The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

SIR HENRY HARDINGE.—The new Governor-General
of India reached Alexandria in the Geyser, from Mar-
seilleQ, on the 22d of June; and, after having had one
public and several private audiences with the Pacha, de-
parted on the 25th for Cairo, on his way to Suez, where
he was to embark for India in the Hindostan.
THE REV. DR. WOLFF.—Letters from Trebizond to
the 24th of June announce that intelligence had been re-
ceived there of the safe arrival at Bokhara of this enter-
prising traveller, who had had a very kind reception from
the Bokharees ; but, since nothing is stated touching the
interesting object of this journey, it is concluded either
that the rev. gentleman had not yet arrived at any certain
facts, or that, sent as he is by certain individuals on an
undertaking under the sanction of government, he is de-
sirous to communicate the result to them and it before
publication in the public journals.
WINE TRADE.—Advices received from Lisbon state
that the wine exportation of Oporto and and Madeira was
depressed beyond alt previous experience within living
memory. Good wine was unsaleable at £5 per pipe.
BIRTH OF A FRENCH PRINCE.—On Friday week the
Duchess de Nemours was safely delivered of a son, to
whom the King of the French has given the name of
Duke d'Alencon.

ANOTHER ATTACK BY THE MOORS.—We have received
by express the details of a skirmish, which took place on
the 3d instant, between the French and the Moors, and
which is important, as it proves that up to that date, not-
withstanding the expressed expectations of the French
government to the contrary, the forces of the Emperor
were still moving against them. The results of the fight
were (the despatch published in the Messager states) of
little consequence, but this refers of course only to the
action and its immediate effects upon the conflicting
forces.—Times.

TURKEY.--Letters from Constantinople of the 27th
ult. state, that the intelligence received by the govern-
ment from Albania continued to be of a satisfactory na-
ture, and that the Greek Archbishop was assisting the
Mussulman authorities in preparing an inventory of the
losses suffered by the peaceable inhabitants, and for which
they were to obtain compensation. On the 26th Sir Strat-
ford Canning repaired to the Imperial Palace of Beyler-
bey, and presented to the Sultan an autograph letter of
Queen Victoria. in which her Maiestv congratulated his
iguness on the fortunate arrangement or me misunder-
standing which, to her great regret, had momentarily
affected the relations of mutual good-will which ever ex-
isted between the two courts.

GREECE.—The accounts from Athens of the 30th ult.
describe Greece as on the eve of becoming again the thea-
tre of party strife. A few days previously some rioting
took place in that capital. Cries of " Down with the
Ministry !" and " Viva the Constitution !" were vocifo-
rated under the King's windows, and Callergis was obliged
to order a body of Cavalry to disperse the mob. Several
persons were wounded in the affray, two of them subse-
quently died. The elections were nearly over in the pro-
vinces, and had passed off quietly, except in Messenia,
where five individuals lost their lives. On the 29th, the
list of the senators, thirty-six in number, was published.
Celetti, Mavrocordato, and Metaxa would not permit
their names to be enrolled on the list, which included the
most eminent of the personages who took part in the po-
litical events for the last 25 years.

SPANISH AFFAIRS.—The accounts received from Spain
are considered rather ominous, by that portion of our
commercial interest that have attached importance to our
direct trade with the Peninsula being placed upon a more
liberal and secure footing. The decree for the dissolution
of Vie Cortes has excited comparatively little interest, it
having been expected for some time, as the necessary
consequence of late events. But the decree for the re-
establishment of the deputations and municipalities in the
Basque provinces, according to the Fueros, is looked
upon as an important step in retrogression, in both the
commercial and the financial view of the case. The lead-
ing object of the administration of Espartero was to bring
the country under one uniform system of law and govern-
ment, by the progressive abolition of provincial distinc-
tions ; one great object being to put an end to the demo-
ralizing influence of the contraband trade, by the uniform
imposition of a moderate scale of import duties. The
restoration of the Fueros in the Basque provinces, will,
however, put an end to all hope of this kind. The whole
frontier will again be thrown open to the French smug-
glers; and the present change is considered decisive of
the undivided ascendancy of French counsel in Spanish
affairs. The recent return of the trade of France exhi-
bited a very large diminution of the exports to Spain from
the period of the removal of the line of custom-houses to
the frontier ; and although the status quo, as it respects
them, is not included in the present decree, it is antici-
pated that it will follow at no distant day. Every person
acquainted with the state of society in Spain uniformly
places the evils arising from the contraband trade in the
foreground, and its suppression an essential requisite to
ensure respect to the law, and the establishment of an
efficient system of finance. Until this is done it is per-
fectly clear that Spain cannot resume her place amongst
the nations of Europe, and everything tending to retard
the change must be a subject of unqualified regret with
all well-regulated minds.