The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-31 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1833.

The speech of Mr. President JACKSON will be found
elsewhere. There is little irr it to interest the people of
this country ; for, singularly enough, they are only once
alluded to in relation to the erection of a light-house on
some one of the Bahama islands.

The. PRESIDENT is extremely dolorous throughout the
whole of his oration. He accuses the United States
Bank of bribery and corruption, of causing panics, of
influencing the press, and thwarting the measures of the
government. He charges the masters of steam-boats
with wilful neglect in navigating these vessels, and
drowning the citizens. He complains that the VICE-
PRESIDENT and other officers of the government are
improperly elected. He complains that Portugal has
not paid her it4talt4gOts,i,,and he accus_ea..LQum PHILIPPE
and the French government of dishonouring his drafts,
and committing an act of bankruptcy. It appears that
the French had stipulated to pay a certain sum of money,
(how many dollars is not stated,) on the 2d February,
1833; and although he, General ..fAcKsoN, to prove his
liberality, and show his regard for the new government
of France, did not. draw upon them for the cash until
the 23d day of March, yet even then, when the draft
was presented, it "was not paid." This is a shocking
affair, and the PRESIDENT feels very uncomfortable in
consequence. But the French have sinned in other
respects. He complains that they have not forwarded
to him certain lists of burnt ships and other plunder,
which they had solemnly pledged themselves to do on
a given day, and which .he cannot understand their rea-
sons for not doing, seeing that it is' not an affair of
money.

Upon the whole, the speech is a melancholy one.
The PRESIDENT evidently anticipates some warm work
in Congress. His withdrawal of the deposits from the
Bank was done upon his personal responsibility, and in
the teeth of a resolution of the representatives, and he is
compelled to publish six mortal columns in the news-
papers in defence of that transaction. The Bank have
also their defence in reply ready ; in fact, it was pub-
lished on the 10th instant, the day the Silas Richards
sailed; but unfortunately it. has not reached us. Not
a word is said about the Alabama question, or the great
work of nullification. This last is expected to be re-
vived; and, by all accounts, the session of Congress,
now commenced, will be an unusually stormy. one.

We have received a file of Jamaica papers to the 25th
November. On that day the House of Assembly was
to enter upon the final discussiOn of the Slavery Bill;
but the packet did not wait the result At a previous
sitting the house had inserted some of the original
clauses of the bill, which were omitted in its subsequent
stages in Parliament. There had been some excite-
ment among the negroes, who have recently been in
the habit of submitting their frivolous complaints to 'the
governor in person ; but the island generally was tran-
quil.

IA. Spanish army, 6,000 strong, has entered Portugal,
In open defiance of thela-ws of nations, and the stipula-
tions of solemn treaties. These laws are now treated by
the liberals of Europe as the priests of Ireland treat the
bible,—they are toped into the fire. The pretext for
this invasion of Portugal is the apprehension of Don
Carmos, whom they have not yet caught; but it is a fact
that they have liberated the Portugese prisoners at Por-
talagre. When FERDINAND was alive he was prevented
from interfering in the affairs of Portugal by the threat
of the British government, that if a single Spanish soldier
passed the frontier a British armament would be sent
forthwith.

What will Lord GREY or Lord PALMERSTON say or do
now ? It is hinted somewhere that they also will inter-
fere. Let them do it in the name of all that is mis-
chievous—the more snares the better. They may con-
quer Portugal, but they could not keep it for a single
hour without a standing army sent from England, and
supported by English money. Mr. CANNING tried this
and failed, but he had the good fortune to obtain some-
thing like a pecuniary recompense for the costs. At
present there is not a single milrea to be screwed out of
miserable Portugal, and, if we do send an armament, the
ways and means will have to be provided by the unhappy
Lord ALTIIORP, a task which is enough to drive that ho-
nest man mad.

It is true that England may be compelled to take pos-
session of Portugal in her own defence. Louts PHI-
LIPPE, we understand, threatens to send a fleet to the
Tagus, and, if we allow him the honour of settling the
question, the vexatious part of the probability is, that he
would keep the country to himself. It would delight that
royal badaud to cut off the supply of Portugal wines. It
would, raise the price of his own claret, and procure a
market for his wretched tin ordinaire, the very smell of
which would give JOHN BULL something analagous to
the cholera. The French must be kept out of Portugal
at all hazards, but the necessity of an armament at the
present moment is a serious affair. We may put the cost
clown at a million to begin with, and that, we take it, is
being moderate. Portugal one million ; Irish clergy
one million; Otho, of Greece, two millions and a half;
(now certain ;) Irish tobacco one million ; West Indies
twenty millions; additional ships in the Mediterranean
one million ; aqd the different- commissions half a mil-
lion. These small items form a tolerably round sum, in
all TWENTY-SEVEN MILLIONS, to be raised by Lord AL-
TIIORP on or before the month of March ! We wish him
joy, and the compliments of the season.

The Huddersfield election is expected to commence
to-morrow. The candidates, as our readers already know,
are Mr. SADLER and Mr. Commissioner BLACKBURNE.---
The Tatter is the. Whig candidate, and the nominee of Sir
Somebody RamslYEN, who is also a Whig, and the prin-
cipal owner 'of property in the borough. •
Huddersfield obtained the franchise under the reform
bill,
and is allowed to return one member to Parliament.
At its formation the borough was sliced out and divided
according to the Whig practice. This RamsDEN being
a Whig, the town was moulded to suit his convenience,
and the representation to a certain extent was placed in
his hands. The people who inhabit the suburbs of Hud-
dersfield were excluded from the franchise, for no other
reason that can be assigned than the simple fact that they
did not happen to be RAMSDEN'S tenants. The present,
therefore, is an attempt on the part of Mr. SADLER to try
the extent of the patron's influence, and establish, if pos-
sible, the independence of Huddersfield. He has, how-
ever, fearful odds to contend against, and we shall not be
surprised if he be defeated. He has the government in-
fluence opposed to the Whigs opposed to him—
and the RAMSDENS

That the latter will leave no stone unturned to defeat
the independent .candidate we may take for granted.—
Honest RICHARD OASTLER, though a radical, is support-
ing Mr.,SADLEa, and he knoWs how the RAMSDF.N influ-
ence was exerted at the last elec4ion. He supported
Captain WooD on that occasion, mill in alluding to it he
says:—

" Now it happened that in doing so;" (supporting Captain
Wood) " I got into an awkard dilemma with my master; for
Mr. Ramsden, who was exceedingly angry with me for supporting