The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-01 00:00:00

1, 18'14

MOnlemor, on behalf of her brother, Dorn Miguel, which
led to the _Queen's issuin a-positive order for her return
the,capital from SaMora, where she was at the time
~t,y.),40-g; fhb request was inimediatelkcomplied with.

Lord floWaid de Walden has, come home in the

Iberia.

Advices from Alexandria of the 6th instant state that
an express had arrived in the night from Syria, with de-
spatches announcing the .cessation of hostilities in that
-country. The Druses, after four unsuccessful attacks
against the Egyptia❑ troops, had implored the mercy of
Hussein Pasha, who refused to listen to any propositions
of peace until the insurgents should have first laid down
their arms. - The plague had manifested itself at Jaffa;
five persons had died of it at the house of the Russian
Consul. The British government had obtained the ces-
. Sion of. Aden from the, Sultan of that district for a sum of
-30,000 f. (£1200.) That town is considered the key of
the Red Sea ; and its harbour, one of the best along
that coast, is.spacious enough to contain a large fleet.
From Bogota papers have been received to the midge
of March. The province of New Grenada was at peace
and in unity witty its neighbours and foreigners, but to-
• wards Spain no advancement had been made in forming
friendly relations. Mr. Turner, the-English minister to
New Grenada, had his audience of leave for a temporary
absence on the 4th •of March. By the congratulations
which passed between him and the ministers it would
appear that the good understanding between the Eng-
lish and New Grenada governments which had been in-
' terrupted by the imprisonment of the vice consul at Pa-
- namkitad been entirely reStofed.
Buenos A:r•res papers to the end of February have been
received. They eqntain no domestic news i• for the Ar-
gentine republic, except as' regards its wanton quarrel
with Peru, is undisturbed by agitation of any political
kind; but upon the unmeaning-struggle which is still
maintained in the neighbouring' state, of the oriental re-
public, they supply some .particulars. The warfare still
wears an undecided character, but inclines to favour what
is called the established government. The chief rebel,
Rivets, after sitting doWn before Monte Video, the ca-
pital, had withdrawn with.. 1,500 men, the whole of his
army- During this investruent the place was kept in a
state of great_ excitement, and it required a small body
of Frenchmen from a vessel•of war to assure the inhabi-
, tants."..General Latallega had gone in pursnit of the re-
bels, and an immediate conflict was regarded by the last
accounts as inevitable. The existing government calcu-
lated upon drawing the war to a conclusion upon this
occasion.

There is no other foreign news of any importance.
' From the relative position of the belligerent parties in
Spain we may expect daily to hear of a decisive engage-
ment.

hRiSFi POLICY.—From recent manifestations in both
• Rouses of Parliament, as well as from the language of
the ministerial organs of the press,_ the conviction is
forced upon us that the-political leaders both in the
Lords and Commons are calculating upon a coalition.
The unaccountable conduct of the- Duke of Wellington
in reference to the Itisli Education system, viewed in
connection with the numberless instances of his interfer-
ence on behalf of Lord Melbourne and his associates in
office, is undoubtedly calculated to excite a strong
sirspi-
cion that ihe protecting shield which he has so frequently
thrown over the weakness of the Whig ministry has
some other -inscription upon. it besides the mere term
" generosity." We frankly confess that we look upon
the movements of the noble Duke with some degree of
alarM. However high May be his personal character—
' 24"1-ihowever i-nitierishable the laurels by which' his brow is
--Areucircled-L-diOvvevei -disinterested may be his personal
-....'irrOtives—aa,d however distinguished he may be for poll-
foresir-ht and sagacitywe cannot conceal from'
"ViAirselves that the Duke of Wellington was mainly •in-.
"I?twslittiltnental, under the advice of .a profligate monarch, in
14:\l"wt4;aiYttigl into eVet the 4estruCtiVe measure of Catholic
546'eiit'ancipation--a measure which, above all others, haS
---' tendency to undermine the Protestant establish-
of the British empire'-a.rneai tire which has been-

