The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-12 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNLVG, APRIL 12, 1833.

We have had another file of American papers since our
last, but they contain
no political intelligence worth ex-
tracting. Nothing had been rpceived at New York from
Charleston since the passing oT the tariff bill.
Our Jamaica papers are to the 9th of March, but we
have alluded to their contents in another article.

The affairs in the east of Europe assume every day a
more gloomy aspect. _ The interference of the French
government, in a dogmatical and insolent manner, in
the.concerns of the Porte, has induced the Sultan to place
himself almost entirely at the mercy of the. Emperor Ni-
cholas. The Viceroy of Egypt has refused the terms of-
fered hiin, and his victorious son has been commanded to
march forward and try his fate under the walls .of Con-
stantinople.

THE Lord Chancellor, Brougham, we learn upon the
best authority, has been dining with the King, and hold-
ing a sort of political tete a tete with his Majesty, at Wind-
sor, within the last few days. The ministerial papers,
with their usual candour and address, have been endea-
vouring to conceal the fact by. representing, that the
noble and learned lord was - merely . gone on a holiday
visit to his friend Lord Sefton, •or Stoke farM, near
Windsor.

This by the way is true enough, as far as Lcrd Sefton
and Stoke farm are Concerned ; but Lord Brougham is
not the man to make holiday visits. His business, we
have no doubt, is of a very pressing and important na-
ture, and he consequently, naturally. enough, called at
the old castle in his way, in obedience to the' commands
of his Royal master.

What passed there, we would give what Mr. Rathbone
would call a bribe, to know—we 'mean a crown—not the
crown which some liberal people are so anxious to tram-
ple upon in these revolutionary times, but simply five
shillings of th4leigigioney of the realm. Oar corres-
pondent, from whom%e have this exclusive information,
and on which the utmost reliance may be placed, assures
us that Lord Brougham has had " two lung interviews
with his Majesty," and he adds, in . a sort of idiom which
expresses more than meets the':eye,—" There is .vonee-
thing in the wind !"

MR. HOPE has defeated the ministerial candidate at
the Gloucester election, and Captain Berkeley, though.a
junior lord of the 'Admiralty, is no longer a member of
the llOuse of Commons. What: ministers are to do in
this dilemma we cannot conjecture. They are now beaten
on every hustings where any of themselves, or any of
their retainers, dare to make their appearance. Lord
Durham and his protege were beaten' at
.Dover by 11r.
Halcomb, a conservative. Mr. Murray,. although con-
ducted to the, hustings by Lord Ebrington, and recom-
' mended by. Sir Francis Burdett,:and supported in every
possible way by the government; was defeated by.a 'the-
-rough-paced radical in Marybone. They were beaten
the other day, also,: at Carlisle, and most signally trounced
at Sunderland by Mr. Alderman
.Thompson, in defiance
of the united influence of Lord Grey, the ex-privy seal,
and the honourable Joseph. Pease, the Quaker ! Prodi-
gious !—" we sorrow for thee brother Jonathan."
Bat the case of Captain Berkeley smacks so astrin-
gently of whiggery, that we cannot resist bestowing
upon it a more formal notice. This gentleman is one of
thre4 brothers who have hitherto..given their strenuous
and disinterested support 'to the Grey administration.
Forthis.disint6-e:sted 'support, the. hodourable member
for Gloucester, being one of the united three, was created
a lord of the Admiralty, calculaling, With ail the assur-
ance.of wlaig.. vanity, that his re-eledieti Was a mere mat
ter of course. But the good people of Gloucester, hav-
ing'been already sufficiently gulled, could not stand this-
mos.t. flagrant job. It smelt strong Cr corruption, and as
they, had not seen any very shilling merit in their repre-
sentative, during the period he had sate for that city,
they resolved to oust him as soon as they had ascertained
that he had received £I2C)O a-year for .neglecting their.
particular interests,—and they.di4 Olist. him most unce-
remoniously, as we have before narrated.
New, who is this new made lord of the Admiralty?
The reader already- -knows that lie is a Captain ; and
knowing this; it is quite hatural-tliatThe should infer, ilia;
Captain Berkeley is is naval officer, and the more espe-
cially seeing that he has received a sort of naval appoint.
meat, being, in point of fact, transformed into what b
termed. a sea-attorney. Tire reader; with due deference
be It said; ivas never more at sea in his life—never so fat
out of his reckoning, Captain Berkeley, now a lord of
the, Admiralty, is a cavalry dicer ! He does not know
a capstan bar from a drumstick, nor the difference be li
-
tween a sailor and the driver of an omnibus. The toret
votes ever ready,—the trio junetu in tato , at the com-
mand of the minister, wade him .a lord of the Admiralty,.
but the bold of. the Adniiialty: has kicked him out of
Gloucester.

The per.,.l.ixing, anti-ealatnitons part of. the.busiTiess
that he can he no longer of any use to the ministry: tlis
rote is non e.g.- He. will, we fear, be obliged to evato.
at,- the Admiralty, and go hack to the Horse 'Guards. b.
this case What arc .ministers. to do ? . they 'go on at t hi,
tate, none of their, wevkinLr, men Will be enabled to Elm:
their nav into I)i.tlianient. =tio matter %hO he is, tilt
inement he
joins the whniiiistra;..ion his censti:ttents 1i it
sectkiabinitas.e. is the uuly nom wh-o has risked,
suoo-sskliy, the i',rdeal of a tile4..-tion, which 11'i-
sisp,ee. he has done fi..r the last rtme. Es-en hla. Edmato
the new i.:ee.reylly at war, and a
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