Star. — London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

0 THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 182+. THE FUND& - STOCK X CHAN du. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Commis opened this morning at 9.5 f for the Account, and after wards got op to 951, at which price they remain steady up to this hoar, with little doing, accept In the earlier part of the morning. FOREIGN FUNDS. There is little doing in the Foreign Market. Current Prices: New Spanish 161 1, Old 231, Russian 956 1, Mexican 6611, Old 221, Chilian 77, French Scrip 131 1 pre. Por tuguese 881 1, Alliance Shares 91 10 pre. Marine Alliance 21 pre. Colombian Mines 19 20 pre. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. BANSUROII, Nov. 26.—0 n London, 36. 2; 2 Us. 35. 11k. Preessaugon, Nov. 12.—0 n London, 9 23-32. AMSTMIDAMI, Dec. 3.—On London, 39. 6. 2 M. 39. 4. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Cent. Red: 94 3 / 4 sit per Cent. Cons. shut. Si per Cent. Red. 100% % 4 per Cent. New shut. India Stack shut eq. Bills (2d.) 55 6; (1%d.) 56 4 £5OO ditto (2d.) 55 6; (1%d.) 56 4 £lOO and £2OO ditto (2.1.) 55 6; (1 %d.) 56 4 Advertised (21) 54 Cons. for Acct. 95 3 / 4 3/4 This forenoon we re ce ive d the ilioniteur of Saturday aid the EioPe of yesterday, by Express. They are very barren of intelligence. The KING transacted bu• siness with the Minister for Fweign Affairs on Friday, and reviewed the Hussars of the Royal Guard in the Place du Carousel. The accounts from Spain in the Monileur are to the 23d ult. The Criminal Tribunal of Madrid was ordering new arrests. At Cameros, a Constitutional band of 260 foot and sixty horse had been formed, against which some Royalist Volunteers were sent. The French Papers of Friday are barren. The I.4oniteur contains two Royal Ordonnances. The first fixes the number of General Officers of the Land Forces to 150 Lieutenant-Generals and 300 Major-Generals, The second article states what General Officers are ad mitted to half-pay. The Second Ordonnance relates to the organization of the Royal School, created by an or donnance of the 20th of August, 1824.; the purpose ef which is to bring up young men (24 in number) to a knowledge of the management, cultivation,Stc. of forests. This school is to be called L'Ecok Royale Foretiere. The parties in Paris are struggling hard for the ascendant in the approaching Session of the Chambers, )1. DE CIIATEAUBRIAND has let off a second epistle against the Ministers. It recommends an indemnity to the emigrants for their property confiscated in the Revolution. According to the Monileur, FERDINAND VII. has contrived to get tovtlier the funds for the payment of the half year's intere.t due next month on Guebhard's Loan. It is candidly acknowledged that this payment would hardly have been made if the Spanish Govern ment had not considered it " as leading to further finan cial of erations." The evacuation of Spain seems to be no longer doubtful. All the preparatory steps are taken. The Etoile, however, stoutly denies that the Infants intend to go abroad, though the Opposition Journals persist in affirming it ; and adds, what we long ago stated, that there will be no Congress at Petersburg)). The Aristtrque states, that the merchants of Paris arc about to petition the Government against the viola tion of co..fidence in the French Post-office, practised in the opening of private letters. We trust that CHARLES X. may be induced to number the abolition of this scanda lous custom among the just and beneficent acts of his reign. It is so infamous that we hope it has only to be pointed out to insure its abolition. Pt iv ate letters from Paris state the Rentes of Saturday at 102 1. 10 c. but the Etoilc gives them at the opening at 101, 60, 70, 65; and at half-past three o'clock, at 101 f. S 5 c. Dutch Papers to the sth inst. reached us this forenoon. The only article of intelligence they contain is the gra tifying news that the waters of the several livers which broke their banks and committed tach devastation, ate gradually subsiding. This morning we received Hamburgh Papers to the 27th tilt. On St. Martin's Day, which, since time im memorial, 'lei been the day for fixing, at Coblentz, the average price of corn, it appeared that rye was at two rix dollars five groschen for the Coblents bushel. It has not been so cheap for these 84 years as it now is; the highest price was in 1816, when the average price of rye at Coblentz was 11 rix dollars 15 groschen per bushel, The General