Star. — London, England, 1825-03-07 00:00:00

P r . .r r I : , , -= TI IE EV EN !NG STAR. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCEI 7, 1825. SadiRILS. Alliance Shares Marine Alliance Anglo Mexican Mines - United Mexican ditto - Colombian ditto Pasco Peruvian ditto - Brazilian ditto Buenos Ayres ditto Anglo Chiba' Mexican Trading Company PrIICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons. 93 1 / 2 Is % 4 per Cent. New 106% 1 / 4 India Bonds 98 96 £1 ,000 !••x-.;:eq. (1 thd.) 56 58 £5OO ditto (1 1 ,6 d.) 56 58 £lOO and £'2oo ditto (1 1 / 2 d.) 56 58 Advertised (2d.) 56 Cons. for Acct. 93 7 /g 94Y 941/8 100 40 100 100 - Y, PROTEST TO THE SECOND READING OF THE UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES BILL, ENTERED ON THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. MARCH 3, 1825. I. Because the Bill contains new restrictions on the, exercise of a right coeval with our earliest institu tions—viz, the right of petitioning; and new prohibi tions and restraints on practices counected therewith, usually and legally resorted to by all classes of his Ma jesty's subjects who seek redress from laws by which they deem themselves aggrieved. 2. Because all proof of the existence and extent of such danger as can alone justify a measure of this nature was withheld from the House, and Petitioners who deemed themselves particularly aimed at and aggrieved by the provisions of the Bill were denied the permis sion of being heard at the bar, or adducing evidence in vindication of their conduct, or in woof of the in jury which their interests would sustain in the event of the Bill passing into a law. 3. Because the danger to be guarded against by this Bill is not distinctly stated in any part thereof; and the danger apprehended does, in fact, arise from grievances Which naturally and necessarily produce discontent in many millions pf our Irish fellow-subjects. We are, indeed, well aware that the privileges of the people, the rights of flee discussion, and the spirit and letter of our popular Institutions, must render (and they are intended to render) the continuance of any ex tensive grievance, and of the dissatisfaction consequent thereupon, dangerous to the tranquillity of the coun try, and ultimately subversive of the authority of the State. Experience and theory alike forbid us to deny that effect of a free Constitution. A sense of justice, and a love of liberty, equally deter us from lamenting it.• But we have been always taught to look for the re medy of such disorders, and the prevention of such mischiefs, in the redress of the grievances which justify them, and in the removal of the dissatisfaction from which they flow—not in restraints on ancient privileges, not in inroads on public discus,ion, nor in violations of the principles of a free Government. If, therefore, the legal method - off seeking redress which has been resorted to by persons labouring under grievous disabilities be ft aught with immdiate or remote danger to the State, we draw from the circumstance a conclusion long since foretold by great authority— viz. « that the British Constitution and large exclusions cannot subsist together; that the Constitution must de stroy them, or they will destroy the Constitution;" and we are thereby confirmed in our determination not to sacrifice any part of the ancient privileges of the people for the purpose of preserving certain Statutes, which are comparatively model n, which are themselves re straints on the rights of the people, and on the prero gatives of the Crown; and which, in our conscience, we believe cannot long be maintained without civil blood shed, or the surrender of all constitutional liberty in a part of the empire united to Great Britain, and thereby entitled to a full participation in the benefits of our free Constitution. (Signed) VASSALL HOLLAND. WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM. AUGUSTUS FREDINILIN. KING. CA SWANTON. GILOSVO4OII. CHARLEHONT. DONOUGHMOII. Lits MITE& I , I 6NDI ! (CutatK). Gun , . liu.ssowucv (Deveramiss). A WIELAND. DUNDAS. LANsnowN. Esagx. CLIFTON (DAILNLIY). STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 9.5 i to 94 for the Account, at which price they remain, with little doings FOREIGN FUNDS. In the Foreign Market everything is more lively this morning' and some business is doing in Mining Shares. Current Prices: New Spanish 19L Old ditto 24i 3, Russian 95} 3 ex div. Mexican 813 3, Colombian New 923, Chilian 901, French Scrip 163 prem. Austrian 983, Brazilian Scrip 31 4, Mexican Scrip 33 4, Greek 553, Greek Scrip 1 discount. PAUL MCI Te.DA T. - 95 10 - St 1 10 122 1275 10 145 150 S 445 455 - 555 - 5 145 pm. - 275 !85 - 115 - - 10 11 IN Just as our Paper was going to press, we received the Etoile of yesterday by express. It contains no news. The French funds have risen prodigiously. On Satur day they opened at 106 f. 106 f. sc. 1061. 