The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-14 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The defeat of the Imperialists, under SCHLICH, by
the Magyars, was not merely a check, as WIN -
DISCHGRATZ and WELDEN would have the world be-
lieve ; it was even more than a mere defeat, it was
a complete rout. The Imperialists, under SCHLICH,
fled from the field of battle, leaving in the hands of
the Magyars the greater portion of their artillery
and 2,000 prisoners.
The Hungarians pursued the fugitive Imperialists
to Kaschan, which town was retaken by the victori-
ous Magyars.
The victory of Szolnok on the 25th, in which the
Hungarians were commanded by the Polish General
DEMBENSKI, was not less complete. The Impe-
rialists lost twenty pieces of cannon, a battery of
Congreve rockets, and the whole of their cuirassiers.
who were made prisoners by the Hungarians. On
the next day WINDISCHGRATZ advanced in person
against DEMBENSKI to Czegled, the Hungarians again
accepted the combat, defeated WINDISCHGRATZ, and
drove him back to Munor. The Breslau Gazette,
in giving the particulars of these victories of DEM-
BENSKI, says the road from Szolnok to Czegled is
covered with dead. The Italian regiment Zanini
joined the Hungarians, and the Italian regiments
serving in Hungary take every opportunity of leaving
the Imperialists, an example which it is said the
Hungarian regiments serving in Italy are determined
to follow. DEMBENSKI would have followed up his
victory of Czegled by at once advancing upon Pesth,
but as the ice on the Thiess broke up on that day,
he retired behind the river in order to keep open
his communications with Debricsin, the basis of
his operations. On his return to Debricsin, bringing
with him the cannon, the flags, and the prisoners he
had taken from the Imperialists, the members of the
Diet gave a torchlight procession in his honour.
DEMBENSKI, who has been appointed Commander-in-
Chief of the Hungarian forces, which are now chiefly
officered by the Polish veterans of the War of Inde-
pendence, assured the Diet that before the end of
February there should not be a single Austrian
soldier on the Hungarian soil, and that before the lath
of March he would enter Vienna. In the county of
Eissembourg, the Hungarian guerillas have sadly cut
up the troops of General BOBBICH, and have taken
from them several pieces of cannon, and a large quan-
tity of ammunition. The Hungarian officers say, that
the war of Hungary in only now in reality beginning.
In Transylvania BEM has taken the fortress of Kals-
bourg, and intends to enter the Banat with 40,000
men, to effect a junction with the Hungarian troops
there, and to march upon Pesth.
The Wiener Zeitung publishes a letter from Her-
mannstadt, giving an account of a desperate action
between BEM and the Imperialists in the neighbour-
hood of Hermanstadt. The letter says :
" The National Guard made common cause with the
Austrians. On the 22d of January the garrison re-
ceived additional strength from the arrival of General
Gederon's corps. On the 23d a forced reconnaissance

