Star. — London, England, 1825-02-18 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDLVGL SOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 17. Mr: LIMP, from the Treasury, presented Accounts relative to the Russian and Dutch Loans ; and entrants and copies of war rants authorising compensation to (Miters of the Court of Sessions for loss of fees.—Laid en the table. Lord SUFFIELD held a Petition from the Justices of the Peace of toe County of Norwich, assembkd at the Quarter Sessions held in the Castle of Norwich, praying for an alteration in the Game Laws. He should not trouble the House with many words on the subject of the Petition : it would he sufficient for him to say that it was almost the same as the one which he had presented last year, but which, front some informality, had not been received. He had chosen this opportunity of presenting it, as he understood that a motion was to be made this day in another place, fur leave to bring in a Bill to alter the provisions of those laws. He hoped that it would be different from that which bad been introduced last year, and drawn up" in a more effective manner. He bad, indeed, had it in contemplation to propose a measure on the subject to their Lord ships himself, as it was one of great importance to the community, but he had relinquished the idea as such a Bill must contain penal ties, which could only originate in the other House. He trusted, however, that when it should come before them, it would receive from their Lordships all the attention which the subject deserved, and all the ameliorations of which it was capable. The Petition !awing been read, Earl DARN LEY expressed his entire concurrence In its recom mendatioi s. The Magistrates of the County of Norfolk were perhaps better qualißed than the Magistrates of any other county to judge of the bad effects of the Game Laws. They mere laws of an in jurious tendency, and required to be greatly altered. At the same time he should suggest to their Lordships, the propriety of not trusting entirely to the Report which would be made in another place, but of submitting the state of those laws to the investigation of a Committee of their own.—The Petition was laid on the table. On the motion of the Earl of Snarresatae, a message was or dered to be sent to the Commons, to request the attendance of certain Members of their House upon the Committee of their Lord ships on the State of Ireland.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Petition was presented, praying for leave to bribg in a Bill for the Incorporation of a Metropolitan Fish Company.—Ordered to lie on the table. Leave was granted, pursuant to a Petition presented on a former I day, to bring in a Bill !or the Improvement of Tothill-fields. The Equitable Loan Bank Bill was brought in, and read a first time. A Petition was presented from New Ross, complaining of the Amount of the Bristol Part Dues. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition front the Parish of St. Olavc, City of London, praying for the adoption of some mea sure to equalize the amount of Tithes in the City. The Honourable Member observed, that in some parts of the City, the inhabitants paid only one shilling, where others paid two shillings and ninepence in the pound. He thought a measure of this kind was very much wanted.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented a Petition from the Sub scribers to the Peruvian Mining Company, praying for leave to bring in a 11111 to incorporate that Company.—Leave granted. Sir J 01IN STEWART presented a Petition from the Presby terian and other Inhabitants of the Parish of Artrow, County Tyrone, reqpesting the House to adopt such measures with respect - to the CathSlic disabilities as the exigency of the cue may require. (It was understood the Petitioners were unfavourable to the claims of the Catholic4.—Ordered to lie ou the table. A Return wilt ordered of the number of gallons of Spirits made in the Highlands of Scotland, during the last year. Mr. LINDSAY presented a Petition from Glasgow, in favour of the County Courts' Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Lord LOWTHER presented similar Petitions front Tiverton and Carlisle.