The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-15 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

rifIHIS present FRIDAY, the 15th instant, will be performed
.1 the Play of the
• STRANGER,
The Stranger, Mr. Vandenhoff; Baron Steinfort, Mr. Cooke;
Solomon, Mr. Baker; Peter, Mr. Siaiter.
Mrs. Hailer, Mrs. Brooks; Countess Winterst •n, Mrs. Vining ;
Charlotte, Mrs. Clarke.
After which, the favourite Op etta of
NO !
Frederick, Mr. Frazer; Miss Ge gc ; Lady Doubtful,
Miss geymour.
To conclude with, for the last time, the Domestic Drama, called
THE YEOMAN'S DAUGIiTER.
To-MORROW, (Saturday,) (for the last time,) the popular
Drama of JONATHAN BRADFORD. After which, Col-
man's Play of THE MOUNTAINEERS. To conclude with
the Nautic'al Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN.
hllss TURPIN, of the Theatre-114A Haymarket, is en-
gaged for FIVE Nwirrs, and will make- her first appear-
ance here these Two Years on Monday next. the ISth instant,
in the character of ROSINA, the Opera of TIIE BARBER
OF SEVILLE.

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FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1833.

We have no late news through any of our private cor-
respondents from Portugal or Spain, but we borrow
from our able Landon contemporary The Standard,
the following, via Paris, which, if it could be depended
upon, placel the cause_of ISABELLA the SgcoNp in a
very desperate plight :
" PARIS, Nov. 11.—The Journal de Paris and Journal des
Debats of this morning contained the following announce-
ment:—

" The retreat into St. Sebastian of Castagnos and of El
Pastor is confirmed.

"The insurgents have drawn near to this ci;.y.
"Although the intelligence ,supplied us by the government is
thus meagre, it is reported and very generally believed, that on
the 9th, at an early hour in the morning, the garrison of St.
Sebastian was summoned to surrender and refused; that the
gates of the city were inrced; that the inhabitants offering no
resistance to the Cart troop; they 'mule their triumphal
entry ; and .that the General 'Castagnos and troops were
made prisoners of war, but that El Pastor was not found. It
is added that the failure of the Queen's cause at St. Sebas-
tian was owing to defection amongst her troops, who refused
to fire when ordered on the forces of Don Carlos. I have
supplied you thus faithfully with what is reported. I am
not answerable for its accuracy, though, considering the quarter
from which the intelligence comes, and the general credit
placed in it by those who know best what is passing in Spain,
I can hardly doubt that the report is well founded. The news
of the entry of the Carlists into St. Sebastian is said to have
arrived yesterday evening at Bayonne, and to have been trans-
mitted this morning by telegraph to the government. If this
news shall be confirmed, the Queen's cause in the north must
be considered as quite hopeless.

"The division of Lardizabal is, it is believed, the corps of
Don Carlos's army which compelled Castagnos and El Pastor
to leave Tolosa, and seek refuge for the moment in St.*Sebas-
tian. This Royalist chief was Colonel in the Royal Guards,
and directed the movement of Guipuscoa, where he has esta-
blished a provisional junta in the name of Charles V. He is a
most energetic and active man, and extremely popular iu that
part of the country. When he attacked Tolosa he was joined
by eighty-five Coast Carabiniers and one hundred and fifty Foot
Gendarmes, who abandoned the drapeau of the Regent to aid
the Carlist party. From Burgos also he was aided by the arri-
val of a Chef d'Escadron of Lancers, belonging to Saarsfield's
army, and who left the Royalists in order to join Latdizabal.
"Letters from Madrid of the 30th speak of new insurrections
in the kingdom of Leon. They-also state, that Saarvfield, when
proceeding from Madrid to Burgos, disarmed all the population
on the route. This fact alone shows how hostile the people were
to the regent and her daughter. By the same letters we also
learn that the Royalist Volunteers of Angarida (only four
leagues from Madrid) had all of a sudden disappeared, in order
to join the royalist bands of Locho. At Penzo Blanco, near
Cordova, a band of guerrillas hail been formed, which kept the
field. At Benabeto, in Leon, the Administrator of Couriers,
and the Commandant of the Royalist Volunteers, had proclaim-
ed Charles V.

