The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

The Sun of SaturdW, gives the fol-
lowing particulars, received by express from Portsmouth :
" Orders arrived this morning (Saturday) at Portsmouth
and Woolwich for the immediate embarkation of a batta-
lion of marines for Lisbon, and we believe the same order
has been forwarded to Plymouth, and Chatham. The
Woolwich and Portsmouth detachments embarked this
afternoon in the Sidon steam frigate, and left instanter
for their destination. The Sidon is ordered to return to
Englandl immediately after the disembarkation of the
troops. From the above orders and movement, it is
plainly stated that English interference has been solicited
by the Queen of Portugal to bring to a speedy close the
long pending and dangerous differences which have torn
her kingdom." The Observer of Sunday clears up the
matter as follows :—" The Sun of last night_ sends forth
an alarming third ;.!dition, announcing the sudden em-
barkation of a battalion of marines from Portsniiiiith and
Woolwich, on board the steam frigate Sidon, yesterday,
at Spithead, for convey:ince to Lisbon, and revives thereon

foundatiOn whatever,

The Sidon has been destined

ation, alnd unc

er orders to embar

soon as she had completed he.; trial course round the Isle
of Wight, from which she retur.ned to Spithead on Friday
evening."

GREECE

There is no account at Athens of how the late proposal
e Greek cabinet have been received at Constantinople

it, nowever, private letters winch !lace come to nano are
to be relied on, the Porte rejects all kind of arrangement
and insists on the return of M. Musson:3 to Athns, to
receive personal and public satisfaction. Well aware,
however, that Greece cannot accept this santion. the Di-
van was preparing a memorandum to be subrilitted to the
Eutopean courts. The interior of the country' continues

The trade of Rouen is now in a very distressed state,
and the manufactories are only worked three days a week.
The Pope has ordered general gas works to be con-
structed beyond the walls of Rome, in order to light ,gle
streets and supply private consumers. -
The Swabian Mercury states, that the. Austrian. go-
vernment has doubled the export duty on corn from the
frontiers of Silesia and Moldavia.

The Sultan has promised to build a Protestant chapel
for the English workmen employed in some iron works

near Cor

Marshal Soult entered his eighty-third year on Monday
last. He was made a Marshal of France in 1804, and
consequently has held that high rank forty-three years.

A letter from St. Petersburgh says that the Emperor
has just'issued a ukase, declaring that Jews in the army
shall be allowed to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant.

At the late opening of the Paris and Havre railroad,
the clergy of Havre, Ingouville, and Graville, perforined
the ceremony of the benediction of the road.
Some tea which has lately been grown in the Indian
district of Kunsoor is said to be fully equal in quality to
the finest Chinese teas ; and its cultivation is expected to
prove profitable.
_ _

y of war has issued an order, for-
bidding officers and soldiers serving in Mexico to write
letters to their friends respecting the movements of the

n American secr

the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, at its sitting on
week, adopted, by a majority of 59 to 20, the
law proposed by the government for punishing libels by
the press upon the King or any of the members of the
royal family.

Saturd

Rome, near the vault of the Scipios, contains inscriptions
relating to the deposit of the bodies of freedmen of Paulus
Emilius, and Julius Caesar, and of the tiring woman of the

famous Messalina

rem Bremen states t

tat from

17th March, 3804 emigrants from Germany embarked for
America. Of this number, 1425 were going to New
York, and the remainder to Baltimore. It was thought
that no less than 40(0 would embark between the 17th
Mt rah and the Ist April.

