The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(From the Correspondent of the Standard.)
THE NEW SIINISTEY.
That the DPW ministry is unpopular—most unpopular—no
one, I think, will venture to deny. Since Prince Polignac and
his coadjutors were named in 1829, by Charles X., nothing like
such a cry as was then heard on all sides has been uttered in
France till to-day. There is such an unanimity in the opinions
of all classes, except the doctrinaires (and men of wealth and
rank, who are, generally speaking, for M. Guizot) that it will
really be next to impossible for the cabinet to stand. Thegauche,
the centre-qatiche. the extreme-gauche, the extreme-drat, and even
a large portion of the droit, are all against the Guizot adminis-
tration, which has only a portion of the droit and the centre-drat
in its favour. Ido not merely speak now of the Chamber of
Deputies, but of all France.
Without a dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies, I am
satisfied the ministry cannot stand. With that measure every
thing is possible in France, but a doctrinaire majority in a new
chamber would appear to me almost a miracle.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The steam-packet, the Styx, which carried out Marshal
Clausal, arrived at Toulon on the 3d instant, bringing letters of
the 31st ult. from Algiers, of which the following are extracts :
" The Marshal landed on the 29th and was received with the
most enthusiastic tokens of welcome and joy. Some unfortu-
nate riots, however, took place on the 29th, at a short distance
from Algiers, where a post of Arabs which was celebrating the
event of the day, refused to admit of Arabs from the other posts.
' A conflict ensued, in which eight men lost their lives, and
about 15 were wounded, knives as well as bludgeons 'being
brought into play. Another lamentable event has occurred.
The widow of an officer, her two daughters, and a young child
they had adopted, lived in a country house in the quarter called
Bid Maz Reiz, in the environs of the town. On the 25th, a
servant who went to them daily from the city, on arriving at the
house, found the whole four murdered, together with a M.
Meunier, a mercer of the town, who generally slept at the
house. Nothing was stolen, but no doubt is entertained that
this horrible massacre has been committed by a Frenchman,
and was dictated by jealousy; as some letters which were in a
secretary have been found stained with the blood of the victims.
The murderer has not yet been discovered."
The Nouvelliste Vaudois, of the 2,1 instant, contains the fol-
lowing :—" New circumstances come to light every day with
regard to the conduct of the French embassy. The last pass-
port of Conseil is written in the hand of M. de Belleval, secre-
tary to the embassy ; and the able investigations of M. Luft,
and some sworn examiners, have proved that the list of refugees
to be watched, dictated to Conseil by M. de Belleval, are in the
handwriting of the same diplomatist. Conseil had himself
written the French names; but, being embarrassed with the
German ones beginning with Rauschenplatt, had given the pen
to M. de Belleval. Conseil himself acknowledges all this.
The note written to M. de Montebello has been delivered after
having been carefully copied." ,
SPAIN.

(Private Correspondence of the Morning Herald.)
MAYCAYK, SEPT. 4.—This afternoon I received letters from
the head-quarters of Don Carlos, dated Aspeitia, the 3d. No-
thing of any importance had occurred since my last. General
Villareal had once more established his head-quarters on the
line of Arlaban to observe Rodil, who entered ittoria on the
28th of last month at the head of eight battalions of fresh troops
from the interior.

It would appear that the Carlists are determined to push their
advantages in Arragon and Valencia. Brigadier Don Pablo
Sanz, who commands the expedition which marched from Na-
varre on the 29th, will have under his order all the troops in
both these provinces; Brigadier Don Joaquin Elio acc.un-
panies Sanz, as chief of the staff. 'Phis expedition is the result
of a demand made by Cabrera and Quilez, who desired a man
of military talent to take the chief command of the province;
the choice fell on Pablo Sanz.

General Gomez, after remaining a short time in Valencia,
took the direction of Penafiel with 4000 infantry and 800 ca-
valry. Villalobos, with the remainder of the first division of the
Asturian expedition, remained in the kingdom of Leon. Es-
partero continues to pursue Gomez, halting when he halts, and
marching when he marches. Espartero has already incurred
the displeasure of the constitutional heroes, and is called a traitor
and Carlist.

The Carlists are strongly fortifying Irun and Fontarabia.
Near the former they have constructed a strong fort in stone,
called Fuerte del Parque, and three covered ways of great
depth, one leading to the Casa de la Villa, which is strongly
barricaded; the second takes the direction by the fort to the
house of M. Olazabal; and the third extends to the left of the
town as far as a large square house, which is also strongly
barricaded.

The French legion remains inactive, and nothing fresh on
:he line Valcarlos.