" The retreat of Castagnos and El Pastor amounts to this,
that the Royalists are absolute masters of the country from
Burgos to the Bidassoa, since, as a matter of course, the three
companies at Irun and the post of Behobia have followed the
retreating movement of Castagnos. As soon as St. Sebastian
shall have fallen, should it not already have done so, it is pro-
bable that Merino and Verasteguy.will be joined by Lardiiabal,
and march against Burgos, where Saarsfield, abandoned by his
troops and exposed to the attacks of the population, will have
nothing to do but to fly to Madrid, or make his submission.
Some think, on the other hand, that unless St. Sebastian shall
have fallen, as I have stated above, Lardizabel will, on the con-
trary, march to the aid of Merino and Verasteguy, and attack
Burgos before St. Sebastian."
In consequence of .this news the French funds have
fallen. On Monday last the five per cents. left off at
102 f. 5 c., and the three per cents. at 74 f. 15 c.

We have been 'favoured with the perusal of a letter
written by a gentleman of high standing and great poli-
tical influence, in which it is stated, that Lord GREY has
intimated his intention of retiring from the cabinet be-
fore the next session of Parliament. It is not stated who
is to be the noble earl's successor, but he has stipulated
that his illustrious sin-in-law, Lord DURHAM, shall fill
some post of honour in the cabal. from which he had been
expelled by Lord BROUGHAM and Mr. STANLEY. This,
in our apprehension, is the most incredible part of the
information. It is exceedingly probable that Lora GREY
is anxious to retire. He is old and feeble, and his voice
as well as his vision, we are assured, have failed him
considerably of late ; but still we can hardly think it pro-
bable that on this compulsory retirement, caused by the
decline of his mental or physical powers, he would make
that which is unavoidable a condition for the return of
his son-in-law, whose conduct the noble earl himself could
not endure while Lord DURHAM had a seat in the ad-
ministration. Lord GREY, no doubt, is anxious to pro-
vide for his family, and as six thousand a-year may be of
importance to Lord DURHAM, considering the present
price of coals, the noble premier may be of opinion that
this, his last clutch of patronage, should be equal to the
sacrifices he must make in other respects by resigning
office.

All this is very plausibly put, and, in the present state
of affairs, if Lord BROUGHAM or Mr. STANLEY be consent-
ing parties, we cannot see how any respectable or consis-
tent Whig, " out of doors," can offer any objections.—
Lord DURHAM is a person for whom we have a parti-
cular respect ; he is just the man whom we Tories should
desire to see in office ; he is the author, or principal
author, of the reform bill ; his brains, though not exactly
in the right place, would not be a contemptible garnish
to those of Lord ALTHORP—mustard upon cheese being
an orthodox 'compound ; and last, not least, as the Lord
of DURHAM was at the start, it is but justice that he
should be also in at the death of his party. In the con-
fusion which must speedily ensue, at the day- ofreek-:.-
oning, which must'be near at hand, Lord DURHAM is well
qualified to cut a conspicuous figure.
The writer of the letter to which we have alluded is
further of opinion, that this is the proper time fur the.
conservatives to muster their forces, in order to make
a successful charge upon the ministry. With all due
deference we enter our protest against this line of
policy. The Whigs are working their own ruin, in
their own way, as effectually as ever was done by
any set of men in this world ; and if the Tories
were to interfere in order to embroil their good inten-
tions, they would only encounter opposition, and de-
lay the crisis which is inevitable. Ministers are stir-
ring heaven and earth, at the present moment, to excite
.public feeling in their favour, without gaining a prose-
lyte, or regaining a morsel of that popularity which they
have lost, and lost for ever. Lord DuanAm's packed
assembly at Gateshead, to consume a twelve-shilling din:
ner, is a beautiful illustration of their faded popularity.—
Mr. T. B. MACAULAY'S pilgrimage to Leeds, escorted by
Lord MORPETH, and backed by Mr. MARSHALL, with a
gasman in the chair, and a clerk of the political union as
a decoy duck, is another lamentable instance of failure.
In Birmingham they have not a single vote; in Hull,
whiggery is at a discount; Bristol is Conservative to the
back bone; no attempt has been made to rouse what for-
merly used to be called the "people" in Manchester ;
and here in Liverpool we venture to say that no professed
Whig will dare to shew his face.
Why, then, should the conservatives be upon the
move ? It is not plain that the Whigs are doing our
work quite as well as we could do it ourselves ? The
voice of the nation is against them. There is an end to
all their boasted influence over public opinion. We defy
them to muster, even though Lord ALTHORP were to pay
for the entertainment, five hundred admirers.or supporters
in any one of the great towns, Even in Cheltenham, its

