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. • . TO , gytNING STAR. , • .hON DON. d BATiIRDAT, JANUARY IS, ISIO. TIEIP -FUND& TRICs Oi STOCICS Tile DAT AT ONL O'CLOCK Spy .. Cen t? Itodocod 48% 3 per Cent. Consols 68 67 n ex. div.. per Cent. 5614 87 1 / 6 87 • 5 per Cent. Navy 1025 103 1025 ex. div.: Bank Long Annuities IS Irish 5 per Cents. 102 1 / 2 India Bonds Bs. 9s. pr. Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. dis. par. Omnium 34 dis. Consols for Acct. 69% 1,(1, We are happy to find that the Subscription for affording Temporary Relief to the Destitute, and Nightly Shelter to the Houseless, during the present inclement ceason, goes on most prosperously. Already, no less a sum than £1,500 has been subscribed ! and this will appear the more remarkable, when it is observed, that the chief movers in the good work have set the vet:) , proper example of subscribing moderate sums—a course which leaves room for a more wide diffusion of the charity. The Report from the Institution, last night at ten o'clock, stated, that " upwards of one hundred persons were then housed, who had been fed, and all of whom expressed the utmost gratitude for the assistance afforded." The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore noon, but are quite barren of intelligence. The Mmeiteur states, that it was believed that the Cham ber of Deputies would have a meeting on Saturday (to -day), to receive the presentation of a Project of Law. Although M. DE CAZE has been indisposed, we are informed that he has not been a single day without transacting business, that he is now much better, and is no longer confined to bed. rive per Cents, Tuesday, 72 fr. 40 c. Two Dutch Mails arrived at a late hour this fore noon, with Papers to the 12th inst. We have only time for the following extracts: VIENNA, DECEMBER 30. Jr is said that there is an intention of establishing a liberal system of Transit in the Austrian dominions, and also several measures for promoting the trade of Italy with the South of Germany, and the internal trade of Italy itself. BRUSSELS; JANUARY L Among the various pamphlets which are from time to time put in circulation among the French troops, there is one in particular, called the Cateehime des Braves, which particularly preaches opposition to all Officers who do not belong to the old Army, and represents a foreign war as what is most desirable for France. Other such writings relate to the present political events. The necessary measures are taken to discover the persons who circulate these works. —The Governors of the Fortresses, and Colonels of the Legions and Regiments,. have received official instructions to suppress this evil, as experience has shewn the bad consequences of such intrigues. A Gentleman, whe is a native of Spain, arrived in this country a few days ago from Lima, having quit ted that city about the middle of August. He came by a circuitous route, having crossed the Isthmus of Darien, and visited Spain, previously to his reaching England. The direct communication with Lima, by Brit6h vessels, has been so long interrupted, that he brings nevertheless the latest intelligence from that quarter. From his information we learn, that after Lord COCHRANE had relinquished the blockade of Callao, and had sailed for Valparaiso, a commercial intercourse with Lima had arisen, productive of great advantages to those engaged in it. Those were chiefly the Merchants of „Jamaica, who were sending cargoes suited to the supply of.the Peru market, to Porto ; from whence the goods were carried across the Isthmus of Darien, to Panama, and re-shipped there in American vessels. Allowing for the expense of double freight, with land carriage over a moun tainous and difficult country, the speculations yielded, in many instances, a profit of nearly 100 per cent.— At the time our informant left Callao, all Spanish vessels were strictly confined to the harbour, not venturing to stir out, on account of their uncertainty respecting the movements of Lord COCHRANE, and of the number of cruizers under the Chilian flag that abounded iu the Pacific Ocean. His Royal Highness the Duke of KENT is indis posed with a severe cold, which has confined him to his room since Sunday last. his Royal Highness the Duke of Sosszx, the Dukes of.'4oneoLK and Btrironce, the Marquis of TA VI- 4TuilE, Lord kinsitm, and many other Noblemen, are expected on a visit at Ilolkham-Hall, the latter part of next week, and remain till Sunday, the MI instant, when they will arrive in Norwich, and honour W. Fosteit, Esc). with their company. The DJ ke and Duchess of ST. ALBANS are arrived at their horse in