The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30,

write it, Thukudideis), the destruction of an olive
plant was severely punishable among the Athenians•
Nor was this surprising, when it is remembered that
he olive was said, by one of the most popular myths of
the " violet-crown'd city," to have been originally a
gift from the hands of the presiding goddess of the
Parthenon. To render the incarceration of the un-
fortunate railway labourer at Aylesbury at all
reasonable in our estimation, however, it will be
necessary to show that the turnip was originally
bestowed upon the agriculturists of Buckinghamshire
by some Mins:Ave of the vegetable kingdom, whose
wrath was dreaded by the magistrates present at the
petty session. Seriously, we regard such decisions
as the one to which we are here alluding as a direct
and flagrant violation of the principles of justice; and
we would here hold the incident up to the merited
indignation of the public. Had the gentlemen upon
whom devolved all the judicial responsibilities of the
session taken into their consideration the trivial nature
of the charge, the misfortunes of an industrious
labourer, the instigations of a craving appetite, and
the very fact of the prisoner having been taken while
in the act of eating one of the pilfered vegetables, they
would surely have arrived at a very different con-
clusion—at a conclusion more in accordance
with the generous tone of the criminal
laws of the country. At the least they
would never have dreamt of compelling an un-
fortunate labourer to expiate such an offence by an
imprisonment of twenty-one days' duration in default
of payment of fifteen shillings and sixpence. It is
in consequence of arbitrary proceedings of this cha-
racter that the industrious classes are frequently
estranged from the existing institutions. Poor and
ill-informed men, witnessing such acts of tyranny
inflicted with impunity upon themselves, can never
be brought again to regard the Government under
whose authority they are thus ground into the dust
as a benign or paternal Government. They look
upon each other as justified in setting the cruelties of
the law at defiance, and are ultimately induced to
wink at schemes of insubordination.

A general improvement in railway stock of almost
every denomination has been the result of the clear,
straightforward, and satisfactory statement of the
London and North-Western Railway Company, a
copy of which was contained in The Sun of Saturday.
The complete and decisive refutation of the erroneous
calculations and unfounded rumours that had been
circulated has enlightened the public mild as to the
folly and absurdity of giving any credence
to malicious insinuations, put forward by in-
terested parties for their own vile purposes.
It has proved that " the panic" rested on no sufficient
foundation, and has entirely re-established the con-
fidence which our own exposure of the " sayings and
doings" of the "Bearish" Fraternity, and the admirable
letter of Mr. HUDSON, to which we have repeatedly
alluded, had partially restored. Cautious, hard-
headed men, who kept their money lying idle and
unproductive, at a time when they might have
purchased at the cheapest rate, now willingly
invest at. prices ten or twenty per cent. higher
than those of the early part of last week.
Their over-prudence caused them to let slip the
golden opportunity, to avoid taking advantage of
circumstances of which " they may never see the like
again." Bargains are, however, still to be obtained.
The present quotations are yet far below the real
value of the shares, and there is every probability
that the tide which has at length turned, after ebbing
so long and so continuously, will in like manner flow
without let or hindrance for a prolonged period. The
reaction is generally proportioned to the violence of
the crisis. When the tide is unusually low, it may
safely be prophesied that it will speedily rise far
beyond the ordinary high water mark. So, in all
probability, the reaction may be most conspicuous in
the shares which have been most widely depreciated.
The prices on the chief lines may be said to have
improved from 15 to 20 per cent. during the last
week. North-Westerns, which on Monday last
were sold, perhaps we should rather say quoted, at
1 discount, realised 18 premium on Saturday.
Within the same period Great Westerns sprung
from 671. to all.; Midlands, from 66 to 78; Eastern
Counties, from 11i to 131 ; York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, from 21 to 26 ; York and North Midland,
from 42 to 52 ; South-Eastern, from 20 to 23 ;
London, Brighton and South Coast, from
'25 to 28f ; London and South-Western, from
36 to 40 ; Chester and Holyhead, from
18f to 211. A similar improvement took place
in almost every other line, so that the " Bears " will
have to provide for heavy claims, more especially if
the stock which they have undertaken to supply
should be demanded at their hands, and the purchasers
should refuse to accept the differences. Such a course
would, indeed, completely turn the tables, and
convince those gentlemen how dangerous a game
they have been playing. They have al-
ready sustained a most signal defeat. It
will probably be even more decisive, when " the
statement " has circulated throughout the country,
and provincial capitalists send instructions to their
London agents to make font fide purchases on their
account. But, although " the snake is scotched, it is
not killed," and those interested in railway property
should spare no exertions to complete the discomfi-
ture, and to destroy the evil influences of their mortal
enemies. This can only be effectually achieved by legis•
lative enactments, such as those to which we have already
adverted, and which will undoubtedly be passed, if the
great interest that has been so unscrupulously assailed,
and which suffered so fearfully thereby, should de•
mand protection from Parliament. Much, however,
may be done by the parties themselves. If, as was
suggested by an esteemed correspondent, whose let-
ter appeared in The Sun of Saturday, every purchaser
of shares insisted upon the transfer being effected
with all convenient speed, and intimated that if
any unnecessary delay took place he would
consider his order cancelled, and the stock
purchased at the risk of the broker, the
" Bears" would be deprived of their great oppor-
tunity. The subterfuges to which they resort in
order to avoid the fulfilment of their contract until
they have had an opportunity of depressing the
market, and inducing timid shareholders to dispose of
their property at any price by their infamous inven-
tions and unflinching mendacity, is now unfortunately
hut too notorious. A stern and uncompromising
spirit should be exhibited towards them, and the
slightest indulgence should not be afforded
to those unprincipled gamblers who take
upon themselves to sell that which is not
in their actual possession, and who can only
obtain the profits they seek by the injury and de-
preciation of their neighbours' property. They are a
common enemy, and should be dealt with, without
compunction, whenever they fall into the power of
their intended victims. In fact, like the Ishmaelites,
" their bands are against every man," and every
man's hand should be directed against them in turn.

