The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-24 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Allgenzeine Zeitung has a letter from Vienna
of the 15th inst., which contains some particulars of the
occupation of Waitzen by the imperial troops under
General Czorich. It would appear that this movement
of the Austrian army is less the result of a victory
than of a fault. The Hungarian General Georgey,
after taking Waitzen in that memorable engagement
which caused the death of the veteran General Got;
followed the retreating Imperial army across the
Danube, and proceeded on the road to Comorn, leaving
\% aitzen (ot which the sole importance consists in its
being a crossing-place on the Danube) garrisoned
by but one battalion of Honveds. It appears that
Georgey's troops moved against Comorn in a totally
different direction from that which the Imperialists
anticipated, and that the latter were consequently
misled by a delusion of Georgey's corps having fallen
back upon Waitzen. General Czorich resolved to
follow up his good luck, and, rallying his troops he
led them back upon Waitzen, which was taken by so
slight an engagement that it must have opened the
eyes of the Imperial General. The present positions
are such that General Czorich's corps is indeed
in possession of Waitzen, but that it has no means
of preventing the march of the Hungarians
to Comorn, being in fact in the rear of the latter at the
very moment when they thought they were confront-
ing Georgey's forces. Georgey himself has advanced
to Gran, where he is opposed by 10,000 Austrians—
fresh arrivals from Bohemia, who are in possession of
the pontoon bridge over the Danube. The last news
is that a smart cannonade has been heard in that
direction, but nothing has as yet transpired of the re-
sult of the engagement.
Some battalions of the Hungarians have lately
made strenuous efforts to cross the Danube at St.
Andre, below Pesth, the place which was distin-
guished by the engagement of the 10th instant.
They have occupied the island of Pletten, in the
midst of the river, and make frequent excursions into
the country on the other bank, but they are held in
check by the Imperial Colonel Horvath and his bat-
talions. The cannonade from either bank is kept up
with great spirit.
The bulk of the two hostile armies is still in front
of Pesth. The late rumours of a retreat of the Hun-
garians prove incorrect. Count Schlick, the Austrian
General, and the Hungarian commander Dembinski,
are each in their respective positions on the plain of
Rakosh. It appears that the insurgents intend pre-
venting General Schlick's corps to interefere with the
battle which the Austrian and Hungarian troops are
fighting at Gran, while the Imperialists, in their turn,
seem disposed not to press the point, but to wait for
succour from Austria.

The Hungarian forces which crossed the Danube
near Foldvar have not marched from Weissenburg
to Buda as was expected, but they have gone down
the banks of the river to assist in the operations of
the Hungarian army against the Servians, and to
fight the Austrian blockading forces at Peterwardein,
The Servian Patriarch has fled to Semlin, and the
whole of the Woywodina is in the hands of the Hun-
garians. Kanisha, a large town in the county of
Z3lad, has taken up arms and espoused the cause of
Kossuth. There is no news from Transylvania.