The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-27 00:00:00

MADRID AND THE QUEEN REGENT.

(From the Correspondent of a New York Paper.)
We see here a decay of commerce, manufactures, and j
the arts, agriculture and industryliaralyzed, and a starv-
ing, ragged population, and a Bankrupt Government. 111
boasted the pride and pomp of a great nation, whose monarchs j
boasted that the sun never set upon their dominions, is
humiliated and humbled by the notorious insolvency of
the country. Faithless officers, treacherous ministers,
and incompetent tribunals, and a legislature with limited
power, and so prone to dependence, that if a vote is given
one day, the ministers can change it the next morning.
The roads are infested every where with robbers, and
the provinces in rebellion.
Under these circumstances what would one in our
country expect from the head of the nation, and from the
representatives of the nation. Instead of prudence and
economy, the Cortes voted to the Queen, and her august
daughter, two millions of dollars per annum, to be ex-
pended in royal pleasures and follies. This little half
made sallow child, only four years old, called Isabelle: II
Queen of Spain, is driven out at the Royal Giteo of
San Ildefenso, with a carriage and six horses, and twenty
well fed life guards, with thundering drums and other
nonsense. Instead of placing her at school, with some
good teachers, she is undergoing this training.
The Queen has taken one of the life guards, a large,
stout, black looking cavalier, to be always near her royal
person, to which he is much attached.
The ministers not wishing to have a chamber cabinet,
set about to get rid of this interior influence. They made
the senor, who had been an under clerk in a clothier's
store before lie was promoted to the life guards, a colonel
of a regiment who were ordered to operate against Don
Carlos. The Queen graciously received the news of the
promotion, and wrote under her approval, "ordered that
colonel reside in the palace, near the royal person, and
be colonel of the guards."
It is said her passion for him is excessive, and that she
is very much afraid of him. A marchioness here told me
that when there was a " kissing of royal hands" one of
the debasing follies of the court, that if she looked smiling
upon one of the young officers he pinched her. It is said
she is anticipating a short reign, and is actually building
a palace in Milan for a retreat; and her colonel is build-
ing out of Spanish funds, which ought to be directed to
the payment of public creditors, a palace in France for a
retiro, or as they say in New York a_ state of splenOid
Retiraey.

FORTIFICATIONS OF WARSA W.—The ancient fortifications of
Warsaw are composed—lit. Of a semicircular line of circurn-
vallation, which, towards the west, surrounds the city, the op-
posite side of which borders upon the Vistula. 2d. Of two
ranges of redoubts, also on the western side. 3d. Of the little
citadel of Wola, outside of the redoubts, on the road to Berlin;
and, finally, of the head of the bridge of Praga, on the eastern
bank of the •river. MI these fortifications were directed against
the foi ein..o enemy, and the defence was supported by the for-
tress of Modlin, on the right bank of the Vistula, on the north-
west of the capital. Within these few years Nicholas has con-
structed at Warsaw a new citadel, much more extensive than
that of the Wola. Beginning at the northern part of theicity, on
the left bank of (he Vistula, i: commands Warsaw; it extends
into the interior, and occupies its most elevated part; it will
contain a numerous garrison ; its ordnance points towards the
city, and a bridge has been built by which it communicates with
the right bank. In case of an attempt to take it by assault in
any insurrection, Warsaw would be destroyed before the gar-
rison could be compelled to yield.—Constitraionnet.
AN EXTRAORDINARY IiED• BREA ST.—The following fact,
which can be substantiated beyond doubt, completely throws
into the shade all the remarkable anecdotes we have heard of
the tameness of the "Robin." John Maelvie, gardener to the
lady of the late General Hughes, at her seat of Mountcharles,
beautifully situated on the banks, and near the mouth, of the
classic Boon, has a host of winged companions, all of which
coins at his call, ;hitter around him in the garden, and feed
from his hand. At the head of this feathered band stands a
Redbreast which all but speaks in return for several years' kind
treatment from its roaster. This bird, when called upon, will fly
from the farthest point at which it can hear his voice, alight on
his hand at once, and without any apprehension, pick its meal;
and thereafter will sit on his shoulder as he walks or works, and
nestle in his bosom in well-known security. Nay more : when
the gardener comes to town, if the robin, by any chance, espies
him as he departs, it gives him an escort, chirping and fluttering
along the hedge before him till he reaches the toll-bar at Allowav
place, on which, or on a tire near it, robin perches himself till
his master returns. This bird attends the gardener to church,
and waits at its station till both forenoon and afternoon service
are performed; and is equally polite on market days, when, as
soon as it sees him coining, it flies to meet him, and, fluttering
before him, beckons him homeward all the way.—Ayr paper.

PROPAGATION OP HUMANITY.—We do not know that we
ever met a more blasphemous sentence than the following, writ-
ten by one of the humanity-mongering settlers at AlGnrovia. It
is taken from the (American paper) Norfolk Herald of August
15. " We," says this enlightened writer, " had to go to war with
the 'natives of this country a few days ago. About 120 settlers
against 2000, or thereabouts. Our cause was such a just one,
that the Almighty enabled us to conquer, and to burn their totem
down to ashes !" A just cause ! What to settle in a country,
deprive the inhabitants of their possessions, pick a quarrel with
them because they do not like to be abused and plundered, burn
their towns to ashes, murder by wholesale, and then qay that "the
Almighty enabled" them to do all this: Why it is mmastrous
and impious mockery to say so; but the burnanity-mongers
think it all very right and proper. Where is Alonmvia ? Is it
not in Liberia, a settlement of the Amerman3, on the coast of
Africa, for the encouragement of free black labour in appear-
ance, but for kidnapping negroes in reality? If so, the cause of
the war is evident; prisoners sell for something, for which, we
conclude, these monsters also thank heaven.---A e: