The Sun. — 1856-01-16 (London, England)

DISTRICT BRAILOW.  The Brailow police reports, under date March 23, 1855, that a certain Jonitza Angel had been murdered by Austrian soldiers near the Church of St. George ; further, two shopmen had received ♦arious wounds from an Austrian soldier on occasion of their asking for payment of goods they had bought. Another person was found by the police on the place of the street Papa Radou, murdered and robbed by Austrian soldiers. Other police reports, sent in from Tirgowischt and other places, showed similar acts of brutal violence and injury done to limbs, and property, from mere reckless love of mischief and destruction. The above are extracted from a large number of reports sent in by the various authorities in Wallachia. The following is an official statement of the outbreak that took place in the Tower of Fokschan, on the border of Wallachia and Moldavia, and which was considerable enough to give rise to widely-extended reports of a general rising against the Austrians. The Austrian garrison of Fokschan consists of Croat infantry and Hungarian cavalry. The manner in which these men conduct themselves passes belief—they behave like wild hordes. There is not the slightest trace of discipline, and the me❑ recognise no authority. November 20, in the forenoon, there was a regular fight on the open market-place between Austrian soldiers and about 200 of the people. The former fought with their bayonets, the latter with cudgels and sticks. At length an officer appeared with a patrol, and sent the men back into their quarters. The case of this row was this :—Austrian soldiers had forced their way into a tavern kept by one Demeter Breteano, and bad stolen there everything they could lay their hands upon. The landlord resisted, and, on his cries for help, others had come in to his assistance, and thus the fight commenced. The landlord received two stabs with the bayonet. On the evening of the same day Austrian soldiers entered the house of the first named Hagi-Koloi, and endeavoured to take forcible possession of his stables. Koloi asked them if they had billets on him. Without giving him any answer they rushed on him with drawn sabres. The merchant let them enter his warehouse, and then found his own safety in flight. After half-an-hour the local authorities appeared and found Koloi, half dead with fright, hidden tinder a sofa. The soldiers that prowl about the town at night for the purpose of robbing and plundering for the most part wear no uniforms, for the purpose of avoiding detection. The Austrians have got a very large stable and immense stores of straw collected in the centre of the town. On the 21st a wooden staff was brought to the prefecture, bound round with cloth or other stuff, and saturated with pitch ; this had been picked up in the street in the immediate vicinity of the stable. The greatest apprehensions of a conflagration are entertained in the town.  LettPrs from Jassy of December 22 mention that the winter h.d brought with it a most unusual severity of coll. On the 16th the Reaumur thermometer showed 16 deg. of cold, and on the 20th there were 23 de;T.,— that is to say, 25 deg. Fahrenheit below zero. Ever since the 16th of December the Danube had been firmly frozen over, and all communications between the two banks take place over the ice.