The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-06 00:00:00

reign. Ido not mean to say that there is no force in the
argument that men who have engaged the country in war
ought to have the responsibility of fighting it through,
but it is one of the most perilous principles that can be
admitted in this house to say that a ministry, however
reckless, unprincipled, and unfitted for office, have, merely
by some course of concealed and misunderstood diplomacy,
to involve this country in a contest with some foreign
country, and then say your majorities go for nothing—
your Reform Bills, your Education Bills, your Oaths Bill,
your Settlement Bill, and other things that we once
thought so necessary for a government in this country
and for your parliamentary system, must now go for.
nothing. We will not pass a single measure of any kind
except what refers to taxation ; and yet, having led the
country into this war, parliament must support us, and
we shall be able to defy any man.' We are engaged in a
war the object of which the government has never told us,
and the terms of peace that we contend for no man has
the slightest idea of. We have for an ally one who was
denounced by Cabinet Ministers 18 months ago, and who
is now about to take possession of four of the capitals of
Europe—Paris, Rome, Athens, and Constantinople. Seeing
that all these things have been caused by the policy of
the noble lord and his colleagues, I do not see any ground
on which they can call for the confidence of this house or
the approbation of the country.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.
General Baraguay returned to Paris on the
30th ult. M. Ebeling, the late Russian consul-general
at Paris, who expected to be allowed to remain as a
privateindividual, has been ordered by the French
Government to leave France.
EGYPT.
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Egypt continues in a very quiet state, the only steps
taken by the Pasha being to make soldiers to be sent to
the seat of war. Levies are being constantly made in the
interior, and the population of Egypt is being rapidly
diminished in consequence. Abbas Pasha is living in the
desert, and, as usual, does not attend at all to the adminis-
tration of affairs, and avoids all Europeans as much as
possible. Trade is almost at a stand, the Viceroy having
accumulated into his stores all the produce of the country,
which he refuses to sell. Vessels keep coming into port
in large numbers, and find no produce to take off, so that
freights are very low indeed. Beans 4s. per quarter, and
cotton id. per lb. Exchange on London, 99 piastres per
pound sterling

INDIA.
In Burmah affairs progress much the same as they did
at the date of our last summary.
The Bassein district•is still in an unsettled state; so much
so that it is not considered prudent to send the steamer
away at present. It is said that negotiations between the
authorities at Pegue and Ara are in progress, and that
Lord Dalhousie is likely to conclude a treaty with 'the
Monarch of the Golden Foot.

The most important item of intelligence has been the
opening of the Ganges Canal by the Lieutenant-Governor
of the North-West Provinces, Mr. John Colvin.
A most violent tornado passed from W.S.W. to E.N.E.
on the 10th ultimo, in Rungpoor, in Bengal. It caused
the most fearful loss of property and life, depopulating
villages, and carrying before it houses, cattle, and every-
thing that interrupted its course. Whole plantations of
bamboos were uprooted, and people were " gored and
spitted through like meat for roasting." The dead can be
numbered by hundreds.
The ship William Connall was lost ; three of the crew
drowned ; and it was doubtful if the cargo could be saved.