—Ordered to be printed. On the motion of Mr. Catcsarv, a Return was ordered of the quantity of Wine bonded and remaining in Dock, for the years 1823 and 1821. Air. CA LC RA FT, on behalf of Mr. Gossimmi, gave notice of a motion relative to Bank of England Balances, on Wednesday next. . Mr. IIA RT DAVIS presented a Petition from the Parish of St. Stephen's, Bristol, against the Catholic Aeociatiott.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. W ARRE presented a Petition front the Inhabitants of Watchani (Norfolk), praying fur the Repeal of the Duty upon Coals.—Ordered to he printed. Mr. R. COLBU RN presented a Petition front Norfolk, in favour'of the Repeal of the Coal Duties. Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented a Petition front Newcastle, against the Receipt Stamp Duties. A SSESSZD TAXES. Mr. M ABERLEY presented a Petition from Abing don, for the r epeal of the House and Window Taxes. He expressed his hope, that as it appeared there was no less a balance than 6,500,0001. of income above the ex penditure, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chan cellor of the Exchequer)'opposite would be enabled to take off the whole of the Assessed Taxes. He trusted that the pretext of the necessity of keeping up the Sink ing Fund would no longer be resorted to., it had been said that the Sinking Fund was an advantage to the stockholder, from the daily purchases of the Commis sioners keepiirg up the prices of the different stocks; but that could no longer be urged, since the system of daily purchases was now abandoned by the Commis sioners for redeeming the debt. He should hope that the Right Honourable Gentleman would feel that the best sinking fund was to leave the money in the pockets of the people, by whom it would not fail to be advantageously employed. He would take this oppor tunity of giving notice, that he would, on the Btlf of March, move for the Repeal of what he considered a disgrace to our Statute Book, he meant the tax upon Beer. He had already appLoached the House twice on the subject; on the -last occasion witE a view of equalising the Beer Duties, through the medium of the Malt Tax ; but in both motions be had failed ; it was therefore his intention now to move the Reptal of the whole of the Beer Duties, on the ground of its partial and unjust operation. Mr. HUIIE hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer would extend his deserved popularity, by repealing the Assessed Taxes. There were two classes of persons, those who paid, and those who received Poor Rates, and to the former the repeal of these taxes would be a most essential relief, as with many of them a shilling would turn the scale, and from payers of rates. convert them into receivers of them. On the other subject on which his Honourable Friend had given notice, be could IVA conceive upon what pr incipre the Gentlemen on the Ministerial side of the House, who were advocates fur equal taxa - ton, could reconcile it to thei r principles to make the poor man pay 20s. a b arre l for his ti t er more t iro; the rich. Ile begged to press this upon the attention of the Right lion. Gentleman before be brought forward bietinancial statement, and he hoped he would be able to relieve the poor from the partial load of taxation under - wild' they laboured. CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. Mr. BROUGHAM said, he held in his hand a Peti tion on the subject which had so recently been dis cussed in that House, and it was not his intention, on the present occasion, to renew that discussion. It was the Petition of a great number of individuals, who, consistently with the orders of the House, could only approach it in their individual capacities. Whether the Catholic Association, or any other Association, the M fibers could only Petition in their individual cha itinn then was signed by several Peers, 'live Archbishops, and three Bishops; T. of individuals distinguished by their alants, of their influence with the Ca . They stated, that undertanding it of the House to make some law us their rights, they protested, th at hen of their formation as a Sgniety, dows time, they never bad any intention to ;sasperate animosities. They conclude .ac the House would adopt no measure body to. which they belonged, without , by themselves, their Counsel, Agents, at the Bar of 'the Hesse ; where they - - plq4ze themselves, by the mot ideostroyertible menu, and the most undoubted evideme, every imputation that had bail adventnunt or would* ventused, to be male against than. I:hey looked bilk with such condi onaneu at rectitude, that the/ courted Itterilig, and challenged is. vestigatioo.