The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-15 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We thank an " OLD PILOT " for his hint, and he may dePellti
upon it that we shall avail ourselves of the first opportuniq
to inform Mr. Wm. Rathbone that we are cognizant of ,
manoeuvres. If he chooses to put certain persons forward t°
assail us, his supposed concealment will not protect bi°3"
We have at hand, ready to be used at a moment's warm"'
that which will effect our purpose.

•f)t ibtrpool A,tanbartf.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 18•

The Great Britain, Captain French, arrived here yes"
terday from New York, bringing letters and pipers 0
the 21st September, but they contain no news.

The Confiance steamer arrived at Falmouth on fria9/
last, from Lisbon and Oporto. She left the Tagus °II
the 6th instant, and was off Oporto on the 7th. The fok-
lowing is from one of the Falmouth papers of SaturdaY"..
the Cornubian :

" His Majesty's steam vessel, the Ccmfiance, arrived refer'
day from Portugal with mails. She sailed from Lisbon the
6th instant, and from off Oporto the 7th. 'Abe accounts re-
ceived by her confirm the statement brought by the last packet
relative to the resignation of Marshal Bourmont and the re"
of the principal French officers who had held appointments is
Dom Miguel's army.
"The armies remained in the same positions as when the Is'
accounts left, and no fighting had taken place. A sortie by tbi
Pedroites was talked of. Most of the provinces remain ende.
the sway of Miguel, and fears are entertained in Lisbon Oa'
the struggle will be much longer protracted.

" We regret to learn, that the City of Waterford, steamer,
on board of which the Queen of Portugal's plate and other pro-
perty to a considerable amount, was shipped for conveyance 0
Lisbon, has been lost off Figuera. We have ascertained that
the crew and passengers were all saved.
" Lord Edward Russell, late commander of H.M.S. Niogolif
is come home a passenger in the Coniiance.
" A box of dollars of the value of nearly £7OO, which was taken
out on freight by the Pike, schooner, consigned to a niercloot
at Oporto, was lost overboard in being transhipped to .11.11 i.
Nimrod, in the Douro. An attempt was about to be made to
recover it by means of the diving bell."

As we have no letter from our private correspondent
we conjecture that the above is the only news of interns'
brought, by the Conjiance. The resignation of Marshal
BOURMONT is reasserted, but we can hardly admit that
a repetition of a story is a confirmation of it. No reasons
are given for this resignation, and, in the absence of 11
motive, and no explanation being given, we must decline
reposing implicit confidence in the statements emanating
from the PEDRO party.

It is admitted that "fears are entertained at Lisbon
that the struggle will be much longer protracted:!. .This
is admitting a great deal, and much that is adverse to
the cause of the young Princess. If BotramoNa hss
withdrawn, as is contended for, we may assume from this,
admission that he has left the besieging army in tolerably
good order, and by no means weakened by his secession.
But the death of the King of SPAIN, of which no men-
tion is made in these advices, and the state of parties in.
that kingdom, are of deeper interest than even the pro- •
tracted warfare before Lisbon. The demise of FERDI
NAND must have been known in Lisbon long before the
steamer sailed, and yet so vigilant are the agents of Don ",
PEDRo that not a word respecting it has been suffered to
transpire. Of course it was clearly the policy of the ad-
venturer to keep the fact concealed, for, in the conse-
quences springing out of this event will, we suspect, be
found the motives for BOURMONT'S supposed resignation.
The last arrivals from Madrid inform us tlmt Don Cam.os
has already been proclaimed in many of the towns and
provinces of Spain. The mails are stopped, the peasantry
are arming, and the regular troops in many places have
declared for that prince. M. ZEA BERMUDEZ, one of the
ablest ministers of the present day, has, it is said, beer/
dismissed by the QUEEN REGENT, and that a terrible
struggle for the crown is about to commence is now
beyond all question. If Spain is left to herself Don,
CARLOS must be King. He has all the nobles, the •
priesthood, and the peasantry on his side. The monks
are so zealous in hislavour that they have already begin'
to fortify the towns.
It must not be disguised, however, that as to the issue
of this civil war much depends on the part which France '
shall take in the contest. If Lows PHILIPPE, deeming
his throne insecure if the dreaded partisans of Caguas
gain the ascendancy, should venture upon the hazardous
policy of sending an army into Spain to support the
claims of Donna ISABELLA, he may protract the conflict,
and' call other parties into the field. If the English go-
vernment have considered it just to maintain a nominal
neutrality in the affairs of Portugal, we cannot discern on • .
what grounds the cabinet of the citizen KING can claim'
the right to interfere in the affairs of Spain. But a few'.
days will determine this point, and we wait the issue with
•
some anxiety.
Since the above 'was written we have received a
later arrival from . Falmouth, in which it will be
found that some of our conjectures have been eon-
firmed. Marshal BOURMONT had departed for 'the Spa-
nish frontier in the suite of Don CARLOS, and for the
purpose of assisting that prince in his military measures
in Spain. This is the whole secret of his "resignation."
He has a higher game to play near Madrid than that:. •
which appears to linger before Lisbon. The following is •
from the second edition of the Cornubian

" The Soho steamer, which conveyed the Queen of Portugal
to Lisbon, put into this port last evening, on her return to
Portsmouth. On her passage she was overtaken by H. M.
steamer Salamander, which sailed from► Lisboa a few hours
later on the 6th instant, having been despatched with the
intelligence of the King of Spain's decease, which had reached
Lisbon in the interim. The departure of Bourmont and other
French officers from Portugal, is now understood to have some
connection with the affairs of Spain, to which country they are
gone, and whither they have been followed by Don Carlos
himself.

From passengers by the Soho, we are informed that a Con-
stitutional force of 2000 men, which had been despactched from.
Lisbon to Peniche, has obtained possession of the important
positions of Obidos, and Torres Vedras.

His MAJESTY'S packet, Duke of York, arrived at Fal-
mouth on Saturday, from the Leeward Islands, which, at
the date of her sailing, the 7th September, were in a
state of tranquillity.

We should have liked to have been present, but invi-
sible, for a few minutes in the private breakfast-parlour
of some quiet, elderly gentleman, living. in Wales, for
instance; or some other secluded place, where the breeze
is-fresli, and thee. hours for reflection less liable to inter-
ruption than in the 'busy world,—we should have liked,
we say, to have been an unseen observer in such a room
when the last.accopnts of the revenue were laid upon his
breakfast-table, We are taking it for granted that the
• person we have in our fancy is a sober and retired fund-
kolder, who, for the.last
~ten years, has been drearviug
that he is woith two tho''..isand pounds per annum satigit
secured in goverNment stock,—one who is confident
to
the honour of the nation,—satisfied that his investment
. is safe against all storms, polaNand otherwise—thank'
ful that the refOrm bill is carried-congratulating himself