The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

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THE CIVIL WAR IN PORT:VGA-L.—We have Lisbon news to
the 10th instant. Count Tojal, on the part of the Queen and
the Government, had called on Sir Hamilton Seymour and Ad-
miral Parker, who had placed the British squadron At the
Queen's orders and promised that the men would land imme-
diately she desired it to protect. her. The immediate cause of
the demand was the tardiness. of the Queen's generals on the
Alemtejo. Money
was not forthcoming
energy , and the Queen's' troops
and generals were everywhere at a stand-still.. Very little more-
was displayed by the insurgents, and it appeared nearly
evident thatof tli two Portuguese parties neither could St

oi►ity of a Spanish armed inteTven:
Lion had been in. and the prompt action of our resuleob
authorities was the consequence, as it was probable that Dona,
Maria might solicit the aid of troops from Spain. The state 0'
the money market was dn;'

poss
•eastn

Lisbon notes had risen to

n•se. The discount on Bank 0;
3er cent. The dearth of bre!!t!

was equiv.*, dispiriting, the price of wheat of the first qual!f)
being 247 shillings per Enghsh quarter. Distress had set In?
and some measures were taken for the relief of the Poor. ,
The -French Cf‘-' ' Peers have rejected, by a majority
'O7 t- 'fishing a line of steam-shins

of K to 7, the project for esl
between Havre and New York

The governor of Nova Scotia, in a despatch to Lord Grey,
dated the Ist April, shows the futility of many of the hopes
held out to emigrants to that colony. He presses earnestly on
his lordship the necessity of discouraging all pauper emigra-
tion, and says, "There is no demand for unskilled labour IP

any part of the province, and the means of remunerating'
agricultural labour of any kipd are greatly diminished. FA-
treme privation and misery would, therefore, necessarily be
the lot of those who should come hither without the means 0f
,
subsistence for at least two years." The distress occasioned
throughout the- province, and especially at Cape Breton, in
consequence of the failure of the potato and grain crops,

PHILHARMONIC CONCERT—LAST NIGHT.
The second undress concert of the season was held ladt nislo
at the Collegiate Institution, when a miscellaneous seleetion
of music was performed, chiefly instrumental, in which ova`
nciuded Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.
_This was the flit
really very finely played

witb ... Miss Stott next WI:
prettily the Rondo from Donizetti's I)on Pasquale, Wive;
4s received with 4. encore. The•overture to Don GiovarlP`
closed the first part.
Aliendelsohn liartholdy's " La Grotte Fln^
the

acond part, and was ver
a
Cavatina from Mercant
. _

Parsons nes,
sweetly, and was re-
with her tine voice

Vvarded with an encore
more fully develomd and a litth

•dung I

.ock of

Air. Art

,ce an Aria from ti

of land
from Nercandante's
credi completed a

At and Parsons excelled i

Andranico

The overture

!ry delightful evening's entertainmet.
istit utian. was filled with a most respecta,

Ou Friday, Mr
rent Valley Railv

Brassy, the principal contractor for tp
traversed the line from Rugby to Staff°

with a party of . friend

MARRIED

On the 2nd i
Cricl►tdn; Mr... 1

Chapel, by the Rev. PI;
baker, Toxteth-park, to I%;:ie

Mr. Matti:

art i fa rn er, Durdriesshire

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TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1847.
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