—The Petition was then brought up, and read short by the Clerk at the table ; it purported to be " T6e Petition of the undersigned 'Members et the Catholic Association of Ireland." Mr. HUME said, the principal ground on which, the measure against the Association was founded, was two or three worth, of which he was requested to offer an explanation ; the words wete—g , By the hate you bear to Orangemen." Those words of the Address were pointed at those Orangenten who had been engaged in fabricati lnd getting up plots against their Catholic iaL eating a,_ g. up pan. _lams., .... countrymen. How extremely unfair, therefore, was it to apply those words as if they ha d a general appli cation. The letter which he held in his hand was from the individual who had objected to them whtn the Address was considered. He had then received that explanation. The espession thus limited was by no means unnatural. He was instructed to state that what had hems advanced by the Hight Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Omahas* was wholly nnfoundel—The Petition was then laid so the tabie, l and ordered to be printed. Mr.BROUGHAM presented a Petition from Newry, signed by 900 persons, against the Bill for putting down the Catholic Association. The Petitioners said, they had been compelled to Petition for the redress of their grievances, and prayed that the Irish Catltolics might be resieked to their rights, of which they had been deprived, in violation of a solemn treaty; and that the resto ration of their privileges would do away with the Catholic Asso ciation.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. BROUGHAM gave notice, that to-morrow be should submit a motion on the first of the Petitions, which be hoped would be contained in the votes of the How, and. that it might be allowed precedence of the other business of the day STATE OF IRELAND. Mr. GOULBURN rose to move for the revival of the Select Committee of last year on the State of Ire land. But instead or being limited to particular dis tricts, lie proposed to extend it to the whole of Ireland. He should also move to enlarge the number of Members, and to sub- 1 stitnte others in the room of some who were absent. Lord ALTHORP was happy that the Right Hai nourable Gentleman had now thought it proper to extend the in; spiry to the whole of Ireland. Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that that circumstance had been contemplated when the former Committee was appointed. Mr. S. RICE said, that he would have acceded to a motion for a Committee composed wholly of English Members, and that the Irish Members should be examined as witnesses. — The motion was agreed to. GAMS LAWS. Mr. S. WORTLEY moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the existing Game Laws, which was pre cisely the same, he said, as that which he bad submitted to the House in the la st Session of Parliament. Mr. CURWEN said, that the evils of the present system were obvious, and such as required alteration. The jails were filled with poachem—game was destroyed to a ow siderable extent, and was, in many places. openly sold, notwith standing the penalties which were imposed for the purpose of pro vesting it. He highly approved of the general priociple of the DIU. Mr. Secretary PEEL was prepared to give she mea sure his support, but for a different reason from that which had been assigned by the Honourable Member who spoke last. He thought thin law must be most beneficial which should be most effectual in potting down poaching. For this reason he supported the measore which made the sale of prat legal. He would have preferred that the experiment should be made on this point alone, and*. only objection to his Honour able Friend's plan was, that it was too extensive. Mr. S. WORTLEY, speaking from his own expe tience, was of opinion that the setting of spring guns prevented scenes which would be ten times more fatal than any which could result from them. Ile trusted that theßill, if he should obtain leave to introduce it, would receive a fuU and fair dis cussion. Whatever might be the judgment of the House respect ing it, he should feel the pleasing conviction that he had endeavoured to ameliorate a state of law which he considered to stand in great need of reform—Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. TUIRNPIKS TRUSTs. Lord LOWTIIER