The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-22 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The arrival of the Carron steam-vessel, despatched from the
Tagus by Admiral Parker, a week before the regular time, has
led to many conjectures as to the probable interference of Eng=
laud and Spain in the affairs of Portugal. It appears that Lord
Hervey had arrived from Madrid, and made a communication
to the Portuguese Ministry at Lisbon, which they considered of
sufficient importance to induce them to send. for Don Miguel
from the army. It is said that a Regency is to be established,
and the young Queen acknowledged; but that both Don Pedro
and Don Miguel are to be compelled to leave Portugal. Unless
the affairs of the former improve, there will, we suspect, be no
occasion for English and Spanish interference to procure his ab-
sence. Don Miguel will he a more difficult person to deal with.

TURKEY.

We find in the German papers many notices of the affairs of
the east. The Grand Vizier, whose forces, regular and irre-
gular, including the contingent of the Pacha of Trebizond,
amount, it is said, to 80,000 men, was marching to meet Ibra-
him, who, in consequence, has fallen back a little to concen-
trate his army in the defiles of Mount Taurus, in the direction
of Karamau. A decisive battle was daily expected. It appears
that many copies of proclamations of Ibrahim were discovered
in Constantinople.
The fate of Turkey stands on the cast of a die. The Grand
Vizier has assembled around the standard of the prophet the
whole strength of Islaam. The Egytians having a second time
profaned the Holy Land, under the pretence of delivering its
modern inhabitants from bondage, have carried conquest and
subjugation even to the gates of Akshabar. On that ground
will the grand struggle take place. It is no longer a contest
between the crescent and the cross. There are two moons in
the same heaven and one must fall. The children of Maho-
met are rising against the descendants of Osmyn! The Sala-
din and Cceur de Lion of our day are Mahmoud.and Ibrahim,
both favoured sons of the prophet. Turban rises against Tur-
ban, emir meets emir, scymetar glances against scymetar, the
Musselman sheds the Mussehnan's blood and the Christians
look on unmoved. There is something more than natural in
this, if philosophy could but find it out.—Atlas.

The following is from the Allgemeine Zeitung, German paper,
of the 12th instant :—" The accounts from Constantinople of the
19th December, are again favourable. The Porte is in a kind
of feverish state ; sometimes it has reason to believe in a happy
termination of the war, sometimes it is again filled with the
most serious alarms. If the sultan could depend on the faith-
ful attachment and co-operation of his subjects, there is no
doubt that the fortune of war would soon turn in his favour, for
the Porte still possesses great resources. The foreign ministers
in Constantinople are supposed to be very anxious for news
from London respecting the success of the negociation confi-
ded to Namick Bey. On it will depend the greater or less de-
free of assistance that the sultan expects from Russia, and So
ar the answer of England is doubly important. Many persons
in Constantinople were of opinion that the. Porte would have
done better not to apply to England, but that it should have
immediately embraced the friendly offer of the Russian court
without seeking for aid in London. The latter would either
answer too late, or in case there should be more readiness in
the English cabinet, yet the internal state of England would
not allow of the assistance being so effectual as the urgency of
the case demands. On the other hand, it is not to be denied
that the half of the naval force which England has so long kept
up to no purpose between the English and Dutch coasts,
against its ancient ally 'Holland, would, by a mere demonstra-
tion against the Egyptian fleet, have thrown a great weight into
the scale of the Porte, have impeded the operations of Ibra-
him, and have checked the arrogance of Mehemed Ali. The
Grand Vizier has, however, assembleda great army, and threat-
ens the communications of the Egyptians. His measures ap-
pear to have been well taken, as Ibrahim has made a retrograde
movement, and thrown himself into the defiles of Caramaina."