The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-01-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SPAIN.—M. Mon has at length produced his budget. It is as satisfactory as could be expected. He repeals some taxes and substitutes for them others. These are property and other direct taxes and duties on various articles of internal consumpt on. His proposals were received in silence. The bill for the more effectual suppression of the slave-trade has passed the senate. The nomination of General Schelly to the Captain-Generalship of Catalonia has been cancelled, and the post bestowed on General Concha, who has heretofore refused employment from the present government. The marriage of the Queen was beginning again to be talked of in political circles. Her Majesty was said to have an insurmountable aversion to the son of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula, and the Trapani connexion was no longer spoken of. The most perfect tranquillity prevailed throughout the country.  " Bishops for foreign countries, on due application therefrom, may be consecrated with the approbation of the bishops of this church, or a majority of them, signified to the presiding bishop. He, therefore, upon taking order for the same, and they being satisfied that the person designated for the office has been duly chosen, and is properly qualified. The order of consecration to be conformed, as nearly as may be, in the judgment of tbe bishops, to the one used in this church. Such bishops, so consecrated, shall not be eligible to the office of diocesan or assistant bishop in any diocese in the United States, nor be entitled to a seat in the house of bishops, nor exercise any episcopal authority in the United States." A candidate for the bishopric of Mississippi, who had been objected to on the ground of certain pecuniary speculations alleged to affect his moral character, was acquitted of wrong intentions, and his claims referred back to his diocesan convention. The testimonials of three bishops were approved, and their certificates signed. [The new prelates were subsequently consecrated in Christ's Church ; and three missionary bishops, for Turkey, Arkansas, and Texas, and Amoy and China, were consecrited in St. Peter's.] Sentence of suseensnn (amounting to excommunication) was passed on Bishop Onderdonk, who had resigned his Pennsylvanian episcopate, in consequence of an accusation of intemperance. A canon was adopted with a view to tint appointment of lay or primitive deacons, to read prayers, exhort, &c., in places unoccupied by regular clergymen. [A similar reform, it will be remembered, has been recommended by the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Morpeth, Lord Ashley, and a large number of other laymen, to the consideration of the Archbishop of Canterbury.] The whole of the proceedings of the convention sere conducted " decently and in order."  On the 28th of December last Mr. D'Arrest, at Berlin, discovered a comet near the star 15 Cygni.  Two c!!ess players, one in Baltimore mad the other in Washington, plated a game the other week by the electric telegraph of the railway !  In the last thirteen years the population of Lower Canada has increased 33 per cent. In 1831 it was 511,919, this s ear 678,590.  At Boton, on the 20th ultimo, three brick houses were removed, on a temporary railway, fifteen feet backward, for the purpose of widening a street. The buildings were not in the slightest degree shaken or damaged. Shakspeare is decidedly in the ascendant at Paris. Mr. trlacready has set all Paris studying the immortal English dramatist. The English theatrical company performed, by command, at the Tuilleries, on Thursday. It is said that the manufacture of cigars in Hamburgh has been carried to so great an extent as to have reached the annual total of 150,000,000 of clears, and that this single branch of business furnishes occupation for 100,000 work people. A gang of turkers have recently been tried and con•icted at Paris for murdering persons in order to sell the bodies. One of the ruffians, though under the sentence of death, plays at draughts daily with the person appointed to guard him. The King of Sweden, although strongly desirous of effacing capital punishment from the penal code of that country, has consented to its being retained, a large majority of the Conned of State having decided for the maintenance of it.  ParminaLtititia, Dec. 31.—The Rev. Mr. C. T. Torrey has, for aiding slaves to escape, been sentenced to six years' imprisonment in Baltimore; and for a similar act, Miss Webster has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Lexington. Kentucky. Mr. Walker, Missouri, and Mr. Kelly, in Virginia, have had the like sentences passed upon them. St a Cu