rose to submit a motion to the House relative to Turnpike Trusts in the neighbour hood of London. On the north side of London, in the space of three Miles, there were ten Turnpikes, three sets of Commissioners, and three Acts of Parliament. The Commissioners were in the habit of borrowing money from each other at the rate of 10 per cent. In one of those Trusts there was one item of 4,7001. for interest, and Trustees for Roads were summoned to swear in Special Juries, which he conceived to be a great abuse. Those Trustees were also in the habit of playing into each others hands. When the funds were the greatest, the debt also was so. What he wished fin. was a Committee of Inquiry. In consequence of inquiry into the Kensington Trust, the money had been taken from the Treasurer, who was a Magistrate, and all the arrears had been paid off. In one year the amount c.f the tolls front Hyde Park to Hounslow, 'amounted to £22,000. The Noble Lord ceadided by moving for a Select Committee, to inquire into the recdpts, issoagement, and expenditure of the different trusts in the county of Middlesex. Sir E. KNATCHBULL thought a case had been made out, and should vote for the Committee. At the same time he must oppose any plan to throw the turnpikes into the bands of Govanmer.t. He mast also oppose any proposal to de. valve the whole management into the bands of Mr. fil'Adam, as emelt an arrangement would probably end in a job, and to all jobs be was an enemy. Mr. HUME thought that the remedy should not be limited to the North of London, he wished the enquiry to be extended; £6,000 or £7.000 well laid out, would do what new required £20,000. He should move, that the counties of Essex, Kent, and Surrey i be added after Middlesex. Mr. MABERLEY seconded the Amendment. The result of the inquiry would be an immense saving to the public. At a meeting held at Croydon, the Trustees, after a long discussion, came to am agreement to try an experiment of Mr. tel'Adam's system upon a mile of road. He (Mr. Alaberley) bad induced them to adopt Ur. Al'Adam's plan on the whole of I the road. Sir THOMAS BARING was sorry that in tke first instance any additional labour should be imposed upon the Committee. The Turnpike taxes amounted to a million sod a half sterling, which was noioconsiderable tax at the public. The disposal of this large mm devolved upon a few Wields*, and was often diverted to the purposes of private emolument. After a few words from Mr. (3. Bemis, Alterman Hoven& and Sir H. Passers, the amendment of within tea miles of Leedom, was pot and carried. "USURY LAMS, Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW moved the second reeding of the Usury Laws Repeal Bill. Mr. CALCRAPT said, he had no doubt that, on ge neral principles, the theory of political economy was in favour of the Bill. But were there not exceptions? — Was sot compelling a man to build a party-walllayin a restraint on a man's property ? Why were seX people allowed to keep gaming -houses, where others might dispose of their property as they pleased Within a few days a person was fined five thousand pounds, in the Court of King's Bench, for keeping a gaming house; he might have said, on the tb contended for, that it was an unfair interference:a his property. The inconvenience arising from the law was objected against, but he contended' the incest-1 Teame was the exception, and not the rule,which Was .productive of general good. 'lie Noble Lord who pre. sided in the other House of Parliament, one of the wine tae* la eke (*emery, was about to bring to a NI to interfere ; Members could oft • racter, This P.etitir by six Prelates, tilt and by a number . I fortune, their taiga tholic community. , . was the intention 4 terfering with thi 1 the earliest period to the present tim , excite alarm, or el by praying, that t against the body herring therm, by and Trustees, at :_ •.