The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-24 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Scorpion arrivedoiilotTiaiitt Falmouth from Lisbon,
which she left on the sth. The tumultuous feeling against the
Duke of Palmella appears to have subsided, and the city was
generally tranquil. It is reported that Prince Maximilian of
Leuchtenberg is to be speediiy contracted to the young Queen.
We think this haste is, to say the least of it, disgraceful. The
marriage to his broiher's widow comes as rapidly as the similar
event iu Hamlet.
GREECE.
Letters from Athens in the German newspapers come down
to the 18th ult. Everything there seems to be in abeyance until
King Otho takes the government into his own hands.. It appears
to us that the Greeks entertain no small jealousy of the Ger-
mans, and they call for an administration in which the native
statesmen shall have a preponderance. The writer of one of
the letters complains of the expense of military affairs, and the
neglect of education. " Large sums," he says, "are expended
in getting recruits in Munich, Smyrna, and elsewhere, but no
attention is paid to literature." He admits that the examina-
tions at the Gymnasium have displayed the talents and advance
of the pupils in a favourable light, but still complains of the
military budget. "What shall we say," he asks, "when we
hear that the ministers of war had bespoke in England gun-
powder to the amount of 100,000 Spanish piasters, while our
fortresses are stilt amply provided with powder and heavy
artillery of the time of the Venetians, and while the people,
here had learnt in the latter years of the war to manufacture
very good powder for infantry in the country itself; 600.000
drachms at once for powder, while hitherto not 100,000 drachms
annually has been allotted for education' Who can wonder if
the people loudly express their discontent ? " From this
eloquent burst of indignation, we suppose the writer a dis-
appointed German dominie.

CANADIAN AFFAIRS. •
Among the merchants and others interested in the affaits of
Lower Canada, much anxiety was evinced respecting the con-
tents of the advices of Tuesday last, and the departure of the
conitnissioner from this country, appointed to inquire into the
disputes now existing in the colony, is looked for with increased
desire.

Throughout the province constitutional associations were
forming, and at a meeting held at Freligsburg, of about 1,200
individuals, some very strong resolutions were adopted. The
first declared the great necessity of forming a constitutional
association'in that place. The following were proposed among
others:—

"That, as a member of a great and powerful empire, this
province enjoys the two-fold advantage of protection from
ai*oad, and a participation in the general commerce of the
parent state; whilst its inhatritanti are exempt fiom those
charges and imposts consequent upon self-government and self-
pi ot cction.

" Thalihe ninety-two resolutions passed in the Assembly of
this province, on the 21st of February, 1834, were at variance
with the act of the Imperial Parliament, to which that body is
indebted for its existence, inasmuch as they avow the design of
procuring the abolition of a co-ordinate branch of the legisla-
ture, created by the same act,' and possessed of authority,
privileges, and immunities equal to its own.
"That should his Majesty concede to the supporters of the
ninety-two resolutions, an elective Legislative Council, the pre-
rogatives of the crown would be thereby prostrated, the liberty
of the subject subverted, and his Majesty's subjects of British,
Irish, and American origin would be left to the cruel alternative
of bowing the neck to an aulbitions and tyrannising faction, or
of maintaining their rights by a civil war.
"'That it is the deliberate opinion of this meeting, that in
order to save the country from a tyranny so insupportable, the
app;•intment of the members of the Legislative Council should
continue in the crown, and that on no consideration or com-
promise should they ever be rendered elective by the people.
"That this meeting would look upon any change in the pre-
sent constitution, as destructive of their dearest and most che-
rished rights and privileges, ruinous to the colony, and as the
surest means of bringing about a speedy dissolution of that
bond which now so happily connects this province with the
mother country."