The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-26 00:00:00

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VORTUGAT

Advice' have been received from Portugal to the 18th
instant. The reconstruction of the cabinet (all the chief
men being retained) was suspended until the Duke of Pal-
melte should make known his final decision ; that this would
be to accept office there was no doubt. The Ministers of
Marine and Justice would certainly be superseded, and the
latter was to be elected to the Presidency of the Chamber of
Deputies. From the fencing and want of cordial co-opera-
tion with reference to the tariff reductions, to be considered
in the supplemental article of the treaty, our correspondent
announced positively his conviction that the convention
would not be concluded for months to come, and that the
mercantile community would not derive any practical benefit
from the treaty during the year 1842. Our correspondent
furnishes us with a resume of the Portuguese Commission-
ers' labours, from which it would appear that no progress
whatever had been made towards a settlement; the report of
the Commissioners had been referred by the Government to
Baron Tojal for his judgment upon its recommendation.
The Baron returned it with a favourable answer to the Go-
vernment on the day our correspondent wrote, and a con-
ference with the Portuguese Plenipotentiary would immedi-
ately follow, fortified by which he would make a proposition
to the British Envoy. But this would not further matters
very much, and the initiation of liberality would probably
have to be eventually taken by our own Government. The
exchange of the ratifications of the commercial and slave
trade treaties would probably take place in about six weeks'
time. Both Legislative Chambers were as yet occupied with
preparatory labours. The elections, however, with very rare
exceptions, bad been pronounced valid. The Portuguese
army was to be immediately increased by 4,295 men. A de-
cree had appeared for the immediate and effectual enforce-
ment of a tax of 10 per cent. upon every description of pro-
perty.

BRAZILS

Her Majesty's brig packet Petrel, :Lieut. Crocke com-
mander, arrived at Falmouth on Friday, from the Brazils.
Her dates of departure are, from Rio de Janeiro, May 25 ;
Bahia, June 9 : and Pernambuco, June 15 : on freight about
£32,000 in treasure, and nine passengers. The Ranger
packet, Lieut. Turner, with the outward mails, had reached
Rio on the 23d of May. The exchange at that city was 271,
and at Bahia 27.
The departure of the Petrel from Rio being only four days
after her Majesty's ship Actaeon arrived at Portsmouth, she
brings little additional information of a general or political
character. The dissolution of the chambers had given rise
to a great deal of angry feeling on the part of the deputies
favourable to the opposition, and it was feared that some in-
surrectionary movement would take place in San Paulo, the
native province of the two Andrados (the heads of the late
ministry), as soon as those senators should arrive there.
Four steamers bad been despatched to Santos with troops,
which disembarked there on the 18th of May, and proceeded
at once to the city of San Paulo. This prompt measure was
calculated to restore order, and accounts were daily expected
at Rio that tranquillity had been established. The elections

to the new chambers had not commenced, although the writs
were issued when the Petrel sailed.

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF ORLEANS

The following is the programme of the arrangements
making for the funeral of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Orleans