St. James's-square, from their seat, Gat- on, Surrey. The Dowager Duchess of RUTLAND is arrived at Ilelvoir Castle, frum Leicestershire. The Marquis of BATD has a large party of fashion able :hors, during the holidays, at. his seat, Long. leat, ilt;. The M.irqiiis of WoacEsren has left town for Badrnintom, (iloocesteishi:c. LEEDS, JANUARY I.S. The Detachments of Miliiiry, mentioned in my last,-returned to their quarters, in this town, last night ; and, from what I can learn, they seem to have gene on a wrong scent. At least nothing has transpired here as to what arrests have been made, nor can I learn any particulars beyond what was stated in my last letter. The linen trade in this quarter is considerably re covered from the depressioa under which it has, in common with the other manufacturing branches, so long laboured ; and I am happy to learn that. some extensive foreign orders have arrived, particularly from South America and the Cap* of Good Hope.— Large quantities are also preparing tg be shipped for the United States, from whence the accounts are of a decidedly more favourable nature than for the last twelve months ; but it will require a brisk demand, indeed, and for , a considerable time, to take .off the immense stocks of goods accumulated in the hands of the merchants and large manufacturers ; and till that be in some degree effected, the workmen and small manufacturers can reap, comparatively, but little benefit from the favourable change and re-ac den that is evidently taking place. It is much to be wished, that our merchants may not play again the foolish game of speculation which has reduced so many thousands to beggary ; inundating every quarter of the globe with British manufactures, till every market became glutted with them, and they were suffered to rot in the stores of the venders, or brought to the hammer, and sold for less than one third of their value, to defray the import duties ! These galling truths must be yet fresh in their me mories. Let theft l / 4 therefore, (at least for some time to come), limit Nit. exports to the strict letter of their orders, and there is no doubt but all things will again revert into their proper channels—though it were vain to anticipate, or expect, that our torn merce will ever attain the height at_ which it once stood ; the altered state of society, throughout the civilized world, precludes the possibility of this. The price of wool (especially in this part of the Kingdom), is evidently on the advance ; and both the growers and staplers seem averse either to sell or buy at the present prices ; they each hang back, in expectation of an altered state of the markets. The frost here has been so intense, that no vessels have been able to proceed between Selby and Hull, for the past week. The Marquis and Marchioness of TA'srpriocc are returned to their seat, Oakley House, Bedfordshire, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bituroao, at Woburn Abbey. Gorhambury, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Vsaut.Ast, has been a scene of great festivity and amusement during the holidays. The Earl and Countess COWPER have left their seat, Pansanger, Hens, em a visit to the Earl and Countess of JaRS CY, at their seat, Middleton Park : : The Earl and Countess of JERSZI are entertaining a large party of fashionables, at their seat, Middle ton Park, Oxfordshire. Dean JACKSON passing one morning through Christ Church Quadrangle, Oxford, met some Under Gra duates who walked along without capping. The Dean called one of them, and asked, " Do you know who I am?" " No, Sir." " How long have you been in College ?" " Eight days, , Sir." " Oh, very well," said the Dean, walking away, "Puppies don't open their eyes till the ninth day." Skaiing has seldom been exhibited in greater per fection than at Wisbeach, on the 10th instant, when eight of the most celebrated runners in England met to contest the pfize of superiority. The course, which is half a mile out and back again, and run twice over, making two miles in the whole, had been measured out and prepared, below the town ; the former mile was, for the most part, performed in three minutes ; the latter in three minutes and ten seconds. The ele vated mounds, which confine the River on either side, gave all the advantages of an ancient Theatre to the immense concourse of spectators from every part of the country. In the evening ffThursday se'anight, as a.smuggling boat was working into Sandgate, the men employed in the Revenue Service came upon them, and meet ing some resistance in making their seizure, fired upon the party, when one poor man, belonging to Sellinge, was shot dead upon the spot, and another severely wounded. BAD TIMIS !