The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-18 00:00:00

encouragement of such powerful states,. the beggari of
Warsaw would not have risen against their masters, nor
the debtors have made war against their creditors.
But the treaty being violated by ourselves, we have no
laws of settlement to appeal to. We have not only set:
the example of trampling upon national covenants, but
we have pursued a course of interference with the affairs
of independent states which will sooner or later be fol-
lowed to our prejudice. _ _ _

For instance, England is not at war with Spain, or any
party in Spain. We have, as respects that beautiful blit
unfortunate country, no complaints to make—no injuries
to redress. Don CARLOS has not molested the trade cr
commerce of Great Britain. He has not courted the
good offices nor in any hostile manner defied ihe power
of England. He is prudently, calmly, and quietly, but
courageously, asserting his right to the tkrone of Spain.
But what is the British cabinet doing ? It is openly
aiding' and subsidizing the opposite party in Spain. Our
ships of war guard the coasts—our countrymen are em-
ployed as mercenary soldiers—our steamers carry troops
and provisions and arms for the service of Donna IsA-
BELLA. We are, in fact, in a mean, cowardly, and dis-
graceful manner, shedding the blood of British subjects and
spending the money of the British nation, and prosecuting
a dishonourable war in favour of a Spanish faction—a fac-
tion composed of money-jobbers and cheats, of desperate
adventurers, of gambling Jews, of jaded levanters as-
piring to be statesmen, and of needy and unprincipled
rogues, who, if justice were done them, would be work-
ing double tides in the hulks:
Is Lord PALMERSTON so stupid as to imagine that
Russia does not see all this ? Are the shrewd people of
the north so blind that they cannot penetrate the motives
of the shallow turnspit who presides at the wheel in
Downing. street ? The Russians have as good a tight
to interfere in the affairs of Spain as the English have ;
.and while the latter send succours to the Queen Regent,
why should the former be prevented from assisting Don
CARLOS ?

Lord PALMERSTON boasts that he. will prevent the
Russians from interfering. Indeed 1 This of itself would
be a ground for war, and we much mistake if it be not
made on the part of the emperor a justifiable excuse for
disturbing the peace of Europe.
Let the reader bear these facts in his mind, and fol-
low us for a moment to the United States of America.
Here we find a quarrel between JONATHAN and Louis
PHILIPPE about a few handsful of dollars. The osten-
sible ground of quarrel is a small sum of money—a sum
so small, indeed, that it would be better for the New
York ship-owners to pay it at once, than run the hazard
of an interrupted commerce. But does any man, with
even half an eye open, believe that the dollars are the
bone of contention ? Is it not more probable that LOUIS
PHILIPPE and ANDREW JACKSON understand each other,
that the RussianS are deep in the game, that Holland is
interested, and that England—degraded England in the
hands of the whigs—is to be the devoted pigeon in the
Contest ? Mind, each and all of these powers, either
are the natural rivals of this country, or they have
wrongs to avenge. Holland has been grievously in-
jured by protestant England—Russia is the ally of Hal-
hind. America wants the Canadas—Russia wants
Greece. LOUIS PHILIPPE cares not one straw for LEO.
FOLD, his daughter, or the "brave Beiges," provided
he can secure his Family upon the throne of France.
This last indemnity we have no doubt is given; and all
the parties, under the pretext of fighting for a few thou-
sand dollars, will be united in an onset upon England be-
fore many months are over, or unless an entire change
takes place in the councils of his Majesty. But this ar-
ticle' is already too long, although far from being ex-
hausted, and we stop for the present.

Our attention has been directed to a bit of genuine
twaddle and natural silliness in the Mercury of Friday
last. It is there recommended that the tradesmen of Li-
verpool should shut their shops on the day of the election,
which happens to be the day after Christmas—that all
workmen should have an holiday, and that business of
every kind should be suspended. There, shopkeepers,
what drink you of your liberal candidate.?--

The shopS are shut on Christmas Day, and so are they
on 'Sunday,but the ingenious Mercury, not content with
this, is for having them shut on Saturday also, making
three consecutive days when no silks, cottons, broad cloth,
or shoes are to be sold in the streets, and no poultry,
pork, turnips, or cabbages in St. John's Market ! The
shopkeepers must be very much obliged to the Mercury
for this great regard for their interests 1 As for the
farmers who come to market on Saturday with produce to
sell, and many things to buy, they are utterly beneath the
consideration of so single-hearted a philanthropist. The
operatives too, how thankful must they be ! They receive
their wages on Saturday, and they generally contrive to
purchase something for dinner on Sunday, and articles of
dress for themselves or families; but the shops being
shut, and thti markets closed, they will have the delight of
saving their money at the expense of fasting till Monday.
Poor Mercury I it is the source of much mirth in these
dull times. The design of the man is to collect a mob
about the polling booths to interrupt the proceedings of
the election, as was successfully done on a recent occa-
sion ;, but lie has overshot his mark, and has been unspa-
ringly severe on his neighbours, who have better articles
to soil on Saturday than he has on Friday.