RUSSIA. •
The Prussian State Gazette announces that a proclamation
has appeared at St. Petersburgh, dated the 21st ult., ordering
for this year only a general levy of recruits throughout the whole
of the Russian empire. The reason of this measure is stated
by the proclamation to be the too great diminution of the num-
bers of the regiments, in consequence of the privilege of unli-
mited furlough granted to soldiers who have conducted them-
selves well during twenty years' service, and the prejudice
resulting to the state by the consequent unequal distribution of
the levies. The proclamation, therefore, orders that five re-
cruits shall be levied out of every one thousand males of the
total population of the empire, and that all the laws relating to
the levying of recruits shall this year be observed strictly.—
The Cossacks and the military colonies of cavalry are not ex-
cepted. Bessarabia and Grousia only are to enjoy that favour.
PORTUGAL.
LISBON, AUG. 28.—The Diario do Govern() from the 22d to
the 27th of August inclusive is chiefly filled with advertisements
of the sale of national property, Nos. 2025 and 2185, and ex-
tracts from the Spanish journals down to the 20th of August.
The Queen, considering the necessity of preserving the books,
manuscripts, paintings, and other valuable literary and scienti-
fic effects that belonged to the dissolved monasteries, and to
make use of these powerful means to diffuse knowledge and en-
courage a taste for letters and the fine arts by establishing in
each of the capitals of the districts of these kingdoms and adja-
cent islands a public library, and a selection of rarities of all
kinds, and another of paintings, orders the governor of Coimbra
to inquire without delay what buildings in that city would be
the most suitable for these establishments, and to take measures
to form them as soon as possible.
TURKEY.

CoNSTANTINOPLE, &cc,. 17.—Yesterday the Sultan's portrait
was transported with extreme pomp to the Sublime Porte, on
which occasion several of the heads of the religious orders were
called upon to join the procession, and honour the representa-
tion of Majesty. The next portrait, it is said, is to be put up
at the very Palace of the Sheikh-il-Islam himself! I much
question.the Sultan's wisdom in thus disgusting the majority of
his subjects, and I almost fear that his vanity, strengthened by
the insidious suggestions of Russian partisans, is carrying him
too far.

A firman, like that granted in December last to Lord Pon-
sonby, for the protection of British trade in Egypt and Syra,
has been accorded to Baron Itoussin, to be applicable to French
trade. Neither of them will be of much utility if Mehemet Ali
be not controlled in his vexatious, unprincipled, and ruinous
career. Here the Customs department is going on with very
little regard to the capitulations. Last week, without the
slightest previous notice, the high duties on silk were doubled.
This falls heavily upon merchants who had made purchases in
the interior, without taking into account such an advance. I
know that a greatly augmented impost on oil of roses has had
iliereffect of banishing the article almost totally from the Custom
House books.—Standard.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE JOINT STOCK

BA NKS,

(From the Times.)
FRIDAY EVENING.—Much inquiry has been made to-day in
the city respecting the impression made on the trading interests
of Liverpool and Manchester, by the recent rejection of their
first-rate bills by the Bank of England, for the ascertaining of
which a sufficient time has now elapsed. Most of the letters
from thence touch more or less on the subject, but the annexed
extract from one of thdm is chosen as best describing .the feel-
ing that exists there, and it is worthy of attention also as
hinting at the sort of remedy likely to be set up for such griev-
ances:—

" LIVERPOOL, Sept. IB36.—"The conduct of the Directors°,
the Bank of England at the present moment is necessarily the'
subject of much-discussion here. The remark is fairly made'
that the public do not know all that the Bank Directors know,
which is very true; but still the feeling will and must prevail,
that the currency of the country is a great deal too much under
the control of a particular set of individuals. Out of this feeling
b"rows the impression, that sooner or later some power must be
rought forward, capable of rendering the commercial commu-
nity less dependent upon the Bank of England than it now is.
Perhaps this power is already rising up in the joint-stock banks.
Although the deputation which recently went to London from
the Bank of Liverpool has maintained a becoming reserve on
its interview with the Directors of the Bank of Eng.land, it is
very well understood that they took pretty independent ground;
that they urged npon the bank that the sending an order to the
branch bank here not to discount the aceptances of certain
houses, without any regard to the endorsetnants on such bills,
was not paying a becoming respect to such an establishment as
that of the Bank of Liverpool. Immediately on the return of
the deputation, the Bank of Liverpool made known that they
were ready to discount all the acceptances offered to them of
the houses in question. We have now in this town and in Man-
chester 14 joint-stock banks, whose money capital amounts to
about £5,200,000. This is not a small sum. The responsibility
which they conjointly offer in other respects cannot in the low-
est view of it, be taken at less than £20,000,000 more. Prices
of manufactures at Manchester are rather looking down. The
purchases for export are diminishing."