was directed against Stolzenberg, the head-quarters of
Bem. No attack took place that night, but on the 25th
it was begun under the orders of General Puchner. Both
the circumventing columns were commanded to prepare
for the attack on the two flanks of the enemy, and to
signalize their approach by cannon-shot. The column
under Major Kleiser came up at the appointed time,
after a heavy march; and on reaching the heights of
Stolzenberg gave the signal and engaged the foe.
" The left column, under Major Riebel, being pre-
vented by the nature of the ground from arriving in
time, did not come up till the enemy had been charged
in front and on the left flank; thus leaving exposed that
part of the chief corps posted on the right of the enemy.
"The battle lasted till the darkness of night prevented
our distinguishing friend from foe. The enemy was
driven back after two desperate assaults had been made
on the place, and the struggle ended by bivouacing in
sight of them, and occasionally throwing shells into the
place. Our loss amounts to 8 killed and 24 wounded,
including 3 officers. The enemy bad a gun dismounted,
and several killed and wounded. Early in the morning
of the 25th repeated accounts reached us of the enemy's
intentions to march in strong columns over Salzburg,
against Hermannstadt. It was therefore determined to
proceed to the defence of the capital, and concentrate our
forces there, leaving Stolzenberg for the present, as of
secondary importance. This manoeuvre baffled the
enemy, who were induced to retire. Letters of the 25th,
dated Hermannstadt, state that 2,000 Szeklers, serving
under Bern, had deserted his cause, and betaken them-
selves to their frontiers, having ascertained that they
had been played upon, and led to believe that they were
fighting the Emperor's battles. Should this report prove
correct (says the letter), it is to be hoped these Szeklers
will tell the tale in their own country, and stop the pro-
gress of agitation."
Now this, although reported in the Wiener
Zeitung as a victory gained by the Imperialists, looks
marvelously like a defeat; for be it observed that the
head quarters of BEM are stated to have been at
Stolzenberg, on the 22d, two days before the battle.
On that day the Imperialists are reinforced by GEDE-
RON'S corps • on the 23d a forced reconnaissance
tikes place of BEm's head-quarters, at Stolzenberg,
but there is no attack until the 25th, when it takes
place under the orders of PUCHNER • and at nightfall,
after the Imperialists have been all day directing
repeated attacks against hint, the bead-quarters of
BEM are at Stolzenberg still, and then, and not
until then, PUCHNER discovers Stolzenberg to be a
place of secondary importance, and leaves it for the
present in the hands of BEM. This letter seems to
confirm the accounts given in the Gazette of
Breslau, which says :—that BEM defeated the
Imperialists under PucuNEft on the 25th, and
pursued and drove them out of Hermannstadt,
and that on the 26th, the day after the
date of the letter published in the Wiener Zeitung,
he took the fortress. of Kafsbourg. The Italian batta-
lion Cocopieri have, it is said, refused to serve against
the Hungarians. The greatest excitement prevails at
Buda-Pesth ; the inhabitants openly announce the
speedy return of KossuTu, and the proclamations of
WINDISCIIGRATZ are either torn from the walls or
pasted over with caricatures, of which he is the hero.
General DEMBENSKI, the newly-appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Hungarian forces, is the
same who routed the Russian army under Marshal
DIEBITSCH, at Grocow, in the Polish war of inde
pendence in 1831.
The Diet of Kremsier have adopted the two fol-
lowing sections of the law of fundamental rights :--
" Austrian citizens have the right to assemble un-
armed and peaceably. Nevertheless, popular meetings
in the open air are previously to be notified to the police
authorities, but to be interdicted only in cases of urgent
danger to the public peace and safety. No department
of the national defences can draw up resolutions, or, as
such, take part in political deliberations.
" Austrian citizens have the right of organizing clubs
irrespective of police authority, in so far as the means and
end of such associations are not illegal and perilous to
the State. The regulation of this right can only be de •
termined by law."
Herr floannosm, formerly Minister of Com-
merce, has been elected by the town of Eichenberg
Deputy to the Diet at Kremsier, and Baron KUBECK
for one of the electoral districts of Vienna, in op-
position to Prince SCHWAR2ENBERG, the present
Minister of Foreign Affairs. This is the second
time within a short period that the Prince has been
defeated.

The Government of Vienna is about to be taken
from General \YELDSN, and given. to General HAM..
MERSCEIN, now Governor of Gallicia.
The Deutsche Zeitting states that the Vienna
banker, M. SINA, has informed his correspondents of
the fact of his having agreed with Messrs. ROTHS-
CHILD and STIEGLITZ to advance the new Austrian
loan to the amount of 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 of
florins. This falls short of the original vote of credit
of the Austrian Diet, which empowered the Cabinet
to borrow 80 millions.

SA XONY.
In the sitting of the Bth inst. the Second Chamber
unanimously adopted a motion for the recal of the

llini,ter front Vienna, who had been guilty of
:krelirition of duty in not saving the life of lionEuic
13Lum, the Deputy of Leipsic.
Another vote was also carried, with only one dis-
senting vote, enjoining the Saxon Minister to press
the Central Power for the execution of the decree,
ordering the punishment of those who contrived
BLum's death.