- / , . ~' e nothing ell the". Wirt °Nett Mr. BUNS, ral principle of _ present true we had been thriving had we done under the restrictions on commerce, which we were now just& priding ourselves in re moving. It was only by 'degrees prejudices could be removed, but he was surprised it should be so difficult to remove the prejudices of the Country Gentleman, who were so greatly interested in the repeal. The pro hibition of gaminthouses was for the preservation of morals. His Honourable Friend had said the wisest man in the country was bringing in a Bill to prohibit persons disposing of their property as they pleased. He would not dirpute his wisdom, but be thought his Bill a very Obeli ape, and would be very much surprised If it amid pals through that House. If an Act was rioted to preveo bad bake let above 151. an acre, what would the Country Geode:men my so it, sad why should there be one law for land, and another for money ? Mr. CRIPPS said he disapproved of the principle of I the Bill. Where an interferhnce with private property was beafficial to the country, it was surely justifiable.i For one individual who was rallied by illegal interest aow,ten woold be ruined by high Interest after the peering ads. Dm Mr..IOHN SMITH said, it appeared, by some Gen tlemen, to be a sufficient cause for rejecting every pro posal for improvement, that we were at present in a state of prosperity. He was confident that the existence of the Usury Laws was an evil, and ought to be removed. I l e had fre quently known tradesmen make sinuous sales of goods, to raise mo ney to meet their bills, because they were not allowed to borrow money at a higher rate of interest than Ave per cent. The subject had been mooted for the last fifty years , all ever boor, andall were agreed in the conelesion that the Usury Laws were injurious. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, be bad read all that had been written on the subject by the principal Writers who had treated on it, and had also read over the evidence that bad been given before the Committee, and hi, conclusion was, that the repeal would be inju- I lOUS to she community at large. If all borrowers of money were voluntary borrowers, who borrowed not I from necessity, but to make profit, he would not think lie necessary to interfere; but that was the case with only one class of borrowers. When money was lent on Bills of Exchange it could be recalled immediately, bike when lent on montage it would probably not be recalled in less than three years, and this would seise the rate of interest on Country Gentlemen eight out of ten of whose estates were subject to deb t. The general bor. rower, who had nothing but personal security to offer, would suffer still more severely. If the Usury Law wail repealed, monied men would put into their pockets all the profits of trade in the country, without being lia ble to the payment of the debts of the trade.— Suppose a brewer wanted iflo,ooo (one exampled/was as good as fifty) a monied man lends it at ten per cent. and takes a secur it y un the brewery. The ten per cent. is paid as lung as the brewer can pay it, and then the lender takes the brewery for the capital, leaving all the other creditors unpaid. The instance of letting lead without restriction did not apply, for thereat of land was restricted by the importation of corn. The Learned Gentleman concluded by moving, that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW said it was the first time he had beard that the Corn Laws were a restriction on the landed interest—he always thought they were intended for the protection of the lauded interest.— The purport of the Bill was to enable men to do with money what they were enabled to do with every mbar species of property s—to enable them to regulate the rent of money as they do the rent of land. if, as the Learned Gentleman who spoke last supposed, when the law was repealed, a brewer would be obliged to pay ten per cent. for money, what was the reasdn the rate of interest was not now as high as the law allowed?, Be fore the reign of Henry the Eighth, taking interest for money was illegal ; the consequence of which was, that a grinding interest was exacted, which produced great distress. When the question was agitated in the Par liament of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth, the question discussed was not the rate of interest, but whether it was lawful to take inte rest at all ? Luther said, it was sufficient proof that the Pope was Antichrist, that be held that a mortgage might be taken. The present time was most favourable to the repeal of the Usury, Law, as the market rate of money was now below the rate allowed, low. by w. Mr. ROBERTSON said, the present law was neces sary, to prevent avaricious men taking advantage of necessitous men. When Solon undertook to make laws for Athens, be sound it necessary to -kibolish all claims of creditors on their debtors, in consequence of the enormous usury that had been practised in contracting them, and that 'hewed the , danger of the repeal of the Usury Laws in this country. Alr. MA BBALBY supported the Bill, and deprecated any in terference by the Legislature in private contracts between indivi duals. The laws were altogether inoperative, and were constantly evaded, by which the borrower was placed in a worse situation than if perfect freedom was allowed. Alderman HEYGATE opposed the Ea The effect on the landed interest, in time of war, would be, that the interest aide& debts would be raised. The gallery was cleared for a division.