,ARRTING OUT TRU LAW WITII
At the Buckingham potty !session on Saturday
last, James Robinson, a railway labourer, out
of work from the temporary suspension of the
Buckinghamshire Railway in consequence of the
unfavourable weather, was committed to Ayles-
bury gaol for twenty-one days in default of payment of
two shillings penalty and thirteen and sixpence expenses
for having, on the previous day, stolen two growing
turnips from a field in the occupation of Mr. Thomas
Harper, farmer, Steeple Claydon. It appeared he was
taken into custody when coming from the field with the
turnips, one of which he was eating at the time, because,
as he told the officer, he was so hungry. When searched
he was found to be without money. lie had worked
, for few days in the last few weeks for Mr. Clark, a
sub-contractor on the above railway line. The cause
alleged for pressing the charge was that the prosecutor
had been robbed of turnips to a great extent.
,
The Observer of Oct. 29 contained—Orieial State-
ment(! of the North-Western Railwap
two coleanns rise
of 151. share—lnsurrection at Lila „Jape: f;',l% of the
13
7..ers—Doings of the French
Guards in L
Boers—Latest Paris Drama: Salaroiendosonffrom__Perfr, Viensr., and Italy—The
Trial and Conviction of G. B.
Mullins—Monej, Funds, and Railway Shares Artiele—
British Museum:Evidence before the Onainissioners—,
St. Pancras Vicarage—Marylebone Vestry---Ptot of
Hayden—Serpentine 1. The ektehei*t publication
of the Observer commences at t e'tlock on Sunday
morning. A Monday Afternoon Edition of the Observer,
containing the market's and the latest intelligence, is re-
gularly published at 4 o'clock.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXECRIt Hatt.—
The first concert of the season will take place on Wed-
nesday next. The erection of an improved and enlarged
orchestra, coupled with the first appearance of Mr. Costa
at Exeter Hall as conductor, will add much to the in-
terest of this performance. It being just a year since
the death of Dr. Mendelsshon Bartholdy, his last great
work, Elijah, has been selected for this the opening j
night. " " •