15c. For the end of the month, two o'clock, 106 f. 35c. three o'clock, 106 f. 45c. The French Papers of Friday, and the Etoik of Sa turday, have reached us. They are principally filed with the debates in the Chambers. According to letters from Odessa of the Bth ultimo, OMER PACHA had at last openly joined the Greeks, and had placed the town of Pievesa in their hands as a pledge of his sincerity. 44 This event," says the Etoile, " is of the highest importance, and insures the triumph t , f the Christians." It also appears that the Servian insurrection was far from being appeased. Advices from Trieste state that Sir FREDERICK ADAM, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, af ter receiving dispatches from London, had repaired froin Corfu to Cerigo, where he was to have an interview influential members of the Greek Go some important but friendly object. of SPAIN has revoked, by a Royal Order, July 4, 18'24, which although nominally nit smuggling, had been found very inju commerce and navigation in general, and as such had produced serious remonstrances from most of the Foreign Consuls. Frankfort Papers reached us this forenoon, to the 29th ult. The following are extracts : bARLSRUHE, FEBRUARY 25. Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, the Grand Duke, accompanied by the Princes of his family, and followed by his Adjutants-General and Aide-de- Camps, repaired on horseback, between a double line of troops, to the Hotel of the Assembly of the States, and having seated himself on the throne, delivered, with much energy and dignity, a speech to the following effect : Having expressed his confidence on the satisfactory results of the deliberations of the Assembly, and touched upon the unpleasant circumstances which had obliged him to make use of an extraordinary, though Constitu tional measure, he said : is The Constitution has left all the rights of the execu tive power united in the person of the Sovereign ; it made only the exercise of some positive rights depend on the co-operation of the States. But this co-operation c•rin tend to a final result only by union and concord, without which, that which exists may be maintained, but the desire of real amelioration cannot be accom plished s a limitation of my duties, as a Member of the Confederation,is no part of the co-operation of the States. If these principles have been at times involved in ob scurity, the developement of the federal Constitution of Germany has given to the monarchical principle a mote solid basis. The resolutions of the Federal Diet have dispelled all obscurity and all doubts on this point. If then, Gentlenien, you content your selves with the honourable vocation of co-operating with reciprocal calmness and moderation to the good of the country, by a conscientious employ ment of your knowledge and your experience, keeping within the limits prescribed by the Constitution of the Grand Duchy, and, by the resolutions of the Germanic Diet, my people will, for die first time, enjoy in their fullest extent the blessings of a German Representative Constitution." His Royal Highness, speaking of the dreadful ra vages caused by the inundations, expressed his cordial gratitude for the readiness with which all clas,es had hastened to contribute to the relief of the distressed, as well as for contributions received from foreign coun tries. The negotiations respecting the affairs of the Catholic Church are not completed, but have made some progress. His Royal Highness mentioned, with great satisfac tion, the birth of a Prince in the Grand Ducal family. The Speech was received with great emotion by the Assembly ; all the members rose and took the oath, which was read to them by the Minister of the Interior; after which he declared the Session opened, and invited the Chambers to meet the following day, to commence their labours. The Grand Duke then withdrew, amidst the sincere acclamations of the Assembly, and returned to the Palace in the same order as before. Rio deJaneiroPapers to the BthJanuary have been -e -ceived : they contain an Imperial Decree for the suppres sion of crimes,which,it is said, had reached such a height, particularly those of robbery and murder, as to Ten- der necessary police regulations of a very rigorous cha racter, and which are in consequence to be tried, as soon as the proper- means are organized for the pur pose. There is, further, an account of the acquittal of Lieut. PASCOE GRENFELL, of the Brazilian naval ser ♦ice, on some charges instituted against him for al leged misconduct whilst on duty at Para. Of these charges the Court-Martial has acquitted him in the most honourable manner. _ _ According to accounts said to have been brought by the TWEED, Captain FREDERIC Hulot, his Imperial MAJESTY had lately given an order that no ship of war of any friendly nation should salute his, the ".Imperial'' flag, without previously striking her national flag, aid hoisting that of his nation on the mainmast of the sa luting ship. The consequence had been that our ships of war discontinued saluting the flag of the Brazilian nation. Lord CocHRANE left Bahia in October, in the Pedro, 74, accompanied by a schooner, on an unknown destination. It was- supposed he was gone on a hostile visit to the