Diet of Mecklenburg Schwerin was opened on the llth ult. It was but spar ingly attended, and is expected not to sit above three weeks. According to the second proposal laid before the Diet, it is the Grand Duke's intention to levy, for the year 1825, one extraordinary contribution less, and that to make good the deficiency that will be thus caused in the receipt by indirect taxes, it is intended it seems to impose an import duty on many articles, for instance wine, salt, wood for fuel, planks, linen, woollen cloths; and woollen goods in general ; cattle, horses, glass ware, tar, &c. It is not known how the States will receive this proposal of the Government. The intended causeway, by way of Boitzenburg, ati to the Prussian frontiers is to be made entirely at the expense of the Prince, and completed in five years.— The States are only applied to to fix the toll, and the indemnity to be given to the land-owners through whose grounds the new road will pass. There is,it is said, no doubt that the States will decide conformably to the wish of the Government, especially as the Prussian Go- vernment is said to have declared its resolution to seal the Prussian Mail to Hamburgh through Hanover, un less a new road is made. The mere report that the tolls anti duties are to be le vied in Mecklenburgh with more strictness, has induced, of late, many can lets, with goods from Prussia to Hamburgh or back, to deprive theMecklenburgers of the real profit of toll and consumption, by the Elbe at the frontier, and to avoid their territory entirely. They indeed go three or four miles out of their way (12 or 16 English), but then they have only one toll to pay, whereas, in Mecklenburg they would have four to pass. Though they take a day longer in their journey they must find their account in it; the bad state of the toads may be another cause. A general meeting of the Danish Asiatic Company cock place, on the 18th ultimo, at Copenhagen, when a warm debate ensued on the question, whether a ship should be sent to China in the Spring? u hich was decided in the negative, by 81 votes to 49. At Odensee .and Nyburg there was a dreadful storm, on the night of the 14th ultimo, and some persons thought they felt a shock of an earthquake, at half-past five A.M. on the 15th. An Aggregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics took place in Dublin on Thus sday last, and was numerouslY attended. A long discussion took place, or raper a series of violent harangues were delivered 4 Mr. HUGH O'CONNER. Mr. SIIIEL, and that miracle of a man" Mr. O'CoNNELL, as his friend Mr. O'GORMAN calls him. Mr. OtosNun beg in by asserting that Catholic Emancipation was their bole object, and con cluded by an attack on the Bank of luland. Mr. Sum levelled his shafts at the Castle and the Corpora- don, and that in terms not the most delic4te ; speaking of the latter, he said, " but let the Alderman pass, he thanked GOD he was not immortal—his eve,- throw may yet be effected by gnut, indigestion, or the rot." Mr. O'CONNELL followed, and com- menced by congratulating his auditors, that they t.ere really to be emancipated at last. Ile indulged in coarse invectives against the English Press and Protestants generally : and in the course of his intemperate hal angue threatened the British Government. The Roman Ca tholics, be said, " offered Parliament their seven millions —they may be required—the nations of Europe were augmenting their forces." - The insinuation is obvious enough; and GOD forbid that England should ever need the assistance of any of her subjects over whom Mr. O'CONNELL possesses influence ; for let this Gentleman assert as he will that the Roman Catholic Association has no other object than to procure emancipation, no man of common sense who has watched its proceedings can believe it. More than one of its members have openly avowed, that they will not be satisfied with anything less than a repeal of the Union, while the conduct of othess clearly proves 1 1 that the extinctio❑ of Protestantism in Ireland is looked forward to as at no great distance. While the Association is proceeding in a manner which must alarm the best fi iends to Catholic emancipation, the Priests are stimulating the people to acts of intole• ranee and bigotry. It is assertei in an Irish Paper, that at a confirmation in the county of Waterford, " a Roman Catholic Bishop, addressed the congregation (consisting of many thousands) and in the most earnest terms exhorted every tine who heard him to abstain for A t