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the French papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The approaching election for President occupies
almost exclusively the attention of our Parisian
contemporaries at the present moment. The question
of the candidateship of M. DE LAMARTINE is at
length set at rest. He will serve if elected. M. DE
LAMARTINE has addressed the following letter on
this subject to the Journal des Debuts :
" St. Point, near Macon, Oct. 26.
" Sir,—l read in the Debats an article borrowed
from the Courrier de la Gironde, and beg permission
to correct it. I made the following answer to a cor-
respondent at Bordeaux :---` I do not put myself for-
ward as a candidate for the Presidency. I pray to
God and my friends to keep from me a burthen so
much beyond my strength. But, if the country
should think proper to appoint me to this magistracy,
I do not think I have any more right to refuse ;it
than I thought myself warranted on February 24 to
refuse the designation of th• people, and leave Paris
without a Government. Ido not believe that lam
in any degree threatened with such a danger, and I
only correct the Courrier de la Gironde in order to
avoid all misundentanding. To solicit the Presi-
dency would be ridiculous; to desire it would be
rash ; to refuse it would be wanting to the Republic
and the country. lam devoid of this ambition, but
incapable of such an act of cowardice.
" LAMARTINE."

The National Guards of Cluny having gone to the
country seat of M. DE LAHARTIME to congratulate
him on his arrival, he addressed them in a speech,
from which we give the following extract
" Do not believe, citizens, that in responding to the
idea of your commandant, and speaking to you on
the election of the President of the Republic, I make
the least allusion to myself. France has hundreds of
citizens much more capable and worthy than I am
to preside over her sublime but difficult destinies. I
repeat to you that I am far from desiring that a
burthen so disproportionate to my powers should
ever be cast upon me. I desire but one title, but one
epitaph on my tomb, when I shall repose in it upon
these hills whence I can view the towers of Cluny—
the title of being the founder, with you, of that re-
public of order, security, humanity, and peace, on
which I have, in fact, twenty times risked my life,
and for which I am still ready to risk a thousand
times more than my life—my share in the remem
brances of posterity. Citizens, before we part
permit me to say a few words on the general
affairs with which your minds are so legitimately
occupied at this moment. Every day since my
return here I have been accosted, questioned,
and interrogated—' What think you of the Republic?
Will it endure ? Will it become regulated ? Will
it become victorious and calm after the clouds of
doubt, the convulsions which always agitate great and
new-born things in their cradles ? Will it bring
forth the happiness and welfare of a suffering people—
the glory of the nation, the admiration of Europe ?'
Citizens, this is the answer I give to all, as I have
given to myself frequently when reflecting upon our
futurity. I have said to myself—either the people
will be worthy, or they will be unworthy, the enjoy-
ment of the republican institutions which we have
given to them. If they do not comprehend the mean-
ing of the word t republic'—if they confound republic
with revolution in permanence, with agitation with-
out end and object—if they confound it with agitation
of classes against classes, of the rich against the poor
—if they see a perpetual flood of wilful idlers on the
public ways, misusing, in demonstrations, reclaims-
tons, conspiracies against the public peace, that time
and those energies which God has bestowed upon
them to be employed for their families and their
country—if they listen to these blunderers in dates,
confounders of times an sense, these Epimenides
of 1792, who, like the first Epimenides, slept for 50
years without being aware of the progress which had
in the meantime been made in society, during their
sleep of half a century, in reason, in knowledge, in
experience of self, in conscience, in patriotism, in
moral and religious feelings—if toasts be given to the
sinister days of 1793, with those posthumous tribunes
of a terrorism which filled every man with dread and
horror—if, with them, outcries be raised for war
without enemies, violence without pretext, blood with-
out thirst—oh then, indeed, the Republic will
perish, stifled with the drunkenness of evil doctrines
and false patriotism; for scandals are not institutions,
and last only a very short time. Europe and our
children will with blushes call upon us, saying, But
what is this France which has exhausted so many
efforts, so much heroism, so much blood, to conquer
order by the people for the people, and yet did not
know, after having made the conquest, how to
preserve it from the excesses of faction ?—(Ap-
plause.) But, if the people he worthy of the Republic,
' as your presence her. attests (as the conformity of
your sentiments and mine here and elsewhere certi-
fies); if the Republic is in your eyes only the sove-
reignty of the law, justice, and order; if, instead of
sapping the eternal bases of the state, of family ties,
of property, of morality, and good sense, the people
would join us in raising up on these bases the en-
larged and improved edifice of popular and practical
institutions, which are progressive and profitable to
all—in a word, if the people resembles in its immense
majority, you citizens, who are here applauding these
sentiments because they are yours—if they resemble
those admirable populations of the towns and coun-
tries whom I have seen for successive days coming to
hail their own ideas of a republic in mine—then,
citizens—yes, then, be assured the Republic will en-
dure, will become regulated, restrained, consolidated ;
for you will be its defenders, and the children of
your children will one day come, as we do both here
and elsewhere, to salute upon these hills one of the
cradles of that revolution, which will become the last
dynasty of the people and the monarchy of reason and
the law 1"

