The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

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THE STATE OF SIEGE IN VIENNAPP
The Municipal Council of Vienna, in an /Aldred'
recently presented to the Emperor Francis Joseph,

said :
The municipality feels itself justified in hoping that
the Emperor, reigning the principles which be has of tea
declared to be the ideas that guided his government, will
call to life a vigorous and truly liberal policy with the co-
operation of advisers who see in the representation of the
people the firmest support of the throne and the empire.
To this the Emperor replied that the time was
badly chosen for presenting &admit* of that kind.
The Municipal Council, it is said, will resign in a
body.
Under the title of " A New Derail of Austria,''
the Liberth has a violent attack on the cabinet of
Vienna for decreeing in Southern Austria the state
of siege even in a iritigated sense :
Governments by right divine (the writer observes) are
everywhere shire. The same bandage covers their eyes ;
everywhere there is the same defiance of the people,
everywhere the same want of saderdanding of
liberty and of its strength. The cabinet of Vienna, beaten
on ten fields of battle, within an inch of being loot, might
perhaps have attempted anew the chance of combat in
trusting to the Hungarians, and giving satisfaction to the
wishes of that population. It has more feared free insti-
tutions than the needle-gun, and it has in consequence been
obliged to conclude with gratitude sa armistice which
renders all Austrian patriots indipient. The laws
guaranteeing personal liberty and domestic freedom are
suspended in Lower Austria. It is thus that the Emperor
thanks the inhabitants for their patriotism and devoted.
ness ; it is thus that he recognises the immense sacrifices
made by the popedation, without any doubt, the must
Austrian of the empire of Austria! The battle of Wows
was only a misfortune. Putting the already wounded
country in irons. is an irreparable fault. It is a new battle
of Wows delivered and lost in the interior.
The following is the text of the proclamation
of martial law in the archduchy of Austria :
In order to take the necessary precautions for the safety
of the army and the maintenance of tranquillity and order
in the present state of military affairs, by reason of which
the radius of the operations of the imperial army
has been extended to the archduchy of Lower
Austria, the Commandant-General of the territory of
Upper and Lower Austria, Salzburg, and Styria, fol-
lowing the imperial decree of July 10, 1866,
which authorises him to adopt in cam of necessity the
measures foreseen in the imperial ordinance of May 30,
1866, ordains as follows for the whole extent of the arch-
duchy of Lower Austria.
1. The two laws of October 27, 1862, relative to personal
liberty and the protection of the domicile are suspended for
the present.
2. From the dated the present notice the jurisdiction
of the Councils of Wes will apply to civilians un-
der the terms of the regulations of the military penal code of
January 15, 1855, and &wording to the prooedure established
for the military for the following crimes and offences : 1.
High treason. Offences against the members of the Imperial
family, and disturbance of public order. (Art. 50.66 of the
Penal Code.) 2. Insurrection and rebellion. (Art. 68-75
of the Penal Code.) 3. Public violemes in the cafes pro-
vided for by Art. 76-99 of the Penal Code. 4. Burning.
5. Favoring one of the following crimes : Provocation to
desertion, emeutes, participations in secret or prohibited
societies ; exciting to contempt of the regulations of the
authorities; exciting to contempt of the public and com-
munal authorities ; exciting to hostilities against nation-
alities, religions communities, km ; exciting to contempt
against the institutions of marriage, family, and property ;
propagation of predictions, and of false and alarming
reports ; Mkt combinations ; offences against the servants
of the State, and unlawful possession or fabrication of
presses or printing-machines.
If a civilian, committing one of the above-mentioned
offences, has at the same time been guilty of other
crimes, or ordinary offences, the competency of councils
of war would extend to them crimes and offences also, but
the latter will be dealt with in this ,case according to the
civil penal laws.
Councils of war cannot condemn civilians to corporal
punishment, excepting where those punishments are
allowed by the civil penal laws.
The Commander-in-General of the Country,
ANTOINE Di RIALBSDHL,
Field-Marshal Lieutenant Imperial.
Vienna, July 26.