Portuguese settlements on the coast of Africa, where (probably at Agra Pequena) he expected to fall in with the Portuguese frigate Carlotta, just freighted with ivory and gold dust, the tribute of the Chiefs of that country to the Portuguese nation. This forenoon we received Piedmontese Gazettes to the 25th ult. They contain the following decree of the King of Naples: " It being our express will, that due respect and de corum shall be observed towards everything that any wise concerns our Holy Religion. •i With the advice of our Council of state, we have resolved to decree, and decree as follows : " Art. 1. All possessors of Churches, Oratories, and Chapels, which are now not employed for Divine Ser vice, but destined to profane uses, shall,in the course of the present year, take from the exterior of those edifices, any former distinctions and ornaments which shew they have been Churches. " 2. The time fixed in the preceding article being expired, and the changes in the exterior of the above edifices not being made, if they belong to private per sons tae Intendants shall have the alterations made, and oblige the owners to make good the expense; but if they belong to any royal or charitable institution, or to any Commune, the Intendants shall make a report to us, that we may decide on the measures to be taken against the managers, superintendants, and ethers, whose duty it was to have the alterations made. " 3. Our Minister of the Interior, and our Lieute• 6 • "1' 1 pant-General in our dominions beyond the Faro, are charged with the execution of the present Decree. " Naples, January 26. " FRANCIS." We stated on Saturday, that private expresses passing through Calais from this country, had been intercepted, and the letters transmitted to Paris. The order from the French Government on this point is very rigid ; it that all letters and papers carried by express from Pads to London, or from London to Paris, shall be opened by an Officer appointed for that purpose, who is instructed to hive copies taken of them and for warded to the Minister of the Interior at Paris. This order has been already acted upon, both at Calais and Boulogne, in the case of mercantile expresses, and the consequence has been, owing to the unavoidable loss of time required in its execution, that of tendering the ex presses wholly useless to the merchants who sent them. No exception whatever has been made with respect to the parties affected by this order ; those merchants who, on all former occasions, have been treated with peculiar respect and forbearance by the French Govern ment, having in this instance been equally subjected to scrutiny. It is said that some packets have been opened which were written in cipher, or in some unintelligible language, and' that these were allowed in the first in stance to pass, but an intimation was conveyed to the parties to whom they were addressed, that none such would in future be sent on to their destination. We have this day the painful duty orannouncing the loss of the Kent, outward bound Indiaman, by fire, in the Bay of Biscay, on Tue►day last. The particulars, collected from various sources, and some of them from an eye-witness of the catastrophe, will be found in another column. Never, perhaps, was there a more re mai kable preservation of the survivors, and it may truly be said that the finger of PROVIDENCE was there. Had it not been for the fortunate arrival of the- Cansbtia, a vessel on her voyage to Mexico, every soul on board the Kent must have perished..— Too much praise cannot be given to the Officers, crew, and passengers on board the Cambria, for their active exertions ; and we never recollect an instance of greater presence of mind, under circumstances the most appalling, than was displayed on board the Kent during the awful catastrophe. Oirt of. 637 persons on board, 547 were saved from the adverse but equally destruc tive elements file and water. Ninety have un: happily perished. Captain Coss, of the Kent, was the last person on board the ship. The Purser arrived at the India-House yesterday morning. FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 5 per Ct. 98 Mex. Bonds,s per Ct. 81 j I Ditto Acc. Ditto Scrip 31 I pm. Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct. 921 Peruv. Bonds, 6 per Ct. Stle I j Ditto Acct. 88j Portuguese Bonds 90j Ditto Acc. 901 Prus,ian Bonds, 5 per Ct. Russ.Bonds,lB9.2, 6 p. Ct. 95j Ditto Ace. 95j j Spanish 3p. Ct. Cons. 114 j I Ditto for Aec. 241 I Span. 5 p.Ct C. 1823% 191 I & French Rentes, 5 per Ct. 105 Exchange 25f. 10c. SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazilian Botzis 89 8j Ditto 1825 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 92/ Ditto Ace. Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 901 Ditto Acc. Columbian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 93 21 Ditto Bonds 1824, 981 Ditto Acc. 93} Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. 101 i Ditto Marks Banco Greek Bonds 55 It 1 / Ditto Scrip 1 / 1 / dis. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ASSURANCE COMPANIES. WAIL PAID. Guardian - ioo - 10 - MINES. rag& PI% ,MA MC X 224 SHAM ?AID. Pant PER =AWL Anglo Mexican - - JEIOO 415- ifs. AS pm. £l2l Anglo Chilian -1 . 100 - S - -1416 1 Arigna Iron and Coal - 50 5 - 3 4 Brazilian - - 100 - .5 - 5 -24 23/ Chilian . 100 5 - - 221 22 Colombian - - - 100 - 5 - 5 - 441 45 44 General Mining Association . - -14 18 191 19 Pasco Peruvian - 109 - 5 - -404240 41 Rio de la Plata - 100 - 5 - - 321 33 United Mexican . 40 -20 - 2 pin. - 145 150 Ditto New - 40 - - 34 321 Welch Iron & Coal - 25 - 5 - - Sk 8 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. SMARM, PAM. PRICIt PLR MAIM 100 " - 8 - 91 IRON RAILWAYS. London and Birmingham - 50 - 1 - 13 London and Northern - 100 - 1 - 23 2 3 MISCELLANEOUS. SNARL PAID. Miler PM SNARL Atlantic and Pacific - £lOO - £lO -.C123 15 133 14 13 British Iron Company - 100 - 5 - 123 113 123 Canada Company - 100 - 10 - 41 General Steam Navigation 100 5 - 10 Gold Coast Association . 6 . 5 - 73 Great Westminster Dairy 25 - 2 - 23 Hibernian Joint Stock Company - - 51 5 Mexicali Company 100 50 21 20 21 203 Metropolitan Fish Company 25 4 31 i 1 New Corp Exchange - 50 - 3 - 9 Pearl Fishery £25 sh. £2 pd. in. £lO pm. 223 25 233 Provincial Bank of Ireland - - 153 3 3 3 Patent Bricks - - 50 2-51 i 53 ik Royal Stannary . —" 5 - s ii Mediterranean Steam — - 453 i 5 prem. FASHIONABLE ARRANGIMENTS FOR THE WEEK. THIS EVENING. The Marchioness Dowager of Salisbury's fourth Assembly. TOMORROW. - - The Countess of Arran's Card Party. WEDNESDAY. Lady Gwydyr's Assembly, in the Terrace, Piccadilly. Countess of Epees Rout, in Hill-street. THURSDAY. The Marchioness of Hertford's Assembly, Manchester-square. Duke of Devonshire's Grand Banquet. Countess of Arran's Card Party. FRIDAY. Emily Marchioness of Londonderry's fourth Assembly. Honourable Mrs. Hope's Rout, in Mansfield-street. SATURDAY. Lady Lingford's Party in Berkeley-square. Countess of Arran's Evening Party. FASIIIOX4BLR ARRIVALS. Earl •Gower, from his father's (the Marquis of Stafford's) seat, in Surrey ; the Earl of Essex, from his seat Cashiobury Park, Herts ; Lord William Lennox, from Sussex; Lord Charles Manners, from his brother's (the Duke of Rutland's), Belvoir Castle ; Sir Gilbert Ileithcote, Bart. from his seat, Normanton Park, Lincolnshire ; Earl of Lismore, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, from Ireland; and Mrs. Jukes and family, at ditto, from York. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon. at half-past two o'clock, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by— The Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Liverpool, Westmorland, Harrowby, and Bathurst, Mr. Secretary Canning, Mr. Secretary Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Mr. Wynn, &c.—The Cabinet Miakers did not break up till balriaat five o'clock. I GRAND CHRISTENING. Saturday wasthe day appointed for the christening of' Mr. Secretary Peel's infant son, and the expected Ininour of the Duke of York's standing sponsor upon the occae sion, caused every due preparation to be made upon a very splendid and magnificent scale. The 'Court. yard or grounds in the front of the new mansion, in Privy gardens, was brilliantly illuminated with six large gas lamps. The lower part of the mansion was lighted with gas—the principal apartments were lighted with Grecian lamps and wax; the whole had a most splen did appearance. The house altogether is considered the most complete, well fitted up, decorated, and fur nished, of any modern house in London. The upper servants were dressed suitably for the occasion—the livery servants appeared in splendid new liveries. The company invited began to arrive at balf.past six o'clock. At seven o'clock, the Duke of York arrived. His Royal Highness was received by Mr. Peel, who conducted the Royal Duke to the splendid drawing room, where all was in readiness for the ceremony of christening to commence. A temporary altar was erected, and the Rev. Dr. Lir): d, the tutor of the Right Honourable Secretary when at Oxford, immedi ately commenced the ceremony cf christening the in' font, who was named Frederick, after the Duke of York. The other sponsors were the Earl of Whitworth and Viscountess Melville. Mr. Martin, the Parish Clerk of Saint Margaret's, Westminster, officiated as Clet k upon the occasion, and also produced the Registry Book, in which he entered the Christening. Immediately after the ceremony the company retired to the dining-room, the dinner having been previously served vp. A most splendid banquet presented itself. The service of plate. had a most brilliant effect. It is needless to say that the dinner consisted of every delicacy, of which twenty seven persons of distinction partook. In addition to the abovenameJ, were the Dowager Duchess of Rich mond, the Duchess of Dorset, Vi-count Melville. the Ladies Lennox, Lady Floyd, (the mother of Mrs. Peel) Mi. William, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. John Peel. and their Ladies, &c. The dessert corresponded with the dinner, in the centre of which was a large cake, similar to chose