Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-15
STATE OF EUROPE.
From a late Liverpool paper.

lose much OF tner INTEREST," io' a. Un'S PS'.o1 W
the session prohibits the introduction OF new
tonics. the orators find it impossible to impart
anv thing like novelty to subjects on which eio-
ouence-aood or bad-has been long since ex-
hausted. Most of the members OF Parliament
have propounded their nostrums. and thev seem
nov content to allow the important measures VI
the session to progress towards maturity,'n tne
comfortable hope that they may escape trom at
tendance, which being no longer hatteIing' mas
grown tiresome. Every thing seems 10 promise
the fulilment of their hopes and unless the urea
tened collision between the two houses takes
place, the day Of prorosation cannot now DC TAT
distant. "
There are still four or FIVE important measures
hefore Parliament. The Church Temperate
ties Urelandi Bill has not yet passed the lower
House. Mr.. Stanley's Bill for Negro Emancl'
Dat,on. is a secret; the East-India resolutions
have some progress to make, and the renewal Of
the Rank Charter, may still call forth lengthy
,IIscussion. Each of these NAV be regarded as
debateable questions. The organs OF the Tories
hint that the Irish Church Reform Bill will be
rejected by the Lords. and the Ministerial pa
ners anoear to see much in their insinuations
The collision, however, can hardly be expected
so near the close of the session, and Earl Grey
and his colleagues are just in condition to profit
by 30 unseemly and Fictitious an opPositon.-
The country is undoubtedly with them, aud an
appeal to the country at this moment would only
tend 10 increase the popular confidence In the
Wing administration. 1t is therefore probable
that the Peers will register the measures sent up
from the other house, and allow the session and
the recess to pass away without provoking an an
cry collision.
The West India question, which the country
had almost forgotten, deeming 1t settled, has sud
denly been obtruded on the public notice 6y
general misunderstanding among the different
parties. The planters, who were silent and uni
ted as long as they were in the comfortable ex'
pectation Of the liberal gift Of 100000 900 are now
noisy and discordant. They are angry because
ministers wish to allow all slave proprietors 10
participate in the benefits OF the bargain, anu they
have quarrelled among themselves, because there
seems a general eagerness to overreach each other
in the distribution Of the money. They dispute
the Justice of the rule laid down for aocatng the
bounty of Parliament, and in the avarice OF all
there is danger Of the measure being delayed
The plan originally proposed was that each colo
nv should be estimated by its exports, but those
whose Foreign trade is scanty, demur, TOE 1t ap-
pears that while slave, by this calculation, IN
one island would be worth only 15t. 10 another
place he would be worth IS. There is evidently
Something wrong here, but as Mr.. Stanley's
bill is not yet Published the object on may be OBJ
waited.
The Bank question has evidently perplexed
Lord Althorp: deficient in the hrmness which
renders less amiable men respectable, he has, in
h,s wish 10 coaciliate ALL Father impaired his mea'
sure and moi benefited his own financial reputa'
ton. The country bankers have trlumphed over
him, and yielding to their power, but not 10 their
arguments, he has abandoned that part OF MS
plan which related to them. He has also sacr'h-
ced little to the cheap currency men, tor he has
made Bank Of England notes payable IN gold no.
where but at the mother hank. BY the original
proposition, they were to be payable at the Branch
Banks, but now that seeming advantage Is done
away With, and notes are to be convertible into
soverrigns nowhere but in London. 1t is dih-
cult to say how this plan will work, but as 1t will
no doubt, increase without depreciatine the cur
rency, we may fairly calculate on It's producing a
beneficial effect on the industry Of the country.
Tine present aspect Of European affairs must
he exceedingly mortifying to the two extremes,
WIN have so often prophesied that the foreign po
,;cy of ministers was certain to produce gene.
raj war. The Belgian question furnished an in.
e,haustible subject for speculation and assertion,
Int in spite Of all hostile prognostics and seve-
raj months of an embargo, the affair is now 10
course of speedy adjustment, and war IN that
quarter more remote than ever. The Holy Allies,
who were to have out manRuyred Lord Palmer
atom. decline to protract the present differences,
aod the political prophets, who hate peace, are
obliged to seek consolation among the Turks s and
Russians. War they are determined to have,
and \, matters not whether the first blow be struck
on the Scheld, or the Bosphorus. Ii suits their
purpose to magnify the power Of the autocrat,
aud were he only half as willy statesman as
they are willing to represent him, he would be,
if not the most potent, at least the greatest mo-
march Of Europe. Nicholas. however, is after
all, only an ordinary despot, and the Russians
are Is feeble as a half civilized people ought to
be- They will not disturb the peace OF Europe,
and though they NAV affect an interference, they !
are not likely to provoke the enmity Of nations
Who could. IN a single month, crush all their |
power The Sultan will, therefore, be quickly ,
left to his own reflections, undsturbed by the |
nreseuce of the soldiers the ships Of the car,
and the fate Of Turkey though already pronounc.
ed, will be postponed perhaps for year or two
longer.
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