The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-20 00:00:00

SPAIN

(From the Standard.)
The intelligence from Madrid of the 7th inst. is to-day of
great importance. " the most alarming rumours (says the
correspondent) are in circula lion as to the movements of Gomez.
One version represents that chief as having arrived within lice
leagues of A ranjuez. According to other reports he is march-
ing against Tarancon, and is endeavouring to follow the same
road as Cabrera. An event of the greatest moment has just
been communicated to me, viz., that the division of Alaix, of
which Narvaez has taken the command, have revolted, and re-
demanded Alaix for its leader. We know not how far this
news may be relied on."
It is very extraordinary, that the forces of Gomez, which we
were told were reduced to 20/0, or at most to 3000 troops, should
now, by the Christinos themselves, be estimated at 1,1,000 by
some, and at 9000 by others. The Provisional Junta of Alcan-
deta writes to the Minister of Wzir, that, on the 29th of Novem-
ber, the faction of Gomez, 14,000 strong (and according to
others only 9000,) presented itself suddenly before tflt town.
The same day it took to flight, being unexpectedly at eked by
General Alaix. Gomez lost many men, killed and wounded.
"The Queen's troops lost only one single chasseur !"
Letters from Bail,:joz state that the Commandant General of
Caceres had defeated the faction of Santiago Leon, near Cabe-
zuela : 153 rebels had presented themselves within the time fixed
by his proclamation. The levy of the recruits, and the organi-
sation of the mobilised National Guards is continuing through-
out Estremadura; and the greatest part of the contributions of
that province towards the loan of 200,000,000 of reals will soon
be paid.

(From the Eco of the 6th.)
"SUB-DELEGATION OF OCAGNA.
"Excellent Sir,—From news that I this moment receive (it
is about eleven at night) from Quintanar del Order, and from
Corral de A lenagner, it appears that Gomez marched this morn-
ing near Mota del, Cuerne, in the direction nt' the Hinojosos,
lumbering from 7000 to 8000 men, much fatigued, and that the
Queen's troops were yesterday in Tomellosso, seven leagues be-
hind, in pursuit. The &Icaltle of Corral says that the faction
divided into two bodies, the one entering Vilmavor de San-
tiago at about eleven o'clock this morning, the other going
towards Belmonte. The divisio❑ of General Alaix slel4 last
night at Tomelloso." Dated from Ocagna, Dec. 5, and signed
.1. Pacheco;
" P.S. Later news has arrived to-night from the Jui,ticia of
Villarubia de Santiago, that Gomez at nightfall entered the vil-
lage of Horcajo de Santiago.
"General San Miguel left Cuenca on the 2d in the direction
of Priepzo: so that at present be must have arrived on the Tagus
before the rebels."

MEXICO.
•
The annexed official. documents contain matter of some inte-
rest for those concerned in the trade with Mexico and South
- America :

--
'Oflte of Conimiuee of Privy Council for Trade.
Wall, D.
" Sir,—l am directed" by thehiteh Lordsec ofl4 36
the Committee of
Privy Council fur Trade, to acquaint you, for the information
of the gentlemen interested in the South American trade, that
their Lordships have received a letter from Lord Palmerston,
transmitting a despatch from his Majesty's Minister at !Mexico,
dated the 6th of September, whereby it appears that the Mexican
Congress have passed a decree, directing that the practice of
exacting security from the masters of vessels proceeding to the
Laguna de Termines for logwood,' after they had already paid
tonnage-ditty at the port of delivery of their import cargo, shall
be discontinued, and declaring that in such eases a second ton-
nage-duty, had not been legally payable, and giving the like
benefit to vessels driven by stress of weather into, the ports of
the Republic, for which cases fr)visi. n had not been made by
any pre-existing law.
"Their Lordships further direct me to observe, that as con-
siderabte sums will have to be refunded by the agents at Lugana
de Terminos in respect of the deposits, to the extent of which
they may have given security at the Custom-house, it is advise-
able to give imniediAte publicity to the above-mentioned decree.
"I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
"J. D. HUME."

"Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
" Whitehall, Dec. 1-1, 183 b.
• " Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, to acquaint you, for the information of the
gentlemen engaged in the South American trade, that a despatch
bu been received by his Majesty's Government from the actinic
British Consul at Islay, dated the 10th of November, announc-
ing that the Government of the South Peruvian State have de-
clared Arica to be a port of deposit.
"I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
"John D. Powles, Esq. "J. D. flume."

