The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

Marshal De Walden is left in command of Vienna, with
thirty-five thousand men. Courts-martial are busily at
work with the antidote of "powder and lead." as the
official announcement has it. Blum, one of the members
of the Frankfort Assembly, has been shot. Many other
executions have taken place, and several of the rebels
have fallen by their own hands.
Prince Windischgratz and Baron Jellachich have
marched into Hungary with the main body of the army.
Pressburg has capitulated; they are advancing upon
Pesth.
The accounts received from Vienna announce the
arrival of the new Ministry from Olhniitz, MR. Stadion,
Prince Schwartzenburg, Bruck, Helfert, and Bach. They
immediately proceeded to the head-quarters of Windis-
chgratz, at Hetzendorf, to urge him to take milder mea-
sures. Little change had taken place in the condition of
the city.
Advices from Cracow in the Kolnische Zeilung, dated
the 13th instant, state that the Emperor of Russia had
sent an energetic note to the Hungarian Ministry, calling
upon them immediately to withdraw their troops from
the Austrian frontier. In case of their non-compliance
with this demand he would be obliged to march part of
the army quartered at present in Moldavia and Walachia
to the assistance of his neighbour, and thus to put a check
to the daily increasing anarchy.

THE REVOLUTION AND THE ROMISH HIERARCHY.—
At a meeting of the Bishops of the Austrian dominions
recently held at Salzburg, an address to the Diet at
Vienna was agreed to, containing the following demands :
—l. Freedom of the Church to organise herself; free
communication on the part of the Bishops with Rome,
among one another, with the inferior clergy, and with the
people ; freedom of ecclesiastical education ; the abolition
of the placet. 2. Liberty for the Church to exercise her
influence; that is, over the educational establishment, in
the cure of souls, the collation of benefices, &c., &c. 3.
Liberty to administer the property of the Church without
the interference of the State.
Pius IX. AND THE GERMAN CATHOLICS.—A brief has
been addressed by the Pope to the Archbishop of Vienna,
exhorting him to oppose the spread of German Catholic-
ism to the utmost of his power.

RAVAGES CAUSED BY THE BOMBARDMENT OF VIENNA.
—The foubourg of the Jagerzeil, the most beautiful in
Vienna can no longer be recognised. Above 200 houses
have been totally destroyed by the flames, others have
been partially_destroy.ed, and very many others-have been
pillaged. The same is the case in the other suburbs, es-
pecially those of Lichtenthal, Landstrasse, and Thends-
thum. The interior of the city has not suffered to the

same extent. Two fires only were occasioned by the
rockets thrown into the city on the 31st. The magnifi-
cent hall, however, in which the democrats and German
Catholics generally held their sittings, has fallen a prey to
the flames, and now presents nothing but a heap of ruins.
It is said that 6,000 persons were killed during the late
insurrection. The number of civil persons who fell at the
attack of the lines is above 800, besides which a great
many wounded died in the hospitals. To this must be
added about 200 who fell on the 6th ult. The loss of the
military is yet more considerable, especially among the
Croats, some hundreds of whom were destroyed during
the storming of the Rurgthor, which was taken after
three repeated attacks.

ECCLESIASTIC CONFEDERATION IN GERMANY.—The
assembly heldatWittemberg in the latter end of September
has published the result of its deliberations, which is the
proposal to found a federal Church Union, comprehending
all the communions which retain the symbolical books of
the Reformation—that is, the Lutherans, the Calvinists,
the United Protestants, and the Moravians, with all their
various modifications. There is to be no interference
with the varying creeds of these different communions, or
with their church discipline and their relations to the
State; the only object being to establish between them
all, divers as they are, one federative bond of union.