The Presss supports the candidateship of Louis
NAPOLEON, and that it would do so was evident for
two reasons ; first, the committing the destinies of the
Republic to a man who, according to the Presse of
1841, " has no more intellect than heart, who paraded
like a mountebank at the tournament at Eglintoun,
and displayed every evening his nullity among the
dandies of Drury-lane," who is "not even the chief

of a party, but only the wretched caricature of one"
(thus was Prince Louis NAPOLEON designated by M.
Emu,' DE GIRARnIN in the Presse of 1841), could not

but be damaging to the cause of the Republic; and
secondly, Prince Louis NAPOLEON is the candidate
of the Emperor of RUSSIA, and M. EMILE DE GIRAR-
DIN has never disguised his desire to see France
Cossack.

The National has the following on the support given

to the cause of Louis NAPOLEON by La Presse:-
4t We were curious to see what reception the press
would give to the candidateship of M. Louis Bona- I
parte. With one exception, and we shall just now
declare which, the journals show but little enthusiasm
for the candidate to the Presidentship. The Con.stitu-
tionnel alone embarrasses us, and we do not know in
what category to class it. If we did not fear to be
indiscreet, we should demand from it what it thinks;
but M. Thiers perhaps does not care to speak. No-
thing contrasts more with that excessively prudent
reserve than the Presse. It speaks out, and we look
on it as the decided organ of the imperial candidate.
To set forth M. Bonaparte, the Presse has found a
precious argument. What in its eyes constitutes the
merit of the Prince is that he will have no other care
than to last; that he has entered into engagements
with no one, that he has no opinion whatever, and
that in fact he can very well play the part of Victor;;;.,
provided he finds a Lord J. Russell. The
Freed can point him out such a one if necessary,
and you can understand why the country cannot make
a better choice. IL Louis Bonaparte, says the Presge,
is the future. We are sorry to say it, but its candi-
date has not even that negative valour which it is so
proud of. He even has a pi'st life of great gravity ;
at Strasburg and Boulogne, he was not satisfied with
assuming the dress of the Emperor, he issued procla-
mations ; since then pamphlets have been published.
It is there that his thoughts and sentiments on the
men and things of that time must be sought for. Let
us not speak of the future before having examined
the past. Destitute of his title of representative of
the future, M. Louis Bonaparte requires to seek
another designation. lie will not go farPresse
has [very humorously called General Cavaignac the
incarnation of the National. Why en his side should
not M. Louis Bonaparte be the incarnation of the
Presse ? We should very well agree to it."
We read in the Sit'x/e--
"The day on which the nation shall have spoken,
the candidate to whom we ilo not now &Insider Nve
C".l accord our co-operation will he fully invested, in
cur eyes, with the authority which universal suffrage
alone can confer. On that day, in reserving to our-
selves the right to judge his conduct, we will not con-
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speech of M. Louis Bonaparte in the Assembly, a
very animated discussion took place in one of the
lobbies of the Chamber between the above gentleman
and M. Etienne Arago. The latter was in conver-
sation with M. Jerome Bonaparte when his cousin
joined them. M. Etienne Arago, addressing him,
said, ' I have been telling your cousin that our reason
for opposing you is, that, even should you wish to
remain in the pale of Republicanism, you will he