• franglit with incalculable evil to the constitution of Great
1114 -given migehievonsly

preponderating influence to a reckless band of factious:
and peiltirnd IriSh' papists, whO are leagued together for
LP 1 the destinction of all our venerated institutions in church
1-141,and state. We-repeat it, that .we look upOn the recent
'"'extraordinary conduct of the Duke of Wellington with
••'mo small degree of anxiety, when we call to mind the
baneful consequences which have already flowed from
bis•over-conciliatinti-disposition. He is too apt to yield
to motives of expedienC2v, and too prone to forget the
• grand interests of the country in his anxiety to concede
to the clamour of the Popish faction those advantages
to Which he conceives them entitled. We would by no
means pluck a single leaf from that chaplet which he
has won by his unrivalled military prowess—we would
not seek to diminish by one iota that debt of gratitude
which his country owes to him—but we would solemnly
and earnestly appeal to our Protestant fellow country-
men, whether the Duke of Wellington be the fittest man
• in whom to place the safe custody of the interests of the
' Established Church ? Has he not already proved his
incompetency for a trust of such paramount importance?
.• Has he not already sacrificed the interests of the church
at the shrine of political expedienCy ? We do not, how-
ever, ground our alarm upon the conduct of the Duke
• of Wellington exclusively ; nor are we singular in en-
tertaining the apprehensions which we have expressed.
The conduct of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Com-
mons is quite as much calculatiA to excite alarm. On
this subject we find the. following very appropriate ob-
servations in the Horning Herald of Wednesday:—

t`. Prom the conversation on the subject of Irish policy which
took place in the House of Commons, last night, between Sir
Robert Peel, and. Lord John 'Russell, it will be perceived that
the prospect of a coalition between the parties, of which the
noble lord and the right hon. baronet are, respectively, the
heads, becomes stronger every day. The signs of approaching
change are, at ail events, worth noting. A coalition between
the conservatives and the whigs may be a very desirable result.
But, of this great truth, at all events, we are assured, that the
body of conservatives throughout the country, did not at the last
election send three hundred gentlemen to the House of Commons,
in order that these three hundred gentlemen should there become
parties to a compromise with whiggery. If we bear in mind the
statements of the opposing candidates at the last election, the
principles of conservatism were, then, declared to be irreconcil-
ably hostile to the principles of whiggery. Yet, now, the par-
liamentary leader of the conservatives seems to have discovered
that these. irreconcilably hoitile principles will admit of atnalga-

mation, by a very easy process. This process of amalgamation,
we again state, may be the best of all possible experiments;
but, on the other hand, it was not, assuredly, an experiment
contemplated by the conservative gentlemen, tradesmen, and
artisans of England, who, at the last election, sought out, at a
`l,r'l,t- cost, and risk, organs for the expression in parliathent of
conservative opinions.

Sir Robert Peel was, when stating his views, last night, in
the highest deg' ee, temperate and candid. Nothing could ex-
ceed, the fervour of his expressions of regard for the establish-
trient of peace in Ireland—except, perhaps, his expressions of
"Minn to the interests or the Irish established church! It
''4"!! be well, however, that the great body of the friends of that
!church should not, at the present moment, relax in vigilance t
Sir Robert Peel will consent to a commutation of Irish
tithe into a rent charge, without any stipulation as to the prin.
neiple of redemption ; and he will also consent to the establish-
(.;vent of municipal corporations in Ireland, to be founded on a
.:Popular basis, providing the qualification of the elector, shall be
.a bond fide qualification, to be determined by the assessment to
the poor-rate, or by some analogous principle. As to a poor
law for Ireland,--some poor law must, hereafter, prevail; and
as the ministerial bill was, necessarily, an experiment, attended
with difficulties of all kinds, Sir Robert stated, that he had ab-
stained from canvassing its imperf4tions with too critical an
ev.

"The condition of these concessions on the part of Sir Robert
6, that the sUrpluS of church revenue shall always be devoted to
ecclesiastical purposes. To such a condition the present officials
, - consented by anticipation; when they declared, some time ago,
that they never meant to act upon the appropriation clause!
• "Lord John Russell was no less conciliatory than Sir Robert;
and their partisans, respectively, responded to the feelings of
.30144 chiefs. The whigs applauded Sir Robert. The Conserva-
i',ltPii't,!iT cheered Lord John. Mr. O'Connell, it is true, did not
,vl,-4 32 .kairitinate,to the full, extent, in the general satisfaction. He
tb hattfriliy,l'l6abius of an alliance, which may take from him
11110prhiriarket
."I"frjegia
e frie`tids'of the e,tatdished church bestir themselves.
T ,es,4aii.6fr •
„... -„,,htch the preliminaries were, last night, re-
' ttOrs,;(l, will, if completed, be completed_at• her cost.• Securi-