future as much as possible from holding any communica tion with their Heretic neighbours.' He also observed, "that for many years they bad been obliged to be under, a compliment to the Protestant Clergy for permission to bury in their church-yards; but that, thank GOD measures were now in progress, which would wine ,hem burying-places of their own, without their beaDig compelled to tningk the ashes of their relatives with those of Heretics !II" We have already alluded to the Catholic Asshciation having appointed an Agent to watch over the Press in London; it - appears that the Continental Press is also not only to be watched, but to be made the advocate of the Association. At a late meeting of this body, Mr. O'CoNNELL read a letter from a Mr. GEORGE PARKER IVER, dated Pads, Nov. 14, in which he urges the S' necessity of employing the foreign Press in favour of Catholic Emancipation," and states that he can, " obtain insertion for anything he wishes in at least five Paris Journals"—nay further, that he will shortly be in regu lar communication with Journalists in Madrid, Vienna, St. Petersburgh and Rome," without the possibility of his letters being intercepted. Mr. Ivan, who we almost suspect to be some wag who is hoaxing Mr.O'CoNNELL, suggests that " it would be better if the fact of the Catholics having an agent in Paris were concealed," as "the support of the foreign press would have more effect if it were thought spontaneous." If this letter is genuine, which we confess we doubt, it wouM appear that fresh parties are to be brought into the dispute between the English Catholics and Protest ants, and that foreign Governments are to be excited to interfere. If the power of doing mischief were as great as the disposition on the part of such men AS Mr. O'CoNNELL seems to be, we might expect soon to see Europe engaged in a new war, not so much of State against State, as subject against subject—Pro testant against Catholic Europe; we know no other object Mr. limes propositiun can have, but we confess, we have no fears of its being effected. :c. A Cabinet Council was held this day, at the Foreign Office, D4wning-street. His MAJESTY, who, we are happy to learn, remains in good health, continues in town, but is expected to leave Carlton Palace to-morrow fur Windsor, and from thence proceed to Brighton. The LORI MAYOR, on SaturdAy afternoon, had a long interview with the Right Honourable Mr. Pm, Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whitehall; the purport of his Lord ship's audience has nut transpired. BATURDAV'S MO P. FROM A CORRESPONDENT. The weather, in the County of Sussex, has of late been of the most alarming description. Since the fes tival of St. Cecilia, November 22d, the inhabitants of all the villages and towns on the Medway have expe rienced a succession of floods, from the heavy rains which have fallen in torrents almost every other day. The most tremendous gales have blown from the S. S.W. and W.S.W. points of the compass ; and there has been this remarkible circumstance attending they!), that the gales have ben of short continuance-- have usually occurred betty en noon and midnight— and have been followed by a deluge of rain—and even ' tually by a short interval of peculiar clearness and transparency of the sky. Such was the case on Thurs day : the morning was clear—the evening stormy, the gale being quite terrific. In the middle part of the night, heavy rain fell ; and on Friday, the air was unusually clear. Much damage has been done to the trees in our large Parks. Tcere is a very old superstition in Sussex, both among our seamen on the coast, and our farmers on land, that when the new Moon falls on Saturday, rough weather always follows. In the present case, this has been strikingly true, and what is very remarkable (though it seems to be quite accidental), is, that a Gen tleman who has kept a journal of the weather for twenty years, assures us that he has found this obser vation generally hold good, by a reference to his Jour nals. The proverbial verses are— A Saturday's Afoon, Come It late or come it soon, Will bring us such boisterous weather, That wind, hail, mud rain, Springing up from the main. Stein to mix land and water together. Proverbial and correct verses being founded on the common expe►fence of persons continually out of doors; ale seldom v I °lig in the end, and it is curious that, out of ten times, on an average, that the new Moon falls on Saturday, seven are follov►ed by rainy and stormy months. Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR had an audience of the Kate. Sir CHAS. BACOT has left his house in Cumberland street, to proceed on his embassy to the King of the 141-rosauspis. Mr. STRATFORD. CANNING was engaged nearly the whole of Saturday with Mr. Secretary CANNING at the Foreign Office, and took leave of the Right Honourable Seeretary,previous to the departure of his Excellency on his embassy to St. Petersborgh Yesterday his Excellency left Grillon's Hotel, to proceed on his journey to St. Peter burgh. Saturday, Mi. KnEUSE, the King's Messenger, left town for the Netherlands. A meeting took place on Tuesday afternoon, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, between J. W —re, Fel. and F. C—pp —r, Esq. attended by their respective seconds; the police had got in formation of the intended nieeting, and were on the look-out 2.1 1 day to apprehend the parties, but did not succeed. After an exchange of shots, the parties lett the ground, but without any reconciliation being effected. A Petition to Parliament, praying for the total email, cipation of the Catholics from all the penal Statutes against them• is preparing at Lewes; and will be presented for public signa ture shortly. The Quakers have. long enjoyed an extraordinary privilege, that of being allowed to refuse their oath in Courts of I.aw ; in consequence or this, in criniinal cases, they cannot become witnesses, where of firmation will not be deemed availing. A large Meeting of conscious, or perhaps, we should say, scrupulous per sons, are likely to petition Parliament for the same privilege, arising from their abhorrence of giving evidence in capital cases where the punishment is death. The quarrel between a successful dramatic writer I and the Manager of one of the Metropolitan Theatres, originated in an angry preface to a Comedy acted at a Summer Theatre, in which' the Manager was attacked in terms of great severity, and in no mea. sured phraseology. In return, the Dramatist has been struck off the free list of the Theatre, which he contend" is contrary to established immemorial usage, and an infraction of their best esta bli-hed right. The Biblical world is at present rcctipied in the inves tigation of a Hebrew Roll of great antiquity, found in a vessel cap tured by the Greeks, which roll has ieeently been brought to this country. The enormous sum of twelve hundred and fifty pounds is asked for this relic ; half that amount is said to have been offered for it by an eminent Hebrew capitalist. This sacred scroll ought to he deposited among.t the Ilebtew Bibles in she extraordinary collection of the Duke of Sussex. The Chester Chi °nide states that it is contemplation to run a steam-vessel between London and Chester. The subscriptions at Edinburgh, for the relief of the sufferers at the late-fire, already amounts to upwards of 7,0001. Mr. FAUNTLEROY, it is said, was insured in the Amicable Life Insurance Office for five thousand pounds. This is the only establishment, it appears, which does not make it a condi tion of insurance that the party shall not die by sentence of law. It is with. much pleasure we announce, that not only does the subscription ktr the distressed Germans go en most prosperously, but that similar subscriptions for the relief of the numerous sufferers on our own coasts by the late dreadful storms and inundations, have in various parts of the country been opened with equal pro spect of success ; and we have no doubt that the hu mane object u ill receive due and commendable aid in the metropolis. It is stated in a private letter from the Isle of Portland, that at Chiswell, the greater part of the houses on the beach side were washed down by the torrent. Some of the inhabitants were drowned in their houses, others in the stieet, and some were buried in the ruins of their habitations. Three and twenty lives were lost, and many appear to have miraculously escaped a watery grave. Mrs. JAMES ALLEN and EDITH STONE each lost a child; they were both washed from the arms of their mothers! Poor EDITH STONE was washed out of her house and carried by the torrent a considerable dis tance down the street, where she was taken into a cham ber window, in an insensible state. It appears that there are 136 families which have suffered, to the amount of nearly £13,000. Many persons have lost everything they had, even their wearing-apparel. The ferry-house was partly washed down, and poor Richard, the ferry man, perished. Fleet, a village a little beyond Wyke, was all washed