The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1849.

Although conflicting intelligence still continues to
be received from the seat of war in Hungary, it is
impossible not to recognise through the shadows of
misrepresentation the glorious fact of the continued
successes of the Magyars undcr the banners of
BEM, of GEORGEY, and of DEMBINSKI, guided and
harmonized by the inspirations of KOSSUTH.
According to an article in the Wiener Zeitung,
written on the irregular authority of a communica-
tion from Buda-Pesth, in the Oesterreichische
Correspondent, the combined armies of Austria and
Russia have effected a total defeat of the Hungarians
in the vicinity of Waitzen. Yet, us in a hundred
similar misstatements as to the movement of the
belligerents, the truth creeps out through the very
glorifications of the German newspapers, that the
Imperialists have experienced a reverse instead of
having obtained a victory. Even taking their own
admissions as the guidance to our conclusions, it
is established that on the 15th instant (Sunday),
the army of liberation having made another
desperate struggle to sever the lines of their antago-
nists, the Russians, under Prince PASKEWITCH, re-
treated at noon in confusion to Duna Keesh. So serious,
indeed, was the discomfiture of the Cossacks, com•
manded by the infamous General whose name is the
object of execration throughout Christendom from hav-
ing caused Hungarian ladies to be publicly scourged
and branded, that even in the words of the official
organ of the Austrian Camarilla, the journal pub-
lished at Olmutz, " the Russians have received a
severe check," having been repulsed as far as the
plain of Kakosh. Together with this confession, it
is explicitly allowed that the Magyars have latterly
extended their field of action very considerably, 4, if
they have not," says the Wiener Zeitung, "if they
have not broken through our lines and marched to
the North." The reason for this continued success in
opposition to such frightful odds as those presented to
them by the legions of the two Emperors is, beyond
the indomitable valour of the Magyars, the unanimity
with which their heroic leaders act in obedience
to the masterly plan of the Hungarian President.
To secure the effectual defence of the country be-
leaguered by such gigantic antagonists, and invaded
from almost all directions, it has been determined by
LUDWIG KOSSUTH to require the concentration of all
his troops (excepting only a formidable garrison at
Comm)) in the district of the Theiss. To this end
General GEORGEY, commanding the soldiers en-
trenched round Comorn, marched down the banks of
the Danube, in the direction of Waltzer), with the in•
tention of effecting the intended junction with the
main body of the army of the Hungarians. Hearing
of this movement, it appears that RAunErto's
di-
visiou on the 3d instant left the capital (Pesth), and
advanced by forced marches to the assistance of the
Ressans ; the consequence of which arrangements
was the terrific struggles before Waitzen on the 15th
instant, in which the Imperialists as usual claim to
have obtained the advantage, and to have driven
bleVkitg.rebels" to Corn Drn, although acknowledging
therniets*,) at the same time, that PASKE-
WITOI4 '444sbeen entirely cutgeneralled, and
that the : 1 Cossacks had been repulsed as
far .as D' Keesh. Now, if the Russians
onefe4ls:, instant, were compelled to retreat so far
iTh4bui p a,r, direction, it is quite clear that the