The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-14 00:00:00

lished declaration of WINDISCHGRATZ, tha
after the Ist of December, the civil triter
resume their functions, and the military trihaeal
should cease to have jurisdiction, save over soldiers,
the military butcheries which have disgraced Vienna
since the commencement of November still continue.
On the 7th of December an unfortunate blacksmith, a
native of Hungary, was arrested on a charge of
having in his possession a loaded carbine. He was
tried, condemned, and executed before sun-
set. WINDISCHGRATZ has declared that he
will shoot every Hungarian officer he takes, and
KOSSUTH has announced his determination to make
reprisals. WINDISCHGRATZ has no Hungarian officers
prisoners as yet, whilst KOSSUTH has several Austrian
officers in his power. In consequence of this decla-
ration of WINDISCHGRATZ the rural population re-
siding in the neighbourhood of Gneiss became so
exasperated that they rose en masse, stormed the
Hotel de Ville, in which were 74 Croats who had
been taken prisoners from JELLACHICII, and massa-
cred 42 of them.' The National Guard of :the town
fortunately arrived in time to save the remainder
from the fury of the mob. The Hungarians have
assumed the offensive, and have made an irruption
near Bruck. After levying contributions they retired
into their own territory. Two regiments were
ordered to proceed immediately from Vienna to
Bruck . The following tragedy was enacted in one of
these regiments just before it marched from Vienna:
—When the corps was placed in ranks, and just when
the order to march was about to be given, one of the
riflemen levelled his piece and shot a corporal dead on
the spot. The report of the rifle and the fall of the
murdered man was followed by a few minutes of
painful suspense, fur it was as if everybody felt that
some dreadful punishment must follow the dreadful
deed. At length a superior officer advanced and
muttered a few words to the soldiers. Two files
turned off; the murderer, who seemed perfectly col-
lected, placed himself in their midst, and they pro-
ceeded round the corner of the street to the ruins of
a house that was burned down during the siege. The
unhappy man stood up against the blackened wall,
bis comrades fell back, three men advanced and
levelled their muskets. Their comrade fell dead, and
the next moment they walked quietly back to the re-
giment, which then proceeded onwards on its march.
The news of the abdication of the old and the
advent of the new EMPEROR had no sooner reached
Pesth than the Hungarian Parliament assembled, and
resolved unanimously that they accepted the KING'S
abdication, which, since they had not been consulted,
they must consider in the light of an unconditional
resignation of the Crown ; that they refused to re-
cognise FRANCIS JOSEPH as their King, for that it
was expressly stipulated in the Pragmatic Sanction
that no person under twenty years of age should
succeed to the Hungarian Crowns ; and that for the
future Hungary should be a Republic. If this news
be confirmed, as we have no doubt it will, there is
little hopes for any impression that the EMPEROR'S
manifesto may make, and there is no alternative but
war to the knife. For this war the Hungarians have
been incessantly preparing. They have fortified
Presburg and Pesth ; added to the fortifications of
Komorn, undermined all the roads to their principal
cities ; and they have burned all the towns and vil-
lages from Bruck on the Leitha to Presburg, so as to
starve the Imperialists in their winter campaign.

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