—A sexton of a parish church within a hundred miles of Stafford, complaining of the hard. ness of the times, said that he bad dug only two graves within the last fortnight ! Miss Boerne's New Noviti..—We are requested to state, that a Second Edition of Miss Rummy's Tales of Fancy, complete, in Three Volumes, contain ing " Country Neighbours," and " The Shipwreck," is published this day, by COLUMN and Co. New SOUTH WALEs.—Some specimens of wool, the first ever sent to England, the produce of this Colony, were sold yesterday, by public auction, at Garraway's, and obtained prices that cannot but be gratifying and encouraging to the agriculturists of that Settlement. Wools in general have seldom been known so low as at the present period, yet many samples of that from New South Wales were pur chased at above Ss. the pound ; the whole averaged a higher price than some Spanish wool, offered at the same sale, and more than doubled that of some specimens of German growth, also sold yesterday, at G.irraway's. Some excellent judges of the article, who were present at the sale, declared their opinion, that had the wool been more carefully sorted, and the finer portions of it effectually separated from the coarser, considerably higher prices would have been given. The farmers of the colony have succeeded perfectly in producing fleeces of a fine quality, and have only to learn the further art of as sorting it properly for the British market. The wool from New South Wales pays no duty : the whole amount, therefore, is divided between the grower and the importer. BRIGHTON, JANUARY 15. , About ten minutes before six o'dock this evening, the Parses RIOVIT, accompanied by Gdheral&r B. BL6OIIIIELD, returned to Marlborough-ro*..The Palace is not yet in due order for his Royal High ness's reception. The weather continues intensely cold, and snow, ancle-deep in the shallowest places, where no efforts to remove it have been employed, continues to cover the surface of the rides and walks. A night more sharp than the last is not in the recollection of any person in this part of the country; and to-day it has frozen in the solar rays. The wildest of the fea- ' thered tribe, pinched by the frost, and tamed by the want of food, leave the woods and fields for warmer shelter and the habitations of man ; even blackbirds, starlings, larks, and thrushes, have been pursued by boys at mid-day, about the southern part .ot this place, and easily taken by the hand. WINTER SCENES. BY JOHN MAYNE. - How keen and howling is the storm ! Stern Winter ip its bitt'rest form ! Long, cheerless nights, dnd murky days No sun-beam gladdens Blis'ty's ways ! The frost has stapp'd yon village-mill, Mid Labour, ev'ry where, stands still Lora, weary travlers, as they go, Are wilder'd in the trackless snow, And dread, each step, that drizzling sleet And snow may be their winding-sheet To town or city if we turn, What numbers weep, what numbers mourn! Unshelter'd sons of Toil and Care, • Cold, shilering, comfortless, and bare ! Sad troupes, who ne'er knew need before, Begging for bread from door to door ! While helpless Age, too frail to roam, Is perishing, for want, at home I Hard fate ! when poverty and years Assail us, in this vale of tears, Till Death, the dismal scene to close, In pity, terminates our woes ! 0! ye, whom Paovinexez bath blest, • With wealth to succour the distrest, 0 ! lend your help in time of need The naked clothe—the hungry feed, And great, from fizaer, shall be your meed ! In several places the fall of snew has been very great, within these few days. At Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, it has clrifted to nearly twelve feet high ; in the Fens of Lincolnshire, and near Ely, it is upwards of five feet high. The Thames is unna v igable: several pieces of drifted ice have forthed themselves opposite Fish mongers' Hall, near the Old Swan, twelve feet high, and have a splendid and imposing appearance. The LORD MAYOR has given positive orders to the respective Officers, to see that every resident inhabi tant has the foot-path and pavement before his house cleansed,• swept, and scraped, by ten o'clock each morning ; and, in all cases of failure, to summon the parties before him. It is really distressing to hear of the numberless accidents that daily occur, from the want of that precaution : last night a man, with five i barrels of 'oysters, fell down, in St. Paul's Church yard, and dislocated his wrist ; another, in the Mino ries, fractured his head ; a third, a shoe-maker, at the corner of Dean-street, Soho, broke his leg, and