The Sun. — 1849-10-15 (London, England)

AUSTRIA.  The Oesterreichische Correspondent contains the followingcorrespondence :—"Pesth, Oct. 6.—Yesterday afternoon there was a great sensation in Buda- Pesth. It became known that Count Louis Batthyany, the ex-Hungarian Minister-President, was to die on the gallows, as it had been proved by the evidence of seventeen witnesses, that he had, principally by means of bribery, been instrumental in compassing the abominable murder of the Minister of War, Count Latour. To-day, the 6th of October, being the anniversary of the murder, was appointed for Count Batthyany's execution. The gallows was erected on the so-called Holzplatz; behind the Neugebande. The Pesther Zeitung, late in the evening received orders to leave an open space for the sentences given by three court-martials, which were to appear in the number of the 6th, and to keep a press in readiness early in the morning. The sentences of Count Batthyany, Count Stephen Carcly, and the guerilla chief Fekete, were ready to go to press when a new order arrived to omit the first sentence, as Batthyany's execution had been put off. On this °account the Pesther Zeitung could not appear until noon. Official facts we have none. It is certain that Grenadiers formed a line up to the gallows, and that the Count, who had been exposed since the preceding day, was led out to execution." (It is the custom in Austria to permit the condemned man to receive any visits he pleases and to eat and drink whatever he chooses to command during the last three days he has to live. This is technically called being ausgesetzt (exposed), as curiosity generally induces crowds of people to visit the poor creature condemned to die.) " From this time the accounts vary. According to some the Count attempted to stab himself with a dagger, others say that he tore open his throat with a nail. It is not positively known whether he is mortally wounded, but it is an indisputable fact that he is still alive. Count Stephen Caroly was sentenced to two years' arrest in a fortress, a fine of 150,000 florins (15,0001.), and to the restitution of that sum of money which he had received from the rebel-junto for the formation of a cavalry regiment. Fekete, a notoriously goodfor-nothing fellow, who after the month of March was the leader of the so-called Egalite Troop,' and subsequently guerilla chief, captured an Imperial money chest, which he did not even think it worth while to deliver up to the revolutionary Government. He was executed this morning by means of powder and ball."  From the statement of the other German papers there appears no reason to doubt the attempted suicide of the unfortunate Count Louis Batthyany, by puncturing his neck (in several places) with a needle (or nail). It was hoped at Pesth that the penalty of death would be commuted, in the event of the Count surviving, for his life was in imminent danger from the hemorrhage which had supervened, and which the surgeons were making every exertion to atop. The town of Pesth was much agitated, but no disturbance had taken place. The following were hanged, on the 6th, at Arad : Schweidel, Damianich, Nagy Sandor, Vecsey, Torok, Aulich, Poltenberg, Knesich, and Leiningen. And the following were shot at the same time :—Ernest Kiss, Dessoffy, Lagar, and Lauer.