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FRANCE . The War against the Press . —The ultra-Deir . oc-. iiic and SochlisS journals have published the fuilo-A'ing announcement from the representatives g _1 the Moutagne : — ' fn tbe serious circumstances in which we are now placed , on the eve of the elections—at this moinent , when wc have need of all our forces against the c-r . _sUiion ol all the enemies of the Republicthe ex-magistracy of King Lou is P h ili ppe has taken npon itself the task of _crushiug the press of tbe people . The « Revolution Democratique et Sociale _^ has again heen condemned to three years' imprison ment and 10 _, 000 f . fine , and the' Peuple' to 6 , 000 ffine an d fi ve years * imprisonment . Thus , you see , fine assumes the proportions of confiscation , and
imprisonment those of homicide , atfacking not only the property , but tbe very life of the press . This is a _riaour , an inveteracy , without example even in the worst times of the monarchy ; it is war to the death . Our duty , tfie dnty of all republicans , therefore . U to come to the succcour of the journals thus _siricken . The representatives of the Montague subscribe a sum of five hundred francs in favonr of each journal , and appeal to all the democrats of Paris and the departments . ' ( Signed by the representatives of the Mont agne . ) 31 . Proudhon publishes , in the ' People , ' an address to the subscribers and adherents to the _'Bsfique du People , ' in which he announces that , in consequence of bis condemnation to three years ' imprisonment and 3 , 000 f . fine he abandons his design *> f establishing the bank .
M , Proudhon has retired fo Mons in Belgium to draw up his appeal to the Court of Cassation . On Saturday M . Duchene , tbe responsible editor of * _-i : e * Peuple , ' was cited again before the Court of Assize , for another seditious article . As he did no ? appear , be was sentenced hy default to five ye a rs imprisonment , and 6 , 000 f . fine . The Assembly . —On Saturday M . Victor Considerant having obtained leave to put interpellations , we _; _it info a complete expose of the Socialist theories wfeich he has for several years advocated in bis journal—tbe alliance of capital and labour , le droit au travail' as correlative to the ' droit de _prr-nriete , ' and association nnder various forms . He wished ( he said ) to bring about a _marriaga of reason
and inclination between capital and labour , a mar riage for a certain term . He bad studied the matter for twenty-four years , and wished the Assembly ro furnish him with the means of carrying bis _thf-.-ries into practice , and would be content , if he did not fnily succeed , to pass the remainder of liis days at Charenton . He was heard with the utmost impatience , and continually interrupted with sarcastic observations and roars of laughter . He _conclo'Jsd by demanding a concession of the forest of St . Germain to found a society , and the creation of a _nanistry of progress , the president of the council _bei-i-- ; charged with tbe execution ofthe several _measure . He . failed , however , both _va convincing the _Assembly of tbe feasibility of bis plans and in obtaining what he demanded .
M . Arn-and _Marrasthas been Te-elected President of the Assembly by a majority of 417 against 95 votes , which were given to M . Dufaure .
INTERVENTION IN ITALY FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE POPE ! Paris , Monday . —The sitting of the Assembly today has been of considerable importance . It had oee . i made public ,, by means of the evening papers last ni ght , that it was the intention of the ministry to make some communication of moment to the chamber , and members had been requested to be'in their places at the proper time . M . Odillon Barrot ascended the tribune , and read the following statement : —
'Citizen Representatives . —When we informed you of the last events of which Italy has been the theatre , tbe Assembly felt the necessity 3 n which France might at a futnre period be placed to occupy for a lime a portion of the territory of ihe Peninsula . The _initiaiive taken by you on that occasion is the sonrea from which has emanated the authorisation given to the government to take such a measure if it were found useful . Since the vote I speak of , the situation , then uncertain , has been strongly defined . The Austrian government pursues the consequences of its victories ; and might invoke the rights of war with regard to states more or less engaged in the struggle which had taken place between it and Sardinia . Thc consequence of these events has been
felt in Central Italy . Information we have received announces an impending crisis in the Roman States . ( Agitation . ) France cannot remain indifferent to this . The protection of the French inhabitants , the care of maintaining our legitimate influence in Italy , the desire of contributing to the attainment by the Boman population ofa good government founded on liberal institutions . ( Interruptions and exclamations on the left . ) All these things made it our duty to use tbe authorisation that had been granted to vs . It would be impossible for us to enter into ampler details without compromising the object we have in Tiew . In such circumstances as these chance must have a part allowed to it in what may happen . But we mavuow affirm that from our interventions will