driven by the mass behind you to march towards
monarchy; for what impels you forward is the igno-
rance of the country people and the Imperial fetish-
ism." But, M. Arago,' replied Louis Bonaparte,
must not attention be paid to the majority?' And
it is for that reason,' said M. Arago, that I iwould
postpone the election of the President, in order
that the nation may be told that you
have no claim, either personal Gr even borrowed,
to the Presidency of the Republic ; that the
reflection of the extinguished star with which you
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that I can find in the past life of my uncle some re-
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remembrance is not encouraging for us, for the
Consul soon transformed himself, and the monarchies
have only left in our recollection the idea of Em-
peror. Look at the poor country people on whose
votes you reckon ; they have in their humble cottages
plaster busts and coloured prints ; but whom do they
represent ? Is it Bonaparte or Napoleon ? And the
lithographic prints which are now hawked about from
village to village, and from workshop to workshop,
paid for by I know not whom, what period of the life
of your uncle do they represent? Is he shown to
the people as a general of the Republic, with the
military costume of the immortal campaigns of Italy ?
No; it is with the grey greatcoat of the Emperor and
King ; in a word, it is Napoleon, always Napoleon,
and never Bonaparte. That, stir, is why no sincere
and enlightened Republican wll vote for you.' M.
Louis Bonaparte turned on his heel and walked away
without saying a word. The above dialogue took
place in a group of at least SO representatives, the
greater part of whom expressed their approbation to
M. Etienne Arago of what he had said."
The Bill on the transportation of the insurgents of
June to Algeria was, on Friday, taken into consi-
deration by the Committees of the National As-
sembly. The principle of the Bill was at once
adopted as an act of humanity, good policy, and
necessity. Most of the speakers upon it insisted
upon its necessity, as both moral and political, in
maintaining the severity of the penal laws ; and they
expressed a hope that the convicts may ere long
become useful members of society, by forming
establishments in Algeria, or by returning into the
mother country. M. MONTROL, the author of the
primitive proposition, called attention to the report
of the Commission instituted by the Minister of
Marine, which states that the Committee could not
find at any point of the globe a locality better cal-
culated than Algeria for insuring health and security.
The expense of transporting 4,000 convicts from
Brest to Algeria was estimated at no more than
500,000 francs, while that of conveying them
to Madagascar would amount to more than
5,000,000 f. The members of the Commission on
Penitentiary Reform have announced a disposition to
recommend that all convicts should be transported
into Algeria, which would thus become the general
Penitentiary of France. But in this case the insur-
gents of June would not be mingled with the ordi-
nary convicts. M. MARTIN (Strasburg), though
supporting the Bill in general, expressed a wish that
some of the insurgents of the departments who had
been seduced into the insurrection, and whose rela-
tions wished to have them restored to their families,
should be exempted from transportation. A few of
the members belonging to the ultra-democratic party
of the National Assembly, as MM. BUVIGNIER,
GERMAN SARRUT, and others, declared themselves
to be adverse to the Bill, in the hope of a general