During the representation, a few days since, of " Don
Casar de Bazan," at the theatre of Copenhagen, an im-
mense lustre, which weighs more than three hundred
pounds, fell, with a tremendous et

nd seriously

Rounded ten or twelve persons, who here carried out

The politicians of Rome have been startled by an
official act, which scarcely looks consistent with the gene-
rous policy that Pius the Ninth has thus far pursued—an

edict establishing a heavy tax on newspapers and a strin-
gent censorship. The backsliding is presumed to be ,a
concession to Austria, whose ambassador has threatened
to leave Rome with very hostile abruptness.
The Spettatore Egizianno states that two days before

the festival of the gossa, in commemoration of the anni-
versary of the birth of Mahomet, 200 Egyptian fellahs

the sheik, which is said to be a des: en lant of the prophet's
famous steed, Aboubekir, and suffered themselves to be
trampled upon by the animal.

The Prince Jules de Polignac, (a near relative of the
Countess of Tankerville,) the Prime Minister of Charles
X., and whose administration produced the revolution of

1830, died of gout at St. Germains, near Paris, on the
night of the 29th. He had lived at St. Germains for
several years past in complete retirement: The Prince's

'TuE NATIONAL FAST.--A French Protestant Journal,
in mentioning this circumstance, says :—" We think it
right to indicate the precise day of this Christian fast, as
we do not doubt that many members of the Reformed

Church of France will be disposed to join in this so-
lemnity, so becoming to a Protestant nation."—We un-
stand the hint conveyed in the above announcement was

ILLNESS OF THE KING OF HOLLAND.—The Stoats
Courant of the 28th ult. reports that His Majesty the
King of the Netherlands was seized on the 27th with op-
pression about the region of the heart, accompanied by
violent palpitations. Complete repose not having brought

ing hard and rapid, recourse was had to copiims bleeding,
which was soon followed by an improvement. After a
tolerably good night the oppression and palpitation re-
turned, but were again checked, and by the last bulletin
His Majesty was much better.
The King of Denmark brs determined to grant a con-
stitution to his subjects. His MOety, instaad of pro-

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commission of twenty-eight members, elected by the State
Assemblies. Those assemblies, four in number, were to
meet during three days, in order to choose each Seven
commissioners. If, after deliberating in common, the

a constitution, the King would promulgate it in the term
they recommended. It was added that the government
would shoitly propose to the state to declare the Crown
of Denmark hereditary in the male line.
SLAVE TRADE.—The following has just been received

y intelligent naval officer at Ascension. The
detail is one of the most appalling proofs of the calamities
which the slave trade leads to, and we trust the efficiency
of the blockade may put an end to its being continued, in
that part of Africa at least, for some time to come.-
" Ascension, January 1, 1847.—We have just receive

most horrible massacre on the coast. A slave
depOt called Gallinas, known to have 2,000 slaves ready for
shipping, was so closely blockaded by our cruizers that
the slave _ owners finding it impossible to embark the

news of

slaves, and not wishing to incur the expense of feeding
them, actually in cold blood beheaded the whole number,
placing their heads on poles stuck in the beach, saying, if
you will not allow us to make profit of prisoners' we take
in war, we will kill all."--Cork Constitution.

TIIE ORTON STEAM-SHIP

- --.ixt Liverpool and Glasgow have
justly been celebrated; not only as the finest and swiftest, but
most comfortable packets in Great Britain. They are, in fact,
the great standard of what steam-vessels should be, and,-as
such, have become patterns not only to Great Britain but to
the other countries: The splendid steamers plying betwixt this

ape un a larger scale) of the Liverpool and
ind we have no doubt whatever that their
no mean compliment to them.
connected with this fleet must be in-
.vm..v.s,- and, with that view, we have,much
mniunicating that, in the course of a few weeks

owners consider fill
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therefor

;(In—itm—elliat has

ieen earned

m figure-head to.!alyrail, 49 feet

within the paddic

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(11 by 61 feet Ftroke,
power, baying tubular boilers of the most
approved description, and paddles 30 feet diameter. The main
saloon is 140 feet long by 17 feet broad, and will contain two
rows of tables, suitable for dining 80 people. It will be-litted
an in rosewnnd and ntbpr sittinos of the usual splendour. The

thOse, that