away—neither house nor church was left. Three ships were wrecked on the beads, and three in the roads, besides many more. Many dead bodies are almost hourly washed on shore ! At Plymouth the subscription for the relief of the suf ferers is already of considerable amount. The contest for the Presidential Chair continues to be carried on with great vehemence in the United States. The question is not one of very great interest in this country ; yet we cannot be wholly insensible to an event which by possibility may lead to political consequences affecting the interests of our own country. Travellers who have recently arrived from the scene of the warmest contest, agree in stating that General JACKSON appears likely to overtop his competitors, Messrs. ADAMS and CRAWFORD. Several grampuses, or large fish of the whale species, have lately been seen in the Channel about Dun geness, one of which was struck by a man with a boat hook from a vessel, when the fish struck the vessel's bottom violently with its tail, and disappeared. THE ARMY Letters, dated the 2d June, have been received from lladrai', which state, that the 48th (Northamptim) Regiment of Foot, that had arrived there from New South Wales, had been attacked by eltbrera,immediately after being stationed in Fort St. George, and had suffered severely. The Regiment lost ten men a day, an d nearly the whole of ths Light Infantry had been carried off. Vir e are happy, however, to add, that after the removal of the Corps to the Mount, which is about nine miles from Madras, the disease ceased. The death of any of the Officers of the Regiment is not mentioned. The beat was excessive. The Recruiting Parties, in several districts, have received direc.. doss t 6 recruit, forthwith, for the 31st (Huntingdonshire) itegi. .ment of Foot, which is under orders for foreign service. Detachments belonging to the 17th Regiment of Light Drag on " (Lancers), and the let Battalion of the 60th (the Duke of York', own Rifle Corps), received orders to march on Saturday, fro ul Westminster for Canterbury. A detachment of Recruits, belonging to the 2LI (1,.1., Royal) Regiment of Infantry, was ordered to march on Satiad,, from Westminster fur Chatham. A detachment of Recruits, belonging to the 11th Regime. t • I Light Dragoons, was ordered to march on Saturday, hem West minster for the &pot of the Regiment, at Maidstone. Majors IlerroursoN and Alricustt:s_esimpanies (Royal Artil lery) embarked at Woolwich, on the Ist ihstaht, on board the William Harris transport, fur Ireland. The former company ;; !,, relieve Major Micmac's, now in Dublin; while the latter ~r,4 Major Mrrouzu.'s will go on to Jamaica, to relieve Majors Ml' al :1 , and NlcnoLt.'s, ordered bonne. The Officers embarked 4:e Major llercHiSorr, Capt. Brum, Lieutenants A vat s±RONO, Fa A ti) , .l{, R. LUAI/D, BRISCOE, and Dr. Vaitueo, M.D. The 25th Regiment (Royal Borderers), stationed at Ennis, !ae seventeen out-detachments in the county of Clare. 'fhe eldest son of Joust Cox, Esq. of Limerick, is appointed a Captain in the 90th Feet. Captain Buten, of the 38th, commanded the detachment whi .11 engaged the enemy at Rangoon, on the 16th of May, and in whi:h Lieutenant KERN was killed. Major BUSTON commands the Artil lery in the division. The 69th Regiment wfil not return to England as expected— ' they are ordered to join at Rangoon. lieutenant EDWARD KINC, of the 48th Foot, has been appointed Barrack-Mater at Botany Bay. [Par ifiliterg Promotims see . ftra page.) COMMISSION OF LUYiler. Lad week, in the case of De Million, a supposed lunatic, an Inquisition was held at the Royal Mortar; Woolwich. The Etnitic in question is one of the oldest farmers in Kent, and possessed of property to the amount of between thirty and 441,000/. Dr. Phil limore, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Whitmore, were the Cons missioners, before a respectable Jury. Mr. Nokes and Mr. Beames conducted the proceedings. It appealed , that the lunatic was in his 36th yea:', and had com mitted a series of acts which amounted to the imputa tion of lunacy. His only daughter had eloped with Richard Clemints, alabourer on her fithei's farm and who, in consequence of this union, became his right hand man. The daughter is about six years older than: , her brother, the complainant in the present case, and 'labours under the misfortune of personal deformity. Clements, is these circumstances, became all in all ufaat the farm, and the complainant was estranged from Ilia father; it appeared that