* Cologne, November 5. Letters and newspapers from Vienna have failed to arrive.

No. 135, 5 November 1848.
Second Edition.
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.

The Breslau papers lying before us—the *Allgemeine Oderzeitung*, the *Schlesische Zeitung*, the *Breslauer Zeitung*—contain, critically speaking, nothing.

Some Berlin morning newspapers of November 3 contain the following report, one from Hietzing, the others from Vienna:

“The city of Vienna is completely occupied by imperial troops.”

The *Kölnische Zeitung* presents this information as having been “described as reliable” from Breslau and confirms it by a “telegraphic dispatch” from Berlin, which is, of course, reliable “an und für sich”.

Let us leave aside the anonymous dispatch from Breslau and come to the *Kölnische Zeitung*’s large-print telegraphic dispatch.

The telegraphic dispatch was sent from Vienna on November 1, 12 o’clock midday.

The letter to Dumont—if he received the news in written form—was sent by the Berlin mail on November 3 at 8 o’clock in the morning.

On the evening of November 3, this news was only circulated as a rumour throughout Berlin, and the papers issued on the evening of November 3 and dated November 4 deny it.

We are therefore without news from Vienna. Dumont, who has been having Vienna burn and be captured ever since October 6, might, for once, on a certain day of the month, have stumbled upon the actual fact.