arise nought but efficacious guarantees for the interests of our policy—the cause of true liberty . ( Agitation on ihe left . ) The government thinks it necessary to state , with the greatest precision , the exact character and bearing of tbe vote it demands of the Assembly . Being already invested by it with a power the importance of which it appreciates , it does not renounce that power . It asks for no new power , and it would regard as unworthy and contrary to its niGst superior duties any step , by wrhich , changing the position given it by the Assembly , it should try to cover its responsibilit y with that oi the Assembly itself . In coming before you to-day to demand a credit which is indispensable to
government for ensuring the execution of the powers invested in it . government remains , ami must remain , entirely responsible for the consequences involved . That responsibility would not cease till the time when the refusal of this credit would , by reducing it to necessary inaction , in presence of the events _impending , prove to it that it is the intention of the Assembly to annul its vote of the 30 th of March , and make abstention a iuty . The following is in consequence the project of law which the government has the honour to submit to your deliberation : — ' 1 st . An extraordinary credit " of 1 , 200 , 000 _franc 3 en the exercice of 1849 is opened at the ministry of war for supporting the increase of expenses attendant upon keeping on a war footing , during three months , the expeditionary corps of the
Mediterranean . The extraordinary credit to be divided amongst the divers chapters ot the budget of war . 2 ndiy . The expanses authorised by the above article shall be provided lor by means of the resources applicable to ihe wants of the exercice of 1849 . ' * Gentlemen / added M . Barrot , it is needless , after such a _commuiiicalion , to point out to the Assembly that it must examine this question as one of urgency . For tbe success of such measures as these , it is necessary that publicity and execution should be _simulianeoos . I therefore dem & ud of the Assembly to re ti re inst a nt ly into their bureaux , and there examine the question of urgency , and name a committee which shall report speedily enough to allow the Assembly , In its sittings of this day , fo vote on it . '
The Assembly , having voted affirmatively on the demands ofthe President of the Council , retired into its bureaux , and named a Committee , which immediately retired to deliberate . The Assembly met again in the evening , at nine o ' clock , when Jules Favre , the reporter of the Coramission , read his report . It declared that tbe proposition of the government was urgent . M . E . Arago demanded of the government to explain the object Of Ihe expedition . M . Odillon Barrot replied , tha t its object was to protect the di gnity and preserve the legitimate influence of France in Italy . M . Ledru Rollin followed , and spoke with such violence that he excited the murmurs of the majority of the Assembly against him . —Times . General Lamorieiere supported the _propssition ; M . Scholcher opposed it .
A division was t h en called for , and a ball o t having been taken , there appeared for the first paragraph of the resolution 395 , against it 283 ; majority in favour of Ministers , 112 . __ T b e seco n d paragraph was voted without a division , and the Mon' . agnards deserted the house in a body . M . _Deville was heard in tbe midst of the confu 8 _ion calling oa his party to withdraw . This manoeuvre succeeded . On the entire proposition being put tothe vote , there appeared for the government resolution 393 , against it 106 ; majoritv in favour of Ministers , 287 ; but as onl y 4 99 mem b er s _? oted , and as the regulations of the Assembly require that 500 meinbeis shall take part in every vote in order to render it valid , the ballot was declared void for want of an additional vote .
The house tben adjourned , at twenty-five minutes past twelve o ' clock . On Taesday the ballot was takes for the last time
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on the grant of 1 , 200 , 000 francs for the expedition to Italy . Number of voters , 549 ; absolute majority , 275 : for Ihe grant , 383 ; against it , 1 G 1 ; majority for the bill , 227 . The credit was accordingly voted in spite of the Montagne , who took no part in the ballot . The Condemned Republicans . —A letter from Doullens of the 9 th says : - _* On Friday the prisoners of Bourges arrived here , under a strong guard . Barbes and Albert are p laced in he same cell , Blanqui and Flotte in another . Raspail , Sooner , and _^& TL FuxuKK-The - Gazette , du Bas Languedoc' says that the discovery has just he _^ n made that tbe _club-men at Nismes had organised themselves so as to be able to act militarily . The ¦ Socialist array , ' as it was called , consisted of companies going by the names of Barbes , Babceu f , Robespierre & c .
, . A letter from Lyons states that a Socialist dinner had been g iven there , which was attended by about 500 persons . The tribune was decorated with four red flags , on which was inscribed the Socialist motto , « To live by labour or to die fighting . ' It was remarked that a corporal of the Line ascended the tribune and proposed a toast . Duel—A meeting took place yesterday , at five in the evening , between M . Ledru Rollin and M . _Di- ujoy , near the Pont de Neuilly . The parties were placed at twenty paces' distance . M . Ledru Rollin fired , but the pistol of M . Deujay hung _fite . The seconds then interposed .
