The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

THE INSURRECTION IN PORTUGAL.—The schooner
Freak, Captain Long, arrived off Falmouth, on Saturday,
from Lisbon, whence she sailed on the 4th instant. This
vessel brings intelligence that at length the much dreaded
crisis so long anticipated had arrived, the banks and all
the public companies having tobacco contracts, &c., had
suspended their payments, and paper was made a legal
tender. Should such a state of things continue long, it
was feared one-half of the trading population of the coun-
try would be ruined. No ministry had been completely
formed, though the Duke de Palmella continued Premier
and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mousinho d'Albu-
querque Minister of the interior. Saldanha and Soure
were expected to join. The city was perfectly quiet, but
the revolutionary party, who were about 16 miles distant,
were coming in, and threatening to enforce their own
views and wishes. The steam-packet was expected to sail
from the Tagus on the 10th instant.
DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN NORTH BRAZIL.—A let-
ter received by a gentleman in this city, dated Aracaty,
February 20, gives a heart rending description of the suf-
ferings of the inhabitants of pot tions of Northern Brazil.
At Aracaty. in consequence of the protracted draught, the
trees were withering, and the people famishing for want
of food.—The writer says—" Should the drought conti-
nue until May or June we shall have few persons left
here. They have already begun to flack to Pernambucco,
the capital; and if opportunity offers all that remain will
immediately follow. The writer was at Ico on the 9th of
February, and he there saw families who, a short time
since enjoyed abundance, begging from door to door.
" They appeared," he remarks, " more like skeletons
than anything else. Many are dying in the streets from
want, daily : and the deaths were so numerous that the
amount of mortality could not be estimated." Articles
of the first necessity had risen to an exorbitant price.
A quarter of flour, (half a barrel) could not be obtained
for less than twenty-four milreas, or 12 dollarsi and buis-

cuits, weighing half an ounce sold for 30 reas each.
Salt, which a short time previous was sold at 8 milreas,
is held at 16 milreas. In the districts of Inhumum,
Croto, the Province of Parahyba, and the neighbouring
country, excepting the sea coast, the distress was great
beyond description, and the inhabitants were perishing of
hunger in all directions.—Baltimore American.

Lieut. Wagborn left London, on Monday evening, for
Aden, via Trieste. We understand that Sir Robert Peel,
the Earls of Ellenborough and St. Germains, and Mr.
Gladstone have each forwarded their subscription in aid
of the testimonial to Mr. Waghorn's services.

An American paper states that six skilful Yankee boot
and shoe makers were sent over in the Columbia for the
express purpose of instructing the artisans of Liverpool
and Manchester in the mysteries of peg soles.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—We have had in
this locality nearly a fortnight of very dry, and delightful
summer weather, and so ardent a sun, (now almost ver-
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tical,) as to render the atmosphere sultry during the day.
The country, however, although a good downfall of
rain is exceedingly desirable, has suffered, as yet, lit-
tle, if any deterioration from the drought, and looks, on
the whole, beautifully verdant and promising,—the dews
of the night supplying, to a great extent, the want of
moisture in the day. The corn crops, for the most part,
give promise of a bountiful harvest; but we regret to ob-
serve that some of the wheat fields exhibit the inroads of
considerable smut, a disease of the plant seldom remedi-
able, and injurious to the grain. The grasses are thick on
the ground, hut without rain will be short in stature, by
running prematurely to seed. There appears no ground
for the apprehension that the potato disease of last year
—which was much exaggerated—will prevail to any seri-
ous extent this season. A considerable quantity of this
popular edible has been imported from foreign parts, and
appearances are in favour of a large and wholesome yield
from our own lands. Turnips and other field crops also
look well; and a few heavy showers which may
certainly be expected, after so long a continuance
of dry weather —or a day or two's soaking ram,
would redeem all, and realize, with a favourable gathering-
time, the highest hopes of the husbandman. Notwith-
standing the ominous accounts of last year's potatoes, a
large quantity, of good quality, is advertised for sale in
this town, at the low prices of Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per mea-
sure, according to quality or kind.
IBRAHIM PACHA 1N BIRMINGHAM.-011 Saturday
evening, at eight o'clock, this celebrated personage arrived
at Birmingham rather unexpectedly, by railway, from
London. On his Highness alighting from his carriage on
the rails, be walked to the landing, where he was met by
Charles Lawrence, Esq., *chaiiman of the Grand Junction
Company, and L. Mozley, Esq., one of the directors,
and most cordially received by them. The Pacha shook
hands with these gentlemen, and seemed much pleased
at their attention. He then advanced to the parapet,
stepped into a carriage which was waiting his arrival, and
drove off' with his attendants to Dee's Royal Hotel, where
a splendid suite of apartments, heretofore used by mem-
bers of the Royal Family, and lately by the King of
Saxony, were in readiness for him. After partaking of
some slight refreshments, his highness appeared on the
balcony of the hotel, smoking his magnificently-mounted
long hooka, and seemingly much pleased with the journey.
He was soon after waited upon by Mr. George Richmond
Collis, consul to the Pacha's father, and who communi-
cated the necessary local information to the distinguished
party. At half-past nine o'clock his highness and atten-
dants and Mr. Collins dined, and at an early hour the
Pacha retired to bed. On Sunday morning, at eight
o'clock he breakfasted, and at 12 o'clock he and the whole
of the above party left the hotel for the London and Bir-
mingham Station, where a special engine was in readiness
to convey them to Leamington and Warwick, his highness
having received an invitation to inspect the magnificent
castle in the latter town. The Pacha and company re-
turned at seven o'clock to dinner, and spent the evening
in private. Yesterday he was expected to inspect some of
the works in the town, and then proceed to the ironworks
in the district.

A prisoner, when lately called upon for his defence,
said, " I have ordered a lawyer for to-morrow, and I hope
your worship will be so good as to put it off ti!! he comes."
—" Why, what can the lawyer say about it ?" asked the
magistrate. " That's what I want to know, please your
worship," replied the prisoner.

EFFECT OF CIVILIZATION ON THE VOICE.—It is, I
believe, a fact, and if so it is a curious one, that the dog
in a wild state only howls ; but when he becomes the
friend and companion of man, he has then wants and
wishes, hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, to which in his
wilder state he appears to have been a stranger. His vo-
cabulary, if it may be so called, then increases in order to
express his enlarged and varying emotions.—Jesse.

THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE OF VERVIERS.—
There are 40,000 hands employed in and around Verviers,
in the woollen manufacture. A population of 20,000 are
resident in Verviers at least. There are somewhere about
three principal houses, that employ a large number of
hands. I am sorry to say that the manufacturing classes
there are not paid more than half the wages of the manu-
facturing classes here; and that they cannot. provide for
themselves from the beginning of the year to the end of
the year, except upon very singularly rare occasions, any-
thing in the shape of animal food : brown bread and sour-
crout being their principal provisions from day to day.
In consequence of their low wages, (and probably it is
in consequence of the professedly cheap food that they
have such low wages,) they.are enabled to produce goods
at a cheaper rate than our manufacturers are able to sup-
ply them in this country.—Summer Ramble in Belgium.
irc., by T. W. Massie, M.D.
A CONSERVATIVE'S OPINION OF THE WHIGS' RE-
TURN TO OFFICE.—In the House of Commons, on Fri-
day. Mr. Shaw, the recorder of Dublin, and member for
the University, said, " he need scarcely say, that after
sixteen years of public life in active opposition to Whig
principles acted on, it was, in his opinion, better, more
honest, and even more constitutional, that they should be
done by Whigs. (Hear.) Her Majesty's present go-
vernment were powerless to carry any measure that could
properly be called their own. But the moment they
proposed measures which were opposed to all their former
principles a torrent of support bore them nearly in a
headlong
.course, and with an impetuosity which they
could neither restrain nor regulate. (Hear, bear.) If
the once great party that sat on the side of the house were
ever again to collect the scattered elements of their
strength, he (Mr. Shaw) felt persuaded that that must be
done in the ranks of opposition. (Hear, heir.) He
knew nothing else, that could put an end to the painful
scenes—the heartburnings—he would not say the vitupe-
ration--but be would say the strong language—(hear,
and laughter,)—to which 'recent events had given rise.
Such a state of things was necessarily painful to him and
to his honourable friends ; and he would therefore hail
with pleasrue the advent of the noble lord the member
for London to office."

CURRY POWDER.—Hitherto the manufacture of a
superior curry powder has been confined almost exclu-
sively to the East. We have it now manufactured in
town by Messrs. Ingleby and Cooke, of a quality un-
questionably excellent. It is quite equal to the foreign,
and has been pronounced unsurpassable.
We are extremely glad to find by an advertisement in
our paper to-day, that Messrs. William Stodart and
Sons, of London, are exposing a disgraceful system that
has long been practised of attaching the names of reputed
and esteemed piano forte makers to the most wretched
and trashy instruments. To prevent imposition, we re-
commend all purchasers to read the advertisement.
REEVE'S NEWLY-INVENTED WAX WATER COLOURS.
—The above colours promise to origivate quite a new era
in the art of painting. They possess great purity and
vividness of colour, flow freely from the pencil, and from
their substance offer the advantage to painter's upon card-
board, or paper, of king retouched more frequently with-
out raising tht: surface. They have received the approval
of most of tha &IniLiellt•Wger colpu painters in the
metropolis.