The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-19 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1833.

The Morning Herald published a second edition on
Wednesday, containing the latest and the following
most important intelligence from Oporto. It is from
their own private correspondent :
By way of Plymouth, I have just received the following
from the Douro, dated H.M. ship Orestes, Bth inst. :—" Sarto-
rius has run away with the fleet to England, so we may expect
the Miguelites to blockade us. Sir John Doyle and Captain
Crosbie are on board the London Merchant, off the Foz, but
cannot land. Pedro means to send Captain Minns (Bingham)
to England, to claim the fleet, and bring it back. Sartorius is
to be declared a traitor. Major Sadler died on the 4th instant,
andwas buried on the 6th.

No military events have taken place since the 14th—no at-
tack, but long shots.' "

This looks very like the finale to the tragi-comico per-
formance which has for some time been going on in
Portugal. From first to last the whole proceeding has
had a banditti tint, and this is now rendered more clear
by the rogues quarrelling about the spoil. " I have not
had my fair share of the plunder," says the person who
passes under the title of Admiral Sartorius, and he
consequently, having a few abettors, seizes upon the
baggage and runs away. Several of the band had done
this previously, although it is riot so well ascertained
that they had any thing to steal, except themselves,
from the devoted city. Sartorius, therefore, we may
calculate, waited to the last hour in the hope of amassing
snore booty; but as money was not to be had, and the
wine being the property of British merchants it would
have been doubly hazardous to take that, lie had no
choice but to seize upon the Doriria Maria,—not the
young lady of that name—but a little brig, which it is
probable will be sold for firewood in London. But
what will Sir James Graham say if this gallant admiral
and his ship should find their way into the Thames ?

AN honourable member, of the name of Faithful, deli-
vered himself of a most violent attack upon the established
church in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening.
For insolence and ignorance it was so remarkable, that even
Lord Althorp, not the most discriminating personage in
the world, said he should disdain answering it, and it was
accordingly and deservedly scouted by all parties in the
house, not a single voice being raised in favour of the
motion.

This Mr. Faithful, we understand, is a faithful shep-
herd among the Unitarians, and a preacher amongst that
fashionable class of deists in the fashionable town of
Brighton. Ile is amongst his sect what Joseph Pease,
Esquire, is amongst his—a preacher, teacher, instructor,
and so forth. Of this, however, we do not complain ;
but we have a just right to complain of a sectarian
preacher being allowed admission into that house to at-
tack the church, none of the members of which are ad-
mitted within its walls. This is a grievance which ought
to be removed. Here is a law which confers privileges
upon these Socinians which are denied to the recognised
ministers of the gospel of every other communion. The
Unitarians, the Quakers, the Jumpers, and the Brighto-
nian Kempites are the favourite sects. They are per-
mitted to assume the garb and the duties of priests on
Sunday, and of legislators on every other day of the
week. This is one of the many other anomalies which
call loudly for reform.

THE needy system never was in more active force than
at the present moment. The reader we presume knows
what is meant by haggling, for that is the most appropri-
ate term to apply to the fiscal operations of Lord Althorp.
He is endeavouring to recruit his sinking revenue by
employing hagglers to scour the country, to poke their
noses into coach bags, and their dirty finge/s into coach
parcels, in order to detect letters,.which are sent by any
other mode of conveyance, than that of his Majesty's
mail.• Some contraband letters are of course detected,
and a. few sixpences and twopences are exacted from the
guilty parties, in the shape of postages, and an increase
of perhaps six-and-eightpence per week is thereby added
to the public income of England, Scotland, Ireland, and
Berwick-upon-Tweed 1 .No two persons are allowed to
correspond with each other on business, love, law, or
physic, except through the medium of the Duke of Rich-
mond and Sir Francis Freeling. A letter is not a letter
unless it be sent through the general or penny post. A
brother must not carry in his trunk or pocket a letter
from his sister to his mother, nor a lady be the bearer of
her cousin's valentine to his sweetheart. All this, though
it is done daily, is nevertheless contrary to the law, and
finable by act of Parliament. By some means or other
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been made ac-
quainted with this important fact, and in the present dis-
tressed state of the country, and the deplorable state of
the revenue, the noble lord has resolved to avail himself
of the law in order to bolster up his needy ways and
means. It is a most ingenious plan certainly, and is
worthy of the propounder• of the tax upon steam-boats,
and the transfers of imaginary money in the funds. The
country can be in no danger so long as so profound an
arithmetician, and so able a financier is the guardian of
the national revenue.

But the haggling, the beating, the crimping, and the
searching are not confined to letters sent in parcelss.
Newspapers are favoured with a liberal share of the
noble lord's protection, and are overhauled at every
paltry post-office somewhat after the manner in which a
suspected female smuggler of lace is treated at Dover.
If a single cipher more than is necessary for the direction
be written on the cover of a newspaper, it-is immediately
charged three or four times the postage of a letter. If
Miss Anna Wilkins should send a paper, our STANDARD
for instance, to her mother in London, and should write
upon the corner .of the cover the initials of A. W. merely
to indicate from whom it comes, the post-office construes
this A. W. to mean "all's well," and this being deemed
correspondental information, the paper is subjected to a
postage of from 3to 10 shillings. If Mr. Matthew D.
Lowe, in sending the Morning Post to his grandmother,
should dale to write M. D. L. in the corner, this is con