THI PRICX OF SUPFRIORITY.—When Lady Bute was nearly
grown up, some of her young friends wanted to bring about an
• acquaitance between her and Miss Furnese an heiress of her
• own age. Miss 'Wortley had no objection, but Miss Furnese
held off, and so resolotely, that they insisted upon knowing the
reason. " Whi7. then (said she at last) 1 will honestly own,
: your praises of 'Miss Wortley make me sure I shall dislike her.
Yon tell me she is lively and clever, now I know I ant very
' dull; so, of course, she will despise me, and turn me into ridi
cule, and lam resolved to keep out of her way." The young
set laughed most heartily at this avowal ; and Lady Bute, laugh-
• 1,12, toe, swim told of it, ran to divert her mother with the story.
uf. %stead of amusing Lady Mary, it made her unusually
""'"",- " Now child, (she began, after a moment's reflection)
at;
antint nverethinnogain 'this but a good joke, an absurdity to laugh
ceived_oaa
whleeware of the important lesson you have re-
What that poor
allrYtolla ought to remember as long as you live.
more than swim inas,l her simplicity has uttered aloud, is no
will meet with. tbostesv:lll%,the mind of every dull person you
cleat in ability always look° cannot but feel that they are deft.
on people cleverer than thweaxith T mixture of fear and aversion
their natural enemies. If ever, then
regarding them as born
yourself
by the reputation of superiority, remn'eYr feel flattered
dish that to be the object
of suspicion, jealous", and a secret
c "the
re = price you must pay for it.' —Lady M. Fv. men: .
yue;

TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 20, 1836.

We have, for some time, felt great surprise at the little
public concern with which a British ministry may be
lost—for, as if touched by the wand of some political
Harlequin, the word, prorogation, consigned them to
silent oblivion. Not only a rich argosy foundered at sea,
but even an absconded apprentice, excites longer inte-
rest, and more matter for conversation. The curtain is
no sooner dropped, and the play over, than my Lord
John Russell and Viscount Melbourne, who figured upon
the stage in all the late tragi-comedies, have disappeared,
with their subordinates, down to the scene-shifters and
candle-snuffers of the parliamentary theatre. Surely
some political Melibaeus might be found to chant a re-
quiem over the "remains" of a departing administra-
.tion, or to console despairing radicalism with the hope,
that they who ate 'perishing as ministers, may rise again
as agitators, to disturb the land—that they n•liOlviearv(elubreoeuns
the 'caterpillars of the state, devouring
its
leaves, will shortly spread their gaudy Wings, and hum
in florid declamation, like painted butterflies, and as
harmless. But let us trace them in their larva state—in
which, though there is no sign of motion, there still is
life—perhaps we shall be able to take off' a little of the
painted down of the future moth.
What has become of Lord John Russell and Viscount
Melbourne ? In all the-late movements of our political
hemisphere we have never once seen those blazing stars
whose ever ominous appearance
" disastrous twilight sheds
O'er bait the nations—and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs"—
their own, and all with whom their country is connected
Are they, luminously, slumbering on beds of down—

steeped in Lethean forgetfulness of dangers past, and
perils to come ? Are they dreaming over again of the
hair-breadth escapes of the last session's campaign ? If
such be their repose, we fancy we hear them exclaim,
with Clarence, " we would not pass another such a night,
though 't were to buy a world of happy days, so full of
dreadful horrors was the time." But, we fear, they sel-
dom sleep " the innocent sleep;" or, if even their eye-
lids are weighed down with sleep, the spectre of depart-
ing power draws their curtain, and finding them as pale
as Priam, cries, sleep no more—" Troy is burnt:' When

the summons arrived for Lord John and Viscount Mel-
bourne to disencumber themselves of the load of govern-
ment, which had been awkwardly placed upon their shoul-
ders, and which they bad " heavily borne," with what
alacrity did they dive into the stream of obscurity, from
which they have not vet emerged; but such amphibious
creatures, which are neither fish nor fowl, and yet, like
CElia Lcelia Crispina, are compounds of all contradic-
tions—can live in any element; either the turbid " wa,