The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-20 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION,

A correspondent of the London Standard furnishes no
with some valuable calculations as to the division of opinion
amongst the people of England upon the present and last
preceding elections. He shows, that taking the number of
registered electors according to the registry of 1840 at
821,726, they were thus distributed in the respective elec-
tions of 1837 and 1841—

Electors wholly represented by 'Whig
Radicals
Electors wholly represented by Con-
servatives
Represented by the two parties
equally
In the proportion of two Conserva-
tives to one Whig-Radical
In the proportion of two Whig Radi-
cals to one Conservative

283,667 178,972

304,142 452,448

259,167 184,897

19,343 5,409

821,726 811,726

EASTERN AFFAIRS

(From the Times of yesterday.)
The accounts from the east, brought by the Levant mail.
due in Paris on the 14th instant, but which did not arrive
till the 17th, are of considerable interest.
Our private correspondence, dated Alexandria, 26th ult.,
states that since the solemn proclamation of the Sultan's
hatti-scheriff, no change had taken place in the interior ad-
ministration of the country, and that the same system of
commercial monopoly still continued in full force as before.
The prohibition against exporting flax seed had been ex-
tended to all the other productions of Egypt, and govern-
ment spies had been sent into the provinces to observe and
denounce such of the fellalis as should dare to sell their crops
to the merchants. The markets had been so badly supplied
with provisions that an absolute scarcity existed. The agri-
culturists were compelled to sell their stocks to the govern.
ment, and the latter supplied the merchants according to its
caprice. The pasha was of opinion that the time had not yet
arrived for establishing freedom of commerce. He was de-
termined to monopolise all the resources of the country in
order to supply funds to discharge the arrears of pay due to
his troops and civil officers, and which amount to 500,000,000
piastres. It was even considered impossible to introduce
the system of free trade into any part of the Turkish domini-
ons, the Turks never having learned to calculate
since their empire existed. The inhabitants of Libanon
had (like those of Toulouse) likewise refused to pay the new
duties, and threatened to take up arms against the newly-
appointed authorities. The Pasha, notwithstanding his pro-
mises to Commodore Napier, was determined to persevere
in his system of monopoly with respect to the military organ-
ization, to maintain everything on the same footing. He
continued even to levy as many soldiers as possible.
The fortifications at Alexandria were still being strength-
ened, and the Pasha himself assisted at the trial made on
the 22nd ult. of the guns in the new battery assisted near
the Lazaretto.

The National Guard at Alexandria performed the garri-
son duty of that city. The Redif or militia of Cairo had
surrendered their arms, because they were required to pay a
personal tax, and the prisons there were filled with unfortu-
nate inhabitants who were unable to comply.
The Egyptians were well satisfied to see these military pre-
parations, as they considered them necessary to prevent the
dismemberment of the Turkish empire, upon which it wee
reported M. Brunow and Lord Palmerston had resolved.

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