The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-19 00:00:00

out of the question.

But we can compel Russia to retrace her steps and re-
spect the British flag in all the seas which wash the shores
of the empire. How ? We can blockade the Sound—
we can stop the Baltic trade—we can put the broad ar-
row on Russian hemp, tallow, and other products. What
say you to this, Mr. POULETT THOMSON, member for
Manchester ? Russia, you know, can play the same
game -She can-Interdict our twist, hardware; and -other
manufactures. In that case what would the weavers,
spinners, cutlers, and ironfounders say ? If we insult
the Emperor in the north, cannot he be avenged in the
east ? If we blockade the Dardanelles, what is to pre-
vent him from marching an hundred thousand men into
Greece ? The Whig ministry of England have no allies
but, in the volatile and heartless French. Theirs is but a
compact of temporary necessity which they are sure to
disregard and violate at the next turn of the political tide.
In beart the French hate us with all the inveteracy of
undying pride and national prejudice. Their present al-
liancehas been forced upon them by dire misfortune, by
the eve.iits which followed in the wake of a series of revo-
lutionst The whigs, embrace the substitutes of the
Frens convention merely because they alone of the
whole European family Will condescend to acknowledge
them. With Austria they are not united by any bOnd of
union. With Prussia they can hardly be said to be on
good terms, that power having evinced the most unequi-
vocal opposition to the whole system of our commercial

policy. They have made the King of the Netherlands

their mortal enemy. Even in the shabby kingdom of
Portugal their friendship is scorned. In Spain we have
an army of thieves and desperadoes, but we are neither
thanked for our dastardly assistance nor courted for the
advantages of our power. The United States of Ame-
rica are not worth talking about in an European question
of this nature. The friendship of that community of
"irresponsible vagabonds" is literally worth nothing.
It lives upon affidavits; and its notaries gain more money
by the institution of pretended claims, for ships never
lost, for goods never burnt, for injuries. never sustained,
for confiscations never made, than by any other means

known to the legitimate exercise of arms or fair negotia

How, then, can the whigs hope to play any successful
part in an European war, without allies, without re-
sourCes, and with the whole of our colonial system, from
Canada to the East Indies, in a state of active and fear-
ful convulsion ? It is utterly impossible. If they think
that a war with Russia would be popular they are most
miserably deceiving themselves. The policy of the War
would be judged by its results; for, after all, there are
no principles involved in the contest. If an immense
fleet is despatched to the Bosphorus calculators will spe-
culate upon the consequences. The funded securities
would fall. A check.would be given to trade and to. the
money market which would indubitably lead to a panic.
The first cannon ball that is fired will sink the three per
cents. from 91 to 70, and every enterprise and speculation
in the three kingdoms must be suspended or abandoned.

It does not affect our argument to assume that this na-
val armament is destined for the shores of Spain. If we
interfere at all we must take, all the consequences. If
IsArEL must be placed securely on the throne, why should
WILLIAM of HOLLAND not be replaced in his former po-
sition as King of the territory comprised under the con-
ventional treaty which formed his Netherland dominions?
People talk about the violation of the treaty of Vienna
in the case of the Poles. The first violation was the in-
vasion of Belgium by the French. It was a shaineful
and atrocious act—disgraceful to all the powers of Eu-
rope, and doubly infamous, inasmuch as England made
herself a party to the invasion. To conclude, we know
not the destination of the ships now fitting out, nor the
object of the active and expensive recruiting for sailors
in all the outports; but this we do say, if hostile pro-
ceedings he resolved upon by the British government
against any power in Europe, a war fire will be fanned
the light of which will not be quenched during the life-
time of the youngest member of the rising generation.

REMAINS 01, ANCIENT LIVERPoOL—Dliring the progress of
the alterations whit.h are making in Pool-lane, to widen that
great leading thoroughfare, the stone foundation of one of the
houses was found to be laid in clay, instead of mortar, and the
walls of the lower apartment covered with clay, mixed with
straw or star-grass, such as is found on the margin of swamps
and the seashore; amongst the sandhills. The same building
contained a small square subterranean apartment, with a fire
place, without a doorway into it on any side. There was, how-
ever, one opening into this secret chamber, by a hole in the
ceif.re of the arch by which it was covered. There were no sub-
ject; of bygOne thnes to indicate the use to which this vault had
heel:. put. •