The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Vienna journals of the sth inst. have brought news
from Hungary of great importance, if true. By these we
learn that on the 4th inst. the Hungarians stole a march,
and surprised the garrison of Raab. A sharp conflict
ensued, which ended in the fortress and city being occu-
pied by the Hungarians, where they found 80,000 bushels
of oats, 2,400 head of cattle, and large stores of miscella-
neous provisions, which they carried to the citadel of
Komorn. Nor were these all the trophies of their victory,
for they captured six guns, and took two companies of
Austrian infantry prisoners. Klapka commanded the
Hungarian troops, who afterwards quitted the city of
Raab, and took up their abode in the fortress, where they
seized the Vienna mails.

A private letter in the Times gives the following ac-
count of the impression which the news of the disaster at
Raab made at Vienna :—" This morning Vienna presented
an unusually excited and flur:ied appearance. Four batta-
lions were despatched by railway to Pressburg. Among
them was a battalion of Rifles. They were mere lads.
There had been some mutiny among them. I understood
they had refused to march until the Emperor sent to say
that they should not be used against the enemy. At
length they consented to do so, but even then the scene
was heartrending. The poor young fellows moaned and
wept aloud. They cried that to march against the Hun-
garians was to go to death. The officers yielded less to
their feelings, but they too parted from their friends and
relations with very evident signs of emotion, and then
hurried the men off. Near the railroad there was a dense
crowd of curious spectators. Here again the young rifle-
men tarried and bemoaned their fate. They said, We
are going to be shot !' and, addressing the crowd, they
cried, ' Farewell for ever—we shall never return !' The
officers entreated them to be quiet and resigned to their
fate. They submitted at length.
Prussia has offered her assistance to Austria, [but it has
been declined. Prussia has the same feeling on the sub.
ject of the Hungarian rebellion as Russia; for, should
Austria be worsted, the province of Posen and the Ultras
in Prussia would, to a certainty, make common cause with
the Polish and Hungarian republicans.

Four of the great capitals of Europe, Paris, Vienna,
Rome, and Naples, are at this moment under military
law, from which Berlin was relieved only the week before
last.
EXTENSIVE FIRE IN GREECE.—A dreadful conflagra-
tion broke out in the city of Serres on the 10th, which
destroyed 15 churches, 2 mosques, 22 khans, 10 schools,
and other buildings, amounting in all to 3,000.
THE FELON PRESS IN NEW YORK.—We havereceived
the " Farewell" number of the People (New York); a
journal certainly conducted with great ability ; it was
started by Mr. • Devin Reilly. The editor says :—" For
six months we have toiled hard, night and day, and re-
ceived not one per cent. for our labour. Agents, carriers,
and subscribers owe us and will not pay.—Dublin Packet.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION IN BELGIUM.—On the 7th, as
King Leopold was returning alone from Brussels to
Laden, in his carriage, he discovered that a warehouse

containing goods of an inflammable nature was on fire.
The King instantly despatched one of his servants on
horseback to the engine station at Brussels, and he him-
self took the necessary measures for the preservation of
the goods. The manufactory was close to the railway,
and a fearful explosion took place at the very moment that
a train was passing. The King was exceedingly active,
and in about two hours the fire was entirely subdued,
without the occurrence of any accident to human life.
SETTLING A BILL.—Four sharpers having treated
themselves to a sumptuous dinner at Hotel Montreuill,
were at a loss how to settle it, and hit on the following
plan :—They called the waiter, and asked for the bill.
One thrust his hand into his pocket, as if to draw his
purse; the second prevented him, declaring he would pay,
the third did the same. The fourth forbade the waiter
taking any money from either of them, but all three per-
sisted. As none would yield one said—" The best way
to decide is to blindfold the waiter, and whoever he first.
catches shall settle the bill." This proposition was ac-
cepted, and while the waiter was groping his way around
the room, they slipped out of the house one after another.
—New Enotand Washingtonian.
NEW " RELIGIOUS" ASSOCIATION.—A mystical asso-
ciation has just been formed in Berlin under the Presi-
dency of the Count Otto von Schlippenbach, under the
denomination of " League of fidelity for women," of
which any respectable lady—married or single—who
adopts the motto of King Frederick William,—" I and
my house have decided to walk in the paths of the Lord"
—may become a member. Candidates for the honour are
subject to a form of election. The order is divided into
four degrees-1. The " Henrietta" degree (colour green),
in honour of the wife of the Great Elector. 2. The
" Sophia" degree (colour white), of which the Queen of
Frederick is the patroness. 3. The " Louisa" degree
(rose colour), in honour of the defunct Queen. 4. The
" Elizabeth" degree (colour blue), in honour of the pre-
sent Queen Consort. The fetes of the League include
the birthdays of the King, the Queen, and the Crown
Prince, the anniversary of the foundation of the order,
and that of the last King's death.
A CURIOUS CASE.—A case of much interest has just
been decided by the Paris Court of Appeal. More than
29 years ago a gentleman named Lloyd arrived in France,
from England, where he fixed his residence, and formed
a connexion with a woman of a respectable French family.
His attachment to the woman having been fixed by her
good conduct, and three children having been born, he
resolved to marry her. Some difficulties, however, ex-
isted, for marriage by the French law requires the certi-
ficates of both of the persons entering into wedlock, and
other documents. Mr. Lloyd, it appears, was himself an
illegitimate child ; at least, he had never been acknow-
ledged by either father or mother, and had always been
kept in ignorance as to who they were, but it was sup-
posed that a Mr. Gage was his father, for that person,
when he died, bequeathed him £50,000. The name of
Lloyd was given to him by the persons who had brought
him up and paid for his education, the greater part of
which had been received in France although completed in
England. The difficulty was got over by what was called
an act of notoriety, proving that his parents were unknown,
and that the name which he bore was that given to him
in his infancy. The marriage therefore took place ac-
cording to all the forms of the French law, and after it
Mrs. Lloyd had three more children. A short time be-
fore his death, which took place a year ago, Mr. Lloyd
went to England. By his will he bequeathed his pro-
perty equally to his six children, reserving to the mother
the rights which she enjoyed under the French law for
marriages, en eommunaute. The executors under the
will were two English solicitors, who refused to execute
thy: conditions, on the ground that Mr. Lloyd being an
Englishman his children were subject to the English law,
by which the three eldest were illegitimate, as marriage
in England does not, as in France, legitimize children
born before marriage, and the wife could not enjoy the
rights which she claimed under the marriage, en corn-
munauttc. The case was tried in France by the Civil
Tribunal. and sentence was pronouced in favour of the
executors. Mrs. Lloyd, in her own interest, and that of
the three eldest children, who by this decision would be
deprived of their inheritance, appealed a7tainst this sen-
tence. Her counsel argued that Mr. Lloyd had, by fixing
his domicile in France, and in every respect adopting it
as his country, placed himself by his marriage under the
French laws. He also argued that there was no legal
proof of Mr. Lloyd being an Englishman. The Coutt of
Appeal has delivered a judgment, declaring the decision
of the Civil Tribunal to be against law, and the widow
and children entitled to the same rights they would have
enjoyed if Mr. Lloyd had been born or naturalized in
France. The counsel, on the other side, contended that,
the domicile in France had not been a legal one, as letters
of domiciliation had never been granted by the French
Government ; but the Court overruled this objection, and
declared that the fact of domiciliation is not affected by
the possession or non-possession of the legal authoriza-
tion, which merely gives to the person having it certain
civil rights, of no importance to the case in question.