The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-10-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 14. 183 V.  Our foreign news is interesting, and we have given as much of it as possible under our usual head. In France all is tranquil ; but in Spain doubt and insecurity progress, with rapid strides. Pablo Sans and his band of hardy Navarese soldiers have entered the Asturias, striking terror into the ministry at Madrid. Gomez, with thirteen battalions of infantry and a large body of cavalry, was advanced to within a few leagues of Cadiz, whilst Alaix, who had destroyed himself at Ribledo, is is now marching to attack him! Confiscation proceeds at the dictation of Mendizabal. From Portugal we learn, that the Peers have made a vigorous protest against the law suppressing their Chamber. The intelligence we have received from Saint Sebastian, is at once distressing awl unprofitable,—distressing that any portion of our deluded countrymen should be engaged in a murderous strife, to which so little honour and real nationality is attached—unprofitable, when we consider the position of the Queen Regent, for whose cause they are presumed to be fighting, and who is little more than a cypher in the hands of a stock-jobbing Cabinet, pressed upon from without by anoarmed association of impassioned democrats, ready to apply the stiletto and the poignard to every one who shall venture to dispute their mad career of revolutionary freedom ! We say this is an unnatural conflict for Englishmen to be engaged in; whilst their devotion and courage are worthy of a better  cause.  After twelve or thirteen hours severe fighting, the loss of several officers and men, as on the former occasion,-! the Carlists have been driven back ; but what profit results from such a victory ? It was, in fact, a drawn battle, the legion having been totally unable to follow up the repulse given to their assailants; and which appears to have been more of an experimental attack by the Carlists, from a design to free the entire position of the Anglo-Spanish forces. One truth presents itself to our view, and that is the proof that the soldiers of Dou Carlos can and will fight, and that desperately too; whilst they prove themselves not to be novices in the use of either musketry or artillery. From what we can learn the number engaged on both sides was nearly equal ; but it is presumed that the Legion had the advantage of a superior artillery and well entrenched works. We give the intelligence under our foreign head, reserving our further commentary until we are supplied with more ample details.  We have been favoured with New South Wales papers to a recent date. The following extract from the Sydney Gazette, of May 12th, exhibits very striking evidence of the commercial importance of that flourishing town : " It is some proof of maritime importance that there are at the present moment in this harbour, either loading or discharging cargoes, refitting or ready for sea, not fewer than thirty-two vessels of various descriptions whose lowest registered burthen is 61 tons, and whose registered burthen upon the whole exceed: 7,000 tons! This will appear more clearly perhaps from the following table, wherein the several vessels are classed according to their respective rigs, whether as ships. barques, brigs, or schooners, with the separate amount of tonnage and particular present employment of each, viz.:— •