The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

PORTUGAL,

Advices from Lisbonhave been received to the 15th inst.
After the stirring events which, accompanied the proclamation
of the charter, the political horizotthad again become serene
and tranquil. The re-establishment of the Tribunal of Coun-
cillors of the Treasury, a tri.bunal which is stated to be quite
useless under present circumstances, as it served only to in-
crease the public expenditure and create a large amount of
patronage, had produced great division amongst the leaders
and followers of the late chartist movement. Amongst the
new council are several individuals particularly obnoxious to
the chartists, amongst whom is Dr. Albeno, who served under
Don Miguel ; and another persOn, who exercised the functions
of a magistrate during the usurpation. The chartists, seeing
such men preferred to themselves had begun to be clamorous ;
and a rumour was abroad that the ministry would resign
should her Majesty continue-to refuse • her sanction to the
many decrees, titles, and stars to be distributed amongst the,
followers of Costa Cabral. The quantity •of port-wine ex-
ported during the month of January last appears by the official
returns just published to have been 884 pipes.
Exchange upon London, at 30 days' sight, 53ad per milree..
The British schooner Alert, Griffin, master, from London
to Gibraltar, last from Falmouth, out 20 days, laden with a
general cargo of merchandise, put into this•port on the 13th,
instant, leaky, and short of provisions, and will probably have
to discharge.

TURKEY AND SYRIA

The Augsburg Gazette of the 14th instant publishes ac-
counts from Constantinople of the 23d ult. The Porte had
not yet replied to the note of the Ambassadors relative to,
the appointment of a Turkish military governor in Leba-
non. The divan had held a fel days before an extraordi-
nary council, at which all the grand dignitaries of the empire
were present, in order to discuss that affair, but the assembly
separated without coming to any decisive resolution. It was,
however, decided that Omar Pasha should retain the military
governorship of the mountains, until further reconsideration
of the matter. If we are to judge from a conversation which
had occurred between Sarim Effendi and one of the Euro-
pean diplomatists, the Porte was determined to evade acqui-
escing in the demand of the Ambassadors. Saritn had an-
nounced to that diploUlatist that Ali Effendi and Akif
Effendi would shortly depart, the one for London and the
other for Vienna, and that they would be both fur-
nished with the necessary instructions and powers to adjust
the Lebanon question in a satisfactory manner. The two
envoys, however, would not, it was expected, leave Con-
stantinople for two months, and it was calculated that no so-
lution could be arrived at for at least six months. In the
meantime the Marcinites were making preparations, should
their reclamations be rejected, to attack Omar. Pasha in Der-
el-Eamar. Several .engageme4a had akeady heen fought
between them and the Druses, of which Omar Pasha had re-
mained a quiet spectatdr: It wits not believed, hoviever, that
be would long observe that neutrality. Since the arrival of
the last despatches from Syria, the utmost anxiety seemed to
prevail among the ministers of the Porte. Tahir Pasha daily
repaired to the arsenal to stimulate the zeal of the workmen,
whose number had been more than doubled. Sir Stratford
Canning was said to be displeased with the reception given
to the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem by Tayar Pasha, the
governor. He had addressed a formal complaint on the sub-
ject to the divan, and insisted on the immediate recognition
of the bishop by the sultan. The prelate had declined ac-
cepting the offer of an apartment in Tayar Pasha's palace, in
consequence of that functionary affecting to treat him as a
mere English traveller, and refusing to recognise him in his
episcopal character.