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

i character, but that of a great and important
_
at those re-

mdy, all of the first respectability, praying
olutions which were intended to be

übmitted to the
He begged leave

not be carried into effect,

the best

T of the Country, the most experienced
;t quatfied from their connexion with our
I commerce, yet they had not been exa-

he hoped, therefore, that be-

re a measure so destructive of the commercial' interest!
the country was passed (and when he said that, hon
,embers would conclude every other interest to be cons

would pause awhile in order to collect that information
which they so particularly wanted. In looking at the re-
ports which had been published on the subject, he must
say, that the witnesses were not men likely to give any

information to government, not men

state of the country ; the last men who should have been
questioned, if government wanted to arrive at the merits
of the case. In attending, lately, a meeting in London,
he begged it might be understood, that that was the only
one he was ever interested in, except the meeting of 1797,

rgesses

01 the

IaTICOUS
with

government intended shortly to suppress all custom-houses
through the interior of the country. A small column of
troops had been detached from the garrison of Madrid hr
pursuit of a band of insurgents, who traversed with fin
ivainted With the laity several

.istricts of the province of Toledo. The Bar-
celona papers state that the Cabecilla party has mustered
ZOO men to give battle to the Queen's troops, but they
were defeated by even a smaller force.

PORTUGAL

and near Li

le prisoners

lest zure sent to Lneir
homes. The Government had issued a decree to the mer-
chants in expectation of raising a loan on payment of the
duties at Oporto, but money was very scarce: The har-
vest is premising. There is no fruit for shipment. The
ships Royal Tar, Mindello, Oporto, and Eighth of July,
captured in the employ of the insurgents, were all given
up, and are now recommissioned by the Portuguese Go-
vernment. The Spaniards under General Concha were
virtually in possession of Oporto. The English• residents
are respected and protected at Oporto. At Vigo the
English ships which have been detained by blockade were
about to sail en the 30th ult., for Oporto.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

By the arrival of one of her Majesty's ships at Parts-
mouth, on the 3rd instant, we learn that Sir Henry Pot-
finger intended-wintering on the frontier. The Caffres
still continued their predatory incursions.

ROLLS' COURT-SATURDA-:., JIILY 3

TIIE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION Ort

CHESTER

Mr. Turner and Mr. Blunt, for the plaintiff, moved for
an injunction to restrain the defendants, the mayor, alder--
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from receiving,

_Mates in the
cause; fora receiver; and also for payment of X 1633 2s. 4d.,
admitted by their answer to be in their hands. The in-
fbrmation stated the foundation of a hospital in Chester,
consisting of three priests, two to say mass in the church,
and the third in the chapel, and thirteen poor brethren,
and it prayed to have it ascertained what the rents of the
charity estate consisted of ; for a declaration of the court
that the whole of the estates belonged to and were held
by the defendants in trust for the charity, for the delivery
of the possession of the estates and title deeds : for an
account of all moneys received by the defendants in re-
spect of the estates or from sales of any part thereof ; and
for a declaration of the court that the defendants were
bound to make good what upon taking the accounts should
fnvlnhl rl,, Irian nos, an v... 1 c 1042. when.

.., master of the Rolls made a decree, declaring that all
lands granted to the defendants as the possessors of the
hospital were subject to the trusts of the charity without
prejudice to the question whether the corporation in re-
spect of the grant of the office of Master were entitled to
any-portion of tl,- ,ts reference

_ rei and directing a rt. to in-
quire what the property belonging to the charity consisted
of, and the Master was to approve of a scheme for its
The corporation had applied the rents and
• hpen nart of the.borough

Mi. Kindersley, for the defendants, said, they recog-

nized the rents to be arising from part of the charity
lands ; but it still remained to be found what portion of
the said sum of £1,633 2s. 44. belonged to the defendants
as part of the funds of the corporation. The hospital.
it,k;lf was a corporation.
_ _

Lord Langdile made an order for appointing a receiver
, .1

le sum

hi the House of Lords, on Saturday, the Militia Ballot
Suspension Bill and the Corn, &c., Importation Bill se-
verally passed through Committee.
The Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon
and suite arrived from this port at Kingstown early on
the morning of Saturday last, and immediately repaired
to. Phoenix Park.

Upon the railway now being formed to connect the val-
ley of the Neckar with the Danube upwards of a thousand_
women and girls are labouring as " navvies." A large
number• are also employed on the Prague and,Dresden.
railway-works.

By a decree of the Austrian Government any pmployi
of A railway causing an accident by negligence, is liable
to from five to ten years' imprisonment ; if the accident
be very serious, with from-ten to twenty years and if
death be causes death is the punishment.

—I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking Via
upon this nation, and those who advance it will..stop at
nothing to carry On their designs • and I am , heartily
sorry that many Protestante.give their helping hand to it.
WEST INDIA PINES.,----The Trinity Yacht,: Captain
Hounsell, has arrived in twenty-five days from. the West
'tidies, consigned to Keeling and Hunt, bringing-. an entire
cargo consisting of the enormous quantity of 35,000 pines,
a portion of the same being brought on the deck of the
vessel, growing in the soil in which they were .originally
planted.—Times of yesterday.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—•A statement,
dated_ Edinburgh, July Ist, is to the effect that the Queen
has taken Laggan from the Marquis of Abercorn for the
shooting season. The lodge stands on the. margin of
Loch Laggan, at Ardvreckie.
The court will remain
there from the beginning of August to the beginning of
September. Her Majesty, it is understood, will visit
Inverness on her way to Dunrobin, the second week in
September, coming.down the Caledonian canal from Fort

BANQUET AT GE.AV7S4NN.—On Thursday last, the
benchers of the Hon. Society of Gray's-inn gave a sump-
tuous entertainment-.in their old hall to the benchers of
the other inns of court. The number that sat down to
dinner amounted to 86, including Lord Brougham, Lord
Campbell, the Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir E. Sugden,
the Right Hon. C. Wynn, the Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan,
the lion. Sir R. Comyn, and the Attorney and Solicitor-
General. The Right Hon. Sir H. Jenner Fust, Treasurer of
Gray's-inn, presided on the occasion, being supported on.
his right by Lord Brougham, and on his left by Lord.
Campbell. The dinner was of the most rechercee quality,
and the wines and dessert of the choicest description
AP- he (0). health I-1 1----

_der t _ .aueen's —.Li had been proposed and drunk:
with the greatest loyalty, the health of Sir H. Jenner
Fust was proposed by Lord Broug,burn in an eulogistic
speech, in which he thanked him, in the'name of himself
and the other guests, for the splendid repast that had been.

Lne company shortly after separated.
THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.—The accounts are nearly
made up, but we have not yet received an official, copy..
state, however, that there will be (according to

a London contemporary), an increase on the re
of the.quarter, as compared with the correspondi
ter of- last year. The amounts received on
Excise Duties, Stamps, Post-office
tax, exceeA

enue of

:count of

amounts ret

1 Income-

quarter ending July sth, 1
when made up to the sth

red from the sources in the

auch over or'under the an

i. The Customs revenue,
ant, will probably be not

eipts therewill

nt received from that item

compared

he July quarter of last
received in 1846 from C