The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-26 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1833.

WE have received a file of New York papers to the
31st March, but they do not contain any article of politi-
cal interest worth extracting.

'IMPORTANT news is said to have been received in Paris
on Sunday last relative to the state of affairs in Constan-
tinople. The following notice, as if official, was posted
at the new commercial rooms in that capital, called the
Lloyd's Francais:—

"It is stated that the Russian fleet has taken possession or
the Dardanelles, and that 10,000 Russians have entered Con-
stantinople. All was tranquil there."

If this intelligence be true, and we have some appre-
hension that it is, the apathy or ignorance of the British
government has thrown European Turkey into the hands
of Russia. It is well known that England, some time
agoovas pressed to aid. Russia in adjusting the quarrel,
without the intercession of France ; but this the patrio-
tic Lord Palmerston deemed an affront to his loving ally
Louis Philip, and his his excellent master and preceptor
Prince Talleyrand. The war, therefore, was allowed to
rage merely upon a point of etiquette, and it continued
to do so, most disastrously to the arms of the sultan, un-
til the Emperor Nicholas had no alternative but to yield
to the solicitations of the Ottoman government, and take
upon himself the preservation of the capital, and the set-
tlement of the differences between the belligerent parties.

This is the manner in which the character of Great
Britain is allowed to sink all over the world ! Lord
Chatham used to say that he would not allow a cannon
to be fired in Europe without his consent, thus proudly
upholding the power, the honour, and the renown which
the monarchy of England had acquired by force of arms,
and by her moral influence, wherever the name of Eng-
land was known. Our modern dastards, however,—our
political imbeciles,—our nursery of liberal statesmen—
allow themselves to be outmanoeuvred and overreached,
juggled, cheated, and laughed at by every petty upstart
of the continent, and by every unwashed diplomatist,
with perfect impunity. Don Pedro, drummed out of his
father's dominions, by his father's blacks, and found in-
capable of.ruling a communion of Brazilian slave dealers,
is allowed to interrupt our trade in our quasi colony of
Portugal, to which he has not half so good a right as the
pope has to the palace of Lambeth ; and this permission
to pillage and plunder us and our ancient allies is called
liberality! On the other hand the hero of the barricades,
the citizen king, in order to aggrandise the power of
France, and forward a family arrangement, for the do-
mestic part of which the good people of England have to
pay 'dearly, is permitted to defeat all the overtures made
by,Holland for a settlement of the affairs of Belgium, and
the revival of those commercial intercommunications in
whichAe merchants of this country have so deep an in-
terest. This, too, we suppose is called liberality ! It is
this attachment to French interests: which has prevented
the qiustment or those dissensions in the east which have
mediated the overthrow of the Ottoman empire.
How long this imbecility is to mark the counsels of
King William the Fourth it is impossible to tell; but it
is:pretty clear that if Lord Althorp be permitted to ma-
nage our financial, and Lord Palmerston our foreign af-
fairs, they will speedily leave us little to look after at
Lome, and nothing to take care of abroad. We are cer-
tainly in a most thriving way !

JUST as we predicted in our last, Lord Althorp has
found his advertisement scheme impractiCable, and has
abandoned it. The noble lord must be as imperturbable
as a bronze statue or he would sink into the earth at the
noise of the loud laughter which his blunders give rise to
from one end of the kingdom to the other. What can
the man be made of Y It is no mark of either ignorance
or insanity to see a man occasionally fall into error and
render himself lUdicrous, but the singular infelicity of
the noble lord's sayings and doings is that he never hap-
pens to be right, even by mistake, on any subject
whatever.

He has taken our advice for once, and from necessity,
and intends making his reduced duty a fixture—a "fixed
figure" like himself " fur the hand of scorn!"

VE are enabled in this day's STANDARD to give some
long, and nearly verbatim extracts, from the evidence
lately given before a select committee of the House of
Commons-relative to the late Liverpool election. Mrs.
Robinson's evidence speaks for itself ; but it is to that
given by Mr. Abercrombie that we are most desirous to
call the attention of our readers, and next to that the con-
trasted evidence of Mr. Fairclougb. .
The Five pound note, is the only note of the kind seen
during the election, and what is very singular, al-
though numbers of persons were present, Mr. Abercrom-
bie is the only person who did see it I' What is still more
remarkable, he saw it placed in the hands of a voter by a
gentleman whose back was turned towards him, and whom
he estimated, by his back, to be about thirty years of age ! !
It is also strange that the. Mr. Baird to whom Mr. Aber-
crombie imparted what he had seen, shortly after he had
seen it, is not produced ! ! !
This, to say the least of it, is curious evidence, and quite
unique in its way, upon which to found a charge against
three thousand burgesses, and to call for their disfran-
chisement from the rights and privileges of British sub-
jects.. tint‘niore of this anon.

_ .
THE 'representatives of -the nation have, for three
nights, since Monday last, been discussing one of the
must important questions that ever came'. before Parli•a-
imerv.77a7iiitestion of an intricate and complicated nature,
but.of deep and engrossing interest, inasmuch as it in-
volves the credit, the prosperity, the. honour, and the hap-
piness of the country. We need hardly say, that we al-
lude to the motion of Mr. Matthias Attwuod, which is in

these words : • •
"That a setectcomulittee be appointed to inquire into the
state of general distress, di!fieulty, and 'embarrassment which
nosy presses on the various orders of tho: community,—how far
the same has be.eri occasioned by the operation of our present