The Express. — 1848-11-20 (London, England)

ROBERT BLUIL.  Mark the circumstances in which this struggle took place and was carried on. A popular insurrection was first provoked by the bad faith, the lying assertions, of the ministry, of *hem the treachery was proved by the discovery and publication of their own letters. These revealing the purpose of the government in sending away the German regiments to Hungary, the people rose to prevent it. The troops in Vienna, though composing a large and efficient force, retired in the MOIL cowardly manner. And the Diet, as well as the town council, were left under the influence of a successful mob. The Diet and town council instantly undertook to calm the people, and they succeeded. They despatched envoys to the Emperor, to the military commanders, announcing their desire to restore things to order, and submit to the imperial authority. The generals received these deputations. The Emperor, after his withdrawal, sent to Vienna for one of the ministers to come to him, countersign his ordonoances, and keep up the semblance of his constitutional government. For a great number of days the Viennese were not treated as rebels or insurgents by the court or its authorities. And so far were they from considming themselves so, that they refused to call the Hungarians to their succour or to admit them into the suburbs of Vienna, a step that might have materially altered the future fortunes of the war. It was only after WINDISCIIGRATZ had collected an army and invested Vienna with an overwhelming force, that the court threw off the mask, and, refusing the Viennese any save utterly impracticable conditions, proceeded to its bombardment tad military reduction. In the midst of the struggle between court and Diet, a struggle that was not as yet a civil war, ROBERT BLum, a leader of the liberal party in the German Diet of Frankfort, arrived at Vienna. That Diet represented Austria as much as any other part of Germany, and IlLum came to give his counsels to the liberal and constitutional party in Vienna, as he had every right to do. The Austrian people, government, and court had acknowledged itself part of Germany, part of the great empire represented in the Frankfort Diet, so that BLUM could not be considered an interloper or a foreigner. He wee on German ground, and in his right to come and offer liberal counsel. He did not occasion the insurrection. It was flagrant ere he arrived. He made liberal speeches, bat it was at a time that the Emperor and government still treated with the Viennese. lie was not a captain or a fighting man; he might have appeared in arms, for no one was permitted, nor was it safe, to appear without them. But in no wise has it been shown that BLUM overstepped the natural conduct and duty of a deputy of the great German Diet. Nevertheless, he was tried by court-martial, and sent to execution. Some insist that this atrocity was a defiance to Frankfort and its Assembly. Strange that the court of Austria should defy an Assembly whose first act was to elect one of its princes to the head of the empire. The court is said to have been consulted, and to have ordered the execution. We believe it. ROBERT BLUM, a man sprang from the people, and who attained his eminence by his oratorical powers, had been the second to ltosoa, the religious reformer, who founded neo-catholicism, and whose movement struck the most sensible panic into the breasts of the Jesuits and ultra. catholics of Austria. HONOR made these priests and their patrons tremble for the maintenance of their tenebrous influence. We have little doubt, therefore, that the older for BLuat's execution proceeded from the ultra-catholic faction around the Emperor, with the Archduchess SOPIIIA at its head ; and that he was murdered, not so much for being a German liberal, as an eloquent champion of religions reform. Stich was the martyrdom at which our bleed-loving and freedom-hating tory and whig writers rub their hands in fiendish, illiberal and intolerant glee. This is what they call the cause of order, this the salutary justice and the sacred character of monarchy : these the merciful results of that military rule, before which whig and tory press each morning prostrates itself, like Mussulmen before their own promised Mecca.