The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

titude to the heroic nation which in his cause has made
sacrifices so,enonnous, and has endured miseries so. gall-
ing, towards the full acquittal of which the immolation of
personal feelings and considerations, and the abatement
,of certain pretensions, would go but a short way indeed.
The Portuguese people have claims upon him which he
ought never to forget, and which it would be dangerous
as well as base in him to slight for one moment.
Don Pedro, it is clear, is. cast overboard by all parties.
Well may he exclaim to his allies in Downing-street—
God preserve me from my friends !—Guardian and Pub-
lic Ledger.

DELUSIVE POLICY OF RUSSIA.
While the powers in the. west of Europe are occupied
with the differences between. Belgium and Holland, the
Russians have, we understand, been collecting a large
naval.and military force at Sebastopol, in the Black Sea.
This is the force which they have kindly offered the Porte
to employ in defence of Constantinople against the Egyp-
tian army. The Port has, as we stated yesterday, de-
clined the offer, and the Russian agent has in conse-
quence of that refusal gone to Alexandria to negotiate
with Mehemet Ali. We understand that one corps of the
Turkish army, of 30,000 men, remained unassailed and
unbroken in the late conflict.
Prince
.Metternich's attention is directed to the move-
ments in Italy, where it is continually feared that in con-
sequence of the mis-government of the Pope, a revolution
will break out, which may endanger the Austrian pos-
sessions. England and France are still occupied with
the affairs of Holland and Belgium, and while this con-
tinues to be the case the Emperor of Russia sees no pro •
bability of interference either from Austria, England, or
France, in the prosecution of such plans as may be sug,
B by the present movements in Turkey. .Politicians
whob have long watched the movements of Russia with
suspicion do not hesitate to declare their opinion that
the possession of Trebizond, and an island in the Medi-
terranean with a good harbour, are the objects in view.
If these opinidns should prove to be well-founded, it will
not be difficult to account for some of the recent proceed-
ings of the Russian agents in foreign countries.—Globe.

The following is part of a leading article in this clay's
Times :
"Wc are quite aware that Russian influence and intrigue,
which are at work almost everywhere in. the south of Europe as
as well as in the north,—in the east as well as in the west,—are
not idle at Constantinople. We are fully apprised that the
government of the autocrat is looking with pleasure in the
present divisions of the. Turkish empire,—that Roman diplomacy
has advised the legitimate Sovereign of the Sublime Porte not
to treat with his insurgent Pacha,--and. that the Russian eagle
it again prepared to take a flight across the Danube, under Pre-
tence of scaring the Egyptians from .the prey on which he him-
self is ready to pounce. But such a hypocritical pretext for
intended usurpation must not be allowed, and we have little
doubt that France arla England have already come to an under-
standing to protect the integrity of the Turkish empire, or at
least to preventits,dismemberment by Russian ambition,"
So ministers have at length discovered that the conse-
quences of the violation of the Treaty of Vienna in the
cases of Poland and Belgium are beginning to develope
themselves—they find that for the erection of the valu-
able kingdom of Belgium, so particularly valuable to
Great Britain, all they have to pay [in addition to a few
millions of money] is, the ruin of the gallant Polish
nation, and the gift of Turkey to Russia. Great Britain
and. France—what can Great Britain and France, sup-
posing her to be honest, which she is not, and never was
what can Great Britain and France do to prevent the
march of a Russian army to Constantinople .with the ap-
probation of the Sultan ? . •
The time to curb Russia was-during. the Polish-war ;
but then we were protocolling, and the Emperor Nicholas
was quite willing' to let us indulge in that innocent pas-
time. Russia will now have all that,she ever wanted to
render her the naval rival of England, an open to the
Mediterranean., Perhaps Lord Grey will send, as he
did once before, an expedition to. the Dardanelles.—
Standard.