The Sun. — 1848-11-24 (London, England)

GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES.  AUSTRIA.  The Wiener Zeitung of the 17th publishes the following official account of the murders of BLUM and MESSENHAUSER :  " In order to meet the malevolent reports which have come to the ears of the military authorities in regard to the execution of Robert Blum, those authorities deem it expedient to recapitulate some statements previously notified by them.  " Robert Blum, of Leipsic, notorious as one of the most active leaders of the insurrection in October last, was, in pursuance of the state of siege proclaimed for Vienna and its environs, on the 20th October, arrested and brought before a court.martial, after the entrance of the Imperial troops into the capital. "In the examination consequent thereupon he was convicted by his own confession, and by that of witnesses on oath, of having on the 23d October, fanned, by an inflammatory address, the armed insurrection in the Aula of Vienna, and having taken part in the same, with weapons in his hands, as a leader of a company of the corps d'elite.  ` Robert Blum was consequently, in conformity with the existing military law of court-martial, unanimously condemned to death by hanging, and this was commuted into that of being shot, which was carried into execution within 24 hours of his being placed before the court• martial.  " Wenxel Messenhauser, a. native of Prossnitz, in Moravia, thirty-five years of age, Roman Catholic, a single man, and an author, was convicted at the courtmartial examination by his own confession, as well Fs by overt act, that he, in his quality of provisional commanderin. chief of the National Guard, incited the armed insurrection ie Vienna, its environs, and divers provinces, by placards and summonses to the Landsturm ; that he, after the antiouneemeat of the state of siege of the city of Vienna, its suburi,s and environs, by means of proclamations of his Serene Highness Field-Marshal Prince Windirchgratz, under date 20th and 23d October, did issue and propound a further call, on the 25. h October, to rebellion against the troops sent by his Majesty, the Constitutional Emperor, against Vienna, for the restoration of peace and order, and endeavoured to seduce the said troops to a breach of their faith ; that, finally, he did, by a threittening dommand, urge the defence of Vienna to the uttermost against the approaching troops, and thereby energetically continued the armed resistance. Nay, that he, even after the conclusion of the capitulation for the surrender of the city to the General Field-Marshal, on the 30th at noon circulated numerous copies of two bulletins, respecting the pretended victorious progress of the Hungarian army, announced already on the 28th October, and thereby induced the breach of the already concluded capitulation. " Therefore, Wenzel Messenhauser was condemned to death by hanging, by a sentence of court-martial, under date of the 11th, published on the 14th November, in pursuance of the cited proclamation, in connexion with article 62, section 4, of the military penal code; and that sentence being commuted into death by shooting, was executed on the 16th of this month at half past eight in the morning, in the trenches of the city." Accounts from Gratz state that the Hungarian troops made an irruption on the Bth into the city of Friedlaw in Styria. They consisted of four battalions of Landwehr, and including the cavalry, were about 4,000 men strong. They had with them four pieces of cannon. After committing great devastations and levying contributions on the city they retired, followed by the Imperial troops. A heavy cannonading was heard during the night of the 13th in the direction of the Hungarian frontier. The Wiener Zeitung of the 18th state; that ANTON BROGINI, of Brunne, in Moravia, aged 29 years, was shot early that morning, after trial by court-martial. The Austrian Lloyd contains intelligence from Gratz of the 13th, from which it appears that Count NUGENT has received intelligence that General DAULEN and General BEVRITS had driven the enemy from Nedelitz and Csuliathurn, on the night of the 12th. The island has now been occupied by three brigades.