ITALY . THE SIEGE OF GENOA . [ FROM A SUPPLEMENT OF THE ' NOUVELLISTE OF MARSEILLES , ' OF THE 9 TH APRIL . ] As early as yesterday evening the _report was current in this city as soon as the Ville de Marseille steamer arrived , that another sanguinary conflict had taken place between the people of Genoa and the troops of the government . It will be remembered that , in consequence of an emeute , in which
the National Guards and the people took part , the armed force , composed of a b out 1 , 000 men , and not 10 , 000 , as was published by mistake , was obliged to evacuate the town . But while this was t * oing on , the division of General la Marmora , returning from Parma , and perfectl y organi s e d , surro u n d ed Genoa , and took possession of the maritime suburb . During two days some murderous engagements took place between the populace and the troops : the troops had taken possession of some
new positions . The attack by General la Marmora was postponed _, as we have already said , for two days . The tow n was defended w it h i nconceiva b le ardour an d determination . Priests and women were to be seen hastening , armed , to the barricades . No troops could have entered the town without being crushed by the stones with which tbe bouses had been filled , for the purpose of being thrown upon those making
the attack . Many houses have been destroyed , and still more damaged by ball and shell . In the hospitals the sick were struck by the projectiles , and t h e vessels anchored in the port have also suffered more or less . The French steamer Tonnerre and the French traders served as a refuge to our countrymen , as well as to a crowd of refugees of all nations . Happily , at last , the Consular body succeeded in getting an armistice concluded for forty-eight hours [ Which was subsequently extended . ]
A Turin letter , of the 9 th inst ., sta l es that the Sardinian government has answered the deputation ol Genoa that , if the town surrendered immediately an amnesty would be granted . The only exceptions * ould be twelve chiefs of the insurrection , all the military who have taken a part in it , and tbe individuals guilty of crimes against persons and properly . In order to allow the municipality of Genoa time * to consider these , conditions the term of the armistice is prorogued to the 10 th . The Lombards who had advanced towards Genoa were still at Bobbio , and had not advanced .
FALL OF GENOA . Tr _/ Riir , April 12 . —The news I sent yesterday has been confirmed in all its particulars by the accounts , letters , and newspapers brought to-day . Genoa is in the bands of the Piedmontese troops . The armistice , renewed for another two days , had been followed by the unconditional surrender of the town though on the understanding that there would he a general amnesty , from which only General Avezzana , David Morchio Pettigrini , Constatina Reta , and eig ht other chiefs of the insurrection , were exe ' uded , as wen as all such military men in
the actual service of Piedmont as had taken a part in the rebellion . —To-day immense parcels of the newspapers from Genoa and the south of Italy , as well as Florence , Rome , and "Venice , have arrived , after an interruption of several days . From private leiters which I have just perused , as well as from what you will have seen in the papers before this letter reaches you , you may be certain that , now that Piedmont has decidedly given up the cause of Italian independence ( at least for the present ) _, neither Florence , Rome , nor even Venice , will hold out long .
Pawma . —Reign ov Terror— The 'Piedmontese Gazette' of the 10 th announces the arrival at Parma , on the 5 th , of General d'Aspre , at the head of an Austrian corps . He immediately published a proclamation , ordering the inhabitants of the city and territory to give up all their arms within twelve hours . The peasants will have them returned to them , on their producing certificates of morality . Transgressors of this order will be judged by
courtmartial , and shot within twenty-four hours . By another _proclamation of tbe same date , General d'A sp re announces that , by order of Marshal Radetsky , and in the name of bis Royal Highness the reigning Duke Charles II ., he assumes thc civil and military government of the states of Parma ; that all public acts and orders are understood to be iu the name of H . R . H . aforesaid , and that Major-General Wiihpffen is named commandant of the city of Parma .
VENICE . —In tbe siHintr of tbe Venetian Assembly of the 2 nd , Manin communicated to that body the painful intelligence of the defeat of the Piedmontese . He remarked that the ciicumstances were difficult , and that it was for the Assembly to determine the course to be followed . A representative having replied that the government ought to take the 1- ad , Manin asked , ' Are you , citizens and representatives , determined to resist at every cost ?' ' We are 1 ' was tbe unanimous cry . ' Are you
disposed to give me unlimited powers , that I may do whatever is useful and necessary for the purpose , without my being obliged to give you explanations ?' ' Yes , yes ! ' was again the unanimous answer . ' I did not expect less from this generous assembly , ' said Manin , - and I accept . ' The lemdest applause greeted this declaration . The representatives flocked round Manin and embraced him ; he himself was deeply moved . The following decree was then passed : —
• The Assembly of Representatives of the State of Venice , in t he name of God and the peo p le , unanimously decrees as follows : — ' Venice shall resist the Austrians at every cost . For this purpose President Manin is invested with unlimited powers . ' President , Giovanni Minotto . ' Vice-Presidents , Ludovico Pasini , Gio . _Batt . Vabe . Secretaries . Pasini , _Roffini , Somma , _Valt-ssi . ' ROME . —Letters from Borne , of the 3 rd , state that a popular demonstration took place that dav in
favour of M . Mazznn , in the course of whieh the general cry was , ' Long live the Red Republic ?' Reported counter Revolution of Tuscany . —On Tuesday the French government published tKe following telegraphic despatch , dated Marseilles , 16 th inst ., nine o ' clock a . m .: — -The Minister of France to tbe Minister of Foreign Affairs . Florence , April , 12 . A reaetion in favour of the Grand Duke has taken place at Florence . The whole po * pulation pronounced with enthusiasm . M . Guerazzi is kept a prisoner in his bouse . The assembl y is dissolved . '
THE WAR IN SICILY . The peasantry in the neighbourhood of Palermo had been provided with 10 , 000 p ikes six feet long , and with triangular beads . These they had orders to use inpreference to any other weapons , t h e pr i ests preaching daily in the piazzas , and u r ging the same counsel—to rush npon the enemy with tbe pike , regardless ef anything else but exterminating them . Bes i des a l arge force of Frenchmen and people oi other nations , there was a body of Englishmen org anised , about 300 in number , who were called the ' Milizia Inglese . ' Ammunition and arms abounded ; round the city a ditch had been dug ten feet deep and ten feet wide , with towers at the distance of 100 feet from one another , each having six cannons .