—The numbers were, on the Amendment— Ayes ... ... ... OS 14)es ... ... 40 Majority against the Bill ... 5 The BM is of course lost.—&ranpn were not re-admitted into the gallery, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve. 11 et doll etra peeptale, IleAle Act t ad them amen doe well material. la "NOT wee akets:aethiar sathael , ves be mokri el met the pipmat lstu. He lea tq the Otani mean et the WM the questioa_was whether the gene- r the ?meat law was soaad?-4t was en thnring under the Usury Laws: so SOUTH AMERICA. We have received the Colambiano, Caraccas journal, to the 29th of December. General Paez, the Intendant of Venezuela, had returned to that city from his visit to the interior, and issued a proclamation to the in = habitants on - the subject of the late attack on the vil lage of Peters. The affair is fully ascertained to have originated in the design of a party of lawless individuals to possess themselves of a small depot of muskets in that place, and to have had no connexion with any political feeling of a nature hostile to the ex isting Government. They were repulsed by a serg'eant's guard, which happened to be in the Village. and had nearly all of them been taken prisoners by a party de tached in persuit of them. Five of them were put to I death. The proclamation of General Paez, declaring martial law in the provinces on the Apure, Venezuela, and Orinoco, is also published in these papers, and is evidently fouddellen the false alarm that France was about to co-operate with Spain in an attack on those countries. A few weeks must necessarily restore af fairs to their usual state. The most curious part of these journals is the free tone of discussion on the pro ceeding* of the Government which seems to have been adopted, together with the use of the English jointly with the Spanish language. In the Colombian() of the 15th of December, the right of the people to attend public meetings for 'hi purpose of electing zcpresenta- ' Owes in Congress is strongly contended for ' as a neces sary part of a free constitution; and also that of Con gress to originate laws and all public measures, rather than the Executive. How :eon both these points may be attained. will depend on the progress wade in civili- . I ration by the great bulk of the population; era, 10 judge from the evidences their public journals afford, the period cannot be far distant. The following extract from the New York &en* Yet of the 40tb) contains the only intelligence respect ing South Ameriean affairs worth attention New TORS, lea. Ids . ft can no longer be doubted that the Libera'tof Bolivar's successes to Path and the triumph of the Patriot cause, have been such is we have - all along re;- presented. The Colombian General Cortez, who has arlived at Philadelphia from Alvarado, h cummunia cated the following intelligence to the Editors of the Aurora and Frostlike Gosette 4—•• • Mr. Odesiibbm Moister habitat in Medea, bad received acconate tom Woo of the lki of November, brough# to Acapulco by the brie Pais, Opals Henry &mood, (rims Osachato, a pert is the' province at Trevino. Botvar's !mut:. quarters were at Aadagsailas, on she reed to Cusco, on t h 14at of October, 'laming defeated Calmat in Gsanianga ai.d 1t.., Pampas. Of 4,000 men that sompoaed Cantaraes army, t.silt had tusked and were retry towards Casco, to join the renuitt, of La Renee forces, who bad been defeated in the seighbeerhowl of Clams by the army of Dams Ar g :e . a t . a The army bad taken posiesslon el the maims of Potosi, e basal*, Oruro, Puno, sod Banta Cm Br is Sierra. Bolivar himself writes to 11r. San- UMIMIS• insuring him of the speedy termisados of the campaign, I or. gibs army was mar from Arica to join that of Peru and Beim shing Ayres. The tsravomts from Carthagena, Sant* Martha, and Puerto Cacao had arrived at Goading) from Pa nama, whew* dm bad bees shipped a million and a half of dollars for the army in PM; Lima was occoril by t h e Patriots, and Cabo was blockaded by sea sod bad, the combined military and atrial forces, the latter being under command of Commo: dore Diann, of the MUM terries." 