AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 435, 3 October 1849, Page 4

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

We have received our Vienna papers and correspondence of the 27th ult. An express edition, which the official Gazette published of that day, but which was immediately afterwards confiscated by the police, contains further particulars of the fall of Buda, which was mentioned in our correspondent's letter in the Times of Thursday. The details given by the Wiener Zeituny are to the effect that the Hungarian General, Georgey, advanced upon Buda on the 4th ult., and thai he occupied the heights of the Blocksberg and Schwabenberg, whence he summoned the Austrian officer in command of the place to surrender. That officer (General Hentze) refused to capitulate, and a cannonade commenced, in consequence of which the Hungarians were forced to abandon their position on the hills. General Hentze bombarded Pesth on the evening of that

day, his troops having been fired at from the batteries of that city. * The Hungarians remained quiet for some days, contenting themselves with constructing a bridge to the island of Oesepel. On the 19th ult. they reascended the heights and opened with their batteries upon the fortress, which returned the fire upon Pesth. The cannonade continued up to the evening of the i 17th ult., during which time several houses in Pesth suffered from the imperial batteries. On the evening of the 17th ult. the Hungarians attempted to storm the fortress but though they forced their way to the glacis, they were eventually repnlsed with a loss of from 400 to 500 killed and wounded. A second attack came off on the 19th ult. The Hungarians lost 100 men. On the afternoon of the 20th ult. they made another general attack, which continued till past miduight, when they succeeded in carrying all the works. After the Hungarians had occupied the fortress it was found that of the two officers in command, one, the colonel of the Ceccopieri Regiment, was dead, and that General Hentze was still alive, though dan- ! gerously wounded. The officers of the Croatians and borderers were killed on the spot. The cattle and some houses were plundered. The tete dupont was held by an Imperialist major with 200 borderers. That officer attempted to blow up the bridge. He was unsuccessful, and only killed himself. The losses of the Hungarians in this last attack are quoted at 200 men. General Georgey's army | at Buda amounted to 30,000. The Constilutionelle Zeitung has private letters from Pestb, corroborating these statements of the Wiener Zeitung, and asserting that the Imperialist commander. Hentze, expired in the arms of General Georgey, who sheltered him from the fury of the Hungarian soldiers. Hentze was an Hungarian, and had, in 1843, pledged his word as an officer and a gentleman that he would not fight against his country. The Constitutionelle Zeitung states that General Wolden is about to resign his post as commander-in-Chief of the Imperial army, and that the leadership of the war is on the eve of being transferred to General Haynau. The following account of the march of the • Russian troops is extracted from a Vienna paper :—: — " The Russian forces move in seven columns. The first column proceeds lrom Cracow and Jardanov to Hradish. It is composed of 17,000 foot and horse, and 900 artillerymen, under the command of General Rudiger. The second column, under the command of the same general, and numbering 22,000 men, has marched by way of Pilozno and Dukla to Goding. The third column of 15,000 foot and 2,500 horse and artillery, lelt Prezezon on the 1 3th of May. It is commanded by General Kintshef. The fourth column of 26,000 foot and 8,000 horse and artillery, under General Kintshef, marched on the 15th of May by Lemberg and Stey. The fifth column is of 7,000 foot and 1,700 horse and artillery, under General Harka. It passed Lemberg on the 17th inst. The sixth column proceeded to Lemberg on the 22nd of May. It is destined to garrison that place, and amounts to 9,000 foot and 900 horse and artillery. The seventh column, commanded by General Luders, was to pass from Moldavia into Transylvania. This column is of the strength of 29,000 foot, horse artillery, and pontoon brigade. The joint force of the seven columns is 214,850 men, with 900 pieces of artillery." — Times, June 2.

Caprices of Fashion. — Fashion is the younger halfbrotherof old Custom, sometimes assimilated with him in his pursuits, and often associated ; but of a more gay and lively character, and a far greater tyrant. In times gone by, he prevented men from- appearing with their natural head of hair, and placed on the fountain of knowledge a wig that would have served as a dormitory for fifty dormice ; he furnished them with a small three-cornered hat, which they wore uuder their arm, as the Irishman said, to keep their wig warm ; and he placed swords at their sides, when there was nobody to kill, except their intimate friends. With the ladies, he took them by the hair which he trussed up on the top of their heads, having loaded the pyramid with grease, and emptied over it a peck of flour ; he painted their faces like sign boards, and stuck over them bits of sticking plaster, that made them appear as if they had been bitten by musquitoes, or had injured, the, epidermis while shaving. With the modern daughters of Eve, his tactics have been different : be no longer points their flowing locks to the zenith, they fall in corkscrews in the directiqp of Nadir ; he has unmercifully stripped their arms naked, in. the coldest weather, and pulled their clothes half- way down their backs ;he has swollen out one part of their persons with wire and catgut, and screwed in another portion, by tight lacing, in order that the dear creatures should gain the figure of a wasp without wings. Fashion's workshop for the ladies is Paris, for the gentlemen London ;

in the latter capital little chaps have been rigged out like Chinese dolls, bigger boys like mannikins, and gentlemen have been dressed as grooms and watchmen. Amongst the latest freaks of our period, he stripped off the pea jacket of the weather beaten pilot, nnd placed it on the backs of dandies ; it was consequently transported to France, and not being so pronounceable as biftick, railroad, or even the Joakee Cloob, they have converted it into Paletot, given it the form of its winter compeer, and sent it back to us for summer wear ; this mode and the Frenchified word we have in ijae spirit of free trade accepted. Fashion has cut off the tails of horses and dogs, and cropped their ears, simply because it is unnatural ; he has sent people to church, which no other inducement would have done, and kept others from the theatres, who were dying to be there : in short a large volume might be filled with his freaks. — Bentley's Miscellany.