about five yea's ago Mr. Mill son was attacked with apoplexy 9nd paralysis, which; affected both his speaking and thinking ; and from the time of chi, vi, it ationielements, the daughter's husband, assumed the active management of the farM belonAinz to his father-in-law, till, in fact, he superseded the old man. Mean chile the son, who rented the farm of White Hatt from his father, was weighed down (in 1822) by the pressure of agricultural distress, in conse quence of which the father took the farm back ag.ti'Y from the son, allowing him 1/.3 week to maintain him self and family. Thus reduced, the son was bbliged to apply to Mr. Cleaves, one of the Parish Offices, four relief. Mr. C. endeavoured to obtain an intervie .v with the father, in order to repiv.eilt the situation of the son, when i.e i'vas repulsed by Clements ; but by some means or other the son succeeded in getting a petition before the Load Chancellor. An examinatiln of witnesses., was directed, and the result is, that the management of the lather's estate has devolved to the son. The coaches which reached town yesterday from the' North of England, brought accounts of a heavy fall of snow having taken place on almost all the different roads. But in the North-westerly direction the depth of the snow was almost unprecedented, considering the shortness of the time it had been falling, and the early period of the season. BIRMINGHAM AND LIVERPOOL RAIL-ROAD COW.. pArty.—A Company with this title has been formed to establish a more direct, expeditious, and cheap commu- nication between the towns of Bit mingham and Liver pool, than at present exists. The country through which. the proposed line is intended to pass, has been examined throughout by an eminent engineer, and is found to present extraordinary facilities, not only as regards the levels, but the distance, which is less by several mites than any road now in use. The estimated expense of forming the main line to connect Birmingham and Li verpool, including the locomotive power, amounts to 550,0001. The expenses of the branch lines to Dudley and Stourbridge, to the iron and coal works in Shrop shire, the Staffordshire potteries, and Chester, have net been estimated, but will be less than that of the main line. The Company propose to set apart for this purpcse the sum of 150,0001. and to cover other contingencies, an additional sum of 100,0001. The capital of the Corn pany will, therefore, be 600,0001. divided into 12,000 shares of 501. etch . The propelling power intended to be employed is that of locomotive and stationary steam engines. By means of which, the company expect to be able to transport the heaviest goods with certainty and security, by day and night, at all times of the year, in periods of frost or of drought, at the rate of at least eight miles an hour. The line of the projected rail-road is intended to pass from Birmingham, through the centre of the Staffordshire collieries and iron works, close to Wolverhampton,—from thence to Newport,— to Turnhill,—to the West of Nantwich,—uear Chester, and from thence to Mersey. There will be branch roads to Dudley and Stourbridge, — to the Shropshire coal and iron -works,—to the St affordshire potteries, and Chester. THE FRENCH MONSTER.--Leger, not having ap pealed to the Court of Cassation, was executed at e'er• sailles on Tuesday, at noon. The multitude to witness the execution of this monster was immense. In his last moments he betrayed great fear, and it was necessary almost to carry him to the scaffold. By the late Census it appears, that in the City of Dublin, there are 19,471 females more than males, in Cork City, them are 7.084; in Limerick City, 2,811 ; in Waterford City, '2,661 ; in Belfast, 2,537 ; in Galway Town. 1,083; and in Ireland, altogether, there are 117,975 women more than men ! The only counties in Ireland in which the males out-number the females, are, Kildare, King's Cr.unty, Meath, Kerry, Galway, and Rosconunon. A o p t :4w Tie Fritter. The . CV"' t o tbe. 4 A1' 1 ' 6611 .4 to ast W HS'MAI IA SOO, 1 Cmin" be Pam Caput' Coast GI of Ul bea The tI of this w the th Fatal bound a tinue, to Low harry Pi bani, & son, fro vvrance ward bt Pirsi n ine tie have la .kr Asia, then on g oods h floated Poto 131uriata disp.tcl Africa. sail wit I)EC. the out oras, C towed port ha of Sun arrival , • Ship rosy, PIIATt LWOW, DKA nearly muindi Passed List Derck- . berus, Daphr JO ; lak, 1 Pike ii The Indiag I will they C ensuin eyes ti Pied a time i JUDI cloy buui 'lntl da , Cal is Nts