AN AUSTRIAN GUY FAWKES.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1584, 21 May 1861, Page 4

AN AUSTRIAN GUY FAWKES.

A private letter from Trieste contains the following pieoe of news, upon the truth of which the writer, who is an Englishman, officially employed iv that place, bids us rely : " This town is still full of a silent, mysterious consternation, caused by the narrow escape we have had of the most awful catastrophe, to whioh that of Guy Fawkes and the British Parliament would seem in history as mild and meaningless as a nursery tale. The story is hushed up so carefully, and the opportunities of

üblicity are so few in this very Austrian

town, that it is not likely to be known in the papers for a long time to come. As it had been announced for several weeks before the Emperor's fete that an

Italian demonstration would very likely take place on that occasion, orders had beeu given to bring up the great line of battle ship, the Kaisor, fully armed and equipped, from Pola, in order to intimidate the discontents, and prevent any outbreak in favour of Italian independence. On the day after the arrival of

the ship in the harbour, a mysterious aud anouymous warning was conveyed (o almost every family in the plaoe bogging that none of its members would leave home, on the morrow, but remain quieily at home, as a plan was on foot lo blow up the greater part of the town. The notes seemed to be written by the same hand, aud in most oases were immediately submitted to the polioe, but no

clue to the writer was discovered,, and in general the. communication was taken no heed of, so secure did the, authorities feel in the presence of ths Kaiser. About noon on the following day; when the streets and the promenades were crowded with holiday folks> and the port full of people, to behold the great ship in all her glory, and the yacht of his Imperial Highness the Archduke Maximil- | Wan by her side, a sudden alerte was observed on board both vessels. A gun was fired from the Kaiser, which was answered by the citadel, the drums on ' board began to beat, and in one instant ail was confusion. Several boats put off to bring back the company gathered on board the Imperial yacht, and as thepale guests bidden to the collation given by his Imperial Highness were landed oh shorei the impression of some dreadful event spread a panic through the plaoe. The story told is, that the attention of the' sentinel on guard over the powder magaizine of the Kaisor having been attracted by faint, grating noise seeming to issue from the woodwork, he had given the alarm. A search was made, and crouching ' upon his hands and knees was discovered an individual, who, having succeeded / in boring an augur hole into the powder magaziue, was already inserting the wire to which was fixed the match whichhe had destined to b}pw up the vessel, with every soul on board, the whole of the ships lying in its neighbourhood, the Archduke and all his company, including besides the greater part of the town itself. The culprit belonged, to the Kaiser and turns out to be the ofßoer called in the Austrian servioe second oaptain, which answers to first lieutenant in our own. He was, of immediately seized ; but before he could be secured, had blown his brains out with the pistol he carried in his belt. He was an Austrian but born at Trieste of Italian parents. His name is Manors, and his father was attached to the person of the late Emperor. I saw his remains oarted on shore in a sack, to be buried in the cemetry attached to the arsenal.. You can imagine with what feelings all those who were in the secret beheld his remains pass by.