, the one to his corps,
declaring EICIIMANN'S manifesto, threatening the in-
tervention of the troops, to be an offence (verletzmng)
to the Burgher Guard, and direct encroachment upon
its rights, of not permitting military interference
without the assent of the Committee of Safety, and
ended by protesting against the Minister's proceeding.
The second is an appeal t,CI the people, urging them
to retnain quiet, and to unite with the Burgher Guard
in maintaining peace, which, if interrupted, can only
lead to military interposition.
The Assembly remained sitting all day, and at
nine o'clock a deputation proceeded to Potsdam to
wait upon the KING, to protest against the nomina-
tion of Count BRANDENBURG, as dangerous to the
monarchy and public peace. The House declared
itself en permanence. The deputation has not re-
turned. There is little doubt that the KING will
accede. The state of excitement is great, and should
the KING refuse there is no answering for the con-
sequences.