given at wedding', on which was inscribed " Frederick Peel." coi with the most rernment, on sc The King of the Dectee of J ; ditected again• tious to come • FUNERAL of the Hon. F. ASHLEY COOPER. - Yesterday the remains of the Hon. A. Cooper, fifth son to the Earl of Shaftesbury, were deposited at Eton. The circumstances of this young Gentleman's melan choly death have been fully detailed in this Journal. He fell in a pugilistic contest with the son of Colonel Wood, and, although various opinions will be enter tained both as to the transaction itself, and the subse quent treatment which the boy experienced, there pre vails but one sentiment of universal sympathy and con dolence with the amiable and illustrious family of which he was the youngest member. The funeral was con ducted with the utmost privacy. The body had been conveyed from the residence of the Rev. Mr. Kn.spp to a neighbouring hon.ca where it temained until three o'clock yesterday. As the hour for Evening Service ap proached, a good number of persons assembled outside the entrance to the College Chapel, and upon the open ing of the doors the Chapel was instuntly filled with strangers and students. The body was then carried into the Chapel, where it remained during the service, and immediately on its conclusion, Dr. Keats, and the masters of the school formed themselves into a small procession,—:hey had only to move a few yards, as the body was interred in a vault in the aisle of the Chapel, immediately under the organ loft. The Students crowded round the vault in which the body of their late associate was enclosed for ever.—lt was really a most affecting ceremony. The character of the boy— the circumstances of his death..-the presence of his school-fellows—the family to which he belonged—all contributed to render it one of the most afflicting spec tacles that it is possible to imagine. It would be ab surd to affect that mawkish sensibility which would punish with undue severity all the little quarrels arising out of those every-day irritations which must and will occur amongst boys at school; but it cannot be denied that, to tolerate systematic pugilistic contests in places devoted to the purposes of education, is a practice at variance with every principle of propriety and deco rum. It is now about forty years since a similar cause led to a similar result at the same establishment The survivor is a Gentleman of groat respectability, a clergyman of the Established Church, and has been lately promoted to a valuable benefice. It appears that in the present case there had existed a bad feeling be tween the two boys for some time, and on the Sunday previous to the fight, one of their associates knocked young Wood against Ashley Cooper by way of a joke; Cooper immediately struck him; a battle ensued, and after some rounds, the captain of the school (as he is called) separated them : they then agreed to fight on the following day (being a half holiday); the proposed battle is known and talked of all through the school ; quantities of brandy are conveyed to the field of action, and there those two boys, at such a tender age, are al lowed to fight for upwards of two hours amidst crowds of spectators, until one of them is actually killed on the spot, for that now turns out to be the fact. But it seems those fights are of constant occurrence at Eton, and on the very evening of this melancholy event, ano ther severe battle was fought. It is to be hoped that now at least there will be an end put to those shameful practices at our public schools. Foreigners will Won cease to wonder at those disgraceful exhibitions, which. in our capacity of public Journalists, bound to reflect the customs and manners of the age, we are sometimes called upon to detail, when they find that the seminaries of our noble youth are converted into boxing schools. By a timely, nay,by an interference dictated by com mon humanity, this brave and manly and higb-spirited youth might have been saved to his family and his country, instead of falling a victim to that false notion of honour which displays itself in aping the worst vices of the very vicious. It appears, from all accounts, that he was a lad of the highest intellectual promise, and of the most heroic, chivalrous, and generous disposition. His antagon;st (Mr. Wood) is universally beloved amongst his schoolfellows, and in this unhappy business has been more unfortunate than censurable. Had the undaunted and invincible spirit which they both exhi bited been exerted, even unsuccessfully, in a more worthy cause, their friends might have mourned over their fate, but they must have gloried in their heroism. The Memoirs of Madame DE GENUS, which are to make their appearance this day, contain, we are i donned, a vast number of anecdotes, relative to the distinguishe 1 persona and events of her time. The brilliant society of Paris said to be ad mirably characterised, as well as the interior of convents dand of lordly mansions. All the beauties, and beauzesprits, .ind courtiers of the time come out distinctly " in their habits as they lived."