A letter from Palermo says—' All here lend their aid , even the ladies carrying out the earth in small baskets . The army musters 50 , 000 men unde r arms , and is daily on the increase , 25 , 000 labourers are dail y at w or k in the t r enche s , and work hard too , so that in a week they have thrown up immense works . They are mas enthusiastic , nnd only stop
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working to cry , ' death and destruction to the Bourbons . ' We announced in our last tbe commencement of hostilities , and the hellish attrocities committed by the Neapolitans , who had commenced the war by burning and slaying without mercy all that came in their way . CAPTURE AND SACK OF CATANIA BY THE NEAPOLITANS . HELLISH ATROCITIES '
( From the Malta papers . ) The Neapolitan steamer , Duca di Calabria , arrived on Saturday night last , from Messina , wi t h a despatch for the Neapolitan consul in this island , stating that the royal _troopa had taken possession of all the coast from Messina to Catania , and particularl y of J a ci , with a view to make a simultaneous attack upon Catania by sea and land . On the morn i ng of the 5 th , three Neapolitan steamers took up a beautiful position at a short distance from the city , and opened their fire ; the castle and the small forts of the city immediately replied to the fire with much energy and skill , which injured two of the steamers . On that evening the Neapolitans retired ;
the next day seven steamers appeared , and again opened a terrible fire on tbe city . The garrison , and the inhabitants returned the fire , like the day previous ; in such a manner that General Filangieri saw that he must make a simultaneous attack on the city by sea and land ; he therefore ordered the troops at Jaci to advance upon Catania . The Swiss were the advanced troops , supported by 700 lancers : the main army , of 16 , 000 foot , and ' 32 pieces of cannon followed . These attacked the city at a weak point , which was ill guar de d b y the Catanians and g o t in , notwithstanding the obstinate resistance of the defenders . The city then became a real field of battle . As the troops advanced , the resistance became more obstinate : the assailants , who were fired on from all the houses , and from barricades , became more ferocious , and the assailed the more
tenacious to defend the town , which su p erior forc e only could take . The city , bombarded by sea and land , wa s c omp e lled to s urren d er , and on the morning of the 7 th , a portion of the garrison and a great number of the inhabitants retired ' to the mountains in perfect order , abandoning the city to fire and plunder . The greatest part of the houses were sacked and destroyed . The public library , the palace of the Marquis of San _Giuliano , that of the Prince Careaci , and many other edifices . were burnt . About 1 , 700 Neapolitans were killed , and a great number more of Sicilians . Such has been the fate of this fine city and its inhabitants . General Filan g ieri immediat e l y published a proclamation , in which he ordered , that within twenty-four hours all the inhabitants should give up their arms to the Neapolitan authorities . Syracuse was to be attacked on Sunday last .
Her Majesty ' s steamer Bulldog , arrived last night from Syracuse with an account of the surrender of that city . General Werenski , governor of Syracuse , an d his staff , came in the Bulldog . An eyewitness of events in Catania says ;— 'T h e Sicilians foug ht bravely and well all the night of Good Friday , till nine o ' clock on Saturday morning . After the battle we landed , and such a scene of carn a ge an d cruelty I never witnessed . The dead and the dying were crowded on each other . The Neapolitans bad buried their own dead ; but in rushing through the streets seemed to find a demoniacal pleasure in mutilating the senseless clay around
them . I saw three soldiers strike their bayonets into a poor fellow breathing his last , and number _, less were those who lay headless in the streets , the victims of a horrible ferocity . Catania is in ashes ; the streets are encumbered with half-burnt rafters : immense logs of . charred wood occupy , with broken guns and overturned carriages , the place lately teeming with enthusiasm and health . The Sicilian dead lie unburied ; the Neapolitans even kick them as they pass—plunge into the midst of the nearly deserted town—reb , p lunder , and destroy , and commit every possible atrocity on helpless innocence or de * cre pid old age .
