STATE OF EUROPE. Austria and Hungary.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 454, 8 December 1849, Page 4

STATE OF EUROPE. Austria and Hungary.

Vienna, July ,15. — According to private letters from Pestb, up to seven in the evening of the 17th, the roar of cannon continued without interruption in the direction of Comoro. General Paskiewitch had advanced with the bulk of bis army through Waitzen against Coraorn, and on the 16th began a battle, of which we must wait more authentic accounts. An ordinance, dated July 2, had been issued by Messaros, Minister of War, appointing Dembinski coramander-in-chiefof the Hungarian army. The Lieutenant-field-marsh a], as the Polish General is styled, is furnished with the fullest powers to issue all orders concerning the operation! of the war, quarters, commissariat, &c. ; and to adopt whatever dispositions seem to him best adapted to the posture of affairs, and most calculated to save the country. By order pf General Ramberg, Egersy, a secretary of Koisuth, has been shot. The whole road from Nagy Igmand to Ofen is covered with ImpeJ rialist troops. Vienna, July 16.— Positive intelligence has been received via Constantinople, of the proceedings of the Russians of their entrance into Transylvania. The army under General Luders, took Cronstadt, which had been purposely left undefended by Bern. The Bus* sians, thinking to make easy work, then marched on Hermanstadr, before which city they were met by Bern, who attacked and beat them. Cart loads of wounded Russians hid arrived at Cronstadt, and fugitives were coming in in crowds. From the army of the south there is news of an important battle fought at Perlass, between the troops under Kniczaniu and the Magyars. The latter force having crossed the Vega canal, was stopped in its further advance upon Titel by the Czaikist outposts ; and at last, on the troops of the reserve coming up, forced to recross the canal. The head-quarters of Haynau were, on the 15th, still at Nagy Igmand. For two days previously the Hungarian army before Coraorn had been still. The last despatches received from Haynau report that the division of General Molike has entered (Men. The army of General Paskiewitch moved along the left bank of tbe Danube from Waitzen. The Russian line was attacked by the Magyars between Waitzen and Comorn ; but the latter were driven back to the fortress. The Warsaw Gazette of the 14th contains some particulars concerning the Russian General Ceudajeff's occupation of Debreczin, communicated in a despatch from General Berg, dated Miskolez, July 8. The Russian corps did not stop much more than twenty-four hours, but retired after levying a contribution of five days' provisions. Their visit was a mere foraging excursion, and formed no part of the plan for ihe military occupation of the country.