'gobs ?HZ soarosa seaces, Jamuit my 19. PATRIOT VICTORY.-. 41 letter received by the Canada, from Valparaiso, states, that a battle had been fought on the 3d of September, between Bolivar and Canty ac ; the two armies amounting to about 17,000. The slaughter was prodigious, three to five thousand men being left dead on the field, twb-thirds of whom were of the Royal Army. Victory decided in favour of Bolivar. THE ENVAINO STAR, LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1825. THE FUND& STOCK =CHANG!, TWEINg O'CLOCK. Consols vetted this usoriing st 1134 !or the Account, and scarcely abugsie doh. FORZION FUNDS In the Fords. Matiet everything was heavy in tie early part Of the reseifei,bee Maas Sem. widths a short time, have improved. Cement nielet New Spanish lel ID, Old 141 I, Russian 971 Nolan e 0! 1. Coieshiee New 101, Mika ail 90, French Scrip ISi 1, Maims Scrip if 1, Greek Strip i i 1, Brazilian Scrip 41. Maim. Assetanat . • £m t ili g a i n o ci rdeikaa Mines - too - United Mexican ditto - 40 • - Colombian ditto - 100 - Pasco Peruvian ditto - Buenos Ayres ditto - Anglo Chinni . • • WM% FMCS TO-DAv. £lO at 30 130 115 10 135 145 38 39 30 31 26 87 9k MARION EXCHANGES. Ilsosumass, Doe.ll.—On Lora lors, 36. 43. 2 Us. 36. 11t Sr. PETEILSIIIIIOII, JAIL 211.--On Leaden, 10. AMITESSAY, Fos. 15.—0 s Loudon, Sik, a 2 21. 39. 7. mot OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. - S per Cent. Bed. 94 5 /. 1 / 1 3 per Cent. Cons. 93% % % 31 per Cent. 101 5 /. S per Cent. Wed. 101% 3 4 4 per Cent. New 105% 106 Lnng Ann. 233/4 s.l6—lndia Bonds 98 96 1.3,000 Exclieti, Bills (1 'Ad.) 64 2 3 £lOO and £2OO ditto (2d.) 62 Cons. tor Acct. 93% % FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Austrisaßonds 5 per Ct. Um Roods, s per Ct. 6031 3 Brazilian Beads *Si Ditto Scrip t 1125, 54 31 Ditto Scrip, 5 per Ct. Neapolitan Bonds, .5 per Cc. Ditto 11125, 4 3 43 pm. Persr.Bonda, 6 per Ct. 1153 Buenos Ayres Edbds Ditto Ace. Ditto Ace. Pettegoese Bonds 903 Milian Roods, 6 p Ct. 1191 Pam Bonds 1504, 5 p.Ct. Ditto Ace. Rosoßonds, Sp. Ct. *7l Colombian Bonds, 6 per Ct. 05 Ditto Am. 973 Ditto for Ace. p. Ct. Cons. MI e I Ditto Bonds 1504, 904 1 100 e S t a kt nli o li for Ace. 24e 11 Ditto Ace. 94 Span. 5 p.C.N Coos. isupoi 19* Danish Donde, per Ct. 99311 1 Greek Bonds 361 Frank Restes,s p.Ct. Ditto Scrip 19.05,1* *pre. Ezehange BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHAMS, TWO O'CLOCK: 31111111. IMAM WA PUCE MS swum Angio Me:lran • • £ lOO -AU.. iss.4l pos. - i Ansba Chaim - - 100- 5- .14 Brazilian . • 100 -5 - 5 -25 10 Milian • 6 100 -5 • . sol sO It Colombian - . 100 .5 _ 5 ,3. 39 511 35 General Mink* Association - . - 14 Pasco Peruviai - 100. 2 - - 3.5 31i 36 37 Rio de la Plata - 100 - 2 . - 301 32 31 32 Tlalptiahua - - 400 .20 - - 240: United Mexican • 40 -SO - 2 pas. . 140 14S Welch Iron & Coal - ItS - 2 - -il i i OAS LION? AND CORR 0011PAIIIRL :a:L . PAID : :um: its mu. xso - a ts - SO • 7 - 13 191, IRON RAILWATS. swam PAM Platt NM SPAM -.BSS -21 .2 • 100 - 1 - lb BMWs - Provincial Portable United General Bath and Bristol London and Northern 11111MAZ 7•111. MYR TIM MUM Australian • - 4100 • an -se British host Company - 110 - • S • 7 i i Gold Coast Assedasiou - 2 • 5 - isk great Westminster Dairy IS - I M Pleb Cessspeay . - 16 I Pearl Ass a. an pd. w-110 NI- }lnii s Yellow - - Provincial Bank of Ireland - 6 Patent Melo . - SO - 2 - 36 St 5# 5 Letters are said to have been eceived in town, from Laguira, to the end of December, stating that the Spa nish dip Asia had been taken; also that CANTARAC has been defeated, and that be has but twelve hundred men left. It is also reported on 'Change, that an Express has arrived from Liverpool, with favourable accounts from Perth BOLIVAR is represented as in the neighbour' hood of Cuzco. The French Papers of Titesday and WednesdaY have reached us, but they caatain no intelligence of inters , for we do not think the daily ravings of the Etoik against aur Government worthy of notice. It well becomes , Francp to talk to us about our religious persecutions' Pr . .