The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-04-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MORNING, APRIL 5, 1833.  THE war in Portugal is doing roaCh to carry into effect the benevolent principles. of Mr. Malthus. More British blood has been shed at Oporto ! The last arrivals furnish .us with the uetails of a skirmish.. between the troops of Miguel and Pedro, in which a victory is claimed fur the latter, and in whiCh almost every-English, Scotch, and Irish volunteer has had the honour of being shot—some of them Nost effectually, inasmuch as they will never again do deeds of valour in so glorious a cause. They are quietly inurned, and their fame is buried with them TQ Don Pedro this must be so far gratifying, that he will no longer be importuned for their arrears of pay. Tho game is nearly over altogether. By the next advises it will not surprise us to learn that Oporto is bombarded by Pedro's own ships. -Rir some time the fleet of Admiral Sartorious has beeti pent up in Vigo bay, with his seamen ilia state of mutiny. For many months they have been without shoes, stockings, or a supply of clothes of any kind, and have been compelled to cater for food in a way which to our apprehension looks very like theft or piracy. In this condition they have laid down their handspikes and struck work, after the most approved plan of the colliers and weavers. In. short, they have published a manifesto, or what in Ireland would be called a declaration of grievances, in which they protest against fighting without pay, and contend that they have a right to take by force of arms those arrears of wages which are, logged to the debit of Queen Donna Maria. The admiral himself having justified the conduct of his men was deemed a traitor to the cause, and summoned to appear before the ex-emperor, which summons the hero refused  to obey. In this comical state of affairs the intercession of Sir John Alilley Doyle was required,.and he adopted a most characteristic and truly Hibernian method of conciliation. The courteous reader no doubt recollects the Gravedigger's .exposition of the law of suicide; but Sir John beats the grave-digger hollow. He proceeds to Vigo bay, carrying with him in his pocket a sort of writ, like a sheriff's officer, boards the admiral, and politely informs him that he is to consider himself a prisoner !  " A prisoner !" exclaims the sailor with a loud sea laugh, and passes the word to his crew, who, before Sir John'could say " Mrs. Robinson," seize upon the worthy knight and stow him away under hatches as a close prisoner himself. Such is the fate of war ! The seizer is seized, and the biter bit I Sir John Milley Doyle falls into the trap, and Don Pedro's commands and his anibassador are treated with contempt. But this is not all. Sartorious, with the representative Of majesty under hatches, proceeds to sea with his fleet, determined on his part it would seem, and with a cordial under Standing on the part of his officers and men, to sail to Oporto to demand redress, or enforce it at the point of :his guns. _  Such is the farce, and we are sorry to say it has not been a bloodless one, which is still being enacted in Portugal. A beautiful country, and an industrious people, are made the victims of this senseless broil, which is kept alive by the aid of foreign mercenaries, while the Governments of England and France, which took such a deep interest in the affairs of Greece, look on and seem to enjoy the strife, the bloodshed, the plunder, and the other miseries and calamities of civil war.  THE Tories of Sunderland have gained a glorious triumph in the return of Mr. Alderman Thompson, cf London. The election closed on. Wednesday evening, when the numbers were, for Thompson . Barclay  . Our Newcastle correspondent says, that " the attempt of the Eail•of Dinham, and Sir Hedworth Williamson, combined.,with the Quakers and Earl Grey, to trample dpon the freedom of election, has been signally defeated notwithstanding a • wastful expenditure of money, and the resort to every species of intimidation." We have every confidence .in the veracity of our correspondent, but it really sounds rather oddly that the Whigs who boast the possession of an " unStinned-snow" purity, a virtue without spot or blemish should be even suspected of departing from their professions.—Alas ! We live in strange times! _ _  At the commencement of the adjourned sitting of the House of Commons on Wednesday, the speaker called the aYtintibri of the house to the ieSult of the first sitting .from 12 to 3 o'clock,and said, that ",the practice resorted to purely as an experiment had totally failed."—Such is the success of the first experiment of the first reformed Parliament.  AFTER the explanations which _have been made in the upper house by Lords Grey and Brougham on the passing of the Irish coercion bill, we cannot see bow Lord Althorp can remain any-longer a.member of the cabinet. The. spirit .of the bill was extracted by the 'amendments of the commons, and it returned to the lords so altered, and so fantastically patched •and powdered, that its very parot, the prime minister, had some. difficulty in recognising his own offspring, and a strong inclination to disown and discard it .altogether. . The House of Lords had certainly many reasons for being dissatisfied with the conduct of the ministers in the lower house. They had passed a measure which Lout Grey had, in introducing it, declared to be indispensably necessary for the peace of Ireland, and the preservation of the lives and property of the king's. subjects. They passed it upon the responsiliility of his. Majesty's ministers, with all the celerity which the forms of Parliament would permit, and sent it down for the approval of the commons, in which house they had a right to expect that it would meet with the same protection from the Jni;nisters which it had received. in-the lords. But it received no such efficient protection. , Lord Althorp was obviously unfriendly to the measure, and he allowed O'Connell to Cut and hough it with all the ferocity of an Irish hurler.