(RIVTEII'S namosars.)
THE PRUSSIANS AND BAVARIANS.
HOF, JULY 29.

The headquarters of the second reserve corps, '
under the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin,
arrived at Bayreuth this morning.
The Grand Duke has taken possession of the
district of Upper Franconia in the name of the
King of Prussia. This morning the Prussian
vanguard dispersed a battalion of Bavarian Life
Guards. The Prussians took 4 officers and 205
men prisouers. Several Bavarians were killed.

THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.

ALTONA, doer 30.

The governor of Schleswig-Holstein has received
orders from the Prussian government to make the
necessary preparations for the election in these
duchies of members to the German parliament. It
is asserted that these elections will take place very
shortly.
Military committees have been appointed for the
levy of young men fit for military service. The
conscription is to be completed at latest by the Ist
October next.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
- (THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before the Master of the Bolls.)
TROOP e. RICARDO.
This owe was argued on Saturday. His lordship upon
taking his seat this morning held a bundle of papers,
which be said had just been went to hiss by Mr. Tme& Hie
lordship proceeded Mall of this If lds.Moup
sends me another paper of any MA or I will no*
look into his case at all. I will simply the bill'Vrith
costs, and he can appeal. Mr. Troup evidently is ignorant
of the meaning of fudges, and, if he thinks that by experts
rellectioes on three opposed to him, and by an utter dis-
regard of all the forms of Minos he min skews his in-
terlude, he must be taught that he is mistaken.'
Ms Lordship wished a shorthand writer's note to be
taken of those observations, end directed the costs thereof
to be the costs in the cense.

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mew e. canutarair..
In July, 1865, the estate of the testator in this suit wee
ordered to be distributedaniong the parties entitled thereto.
Subsequently, however, claims were made blrnch
auditors against the testator's exactor when he happened
to be in Faris. These claims have been prosecu by
means of two actions in the French Courts ; and this peti-
tion, which prayed that the distribution of the estate
under the above-mentioned order of July might be post-
poned until the determination of the actions, after si4l.•
mg over on several occasions, now cane on for hearing.
It appeared that one of the French actions bad been en-
amosesful and that the parties thereto were willing to
undertake not to appeal upon payment of their coats. The
other action was stlll in
After some discuasioirt.l. lordship ordered the
surer of 5,00 W. to be retained in court with
a view to meet the possible result of the pending French
action, and directed the distribution of the residue of the
fund in court. The executors of the testator are to apply
to them in the event of any circumstances Griming out
of the French claims rendering the interposition of the
court necessary for their protection and guidance.
Mr. Selwyn, Q.C. ; Mr. Beggalley, Q.O. ; Mr. Kay, Mr.
Win. Pearson, Mr. Hemming, and Mr. Daly appeared for
the several parties.

DOUBT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Bofors Mr. domrassiotior Hoboyd.)
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Aro co).

Mr. Lawrence -appliedseethe-aourt to confirm a deed of
arrangement which had been entered into, on the 26th of
June last, by Sir Chas. Price and Mr. Joseph Marryatt,
late bankers, of Sing William-street, with their creditors.
Mr. Linklater, who had filed a petition of bankruptcy
against Mr. Maiyatt, opposed the application, and asked
that adjudication of bankruptcy shonM be made, notwith-
standing the deed, which was executed by both the part-
ners. The creditors for whom he appaired questioned the
validity of the deed, and wished for an opportunity to

test it:
Mr. Lawrence read an affidavit of his partner, Mr. Mews,
verifying the fact of the deed having been duly exec
Joseph
Merritt, and by the trustees, on the 26th of June last ;
also, that the deed had been asiented to by 320 creditors
oat of 426, whose debts amounted to 240,54 N. out of an
to indebtedness of 281,521/. The deed, so executed,
Meg beeaen duly registered on the 19th of July.
His Honour did not think that sufficient had been
done to support the deed; and if the parties disputing it
wished for tune to test its validity, they were entitled
to it.
After a conversation it was arranged that the matter
should stand over until Friday.