Lieutenant Hobart , who was sent on shore on duty , in remonstrating with a Neapolitan dragging out a poor woman to death by the hair , narrowly escaped being put to death by the assassin ' s bayonet .
GERMANY . The Fkankfort Parliament . — In the sitting of the Frankfort Parliament of the 11 th instant the following motion was made by M . Kierulf , and passed by a majority of 276 against 159 votes : — ' That the German Constituent National Assembly declare solemnly to the nation that it will unshakingly adhere to the constitution agreed to and promulgated on the second reading , and also to the electoral law
passed on the second reading that it refer the repert of the _deputation to a committee of thirty members to be chosen hy the sections of the chambers , in order that a speedy report may be made respecting the measures necessary to be taken f o r carry ing out the constitution . ' This decision of the Assembly may be set down as the rejection of the claim set up by the respective princes of Germany for a suspending veto with regard to the constitution . The house tben adjourned .
VIENNA . —By order of the civil and military authorities nobody is allowed to wear any apparel of a red colour . Any gentlemen or lady with red cravat or red ribbons will be arrested and condemned conformably to martial law . Our garrison being diminished to about 8 , 000 men , the rest being parted for Hungary , all private soldiers had been ordered to keep out of barracks , and are liable to twenty-five lashes if they return before eight o ' clock . This ordinance can only be explained by the wish to show to the public that there is still a sufficient number of men in town to keep up what they call order just
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DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . The Affair at _Eckeunforde . —We are enabled fo continue the reports of an eye-witness relative to this affair : — ' It is now proved beyond any doubt that rather more than 200 men were blown up in the ship of the line , among whom were twelve superior officers , two surgeons , & c . It is a matter of re . gret that our brave non-commissioned artillery officer , Preusser , who had commanded the southern battery and been appointed to the captured vessel , is among the number . A Norwegian | voluunteer , Lieut . _Wedel-Tarlsberg , the son of the Stadhalter of Norway , jumped into the water in the very moment of the explosion , and saved himself by swimming to the shore . The effects ofthe _explosion were terrible beyond description : maimed bodies , arms , legs ,
were strewed about in all directions , mingled with pieces of broken timber , ammunition , & c . The frigate is completely riddled , especially by shots through her stern : sixty men were killed and sixty wounded . The Christian VIII . received sixteen shots through the stern from the southern battery , each of which , at an average , killed three men . The interior of the frigate presents the most horrible spectacle that can be imagined — blood , brains , pieces of flesh , scattered over decks and walls . The frigate now rides safely on anchor in the inner harbour . Captain Donner arrived at two o ' clock in the morning , with about 200 sailors , and it is expected that the ship will , in a fortni ght , be sufficiently repaired to use her as a battery , should the Danes try to retake her . The two war steamers are still
prowling about the harbour , They haye twice seat a fla g of truce t o inquire after the fate of the crew of the Christian VIII ., and of Cadet Garde , the son of their commander in chief , who has been saved . The prisoners of war , t o t he numb e r of 1 , 023 men , among them forty-four superior officers , have been transported to Rendsburg to-day . Schleswig , April 15 _, -On the 13 th theimportant intrenchmenta on tbe Duppeler heig hts were stormed . From 4 ih . to 9 _Jh _., a . m ., the Germans played upon them with their li ght field-pieces ; the Danes replied both with heavy and li ght artillery . The Dan i sh superio r ity in w eight of metal exposed our troops to considerable loss . About ten a . m . two columns of Bavarians and Saxons were formed to assault the heights . They moved rapidly and
steadily up the steep and broken ascent , the summit of which was crowned with breastworks and cannon . Notwithstanding the incessant firing made lanes through their ranks , they carried their point . A number of p risoner s were ma de , and the captured cannon were turned against the enemy ' s ships in the B a y of Alsen , and their intrenehm en t _s o n th e island . The retreat of the Danes was effected in utter _disorder . The Danes and their conquerors rolled in one cGufused mass towards the brid ge of boats which connects Alsen with the main . To prevent Alsen being also carried b y storm t h e Danes fired upon their own troops . This occasioned the taking of a greater number of prisoners by the victors , but added considerably to the loss by killed and wounded on both sides .
