The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

PORTUGAL,

THE DUKE OF PALMELLA.—The Queen of Portugal
has written a letter with her own hand to the Duke of
Palmella, commanding his return to Lisbon, and his re-
sumption of the position which he had so long and so de-
servedly held in the councils of her Majesty before he was
displaced and banished by the factious and corrupt pro-
ceedings which have brought so much trouble and cala-
mity upon Portugal.

The Prussian Gazette of the 27th ult. announces the
closing of the Diet at Berlin on the preceding day.
The quantity of beet-root sugar manufactured in France
during the last six months, amounted to 52,695,424 kilo-
grammes, being an increase of 13,343,670 kilogrammes-
upon the quantity made in the preceding season.
An American paper mentions that the woods along the
Baltimore and Ohio Railway were lately set on fire by a
spark from the ngine of a train; and as the wind was high
the flames swept over a space of more than four miles.
The Boston Transcriptstates that General Tom Thumb,
who has realised a handsome competency, has " wooed a
little maid," who has agreed to marry him. She is in her
16th yearz weighs 1911 b., and is 30 inches high. The
united weight of this little couple is 501 b.
Mr. Cobden was entertained at a grand civic banquet
at Venice on the 21st instant. He replied in French to a
complimentary speech made to him and was enthusiasti-
cally received. The treat was given with the authority
of the Austrian Government. Mr. C.was about to proceed
to Trieste, where a new triumph awaited him.
THE POPE'S LAST MIRACLE.—The Tablet publishes
the following extract from a private letter from Rome :
" The Pope has wrought a miracle. He went to Subiaco,
and as there was a great want of rain, the people asked
him to pray for it. He accordingly went to the shrine of
St. Benedict, and prayed there an hour, and immediately
the rain came and lasted six hours."
SUFFERINGS OF EMIGRANTS.—The latest accounts
from Quebec estimate the number of emigrants arrived,
at 30,000; the number of deaths on shore and at sea,
3000. The number of deaths in hospital at Grosse Isle;
during the week ending June 11, was 119; the number of
deaths on board. the 30 vessels performing quarantine
there, could not be ascertained, but was known to be
greater. On one day there were 128 funerals.

rangements must, if possible, be made for sending the
wife of the prisoner to her friends, as her name will be
erased from the books at the end of the month." In
compliance with this order, Radcliff 's hair was cropped
close, and after being paraded be was led back to the
guard-room in company with a corporal and two privates.
Immediately on his entering the room he seized a razor,
and drew it across his throat, which divided the principal
vessels of the neck, and he soon afterwards died.—An
inquest was held, when the following verdict was return-
ed :—" We find that the deceased, John Radcliff, came
by his death in consequence of having inflicted an exten-
sive wound in his throat with a razor, whilst labouring
under temporary derangement, induced by the extreme
severity of the order from Colonel Hallifax produced in
evidence."