THE WAR.

Southland Times, Issue 552, 3 September 1866, Page 3

THE WAR.

Vienna, July 1. The first Austrian army corps and tho Saxon corps were repulsed yesterday by the Prussians. In consequence of this repulse the Austrian army fell hack in th .. direction of Koingsgratz. The following official telegram, dated Prague, June 30, was published in Vienna on July 1 : — Engagements took place yesterday at Cost, near Turnau, and at Chwalkowitz in the district Jungbuozlan, which resumed f ivor.ibly to the Austrians. Bohinnisk and Kamuitz have been evacuated by the Prussians. The latter were also defeated, while flying from Gicin, by the combined Austrian and -Saxon forces. Tney left their dead and wounded on the field. Berlin - , July 1. The following official dispatch h.is *been received from the headquarters of the Grown Priuce ot Prussia : — Thd result of the three days' fighting, in which the sth Prussian corps has been engaged, caunot be too highly estimated. On the 27th, it was opposed by the 6th Austrian corps, under General Ba nming. A letter was found, ad Ircssed by the latter to G-eneral Beneiekin Josephstadt, which affords complete proof that the forces under his command were thoroughly exhausted. He therein raquested Greneral Benedek to send him two fresh brigades in order that his troops might bivouac under their protection, and acknowledged that they would not be* able to fi^ht on the following day. The Sth Prussian corps wa* therefore opposed on the 23th and 29th by ihe corps of the Archduke Leopold and General Testectics. Ths lighting on these two days extended over a much greater line than on the 27th. The Austrian corps, under Gene/al Gublenz, was completely broken up. Besides innumerable prisoners, 20 guns, five colors, and two standards belonging to the corps of General Grablenz, fell into the hands of the Prussian troops. L.\UfßAfff, July 1. It is announced that the total loss of the Austrians up to the present is 20,000 men.