amnesty.
M. DE Riccr, the new Sardinian Envoy, presented
his credentials to General CAVAIGNAC on Friday.
The Moniteur notifies that the certificates of origin
which, pursuant to the convention of the 16th of
September, 1846, with Russia were necessary for the
admission to Russian ports of French merchandise, in
exemption of the surtaxes on inevigation, cease to be
exacted. Moreover,
,French vessels sent from the
French ports in the Channel and the Atlantic will
enjoy in Russia the same treatment as national Yes-
sels, even if they should have stopped at a port on
their way, provided they do not take anything on
board. France, on its part, accords to Russian ves-
sels reciprocity of these measures, favourable to the
commerce and navigation of the twe countries.
The ilfeniteur also announces the appointment of
M. RECIIRT to the Prefecture of the Seine, in the
roosn of M. Tnouvs CHAUYEL.
The National Assembly was engaged on Friday
and Saturday in discussing the details of the mode
in which the election of President of the Republic
, the number of polling places,
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had officially declared that he would consider the
bombardment of Vienna as a cases belli with France.
The English envoy is also stated to have protested
against the seige of Vienna. The Viennese are said
to be in possession of 120 pieces of artillery. The
passenger trains on the Northern Railway were to be
completely suspended on the 22d, and no one was to
be allowed to leave Vienna. Part of the army of
WINDISCHGRAETZ had arrived at Florisdorf, where
the inhabitants had removed psrt of the bridge.
On the 20th the Austrian Diet at Vienna issued
the new proclamation to the people, which we yes-
terday stated it had adopted. In this document it
states " that it had done everything in its power to
effect a pacific solution of existing differences, and
had in vain endeavoured to procure the retreat of the
Croatian army." The proclamation then justifies the
arming of the people of the capital by the forcible
disarming by the imperial troops in the environs of
Vienna of the National Guards legally organised, and
the arrest and detention of some Members of the
Diet. The proclamation concludes by an earnest
exhortation to the people to have confidence in the
Diet and abstain from anarchy.
In the sitting of the Diet on the 21st the President
stated that the address to his MAJESTY had been sent
by a courier to 011mutz, and that the following letter
had been received from the deputation of the Central
Power at Frankfort.

V"
In announcing their arrival by these presents the
Committee have forwarded their proclamation. They
wish that it may 1)9 provisionally published, in order
to their having a welcome, and that hostilities be
suspended.
" The deputation of the Ldentral Power,
" WETCKE R.
" MOLKSE."

The Minister stated that, in consequence of [the
receipt of the Imperial manifesto, and the letter from
the Plenipotentiaries of the Central Power, it would
be expedient to remain in stetu quo for the present, and
wait for further overtures.

The journal of the Austrian Lloyd gives detailed
accounts of the state and excitement of Vienna. The
Imperial palace, it was reported, and all the other
public buildings, were filled with gunpowder. They
were to be blown up as soon as the first piece of
artillery should be hoisted against Vienna. It was
also said that the Hungarians, by order of Kossuth,
had fallen back four miles (German), and that they
sent a deputation to Vienna, stating that they merely
intended to reorganise their army, and were ready
to fly to Vienna at the first signal ; but as it was
expected that this appeal would not be made by the
present Committee for Public Safety, who are in-
clined for peace, Dr. SCHUTTE convoked a popular
Assembly for the 23d instant, for the purpose of
constituting another committee which should act
with more resolution.

Accounts in the Borsenhalle of the 26th instant
state, that WINDISCIIGRATZ had notified to the Vien-
nese, that if they did not surrender by the evening
of the 24th, he would bombard the city on the next
day.