e tid waters are easier swallowed than Whig politics, and
the royal town of Brighton, built by George the Fourth,
and honoured by the presence of the ICING and QUEEN,
is hardly better than a sink of radicalism. All this'is
most refreshing. Never was there a party so universally
despised in England as the whigs are at this moment,
Even if appearances were otherwise, we still should say
to the tories, be firm, be guarded, be united, but wait
the events of the coming session! The hour of delusion
is past. The people now see on What hollow professions
the influence of his Majesty's ministers has been
based. They have before them one of the stormiest
sessions that any ministry were ever fated to en-
counter. They have their Pledges to redeem, and
the people will not be seduced from their determination
to extort the performance of their promises by any ex-
cuses, or any assumed-to-be -necessary and pressing
reforms. The taxes ! That is the word. Lord AL-
THORP must be battered in breach at the very com-
mencement of the session. He must be prepared to re-
linquish at least five millions of his presen t income, or
he had better "be a dog and bay the moon." He must
not only make his peace with the unions and anti-tax
combinations, by thus gorging them with more than one-
third part of the whole available revenue, but he must
also provide his twenty millions for the West Indies,
two milliOns for Greece (poor OTHO being very near
his end) and various other sums as per sundry contracts
of indemnity. To worry a government with these
plagues upon their hands would be downright cruelty, if
not murder. No, leave them alone, say we, and about.
the month of March next we promise you rare fun.

We have hitherto carefully refrained froth offering any
observations upon the commission still -pursuing its in-
quisitorial and unconstitutional inquiries into the con-
duct of the Liverpool Corporation ; not that we have been
unconcerned spectators, or have come to any resolution
to allow the invidious flippancies, the half-concraW par.
tiality, and. the short-hand details of the commissioners,
(which last seem to be of primary importance in the
farce,) to pass sub silentio. On the contrary, we have a
.full budget of extrajudicial absurdities, intemperate ex-
pressions, and preposterous and ridiculous assumptions to
unfold then the proper time comes. Our opiniim,—and
we admit it is a humble opinion, but one nevertheless of
as much authority as that of an unknown barrister, or of
one who has only been a penny-a-liner in the courts, and
never held a brief in his life—our opinion, however, be
it sound or be it otherwise, is, that the present is an ille-
gal inquiry—one which the KING had no right to grant,
and the assumed powers of which none of the KING'S
subjects could be compelled to respect. If the Corpora-
tion of Liverpool, and Corporations generally, have
deemed it expedient to answer any or all questions pro-
pounded to them by this usurped and unconstitutional
commission, that is their affair, not-ours. It is obvious
enough to those who give themselves the trouble to re-
flect for a single moment that all the evidence collected,
or to be collected, whether favourable or unfavourable to
the Corporations of England, will not weigh more than
the dust in the balance against the preconcerted measures
of his MAJESTY'S ministers. The Corporations, by yield.
ing to this inquiry, have, perhaps unintentionally, but
unquestionably, and most materially aided the ministers
in their designs, and precipitated those revolutionary
changes which they have long meditated; and which, we
fear, will not be arrested until the monarchy and the cluirch
of England are mere matters of. history. Some future
HALLAM, writing upon the middle ages, will say, "Here
began the folly, of which unreasonable concession is the
parent, in the imbecile but liberal indulgence of which
the last provincial strong holdS of loyalty were destroyed,
and the rabble obtained supreme power."
We have a strong presentiment that we shall :live to
see that period of deep degradation and misery; but
though-fully alive to the injustice of the present pro-
ceedings, our pen shall repose, and our lips be sealed,
during the local probation. of these commissioners. As
to the yell of triumph set up by our contemporaries on
the opposite side, it is precisely what we expected, and
is no more to our ears than a cowherd or shepherd's
whistle to the skylark. The "downfall of the Tories,"
the "last kick of. the Conservatives," and all such vulgar
stuff, is extremely natural, but of no more moment "than
the pickpocket's favourite exclamation of "down with
the police!"
We turn our attention, for the present, to a more dis-
tant object; and if what. we are about to animadvert
upon do not open the eyes of Lord GREY, Lord LANS -
DOWNE, Lord WESTMINSTER, the Duke Of DEVONSHIRE,
the Duke -of SUTHERLAND, and others who have pro-
perty to lose, and noble estates to- be divided according
to the principles of Agrarian law, then has the reign of
"chaos and dark night" commenced, and insanity be-
come, not the intruder upon, but the director of, human
affairs.

