The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

PORTUGAL.
The Queen of Portugal has nominated Saldanha Presi.
dent of the Council of Ministers, Count Terceira, who was
first sent for by her Majesty after the resignation of the
Thomar Ministry, having failed to form a Government.
Accounts were hourly arriving of the troops in different
districts turning out to the popular cry of " Viva the Duke
of Saldanha and down with the Ministry !" The last ac-
counts of the King were from Pombal, where he had barely
half his original forces, and these were hourly diminishing

by desertions to Coimbra en route for Oporto. Two regi-
ments went off from ioimbra before the King's face; when
formed in order of march, and the word being given, they
cried out, that their road was Oporto, and so went off to
the Duke, leaving the King to take the opposite course
for Lisbon, where he may arrive in two or three days, or
earlier if the troops leave him with his staff only.

An heir to the Spanish throne is said to be expected.
The Prophet is being played at thirty-two theatres in
Germany.

A Philharmonic Society is established at Algiers, and
Beethoven's symphony in C minor is in preparation.
Shades of the bygone dens!

A town section of land at Adelaide, South Australia,
has recently been sold by auction at the rate of £l,BOO

per acre

We hear from good authority that the King of Prussia
will have a conference with the Emperor and Empress of
Russia at Warsaw on the 15th.—Anzieger Zeitrrng.
The Pope, who arrogantly questioned the right of the
Spanish Government to sell their own Church lands, has
signed a cortctirdat which makes those sales legal
At the departure of the brig Acorn, from Boston, with
a captured fugitive slave, named Sims, about 150 aboli-
tionists, with a preacher at their head, knelt down and
prayed on the wharf for their unhappy brother, and then
sang two or three psalms.
Cuneo, in Piedmont, was on the 25th ult. visited by a
cloud of butterflies of various colours. They settled in
myriads on walls, trees, Scc. They are supposed to have
been gathered together by whirlwinds in Africa, and to
have been driven over to Europe by the same agency.
SAGACITY.—A well-dressed young woman, on Saturday,
entered a restaurant not far from the terminus of the
Orleans railway, and told the waiter to bring her in all
baste a basin of soup, as she was about to take her depar-
ture by the next train. This was immediately done; and,
after having taken it, and paid the waiter, she was hurrying
away, saying that she should certainly be late, when she
perceived her passage barred by a large dog, which refused
to let her pass. She attempted by caresses to put it aside,
but the animal held firm, and opposed her way. " I shall
certainly be late !" cried she. "Do take away that
horrible dog !" The waiter and the master cried out,
" Vidocq, Vidocq ! give way, sir," but the dog never
stirred. One of the waiters here whispered something to
the master, who, coming up to the young woman, said,
" If my dog prevents your leaving the premises, the
reason must be that you have some of the property
belonging to the house about you. You had better give
it up at once, and go your way." The person thus
addressed affected great indignation, but et last drew out
a silver spoon, which she handed to the owner of the
restaurant. The dog then allowed her to pass, and she
was hurrying of when she was -seized by her mantelet, and
forced to stop. This time it was a police agent, who had
been on the look-out for several persons suspected of
being concerned in a robbery, and who, it was thought,
might attempt to get off by the railway. She was arrested,
and, on examination, her mantelet was found to be fur-
nished with immense pockets for receiving pilfered goods.
It is said that this is not the first time that the dog
belonging to the restaurateur has shown himself a faithful
guardian of his master's property.—La Prase.

IRELAND.

Large numbers of the working classes now attend the
lectures in Trinity College University, Dublin, a circum-
stance altogether novel.

The neighbourhood of Cork was visited by an un-
usually heavy fall of hail on Friday, accompanied by
thunder. The hail stones were as large as marbles.
The trustees of the " Magee College" have fixed on
Derry as the site of this institution, which, though en-
dowed for educating persons intended to be Presbyterian
ministers, is not to be limited to them.

A gipsy, of rather prepossessing appearance, was sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation at Limerick sessions,
for feloniously stealing a child of two years old, from the
town of Westport.
The Limerick Reporter states. that, according to the
present census return, the population of Cashel has
decreased within the ten past years to the extent of 2256
—the population in 1811 amounting to 7036; in 1851,
4780.

Mr. Michael Desmode, of Kilkenny, who died on Tues-
day last of consumption, has bequeathed a large sum—
£6,ooo it is said—to the Roman Catholic Church, for
various pious purposes, such as masses, the completion of
the new cathedral in Kilkenny,
James Power, Esq., D.L., Eldermine, county Wex-
ford, has given all his poor tenants, not able to live at
home, money and clothes to take them to America. Six
hundred persons connected with agriculture, in and about
Bannow, county Wexford, are preparing to emigrate to
America.

On Wednesday, as Mr. Keane. second son of Sir R.
Keane, of Cappoquin, Waterford, was riding with his
lady in a car, they were fired at from some one behind a
wall. Providentially they escaped unhurt, but the coach-
man distinctly saw the flash and heard the whizzing of
the bullet. The occurrence took place within a hundred
yards of the town of CoppoQuin.
As the Rev. Mr. Lewis was riding through the streets of
Dingle, on Monday, a violent mob assailed him, and his
horse was so frightened by the shoutings that it plunged
with its rider into a saw-pit. The horse lay for dead for
some minutes, but Mr. Lewis did not sustain any serious
injury. It is stated that denunciations still continue to
be hurled from the altar at all converts and missionaries.
Several of the rioters have been summoned.
LORD CLARENDON'S LETTHR TO LORD SHREWSBURY.
—The Freeman's Journal announces on the " best au-
thority" that the letter of the Lord Lieutenant to the
Earl of Shrewsbury, which appeared in a recent number
of the Tablet, is to form a matter for discussion in the
Court of Queen's Bench. Our contemporary adds—
" Some of the parties whose characters have been assailed,
and who have been themselves so grievously libelled in
the letter of the noble lord, have, we are informed, taken
the preliminary steps necessary to bring the matter under
the cognizance of the court. What particular form the
proceeding may take—whether the action is to be against
the journalist who first puhlished the letter, with the view
of reaching the author, or whether some other course may
be adopted—has not, we believe, yet been decided on."
PENANCE FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE SAXONS.—A
few days since a lady of this city perceived that her female
servant had not her morning business completed as usual,
and having reprimanded her for lying in bed to too late
an hour, Mary declared that she rose even earlier than
heretofore. The mistress said that could not be the fact,
and that her offence was heinously aggravated by false-
hood. Mary, wishing to continue to possess the good
opinion of her mistress, said, " Well, ma'am, I'll tell you
the truth—there's a new kind of a priest come to Cork,
they call him Lord Father Ignatius, who has put a new
kind of penance upon us. Our own clergy used to make
us say paters for our little sins, but this foreign priest
makes us pray for the conversion of the benighted En-
glish, all of whom, he says, will go to mass this year, if
we say four paters and three ayes every morning, and sure
that's too hard upon any poor girl who has to make three
fires, tidy the drawing-room and parlour, and boil the
kettle before nine."—Cork Constitution.