The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

SPAIN

News has been received from Madrid to the 10th instant.
The tranquillity of Madrid continued undisturbed, though a
died among the population, arising
rdinary aspect of affairs. The pro-
eeling embarrassed by the want of
cive measures to obtain the required

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from the present exteaur

1 Governrner
had ack

uecree had been passed requiring all state credi-
tor; to discharge their debts to the Treasury in the short
, and in case of non-compliance with this
!e was to be resorted to in order to compel
apitalists of Madrid had also been called
.ue an advance of 4,500,060 reals ; and a con)-
. cne body had been formed to arrange with the pro-
Government the terms upon which this loan was to

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The adhesion of the following town to the insurrectionary
movement had been officially announced by the provisional
Government :—Toledo, Burgos, Saragossa, Salamanca, Avila,
Caceres, Segovia, Soria, Huesca, Granada, Ciudad Real,
Cadiz, Lerida, Carthagena, Malaga, Almeria, Alinagro, San-
tander, and Logrono. Intelligence of the espousal of the
same cause by Calatayud, Palencia, and Valladolid had also
arrived. Seville was declared in a state of siege. Marote,
and several officers who signed the treaty of Bergara, had
made an offer of their services to the provisional Government.
The junta of Madrid, having learned that the Liberal Alcalde
of Murcia had been arrested by the political chief of that pro-
vince, declared their resolution to adopt measures of reta-
liation. in case of necessity, against all functionaries who

;hall oppose the spread of the insurrection.
The letter addressed by the Junta to the Queen-Regent,
laving as our readers are already aware, been returned un-
veiled' by the Queen's Minister for Foreign Affairs, the
Junta have declared the functionary responsible for the act,
and have forbidden ail persons to hold communication with
) long as he continues in the same official position.
reached Madrid that the Baron del Solar de
.d been proclaimed a traitor by the Junta of Bur-
military demonstration against the
iven by him not to commence

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EGYPT AND THE EAST.
Alexandria, dated the 31st ult., communicated
--lie de Toulon, state that the greatest enthu-
iled among the Egyptian population in favour of
of the Pasha. In the event of an attack being
i Alexandria, no doubt was entertained but that the
opulation would unite in opposing it. Mehemet Ali
;ording to these accounts, more firmly resolved than
resist the nronositinns of the four Powers. Another

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r from the same place, of the date of the 29th, announces
in a conference which Meheinet Ali had with Rifat Bey,
esence of the Consuls of the four Powers, he ex-
-qtisfaction with the arrangement proposed by
with respect to Egypt, and added that
.t with Syria for life.
ve order:s have been given to Ibrahim to
Son Constantinople as soon as the first cannon shall
and it is said that the Russians on their side are
dy to advance.

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:omits brought by the Papin, which reached
xandria on the 12th instant, it appears that

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opford, being informed of the expected arrival of
:ssel loaded with howitzers for the Pasha of Egypt,

d issued orders for its capture.
(From the Malawi Shark.)
SMYRNA. AUGUST 29.—The Leonidas French Government
tamer arrived on the 20th ; she had as passengers the
vedish Ambassador to the Court of Greece, M. le Chevalier

a, and his lady.
are at present without any ship of war in the
inn the Beacon, her Britannic Majesty's sur-
In consequence of the anniversary of the birth
the King of Holland. this vessel paid the cus-
ry honours, saluting the flag at mid-day with 21 guns.
s Excellency the Prince of Samos quitted our roads on
3d inst., in the French government steamer Dante, for
ftantinonle, where he arrived on the 2.5 th.

inner Lavoisier arrived here on the 26th,
on the 30th to join the French squadron,
days.before on a cruise in the gulf.
22. —The Thunderer and Ganges ar-
13th ; the Gorgon, from Alexandria,
!ienne, from Malta, on the 21st.
Turco-Egyptian brig, laden with
ke stores. She and the Castor had
vessels, all with warlike stores, one of
yptian man-of-war cutter from Alexandria ; and
on the 20th, a large Egyptian ship, formerly a
,ate, but no guns on hoard, with few men and
like stores. The vessels generally were bound to
The Ganges and Thunderer were anchored off the
camp, all ready for action, as were the Powerful
gh off the old castle and town. The Gorgon
.ere keeping under sail looking out for captures.
2,000 men at ..Beyrout, under the command of
ha. Abbas Pasha left that place on the 18th,
en, to reinforce the garrison of St. Jean d'Acre.
apwarkls of 4,000 Turks incorporated with the
vho were anxious to return to Constantinople,
;satisfied that they had been disarmed,
ers had escaped and got on board the
ish consul, Mr. Moore, and family,
s ship. Notwithstanding these events,
Litenant Shadwell of the Castor passed
hrough the country to Balbec and Da-
ml returned only on the 20th ult.

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