The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

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the signal for a bloody conflict.
polish regiment) fired three volleys, which

cheers and quick

National Guard 3, the Students, and the Grenadiers. T
Nassau intautry was soon forced to retire, and on bei

3ayonet the

vade movement be-

came a downright flight. General Bredy, their com-
mander, was shot. After routing the government troops,
the insurgents marched from the suburbs into the town,

,ney placed their guns in the middle of the Univer-
sity-square. At one o'clock a party of the insurgent Na-
tional Guards were attacked on the Stephans Platz by a
party of loyal National Guards, who stood by the go-
vernment ; but after a short fight the latter were forced to
retire into the Cathedral of St. Stephen, the doors of
which they then barricaded from within. But the insur-
gents battered down the doors, entered the church, and
dislodged their antagonists, whose leader was killed on the
very

After this the tide of insurrection rose to a very uncon-
querable height. The rioters entered the War-office be-
tween the hours of five and six, seized the cannon and
arms denosited in that building, and captured the Minis-
ter of War, Count Latour. The wretched man was con-
treet, and then he was murdered with
Jae hammers. The people tore
bleeding body, and hung

corpse on a gibbet, where it remained sus-
for a whole day, during which the National Guard-

Count. I

Lsatour's papers were

seized and brought to the University.
At half-pnst six o'clock there was but. one place of re-
fuge left for the troops and National Guards who sided
with the Government—that place was the arsenal, famous
for its glorious trophies from the Turkish wars. The
people surrounded the arsenal, and demanded fro'm the
garrison they should give up the arms which it contained.
They refused : a combat commenced, in the course of
which the garrison swept the Rengasse with grape and
canister, and killed and disabled a great number of the
whose fury increased after each unsuccessful
)n of the building. The com-

insurgents

attempt to gain po

tnittee of students sent several flags o f truce summoning
the gar!ison to surrender, but. the bearers were shot dead
on the spot. The people then commenced bombarding
the arsenal, and the firing continued all the night through,
till six o'clock on the morning of the 7th, when the gar-
rison surrendered. Those among the popular party who
were rot provided with weapons were then armed. The
number of killed and wounded is said to be very great.
In the midst of these scenes the Emperor and the other
members of the Imperial Family left Vienna at about
four o'clock p.m. on Saturday. The were escorted by
5,000 cavalry, and took the road towards Lintz.
All letters from Vienna state that General Latour met
his horriL •• '•

rate With the ctul,l t rc.igttestion, 4.4141 dignity,
smiling contemptuously upon the fiends who tore him
from his house and condemned him to the ignoble death
they merited themselves. Liberty, liberty !—these men
make vow- ---

vUlt
- name accursed ! The events of Vienna will,
of course, influence the affairs of Lombardy and Hungary.
Both will, probrhly, be declared
_independent. Austria,
we fear, will fall into shreds, and verify the predictions of
those who foretold this catastrophe long since.
The latest accounts from Vienna state that the people
were terribly alarmed at the consequences of the late in-
surrectionary movement. The intelligence of the march
of Baron Jeliachich on the capital has filled the democrats
with terror, as they justly tremble for their fate should the
victorious Ban pour the vials of his wrath upon their de-
voted city. The number of those killed in the late com-
bats was 97. It was rumoured in Vienna that Kossuth,
at the head of 60,000 men, had marched against the
Ban. The Oesterreichisehe Zeilung has a letter from
Trieste of the sth inst., which states that intelligence was
received on the previous day in that town, by a steamer
returning from Dalmatia, of a fearful insurrection which
took place in the district of Cattaro. The insurgents of
Zuppa, it was reported, together with 1,500 Montene-
grines, gave battle to the Austrian troops on the 28th and
29th Ultimo, who, as they were only 600 in number, and
did not think themselves equal to combat against a supe-
rior force, amounting to 3,000, retreated in forced
marches. A collection of tithe is said to have given rise
to the insurrection.