The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon of the 7th.
The news from Lisbon is of the highest and most serious
importance. The Septembrist party have long been en-
gaged in conspiring to overturn the present order of
things, and have raised considerable sums of money to
bribe the army. The principal mover in this revolu-
tionary attempt is Count Bomfim, formerly Minister of
War. Orders were despatched to Faro to arrest nearly
half of the officers of the sth battalion and artillery sta-
tioned at that place ; similar orders were also sent off to
other towns to effect similar arrests. The 4th cavalry at
Torress Novas openly declared themselves hostile to the
ministry. The garrison at Elves has, it is said, also re-
volted, and shot the governor. Lisbon is in a state of
high excitement ; the troops are under arms every night,
and supernumerary sentinels have been stationed i❑ diffe-
rent places, in order to watch the movements of every sus-
picious person.

On the recent marriage of one of the Russian Princesses
to the Crown Prince of Denmark, the Emperor presented
to the bride a set of diamonds valued at £75,000.

The Queen's troops at present serving in India are
composed of five cavalry regiments, each 674 strong; 23
regiments of infantry, each, 1,000 strong; making a
total of 26,370 men.

Cardinal Spada, who died at Rome a short time ago,
has left a sum equalling 54,000 f. to the brotherhood of
charity to which he belonged, to be employed in defend-
ing the poor, and particularly working men, when brought
before the tribunals.

NAUVOO.—Two young men natives of Longton, near
Preston, have just returned from this notorious place,
well known as the city of the Mormonites in America.
They have been absent nearly three years, and resided
principally at Nauvoo. Nauvoo, they state, contains
about 15,000 inhabitants, nearly three fourths of whom
are of the Mormonite persuasion. Joe Smith, the
Mormon prophet, lives there, and keeps a splendid esta-
blishment; drives about in his carriage, attended by two
footmen, and accompanied by a number of young ladies,
who were left orphans in their childhood, and whom he
has taken under his guardianship and protection. Joe
also keeps a black cook, at high wages, and is considered
quite a go-a-head character : he is the great " lion" of
the day, and his name is on every one's tongue. In the
summer months, crowds of visitors flock to see him, and
the President himself does not enjoy greater celebrity.
An arrest, it is said, again hangs over him : dissensions
and disturbances are, moreover, rife among his disciples
—the Mormonites, who are, generally, very much dis-
satisfied with their prospects. Many, both Yankee and
English, have come to Nauvoo, expecting to make a for-
tune, but they have been grievously deceived in their an-
ticipations. Few English, in fact, when they arrive there,
are considered worthy to hold any office of trust or emolu-
ment. Numbers of them, last winter, were out of work
for five months, on account of the severity of the season.
The frost and snow set in early in November, and con-
tinued till April. Their sufferings were beyond descrip-
tion. They were without shoes and clothing : they lived
on the coarsest food, scarcely fit for hogs, and were
huddled together in houses to which there were neither
doors nor windows. Last fall, as it is termed, the num-
ber of deaths among the Mormonites, especially the
English portion of them, was fearfully great : the heat,
and the vapoury emanations from the Mississipi, spread
dysentery, diaarlicea, jaundice, fever, and ague among
them, and they sickened and died by hundreds. Such is
this city of these " Latter Day Saints," where the in-
habitants have to live in winter like bees on what they
have hived in summer, and where their summer employ-
ment consists in making bricks and building houses with
them, as well as of logs, of mud, and of sods. The begging
and imposture of the Mormonites, we understand, have
greatly tended to disgrace the English character in the
eyes of the Dutch and French of St. Louis. Nor has the
ardour for emigrating to the country of the Mormons
abated; numbers of deluded creatures continue to embark
from Liverpool, expecting, when they reach the " pro-
mised land," that heaven and fortune will speedily be
gained, and all their hopes crowned with a blessed fruition.