The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-02 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1836.

Our foreign intelligence, furnished by the. French
papers, is conclusive as to the Tiers-etat ministry. That
cabinet, from its first formation, had been rife in petty
intrigue; from the very first, its policy with regard to
Spain exhibited one continued round of Charlaianerie,
under the management of its chief and the crafty policy
of Louis Phillipe. As it lived without at any time pos-
sessing the confidence of the French. people or of the
European cabinets, (always, of course, saving and ex-
cepting that of our Palmerstonian "porte feuille,") and
always the object of the bitter jealousy and rancorous
secret hostility of another rival party, so it died with-
out honour and without any expression of regret."
Our own truly intelligent and keen-sighted ministers
have before them another splendid opportunity for dis,
playing, turdisturbed by parliamentary, intrusion, to
great personal advantage and the certain increase of
diplomatic reputation, before the English people especial-
ly, the superior claims of that versatile talent—that tact
for accommodation which has been the distinguishing
feature of their expedient policy, domestic and foreign.
Our " jeune secretaire" and his playful associates

Messrs. Lambkin and Co.) eminently possess the re-

cherche quality of being adepts in making the worse ap.
pear the better reason. For a long time, having closely
watched his political course, we thought that this great
gift of human ingenuity belonged exclusively to our noble
and learned friend ex-Chancellor Brougham ; but it seems
we were mistaken, and that these reckless whip, in
their fondness for the principle of " appropriation," have
had the assurance to appropriate even this last remaining
and gaudy feather to themselves !

As bladders swim upon the surface whilst things of
weight and substance fall to the bottom, so, in the esti-
mation of the feeble parasites who support by their dig-
mal drudgery the sayings and doings of the all-sapient
renegade whip, the bubbles are blown onward with the
fan of dissimulation, and even their vaporous work is un-
blushingly lauded forth to the public. Such garbage
certainly suits the taste of the admiring crowd of greedy,
hungry, open-mouthed liberals, whose powers of reflec-

tion, or even of comprehension, do not enable them to
distinguish between cause and effect, or between shadow
anti substance, in domestic legislation, nor to understand
the value of honest independence, in connexion with our

foreign interests, as a great commercial nation. We
ought to contrast the latter with that mountebanking
and time•serving finesse which has stamped the govern.
ment of the present ministry before the powers of Europe

—a system of policy which has at once disparaged our

honour and sullied the bard-earned reputation of our
chivalric character, maintained before the world in arms,
and which has deeply injured our colonial interests.
We have been honoured with the plaisanterie basse of

the whole pack of ministerial jackals, who, in the exercise
of their predatory avocation, or rather their necromantic
genius, found what proved to be a "a mare's nest" in
our shrubbery. We thank them for their assiduity and
for the publicity they have given to the woeful discovery,
theiliad has proved a good advertisement or our .psisai-,
pies, and we earnestly hope it will serve the cause with
which we are in heart and soul identified, under the
exposition given of their folly, their weakness, and their
malignity. Giving them the full benefit of this hint en
passant and all the advantages of their boufoonerie
malicieuse before the intelligent world, we return to
our immediate objects—the policy of our whig sympa-
thizing cabinet, and the position of our foreign friends.
'The denouement of the Spanish tragedy is already be-
fore our eyes. To the concoction of the dark plot the
Foreign Secretary has unwillingly and fatally (we will
not say designedly) lent a powerful hand by his pre
sumptuous interference with that of which it is perfectly
clear he was entirely ignorant. True it is we are at
present deprived of the benefit of his lordship's lucid ex-
positions and explanations on this most thrilling subject,
the events connected with which may yet, and that ere
long, shake the repose of Europe to its :ery centre. But
we can form our own opinion, and no thanks to him, on
the consequences and on the aspect of things from our
own means and sources of information; we can also form
our indications from the great skill, the judgment, and
the permissive development of this malady by the official
organs of our noble Foreign Secretary and his colleagues,
—even the mighty Globe itself will astound us with the
powers of its logic, and by " le pempli le vent" as its war-
note, in keeping with the grand principle of its employ-
ers, making wrong to be right.
Thus, we are informed by the Globe, that the procla-
mation and adoption by the Spaniards of the constitution
of 1812 is the result of a well. grounded and almost uni-
versal feeling of discontent ; but then it is neither insur-
rectionary nor revolutionary! Was there ever argu
ment so preposterous ? , This very paper with the same
breath tells us, that this warmly-desired constitution for
Spain is not suited for it without great modification, and
by no means likely in its present form to be permanent.