Cologne, October 11. In its first issue (for June 1) the Neue
Rheinische Zeitung wrote of a revolution (on May 25) in Vienna.
Today, when we resume publication for the first time after the break
caused by the declaration of a state of siege in Cologne, we bring
news of the much more important Viennese revolution of October 6
and 7. Detailed reports on the events in Vienna compel us today to
omit all analytical articles. Only a few words of comment, therefore,
on the revolution in Vienna. Our readers will see from the reports of
our Vienna correspondent* that the bourgeoisie’s distrust of the
working class threatens, if not to wreck the revolution, at least to
hamper its development. However th:it may be, the repercussions of
this revolution in Hungary, Italy and Germany foiled the entire plan
of campaign devised by the counter-revolution. The flight from
Vienna of the Emperor and of the Czech deputies’” compels the
Viennese bourgeoisie to continue the fight unless it is prepared to
surrender unconditionally. The Frankfurt Assembly, which is just
now engaged in presenting us Germans with

a national gaol
and a common whip,”
has been rudely awakened from its day-dreaming by the events in
Vienna, and the Government at Berlin is beginning to doubt the
efficacy of the state of siege as a panacea. The state of siege, like the
revolution, is making a round-the-world tour. A large-scale experi-
ment has just been made to impose a state of siege on a whole

* Miller-Tellering.— Ed.
> Heinrich Heine, “Der Tannhduser”, Caput 3.—Ed.

country, Hungary. This attempt has called forth a revolution in
Vienna instead of a counter-revolution in Hungary. The state of
siege will not recover from this setback. Its reputation has been
permanently ruined. By an irony of fate, simultaneously with
Jellachich, Cavaignac, the hero of the state of siege in the West, has
been singled out for attack by all the factions who were saved in June
by his grape-shot. Only by resolutely going over to the revolution will
he be able to hold out for some time.

Following the latest news from Vienna, we publish several reports
sent on October 5, because they reflect the hopes and fears current
in Vienna about the fate of Hungary.