The Viennese replied, that, if he carried his threat
into execution, they would immediately hang the two
Imperial generals who were in their own hands.
Letters from Vienna of the 21st instant in the
Kolnische Zeitung, state that the conditions laid down
by WINDISCHGRATZ for a peaceful agreement with
the city are—The complete disarmament of those
who have taken arms since the 6th of October, the
dispersion of the Academical Legion, the closing of
the University, and the extradition of Count LATOUR'S
murderers.
A letter from Breslau of tha 234 says :—" The
Imperial troops are beginning to construct a bridge
at Kloster Neuburg. A deputation of students has
set out for 011mutz with proposals for a mediation."
A letter in the Augsburg Gazette of the 20th
says :—There is no longer any doubt as to the entry
of the Russians. The two Hungarian regiments gar-
risoned at Lemberg, which appeared inclined to set
out for Vienna, as well as a regiment of infantry,
which testified sympathy for Vienna, had been de-
clared in a state of mutiny. The garrison of Lem-
berg is 17,000 men strong."
The account from 011mutz are to the 20th October.
The following is a list of the new Minis-try :
Prince SCHWARTARNBEG, Minister of War.
M. CAI:IIII'AR° MATER, Minister of the Interior.
M. BRUCK, Commerce and Public Works.
The present Ministers, WESSBNIIIinG, KHANS, and
BACII, the latter of whom has arrived as a fugitive at
Nuremberg, will retain their portfolios.
The President of the Diet of the Tyrol and the
Vice.. President of the Government of Innspruck have
issued a proclamation, called on the people to rally
round the EMPEROR. The Diet has been convoked
to settle some affairs, and afford support to constitu-
tional liberty and the dynasty.
The Pesth Gazette of the 16th says that a certain
Polish peasant named Simoisicu (who it is sup-
posed took an active part in the Gallician massacres
last year), has entered Hungary at the head of a
band of armed peasants. A reward of 100 florins is
offered for the apprehension of SIMONICLI, and 20
florins for each member of his band.
The corps of Croats, which had been ineffectually
attacked on the 9th by the National Guard of Oeden-
burg, has been beaten by General MOGA. The
affair took place on the 11th inst. One third of the
enemy was cut to pieces, a second taken prisoner, and
the remainder dispersed.
The Silesian Gazette publishes advices from Vienna
to the 24th, but their authenticity cannot be relied on.
It is as follows :
" A traveller, who left the railway station at
Florisdorf, near Vienna, on the 24th October, 1848,
says :
" Since last night the city is completely blockaded.
Prince Windischgratz removed his head-quarters,
yesterday at noon, from Stammersdorf to the palace
at Schonbrunn. This evening the twenty-four hours
which he had given to the town to capitulate expired,
and the town was immediately hemmed in by the
troops. The report of heavy guns was heard shortly
after ; the guns of the citizens near the bridges over
the Danube were discharged at the Imperial troops
to prevent their advance, but the Imperial batteries
replied so vigorously that three guns were soon
dismantled. The first sortie of the Viennese was
made on the Nussdorf line, but with little result.
It is reported that the Ilungarins have attacked Jel-
lachich's camp.
" At half-past three in the afternoon the two
bridges (the rail way and Danube bridge) were
cleared. White flags were hoisted upon them, and
the troops crossed.
" The artillery is still firing along the Nussdorf
line, and an hotel outside the lines is one mass of flames.
" A conflagration is also risible in the Wieden
faubourg, and the two little bridges over the so-called
Kaiserwasser, a branch of the Danube, were set on
fire at six in the evening, to prevent the advance of
the troops.
" A keavy fire is now heard in the Brigitenau.'"
WINDISCIIGRATZ having declared Vienna in a state
of siege, and proclaimed martial law in the surround..
ing districts, MESSBNIWISEII, commander of the Na-
tional Guard, immediately published the following

notice :
" Fellow-citizens !—A. placard signed Windisch-
griitz appeared for a short time at the corner of the
streets. The Reichstag, true to its duty, has de-
cis,cd the threatened state of siege and martial law to
be illegal. We shall see whether Windischgratz and
Wessenberg will obey the dictates of the legal repre-
sentatives of the people. Citizens! All hopes of a
peaceful solution are not at an end; but every inha-
bitant, from old to young, must be on his guard. I
now for the first time commence the most important
portion of my duty, which is to place Vienna in a
state of defence. Follow the example of the brave in-
habitants of Buda Pesth (offen). Let every soul—
men, women, and children—labour night and day in
erecting barricades and entrenchments."
The Estrzuon refused to receive the deputation of
Common Council at Olmutz, but published Count
WESSENBERG'S reply to this deputation, which is as
follows :
" The address of the Vienna Common Council has
been la;3 before his Majesty ; but as it contains re-
quests with which his Majesty cannot comply at the
present moment, I am directed, therefore, that all
further requests respecting the restoration of tran-
quillity at Vienna must be addressed to the Genera..
lissimo of the army, Windischgriitz, who is furnished
with the requisite full powers.
(Signed) " WESSENBERG."

PRUSSIA.
I,7TNG to the congratulatory
' him on

The answer of -tnu
address of the Burgher Guard presentee
his birth day has given great offence. It is as fol-
lows :-