THE WAR IN HUNGARY . Disarmament of the Austrian Troops in Wallachia . —Vienna , April 7 . — Since my last , news has arrived that the Austrian , troops which had taken refuge in Wallaehia were ordered by the Turkish authorities to be disarmed . Our ministry
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is furious on this account , and has ordered the ambassador at Constantinople to demand his passports . If Bern bad tak" * . refuge in Wallaehia , and his troops had not been disarmed , our ministers certainly would have made a great noise about the breach of neutrality . 'Pie imperial army has lost , since the commencement of the Hungarian campaign , one-third of its number , by death in battles and in the hospitals . , The cap ture ot Zomber by ihe Honweds is ascribed to the blunders of Count Albert Nugent , for m erl y of the Bandenal Hussars , now commanding a Servian corps . Nugent had declared _Zomberinastate of siege , and left the place with his troops tbe sarte night , requiring the inhabitants also to take to fli g ht . But they preferred to stay and surrender themselves to the
Magyars . The Magyars have advanced in the country of Bacer as far as Verbas _, and Perczel has thrown himself with reinforcements into the fortress of Peterwardein . All imperially inclined had notice to quit the fortress within twenty-four hours . A battle has been foug ht und e r the wa ll s e f Pesth . The accounts differ so widely that the result is uncertain . The'Voss Gazette ' of Berlin has a letter from Pes t h of tbe 5 th , which states that Count Schlick had repulsed the Magyars , and compelled them to
take up a position at Groengios ; hut the last bulletin of the Austrian army published at Vienna , says that Count ScbHck marched from Hatvan on the 2 nd , bnt finding the enemy greatly superior , be fell back on Godollo to await reinforcements . The Ban Jellachich was attacked by the insurgents at Tapio-Bieska , but one of bis divisions repulsed tbe enemy , though greatly superior in number , and took from him five cannons . On the 5 th Field . Marshal Windischgratz attacked the enemy at Hatvan , but all that is said of it is that a division of cavalry attacked four divisions of Hungarian hussars , a nd obt a ined ' a brilliant success . '
Another account s ays , — * A battle has been fought under tbe walls of Pesth , in which the Austrians fared worst . The left wing of the Imperialists co n sists of the J a blonowsky and Goz brigades , which occupy the ground from Waizen to Gyarmath ; the head quarters of the centre are at Godollo , commanded by Count Sehliek . On the 4 th and 5 th the fighting was very severe , but the Imperialists did not lose an inch of ground . The right wing did not fare so well . Attacked by overpowering numbers it wa 3 compelled to fall back The Ban has approached closer to the centre , thus permitting the enemy to advance nearer to the city . '
Kossnth is with the M agyar forces . All accounts agree in asserting that the Magyar troops are very numerous , well armed , and accoutred ; that they are very . near Pesth ; and that they fig ht like fanatics . A mechanic of Pressburg has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for propagating ' false rep orts ' ( probably perfectly true ones ) from the seat of war . Later accounts are still contradictory . A letter from Vienna of the 9 th says : — ' The battle of Hatvan has lasted for two days , and when the last news came away w as sti l l ra ging with great fury on all points . ' Another letter of the 10 th says : — ' We
have just received the intelligence that the Imperial army is before Pesth , and that the retreat of the baggage has heen going on for forty-eight hours . ' The 4 Cologne Gazette , ' in a Vienna letter of the II t h , says ;— ' We yesterday learned that the greater part of the insurgent army took up a position on the _Rakosfeld , half a lea g ue from Pesth , and that a battle was about to take place . To-day we learn that the insurgents have offered battle to Prince Windischgratz , but their forces being superior he retired on Pesth . ' The Breslau Gazette' has a letter from Pesth , dated the morning of the 7 th , which states that the Hungarian array , under Derabin _s ki , was under tbe walls of Pesth , and th a t the Austrians were flying from the town .
DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS . —THE HUNGARIANS AT PESTH . The correspondent of the Dai ly News writes : — Vienna , April 13 th . —I have just received the information that Waitzen was taken yesterday , by storm , by the Magyar array . General Bem left part of his troops under the command of Messaros , and proceeded with the rest to Pesth , where he arrived the day before yesterday , in the evening . Damianich , one of the best Servian Generals , was taken prisoner hy the Magyars . Welden has left Vienna for Hungary ,
The Independance of Brussels says , that it was reported at Vienna that the Hungarians had possessed themselves of Buda and Pesth , and were marching on Vienna . A Paris journal , tho Tribune des Peuples , has tbe following : —* On the 8 th , a battle took place near Pesth , and when the courier left , the Imperial troops were retrograding on all their line . The victorious Hungarians were enveloping Pesth on all sides , and fighting was going on in the streets . The triumph of the Hungarians is no longer doubtful . '
DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The intelligence of Bern ' s victory at Kronstadt has excited the general expectation that he wiU take the direct road to Bucharest , excite the Wallachians against their oppressors , and the Osmanli , who a re quite ready for it , to take up arms against _Russia . He is standing at the Rubicon , and if he crosses it , he will fling a brand whose flames will extend to the Caspian Sea . The garrison of Galatz , we know , has a l rea dy
left for Bucharest , and 6 , 000 Russians , with thiriytwo pieces of artillery , have entered Wallaehia Bem wrote to General Luders , that he hoped they should eat the passover cakes together at Bucharest . The relation of Austria to the Porte is very _precarious , in consequence of the position taken by Russia in regard to both Governments . The breach is as good as made . The Porte has recalled its ambassador from Vienna , and the Imperial internunc i o , Count Stumer , has responded to it by quitting Constantinople .
