The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-02-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JOHN. He is to feast, embrace, and cajole the beggar; but my Lord Premier is to be saved the indignity and the odour of coming into contact with him. OUr readers, we know, will gladly ,enough.spare us the trouble and themselves the slavery of wading through the various.topics alluded to in the royal speech. There are one or two, however, which we cannot pass over.  His Majesty is advised to say that he. approves of the "prudent and vigorous conduct of the present govern. ment of Spain ;" that he has offered his "mediation in order to compose the dißrence which has arisen between France and the United States.f! and that he continues to receive from his allies, and "generally from all foreign powers, assurances of their unaltered desire to cultivate friendly relations." Let us take, these in their order.  It is singular, if not humiliating, that the King of England should be induced or persuaded by his ministers to call that " vigour" on the part of the Queen Regent of Spain which is exemplified by a series of the most inhuman murders, and to call. that " prudence" which consists in forging accounts of victories for the purpose of swindling in all the stock and money markets of Europe. It is strange that ministers should boast, through the medium of the King's speech, that they are mediators in a "difference" between France and the United States, while they do not condescend • to'say a single word about their own "difference" with the same republic upon the boundary question. How grateful the people must be to a ministry which takes so deep an interest in what concerns foreigners, and takes no interest at all in what concerns ourselves.  The allusion to other powers is curious. His Majesty is made to say that "generally" he receives from " all foreign powers" friendly assurances. If from " all," why "generally" from all Y When a man says ".1 have generally received support in my canvass for the honour of representing Whig-cum-kick in the ensuing parliament," he means to say that he has received many promises, but that he has also met several electors who are decidedly opposed to him. The King's speech, in using the word " generally," means nothing more than this. There are powerful enemies somewhere ; and can we wonder at it, when we see his Majesty's ministers in boasted alliance with France, the natural enemy of England, and' the most pestilent and revolutionary nation in Europe ? How comes it that his Majesty's ministers have no sympathies to interchange with any of the continental sovereigns, except the remorseless and perfidious Louis PHILIPPE of France, and the worthless woman, with her hired cheats, who trample upon the laws and berties of Spain ? How comes it that the Dutch and Belgic question is not alluded to, as heretofore, by the ministers of England ? Have they no-allies but the mob tyrants of Washington and Paris ? Do they take no interest in the mean and unprincipled pensioner, the protestant husband of the PrincesS CHARLOTTE, whom Lord GREY placed upon the provincial throne of Belgium, who has since espoused a popish princess, and who has conformed, in consequence of marital engagements and obsequious baseness, to all the impositions of the most bigotted heirarchy in the liomish church? He is not even alluded to. The young Princess of Portugal is equally forgotten, simply because she cannot, any more aid to the party now in than LEOPOLD, render any  power. Rpia, however, and the King of the Netherlands are pointed at, although not by name. The naval estimates are to be increased. The rumour in the best circles is, that five thousand men, and a proportional number of of ficers and ships, are to be added to our fleet in the Mediterranean. The pretext is that our extended commerce requires this additional force. ,Where our commerce has' extended to since this time 'twelvemonths we are utterly at a loss to know; but even, if extended, why the necessity for a more powerful fleet, seeing that his Maje'sty's government are receiving friendly assurances generally from all foreign powers ? But the sooner the mask is dropped the better. France has virtually declared war against Russia, in favour, of the treacherous, dishonest, and demoralized Poles, and England is now so pitiably in the hands of the present administration that she cannot avoid taking part in a struggle that must inevitably cover her with disgrace, ruin her eastern.empire, and give Turkey—and a large portion of Asiatic Turkey too—to