The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES

The Holstein troops have sustained a serious defeat.
After the most extensive preparations, continued during
several days, an attempt was made to carry Friederickstadt
by storm. The attack was made simultaneously on three
different points, but in each the repulse was sanguinary
and decisive. The accounts vary as to the number of
killed and wounded. General Willisen estimates his loss
at from 200 to 300; but other military authorities state
that it could not have been less than from 600 to 700.

The Kin• of Denmark has prohibited the free naviga-
tion of the Eyder.
A scheme has been started at New York for the forma-
tion of a railroad from St. Louis to San Francisco.

A daily pager called The Times, is now published at
Adelaide, Australia.

Madame Poiteven has announced her intention of mak-
ing a balloon ascent from Paris, in the character of Eu-
ropa, mounted on a bull.

'Mrs. Milelean, wife of Donald Maclean, Esq., late M.P.
for Oxford, was killed near Naples, on the 20th ultimo,
by being thrown from her carriage.

Akerations in the Swedish tariff, affecting principally
hemp and flax, came into operation recently by virtue of
a law passed July 18.
The, Queen of the Beigians expired on Friday atOstend,
of phthisis. Her Majesty was the daughter of the late
King of the French, and her health has been for a long
time in a very unsatisfactory state.

A large-sized steam-ship was destroyed by fire on the
banks of Newfoundland on the night of the 13th ultimo.
Unfortunately, the name of the ill-fated vessel has not
been ascertained, or whether the passengers and crew
succeeded in preserving themselves.
A Genoa journal exposes the pretended miracle of the
winking Madonna at Rimini; a diagram shows the manner
in which by putting certain wires a priest concealed in the
drapery imposes on the superstitious spectators. Tt ap-
pears to be a vulgar imitation of the " invisible girl." It
is well known that similar impositions were exposed in
this country at the beginning of the Reformation.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES IN CENTRAL AFRICA.—
About two years ago, the scien ific world was surprised by
the announcement that Drs. Krapf and Rebmann, who
bad been for some time zealously employed in connexion
with the Church Missionary Society in Eastern and Cen-
tral Africa, had discovered a mountain or mountains
within one degree of the Equator, and about 200 miles
distant from the sea, which were covered with perpetual
snow. and which there was every reason to suppose were
mo other than Ptolemy's " Mountains of the Moon." It
now appears that there is no doubt of the fact.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Advices from Newbury-
port (N.A.) mention that Captain J. W. Dodge, of the
schooner Isabella. had fallen in with people who informed
him that some Esquimaux Indians had picked up a cask,
inside' of which was a tin canister, containing papers,
which were brought into Indian Harbour to Captain Nor-
man's trading post on the 20th of July. The papers were
said td contain information relative to the expedition of
Sir John Ross, but the nature of the information Capt.
Dodge could not learn, as they were' sent to Sandwich-
bay under seal, to be shipped to England by the schooner
Escort of London.

BRAZIL.—By the arrival of the William Edward,
advices have been received from Rio Janeiro to the 23rd
of August inclusively. The accounts confirm the report
of the disappearance of the fever at Rio Janeiro ; and
the health of the city was said to be quite restored. Her
Majesty's steamer Harpy, tender to the flag-ship South-
ampton, 50, went into Guarapari on the 21st August, and
took the Brazilian schooner Feiticeira, which she con-
ducted to the entrance of Rio Janeiro, whence the prize
was ordered by Admiral Reynolds to be sent to St Helena
for adjudication. Mr. Hudson, the British charge d'affaires,
bad presented his credentialsto theEmneror, and had been
well received. The demand for colonial produce was
very brisk, and as the intercourse with the interior was no
longer interrupted, an increased demand for our articles
of import was experienced.
AERIAL NAVIGATION.—A letter from Madrid of the
22nd ult., in the Courrier de la Gironde, says :—" The
problem of serial navigation with which the French savans
have been so long engaged has just been solved in our
city. The celebrated Spanish aeronaut, J. Montemajor,
has lately made some experiments which have been
crowned with entire success. In consequence of a most
favourable report made by a special committee appointed
by the government, sufficient funds have been allowed to
the aeronaut for the construction of his apparatus. The
immense balloon, the Eole. is now almost entirely
completed. On the 15th of October next, M. J. Monte-
major will leave Madrid in his aerial vessel, notwith-
standing the wind may be contrary; it will pass over
the Pyrenees, will cross over France, mid will afterwards
go to London to receive from the English government
the prize offered to the man who shall discover the means
of navigating through the air, in spite of contrary atmos-
pheric currents. The Eole will pass over Bordeaux."
CURIOUS IMPOSTURE.—You cannot have forgotten the
celebrated breach of promise case between Miss Smith and
a nobleman whose name I have forgotten. The success
whichattended that talented young lady's.efforts in palm-
ing a brilliant romance upon her credulous grandfather
and friends, has met with a perfect parallel in Bavaria ; if
I mistake not, in Munchen itself. The heroine's name is
Maria Hoar, the daughter of a.carpenter in poor circum-
stances, but possessed of great personal beauty, and not
without some education. Three years ago she communi-
cated 'to several of her relations, under the promise of
secrecy, that she was the most fortunate of her sex. A
Spanish count, flying from the arms of the law in conse-
quence of his participation in the Spanish revolution, had
*seeped into the Tyrol in disguise, from whence be had
found his way into the palace of the King of Bavaria, at
Hohenschwangau. The name of the.count she declared
to be Don Alonzo Balclona. The king, she said, had
given him the post of the inspector of the palace. On a
visit in Nfunich the count had made her acquaintance, and
being smitten with her attractions had promised to marry
her. Letters were not wanting to confirm the truth of
this statement ; one was produced which stated that the
bridegroom was possessed of enormous wealth, and that
he in reality was the Prince of Navarre and Duke of Mon-
temolin. The relations, overvvheirced with joy at the
good fbrtune of the young lady, made no objection to
assistidg her from time to time with largesums of money,
expecting on her marriage to have them returned with
interest. The young lady, too, was prolific in promises
of appointments and situations ; and by these means car-
ried on the deception for three years. The relations, at
last impatient, demanded to see the brideg:rocm—the
Spanish prince ; and receiving nothing but evaqoaa at
last discovered that they had been deceived. They qmielly
landed the Spanish prince's bride to the tender mecisea
of the Bavarian police, and with the assistance of C'e
magistrates she was sentenced to a lengthened term of
isurisaument.--Correspondent of the Daily News.