The Porte is said to be possessed of information that an alliance exists between Austria and Russia whereby the existence of Turkey is sacrificed for Russian aid . The Turkish government has sent a note to the Austrian government , stating that the Porte alone has thc privilege of intervention in Transylvania , and that the intervention of Russia in a territory of the Turkish kingdom in the internal conflicts of a third country cannot be tolerated . The position of the Turks is singular and painful in the extreme . They yield unwilling and dogged obedience to the command of their powerful nei g hbour , who can at any moment overawe them by a number of Christian rajahs—a neighbour who has suddenly assumed the Danubian principalities
as his territory , and now demands the transit of the Dardanelles . Austria was their national ally against Russia , and Austria herself has become an ally against them . No marvel , therefore , if Bem finds friends in them , and if we are witnesses of the strange spectacle of seeing Hu n ga r ians , Poles , and Turks combined against the Christian Sclavonians of Turkey , and fi ghting with the Russians and Austrians . Events are not sufficiently ripe to enable us to prophecy what the immediate future will bring forth ; but they will be seen ere we are aware . The haughty Czarina once said , The way to Stamboul is by Cherson 1 ' ere long it may be by Bucharest and Transylvania . — Gazette d e Co l ogne , April 11 .
RUSSIA AND TURKEY . The ' Cologne Gazette' publishes a le t ter from Jassy , of the 26 th ult ., which states that the relations between the Russians and the Turks were becoming every day more hostile . The' Turks appeared to expect a war . According to a letter from Constantinople in the ' Augsburg Gazette , ' the populations of Turkey were presenting themselves to the recruiting officers with unaccustomed zeal , there being districts which offered to supply double the contingent demanded . It appears that the
reli gious fanaticism of the people had been excited by the promises of a new combat against the infidels . At Bucharest there were almost _every-day collisions between the Russian and Turkish soldiers , and the animosity even extended to the superior officers . On the other band , the Russians were arming with vigour . Their forces in the Danubian principalities amount to 97 , 000 men , and a Vienna journal says that the Russian ministry bad demanded from the P _^ rte that the period fixed for the evacuation of the principalities by the Russians should be pro - rogued to the 1 st May .
SPAIN . Cabrera [ all alive ! alive _!] , Forcadell , and Genfans , who were said to be reduced almost to inaction , have sudden l y uni t ed their colum n s and attempted to surprise a column of the royal troops . INDIA ; The despatches received from India on Wednesday
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c o ntain f u ll particulars of the decisive victor ) achieved over the Sikhs on the 21 st of February last , a brief announcement of which arrived b y t he las t mail . Lord Goug h ' s army , which amounted fo nearly 25 , 000 men with 100 guns , encamped on the 20 th in order of battle within four miles of the enemy , w hose f o rce was estimated at 60 , 000 men with sixty guns . They occup ied tbe ground around the vi l lag e of G o ojerat , in a position as well chosen as the nature of the country permitted .
The British army moved to the attack early in the morning of the 21 st , in a line nearly three miles from right fo left . The action began with a heavy cannonade , in which our artillery which was admirabl y serv ed , did such execution that the enemy ' s guns were speedily silenced . The infantry then advance d , driving the Sikhs before them in the utmost confusion ; the cavalry division was sent in pursuit , _aod hung upon the rear of the flying enemy until night prevented further operations , Of the
sixty guns which the Sikhs brought into action , fiftyt h r e e w e re capture d , with an enormous amount of ammunition , and the rest have , doubtless , been since t a ken b y the corps detached in pursuit . Nor was this really decisive victory purchased by the terrible loss of life which has _rendered Lord Gough's previous battles a source of mourning rather than of triumph . The British army has to lament five officers and ninety-two men killed , and twenty-four officers and 682 men wounded .
On the day after the action General Gilbert , with a force of 12 , 000 men , wa s de s patc h e d towa rd s the Jhelum , to seize and occupy Rhotas , Attock , _Peshawur , and the whole frontier up to the passes of Af ghanistan . He crossed the Jhelum on the 28 th , and took possession of the town of that name , with some mortars and ammunition which had been abandoned by the retreating army on that day . The advices f r o m General G ilb er t ' s corp 3 reach to the 2 d of March , at which date they had been compelled to halt on their advance to Rhotas by the extreme inclemency of the weather . A report had , however , been received that he had taken possession of Rhotas The principal objects of the campaign being thus achieved , it was expected that the main army uuder Lord Gougb would soon retire into quarters .
