Sunbury American

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP AMERICA.

ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

It is difficult to decide intelligibly the military operations of the contending armies, as all the accounts from Vienna to the 21st ult., are exceedingly confused and contradictory. It is admitted on all hands, however, that the Magyars under Bem. It appears that Bem crossed the troops of the Ban, dispirited by the defeat, and diminished by sickness, can make no head against those who have marched to the South, and the Imperialists fear that he will enter Servia and Voinia; and the Ban and the Servian chief, Knicanin, has been driven over the Danube into Servia, forced to leave his position at Tiral. Gen. Haynau has gone with the third division to the support of the Ban. Bem has entered Zombor, amidst the acclamations of the people, at the head of 100,000 men.

From a bulletin by Prince Paskiewitch, published in the Weiner Zeitung, we have his version of a sharp action, which occurred on the 17th, at or near Waitzen, between Gen. Georgey and the Austrian Generals, Sass and Ramberg. The bulletin states, that on the 15th, the Hungarian army marched upon Waitzen, which was then occupied by the Russian regiment, which according to former orders, fell back as the enemy advanced at night. Gen. Georgey had occupied a strong position before Waitzen. His army was estimated at 44,000 men, with 120 pieces of artillery. He was at once attacked by the advanced guard of the Russians, under Gen. Sass, but his powerful artillery foiled all attempts that were made to dislodge him. The cannonade on either side was very severe, and the Hungarian cavalry executed several violent charges upon the Russians on the post. On the 16th the main body of the Russian army was brought up, and on the 17th the Russians attacked Waitzen, and notwithstanding a desperate resistance, the Hungarians were compelled to evacuate the town, with the loss of two standards, two cannon and five hundred prisoners. In the course of the pursuit, it was found that only the rear guard of the Hungarians had been engaged, and that their main army had marched to the north. Gen. Rudiger, with his cavalry, was despatched in pursuit.

This is the substance of the bulletin, which a correspondent of the London Times qualifies by stating that it should be used with great distrust, or be looked upon as the production of very disastrous news.

From private accounts it will appear that Sass had abandoned Waitzen on the 15th. and that Gen. Georgey marched along the left bank of the river and took up a strong position near Waitzen. At this junction, Gen. Dembinski's army of 40,000 men, which had been slowly edging away from the mining district, came down upon Gen. Sass, who was compelled to retreat to Duna Kelph, midway between Waitzen and Pesth.

The Austrian General, Ramberg, hearing at Pesth of the defeat of the Russians, left that city and hastened to their support, and succeeded stopping the progress of Dembinski's army, while he eventually fell back upon Waitzen. The body of the Russian army meanwhile came from Rambres, and its strength was brought to bear upon the Hungarian flank and rear, by which means, on the 15th inst., a great battle took place, which ended in the defeat of Dembinski's army while Georgey had taken his troops to the north, and not to Comorn, as was generally believed. It is thought Gen. Georgey will turn off to the east and march to Ray.

The Austrian Commander in Chief had advanced with his main army to Pesth, leaving his main division in the Island of Hulk, and the division under Gen, Crabbe and Schleck are on either bank of the Danube, to lay siege to the fortress of Comorn.