The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

The news from Oporto, as detailed in the letters of the Times,
correspondent, reaches to the 22d January. The Marquis of
Palmella has been dismissed from his post of Ambassador to
England, and all his friends have been excluded from the
Cabinet. Palmella, it is said, exceeded his powers,—which
were, however, very ample ; and his dismissal is attributed
more to the intrigues of his enemies than to his own miscon-
duct. It is quite ludicrous to read the accounts of the changes
in Don Pedro's Government announced with so much pomp.
It seems that this broken-down potentate, who cannot stir a
mile by land from the gates of the city *here he is beseiged,
has Foreign, Home, Marine, and Finance Secretaries, a Direc-
tor-General of the Customs, a Diplomatic establishment, and
all the paraphernalia of a court.—M.Loule, the Emperor's very
youthful and very handsome brother-in-law, is to supply the
vacant post at London.
We have long been at a loss to know of what use the English
squadron in the Douro was. The Times has at length vouch-
safed instruction on this point. "The English ships teach the
sentinels on both sides to take off their hats to each other," in
short they are " the Chesterfields of the Douro," a title which
English sailors nay be proud of for the very first time.
In the absence of any lighting of importance, the correspon-
dents of the daily papers inform their readers of almost every
shot that is fired by a sentry. or piquet. The Miguelites were
short of powder for nearly a week • so that no bombs or shells
were thrown into the city during that time. Nearly four hun-
dred French soldiers arrived in a brig on the 20th of January;
a reinforcement which caused much joy. Confiscations and
seizures of property, British and Portuguese, distinguish every
day of Don Pedro's rule in Oporto, and desertion in his fleet
increases. In the army, discipline is preserved; but the British
soldiers are in mutiny on account of pay and clothing being
withheld.. The new commander-in-chief, Solignac, is very dili-
gent in preparing. his troops to act offensively. He is said to
be a strict disciplinarian. Admiral Sartorius has arrived with
four vessels of different .sizes. He had been ordered to leave
Vigo by the Spanish Government, who sent a detachment of
4000 men, and a seventy-four gun ship, to enforce the order ;
so he was obliged to move away. He entered the Douro on the
20th January. The English ships saluted the admiral, and the
Portuguese batteries shot away his mizen-trysail. Provisions
were arriving, horses were in the offing, and 600 new troops had
arrived. An immediate movement was expected.

the accounts is the more probable. Every thing, however,
leads us to believe, that anarchy and distress are prevalent to a
great extent in Mexico, and the people appear to be, in the low-
est state of civilization.—London Standard.

NEW SOUTH WALES.
In a private letter, dated the 31st of July, a highly respect-
able corespondent writes as follows from Hobart-town:—
" A few persons of good education, and who have seen some-
thing of the world, are much wanted here, and they would do
well. The police system has been greatly improved and now
works very effectively. Good mechanics and farm labourers
would find employ,, and be well paid. The colony.could afford
to pay £2O each for their passage 'and outfit; bid, the pension-
ers, of whom 160 have lately arrived, are worse than useless.
They are the most lazy, drunken, and dissipated men I ever
met. They land here with a small pittance, which is soon
spent in the pot-houses, and sharks are not wanting to help'
them to make away with' whatever they have. You cannot
imagine the daily misery I see existing amongst them here.
There is a proposition now made to tax convict servants, which
I do not think will ever succeed, although convict mechanics
lent to settlers and charged Gd. a-day, and working convicts
holding tickets of leave (by which they work for themselves) to
pay £sper annum each, may do so, and £lO,OOO a-year will be
thus raised, which, if judiciously applied, must be beneficial to
the colony. I think the wealth of the colony is somewhat over
estimated. The hardships of the settlers in remote parts (and
all new settlers must go to remote parts) are very great. No
one .but a settler can know them. To tax assigned servants
will be actual ruin to the poorer classes of them. The cost of
these convicts is £22 a-year, and they do not do half the work
that they would do were their labour voluntary and they were
paid. On the whole the colony is flourishing; and if the peo-
ple are treated as I hope they will be by the present govern-
ment, I am sure it will be a great country in half a century.
The English imports are, I believe, £300,000 a-year, and the
balance of trade is considerably against the colony, which has
only ivool and oil to offer in exchange. Every good labourer
can get work, but the pensioner's are a burden to the town, out
of which they will not go."