The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-27 00:00:00

EXTRACT FROM A SECOND LETTER.

" Sugar and rum you will perceive are about double the price
they were this time last year. This is partly owing to short
stocks, and partly to a belief that the new sys%ens will not work.
Pimento has almost failed in St. Anne's, and coffee has suffered
dreadfully of late in St. Elizabeth's and Manchester."

The ministerial papers have at length been permitted
to speak out, and all the fine speculations of the. parti
zans of Don PEDRO, the story of an armistice, and the
proffered capitulation of Don MIGUEL, are announced to
be fictions—the weak and vile inventions of the enemy.
The officers of the Echo steamer were either misled
themselves, or they have practised imposition upon the
numerous and rather voracious correspondents of Ply-
mouth and Falmouth, and our own correspendents, we
are sorry to say, among the rest. What can our excel-
lent contemporary of the Exeter Gazette say for his
" most respectable merchant," who saw the sea disco-
loured with port wine off Oporto?
The Globe and Sun of Wednesday evening inform
us that no negotiations had been proposed by either
brother, and that the state of both parties was precisely
the same after the sth as it was before. The affair of
that day was merely a skirmish followed by no results
worthy of the slightest notice.

The ministerial journals, after a silence of six days,
are communicative thus far and no farther. They do not
favour us with the most remote clue to the nature of
the official and important despatches received from Lord
WILLIAM RUSSELL, by the Echo. The Globe is taciturn
beyond its usual stillness. The inference from this is
that these despatches are any thing but favourable to the
cause of Donna MARIA, and the old rumour is revived
that they contain pressing solicitations. for immediate
assistance from the British Government.

The latest advices from Constantinople via Ancona are
to the 29th ultimo, on which day and for some clays pre-
vious a terrible conflagration raged in that capital. As
a fire in Constantinople is considered to be either an in-
dication or a prelude of revolution—or an attempt at
revolution as in the case of Bristol and Nottingham
during the insane days of reform—much fear has been
excited lest the foolish SULTAN should fall a prey to the
fiery indignation of his subjects. By some accounts six-
teen thousand houses are said to have been burnt or
burning. It is also stated that the SULTAN had sought
refuge in the Christian suburbs of the city. In the ab-
sence of any thing like positive facts it would be wrong
to indulge in speculations, for which reason we shall
leave Constantinople as it is till another opportunity.

It is a subject of general remark that the throne of
Lotus PIIILIPPE is to the present reigning family not
worth more than a twelvemonth's purchase. The dynasty
of the three days seems to be held in very little repute.
A friend has favoured us with the following extract from a
letter of recent date, which shows the state of public
feeling in the north of France. The writer is an amia-
ble liberal of the modern school fast progressing towards
conservatism:—

" St. Omer, Sept. 19.

" I accompanied some friends yesterday to see the troops re-
viewed by the Duc d'Orleans, and my radical feelings were
quite annoyed by the cold reception he and his brother received.
I am much afraid I. shall at last be obliged to become a Con-
servative, that party appearing to increase.daily. lam afraid
that not even the army is strongly attached to the reigning
family, for not one battalion in ten uttered a sound in passing
the two interesting young men, who sat like two statues occa-
sionally put into motion when some officer, more attached to
their interest than the majority, presented his sword and ex-
cited his men to utter a faint huzza. The troops stationed here
'mount to 25,000, and the whole will have a grand field day to-

morrow."