The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-14 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The Augsbargh Gazette pul,ll;he; a letter from Constanti-
nople, of the 18th ult., announcing that the Sultan had ordered
the Capitan Pasha to attack Mehemet Ali's fleet, wherever
he met it. " This order," adds the letter, " has terrified the
whole corps diplomatique, who now consider war as imminent."
The Courrier Francais states, on the authority of letters
from Bucharest of Ir3th ult., that the General Assembly of
Wallachia had been suddenly dissolved after a session ()fairly
a few days, and that the government ordinance did nut men-
tion the period at which it was again to be convoked.

ilite-oave recel.—.!mpil•PßATANzota to the enu or :ti iv.
They contain but little news, but are not wholly withoutim-
portance, as they attest the continuing tranquillity of that
part of Colombia, and its progress in national imrrovenient,
which, with the exception of its finances, appear to be con-
siderable. The chambers and the government, keeping aloof
from the excitation which disturbs other provinces of :South
America, were chiefly directing their attention to internal
objects, the promotion of public industry, protecting and
favouring native manufactures, and entouraging the exten-
sion of commercial ship building, upon which much stress
is laid. Towards this latter object it had been decided to
exempt the materials of vessels from duties, and to release
the carpenters and other workmen engaged in these works
from serving in • the army or in the ranks of the national
guards, unless under circumstances of urgent necessity. A
loan of £lO,OOO was to be made to a company undertaking a
manufactory of earthenware, which was to be repaid in two
years. With all this protective liberality on the part of
government, however, it appears that the serious deficiency
of the revenue iu the last year, as compared with the pre-
ceding one, was sensibly and anxiously felt. An order had
been issued to the collectors of duties and taxes to insist
upon the payment of arrears, and to check smuggling, as it
was feared the returns would not meet the current expenses
of the state. General Francisco Paulo Santander had been
again chosen president of the republic, and M. Jose de
Obaldia vice-president, without any opposition. There had
dissensions amougs the ministers. M. Lino de Pambo,
offended at being foiled in the chamber and by his colleagues
respecting an appointment to the cathedral of Panama, had
resigned his departments of the home and foreign affairs,
alleging the decline of his health and the irritation of his
spirits as the cause. From the terms of his letter it would
seem that the post of minister is in New Grenada no more
a bed of roses than elsewhere. He says that the -' weary
labours of five years have shaken his health and intellectual
powers, and that the envy, ingratitude, calumny, and male-
volence with which he has been assailed have sickened his
heart and stink deeply into his soul." His resignation was
General Herzan, governor of Bogota, appointed in his stead.
The last accounts from the Escuador state that since the
dispersion of the faction of Riohambra no further disturb-
ances had taken place. There was nothing new from Vene-
zuela, and in no part of Colombia did any interest agpear
to be felt at what was passing in other parts of South Amtlica.