The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-06 00:00:00

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OREIGN INTELLIGE
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SPAIN.
Ifladrid journals of the 25th ult., state that Espartero's
Lt of the victory of Penacerrada had had a favourable
ace on the public funds. The Five per Cents advanced
e 25th to 20i. for cash.
tvices from flayonne on the 28th ult. state that General
.itto, the new chief of the staff of Don Carlos, had left
trio on the 25th, to take the command of the army from
❑eral -Guergue. Count d'Espagne had arrived in Cata-
nia, and had been rece►ved by Rus de Eroles at the head of
so battalions. The Carlist chief Castor was blockading the
.own of 'Reynosa.

BELGIUM.
(Private Correspondence of the Morning Chronicle.)
BitussEr.s, JULY I.—The Municipal Council of the city 0,
Liege has just voted the adoption of the following address k
the King of the Belg,iarts:—
" To THE KING.

" Sire,—The treaty of the 24 articles, _which could not
have been made obligatory but by the immediate acceptation
of all the parties, is not only onerous for Belgium, on ac-
count of the enormous debt with which it burtheus her, but
Principally, and above all, by the concessions of territory
which it imposes on her.
" Delegates of a city which maintains with the inhabitants
of these territories numerous commercial relations,ond con-
sequently feels the liveliest sympathy for them, may we be
permitted, Sire, to express the wish that on the conclusion
of th definitive treaty this painful separation will not be
again sanctioned, that the butt hen of the debt may be parti-
tioned in a more equitable manner, and in a juster propor-
tion, so that those misfortunes might be averted from Bel-
gium which an unmodified execution of the 21 articles is
likely to give rise to."
The Espoir, a Liege piper, in its number of the 30th June,
gives the following article :
"As we were going to press, a person worthy of confidence
informed us that some peasants, who came iu this morning
from Sit bird, told hita that from midnight, last night, they
heard the tiring of cannon in the direction of VenToo for the
space of three bouts, and that the generalimptessionwasthat
the sound was caused by an attack on the town by the Prus-
sians."

The same journal states, that during the last few days the
Dutch have been repairing and strengthening the exterior
palisades of the fortress of Maastricht.
It would appear that the Belgian Governor of Venloo had
received orders to resist by force any attempt to occupy the
place, for he has published au order of the day, in which he
announces that his Majesty has charged him to make known
to the garrison that he reckons upon them making an honour-
i., able defence, should the place be attacked, nu matter from
' ..,. what quarter the attack may come. There is to be a meeting
‘....__ of the patriot* of urtlssels, on Wednesday next, to appoint
agott*44-inittee' of defence and armament, in order to supply
~, with arms the inhabitants or the provinces that are to be ceded
to Holland.
We regret to hear of the existence of a pestilential disease
at Sobre St. Gery (in Belgium) and at Beaumont and Con-
- Norte (in France.) The symptoms occasioned fears that the
malady was the black fever. Its progress was rapid, and in
the places just mentioned it has already decimated the popu-
lation.
The Queen of the Belgians would, it was expected, arrive
in Paris on the 7th or Bth inst.. on a visit to her Majesty's
royal parents. The Duke de Nemours would return to the
French capital by the 15th, and proceed from thence to the
camp at Luneville.