The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

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lish despotic governmentin-Portugil,imt to secure to the
Portuguese peopleall:the privileges which the constitu-
tion and the charter of Don Pedro had conferred on
them.
Lord J. RUSS:ELI observed, with respect to the report
of a hostile collision in the Tagus, that his impression
was, in the absence of positive information, that if any
such had taken place it was between the ships of the
' Queen of Portugal and those of the Junta, and not be-
tween the latter and the British. men-of-war. The noble
lord, in answer to Mr. John Collett, also said that it was
not the intention of the government, during the present
parliament, to supply the deficiency in the number of
members consequent upon the disfranchisement of Si' id-
bury.
The Wellin.rton statue again attracted the notice of the
house, Lord 'MonetTu stating, in answer to Mr. C.
Berkeley, that the sculptor had been requested to furnish
a design for an elevation-and pedestal, and when approved
the site would be determined on, but the status to remain
in its present position until the new works were in a con-
dition to receive it.
The salt monopoly in Indio, the state of the potato crop
in Ireland, and the relief of Irish distress, were the next
subjects discussed.
On the third reading of the Loan Discount Bill, Lord
G. BENTINeE. intimated his intention, but without fixing
a time, of proposing a measure for the limitation or repeal
of the Bank Charter Act of 1844.

The adjourned debate on the subject of transportation
and secondary punishment was .resumed by Mr. EwART,
who was followed by Mr. G. W. HOPE, Mr. E. DENISON,
Sir J. Pakington, Mr. 'Hume, and Mr. 1-1,1-tvr:s ; the
debate, on the motion of Mr. •NEWDEGATE, standing still
further adjourned. to Monday.

FOREIGN COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The heart of O'Connell, enclosed in a silver urn, arrived
at Rome on the 27th ult. _ _

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New Zealand paper lately.received from Wellington,
is printed on blotting paper, as no printing paper could
be found in the colony.
The crop of apples in Normandy promises to be so
large that the price of cyder has fallen very considerably
in that country.
The Hobart Town papers just received, bring the inch
1- ancholy intelligence of the death. of Sir Bardley Eardley
Wilmot, Bart., which took place at Hobart Town, on the
third of February last. The cause of . Sir Eardley's
, death is stated to have been complete exhaustion of the
frame—a decay of nature.
Two barrister: who were pleading, some months since,
before the supreme court at Sydney, New South Wales,
became so excited that one told the other that he lied,
and received a blow in return for the insult. A fight fol-
lowed, and lasted for some time ; but the combatants
were ultimately separated, and were committed to prison
for a short time by the judges.
DEFEAT OF THE ARABS.—The Moniteur publishes the
official despatches of 11.Tarshal Bugeaud relative to his ex-
pedition into the country of the Kabyles. A battle had
taken place, in which, as a matter of course, the unhappy
natives were overwhelmed and decimated. No account is
' given of the number of natives killed and wounded, but it
must have been very great. On the side of the French
there were 57 men killed and wounded, amos'ig whom
there was one officer killed and five wounded.