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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SPAIN

Accounts from Madrid to the 25th nit. say that prepa-
rations were being made for the reception of the Queen at
San Ildefonso, where it was still hoped the King would

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join Her Majesty.
The intelligence from Burgos mentioned that the band
of the Carlist chief, El Estudiante, had been reinforced by
very few partizans. On the 20th, that chief, after ex-
changing a few shots with the civic guards of Villafranca,
retired into the mountains, and surprised the small town
of Belorado, where he seized some arms and about 2000
reals, (X 20,) belonging to the municipality.
The Madrid Gazette published a despatch from the
General-in-Chief of the Spanish Army of Operation,
dated Braganza, 16th, stating that he would arrive before
Oporto on the 22d or 23d. Another despatch from the
same general, dated Mirandela, the 19th, announced that
Brigadier Belesta, with eight battalions of infantry, a bat-
tery of artillery, and two squadrons of cavalry, was to
sleep, on the 20th, at Chaves.

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 year, weighs 1911 b., and is 30 inches high. The
united weight of this little couple is 501 b.

at Vehice on the 21st instant. He re-plied 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
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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,

during the week ending June 11, was'll9;.the number of

death; on boar

there, could not be ascertained

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