Our advices from the Commander-in-Chief's army are to the 3 d of March , on which day Lord Gough reviewed and inspected the whole of the troops . Permission to return to their appointment * had been already given to several staff officers . There seems indeed , every reason to believe that the Sikh chiefs , who have twice sent Major Lawrence to treat for them , will submit to the only terms which have been conceded to them—an unconditional surrender . It was said that Lord Gough had sent in his resignation . No decision had , it was understood , been arrived at as to the annexation of the Punjaub .
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SURREY _SESSIONS . —Saturday . _Dakiko Highway . _Robueiit by a Female os _Huxoerfokd Bridge . — Ann Phi pps , a well-known prostitute , was indicted for stealing a gold watch , guardchain , and a purse containing twenty shillings , from the person of Robert Brooks , a tradesman residing at Kennington . —The prosecutor deposed that , on the night of the 29 th ult ., a little after twelve o ' clock , he left some friends near Hungerford-market , and proceeded across the bridge towards home . When hc arrived a little beyond the centre of Hungerford-brid ge , the prisoner accosted him , and wanted to induce him to go home with her . lie told her that he was going home to his wife , and that he wanted _nothing more to do with her . While
they were talking , a man ran up against him , and nearly pushed him down , when the prisoner snatched his watch and his purse , and ran away . The man held him down while she escaped ; and when hc recovered himself , hc found no person near him . Ho ran to the Surrey side of the bridge , calling " Stop thief , " an d a few m i nutes a ft erwar d s the prisoner was apprehended , In cross examination , prosecutor said that he was much intoxicated at the time , and hc might have f a llen down without being pushed . Ho was certain , however , that his propertywas all safe when he met tho prisoner . —Hughes , the toll collector , on the Surrey side of Hungorfordbridge , stated that he knew the prisoner well , she being in the habit of frequently passing over thc
bridge . On thc night of the robbery he heard'a man call out " Shop thief , " and immediately afterwards the prisoner rushed past him into the Belvidereroad . Suspecting that she had committed some offence , he requested a gentleman who was passing to pursue her , and prevent her from making her escape . The gentleman ran after her , and directl y afterwards the prosecutor came up to him , and told him that thc prisoner had robbed hiin of his watch , chain , nnd purse , lie remained with witness a few minutes , when the prisoner was brought back , and identified by him as thc thief . —Mr . Parr , a trades *
man residing' in tho Blackfriars-road , said , that a little after twelve o clock on Thursday night the 29 th ult ., he was passing along tlie Bclvldcrc-road , and he saw the prisoner rush from _Ilungorfordbridge . Last witness called out to him to stop her , as she had robbed a gentleman . lie instantly went in pursuit , and capured her near Canterbury-street , when he saw her throw the purse Into thc road . He held her until a policeman came u _* , when the watch and guard were found upon her , In defenco thc prisoner denied having the purse , but the watch was picked up by her on the bridge . Thc jury foun d her "Guilty , " and the court sentenced her to six months' hard-labour in Brixton House of Correction .
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_Russians and _Circassians . —At a great military review which I attended , the mountaineers , of whom some hundreds daily visited _Wladikaukas , seemed to look on with a peculiar interest . Their eagle eyes were _immovcubly fixed on the rows of muskets in the Russian ranks . The regular movements of thousands at the word of command—the simultaneous clang , like a single report , of the arms during exercise—the marchings , the wheelings , the roll oi the drums , and the music—all this was a spectacle that excited their attention in the highest degree . The exercise was tolerably severe , for it lasted many hours ; the air was cold , snow lay upon the ground , and during tho inspection' of the havresack _* ., the soldiers wero required to kneel down on the snow .
' 1 o me the contrast was peculiarly interesting , between the broad-shouldered short-nosed Russians , and the slender Caucasians , with their aquiline profile , as they here stood opposed in numbers close to each other . In ( he countenances of the one were uniform traits ol ' patience and brute obedience ; every expression that could indicate an independent thought seemed drilled out of them . On the other side , an audacious bearing , a bold mien , every indi vidual a man , a complete hero in himself ! What must these Ingusches these Tschetschenzes , have felt at such a sight as this ? Their inward thoughts would
hardly have been extorted by the closest inquiries ; one could only attempt to . divine them from the expression of their looks . I may have been _mistaken , but I fancied that I read in them little that was favourable to the Russian system . These lookslull of pride , hatred and contempt—seemed to _say , "Behold them , the vile slaves , who would fain make us bow under their ruler ' s yoke ! Is not their lot one of the most wretched ? Let us thank God that we do not as yec share it with them and let us go on fighting to the uttermost rather than become slaves such as they are !"—Wagner ' s Caucasus and the Land ofthe Cossacks .
_TyiiAXNY . —Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subjeet , whether practised by a monarch , a nobility , or a popular assembly , is a degreo of tyranny . —Blackstone . Treason only bears that name when it falls short of success . —Vane .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 21, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21041849/page/2/
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