The people of Scotland have obtained a sweeping
measure of municipal reform in the Borough Bill of last
session. The object of the bill, like all the other specu-
lative and selfish measures of the Whigs, was to expel
the Tories from office, and confer upon the Whigs a
monopoly of municipal and local power. With their
usual purblindness, they fancied that if the Tories could
be overwhelmed by the numbers of the new constituency,
whom they had the vanity to reckon in their favour,
they would then, among the provincial and borough
functionaries, acquire as many ardent followers and sup-
porters as they did acquire at the mania election of the
first reformed Parliament. Alas! how very shallow
were their calculations! Their temerity has involved
them in difficulties which they never anticipated. Their
reform, concocted by- the puerile mind of JEFFREY, the
Lord-Advocate, has proved to be as detrimental to their
interests as that of the hundred-fathom-coal-pit intellect
of Lord DURHAM, or the worm-eaten poetical states-
manship of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. We have not the full
returns before us; but in all the boroUgh elections in
Scotland which have taken place, the Whigs have been
signally and disgralcefully beaten. Wherever the Tories
have taken part in the contest they have succeeded,—in
Port-Glasgow, Ayr, and Newton-upon-Ayr; for in-
stance; but in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Paisley,
Stirling, and other towns, the Radicals, the thick-and-
thin haters of the Whigs, the men of the movement, the
ultra-revolutionists, the knaves who go all lengths, the
leaders of .every mob tumult,—these men have been
returned as councillors in the first instance, and as
Provocf.' anti l3ailiesja_ the nex't instance.. by
_o_Egy-
whelming majorities.

_ Alas, poor Scotland! She is in the hands of her
political vampires. She is doomed, we fear, to retro-
grade from her high station in morals, science, arts, in-
dustry,
and civilization. It may seem paradoxical, but
it is nevertheless true, that, although unanimated by the
fervour of English freedom, she has made those advances
in national improvement which she never could have
made had she been afflicted with the perennial restless-
ness of detnocraticalliberty. She has prospered in her
agriculture and manufactures, beyond any nation in
Europe, for the last seventy years. She has not engaged
in any struggles for'popular aggrandisement, and she
owes every thing, of which she has a right to be proud,
to her total exclusion from those elective contests which
have blighted the industry of her wealthier sister, and
sown those dissensions which have led to conflagrations
in the rural districts of England, t o usurpation on the
part of the mob, to eight millions of money expended
upon the idle rather than upon the poor, to combinations
against industry producing poverty, beggary, and mi-
sery. Scotland has not hitherto participated in these
scenes of crime, madness, and destruction, solely be-
cause she was differently governed from England, and
because, apart from politics and popular excitements,
her whole energies were directed to rational improve-
ments and profitable labour well protected. The curse,
however, has come upon her at last, and the Whigs have
endeavoured to make a poor country bear all the unne-
cessary burthens, and pay for all the excesses, of a rich
and mob-ridden commonwealth. .
She has been reformed, and therefore. we. shall'hear-Oi
more of Scottish perseverance and indusire. Her nobles
are now pronounced to he all tyrants—her landlords to be
selfish oppressors—her banking system to be robbery—.
her former system of municipal government to have been
base and cruel—and that all that has been was wrong, and

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