The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

was so much danger—at Present at least—in allowing
the President to manage the financial department!
But the General knows best.

His opinions ins various other topics are given with
like republican simplicity in_the speech; but it is un-
necessary that we—should make them the subject of
comment. He excessively dislikes the idea of a cur-
rency exclusively metallic, and looks upon it as fraught
with fatal consequences. His language on this point
is very pointed. "If any single scheme," he says,
" could produce the effect of arresting, at once, that
mutation of condition by which thousands of our most
indigent fellow-citizens, by their industry and enter-
prise, are raised to the possession of wealth, that is
the one. If there is one measure better calculated
than another to produce that state of things so much
deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich
are daily adding to their hoards, and the poor sinking
deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic cur-
rency."

But we shall not take up more space with a speech
so almost exclusively domestic, and designed only for
the citizens. All that he says on foreign relations is
contained in the single paragraph which we here re-
print :

" It may be proper that I should give some indications to
my fellow-citizens of my proposed course of conduct in the
management of our foreign relations. I assure them, there-
fore, that it is my intention to use every means in my power
to preserve the friendly intercourse which now so happily
subsists with every foreign nation ; and that, although, of
course, not well informed as to the state of any pending ne-
gotiations with any of them, I see in the personal characters
of the sovereigns. as well as in the mutual interest of our own
and of the governments with which our relations are most
intimate, a pleasing guarantee that the harmony so important
to the interests of their subjects, as well as our citizens, will
not be interrupted by the advancement of any claim or pre-
tension upon their part to which our honour would not per-
mit us to yiold. Long the defender of -my country's rights
in the field, I trust that my fellow-citizens will not see in my
earnest desire to preserve peace with foreign powers any in-
dication that their rights will ever be sacrificed, or the honour
of the nation tarnished, by any admission on the part of their
chief magistrate unworthy of their former glory."

This, it may be said, gives no pledge, and leaves the
causa Belli as between the States and us just as it was;
but the language is friendly, and the tone peaceful.
We would augur favourably from it. The General,
we think, will not favour the war cry, or party, and
we calculate will sincerely do his " possible" to main-
tain the relation of peace with us.

The political sermon—for such we may call it—
winds up with some wholesome advice to the intem-
perate of all parties, and a declaration, which it gave
us much pleasure to read, of the President's " pro-
found reverence for the Christian religion, and tho-
rough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty,
and a just sense of religious responsibility, are essen-
tially connected with all true and lasting happiness."

We copy the following important announcement
from the Morning Herald of yesterday :
" We have it in our power to announce that the French
government has given its adhesion to the new treaty agreed
upon in London for the settlement of the east. The signa-
ture of the French charg4 d'affaires has not yet been attached
to the convention, but the principle of the treaty has been
admitted and recognised. The main condition of the treaty
relates to the restoration of the command of the Bosphorus
and Dardanelles to the ancient usage of the Ottoman empire
and consequent renunciation of all renewal of the treaty of
Unkiar Skelessi. The essence of the treaty is that the isol6-
ment of France ceases, and that France is restored to her
proper position of equality and amity among the great powers
of Europe."

The Radicals seem in a woeful plight. They appear,
from the exposure which wiil be found in another co-
lumn, to have no bond of union ; and their whole pro-
ceedings prior to the election of the poor-law guardians
will be found to be of a piece with their usual conduct.
Mr. Aspinall deserves the warmest thanks of the public
for the manly and persevering part he has taken, and
we are glad to see, that whilst the stratagems of his
enemies have been defeated, the poor, through him,
have obtained a list of gentlemen who will invariably
stand up for their rights and liberties. We shall recur
to this subject.