was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital : but, to nar rate all the cases which have come to our knowledge, would be endless, Tuesday, the Merchants' House of Glasgow voted £2OO in aid of the Subscription for the Relief of the Industrious Poor in that City. The poor of Sheerness and Garrison are supplied ' weekly with coals by means of a liberal subscription, under the humane and fostering protection of the Honourable CommisSioner BoyLa, aided by a Com mittee of the Gentlemen of that place. Lord Buntet.xy last week relieved the Debtors in Beaumaris Gaol ; and ninety families are supplied twice a week with soup and a loaf, from the Mansion of Baron-hill. Ls GINDRE STA Esq. gave to the poor, around his seat at Huntroyd, in Yorkshire, on Christ mas-Eve, no less than four fat bullocks and a scot, and also warm clothing and money. All the bakers' shops, for a considerable distance 'round the neighbourhood of St. Giles's, were sud denly cleared of their en tire stock of bread, yester day, even to their last penny roll, under the following interesting circumstances :—lt had been observed, that the children of the Irish School, in St. Giles's, in many instances, lately fainted away, whilst en gaged at their lessons : and upon Mr. FINNIGAN, the Superintendent, snaking inquiry into the cause, he discovered that their indisposition was entirely occa sioned by want of fiod, many of them receiving no other sustenance than a small quantity of potatoes, once in twenty-four hours. Yet their desire of learn ing was, in general, so ardent, that not the slightest complaint was made to the Superintendant ;—they went about their little tasks as earnestly as though they were in the enjoyment of every comfort. These circumstances came to the knowledge of Mrs. COUTT'S yesterday, and, with. her accustomed bene volence, she ordered an ample Supply of bread to be sent instantly to the School, for the relief not only of the poor children, but their parents also ; and her or der was executed so liberally and promptly, that all the bakers' shops in the neighbourhood were instantly stripped of their contents, as we before described. About a fortnight ago, a Requisition, for calling a Meeting of the County of Stafford, to take into con sideration the state, of the numerous suffering Poor of the County, was drawn up. This Requisition was signed by Lords Anson, CREWE, VERNON, BRAD FORD, and by about forty Gentlemen of the highest respectability in the County ; and yet, strange to tell, the Sheriff hesitates to comply, begging leave to take a few days for considering the proposition, " as the times arc rather feverish !* It is reported that the Sheriff referred the Requisition in question, to the Magistrates assembled at de Quarter Sessions ; and that it was negatived by them !!i- We cannot Pgive credence to this—the first instance o f ntancw i llg üblic Meetings under the Now Laws. THE kßltty The sth Royal Veteran Battalion is on its march from Shrewsbury to Plymouth. The Royal Maelor Regiment of Flintsbire Yeo. many, has been augmented, by the formation cf two additional troops. At the East Kent Sessions, which ended on Wed. nesday, an indiCtment was pretested, tt the insure.: of Lieutenant PERRY, of the Royal Staff Corps, against Lieutenant TAIT, of the same Corps for a breach of the peace, in having written a letter to the prosecutor, 'to provoke him to fight a duel, which being found a true bill, Mr. TAIT pleaded guilty to the charge of writing and sending the said challenge, but bowing to the supremacy of the law, which, by his Counsel, Mr. l'om.ocK, lie regreted having.vio lated : he was adjudged to pay a fine of Is. - and enter into securities to keep the peace for one year. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Faxxotrrii, JANHARY 12.—Wind E.—Arrived Ids Majesty's ship SPARTAN of 56 guns, Captain Writ, from a cruizt; and a brig, name unkmreen. PLYMOUTH, SAVIUARY - N. E.—Put back the Lau rel, Srimr, from Charente for London; and Mercury, Lman, from the Straits for London.—Arrived the Young William, from Liverpool for Rotterdam. PORTSMOUTH, JAN/ALT 14.—Wind N.E.-s-Came into harbour the HIND sloop of war, from Spithead. Sailed the Richard, Hyrcarxos, for Havre. Dear, Jaxuaar 14.—Wind N.E—Came down' from the River and sailed, the Foxhound, Mterresow ; and the Wasp, HARRIS, for the South Seas; also, the Amazon, Davi:ars, 'for the Cape de Verdi. Sailed this afternoon, the Castle Iluntly, DRI/MBIOND: and Astell, Carsircu., for Calcutta. MARGATE, JANCARY 14.—An anchor, Weighing about 24 ewe. with between 70 and 80 fathoms of 18-inch cable, has been taken up off the North Forelard, and landed here to-day, sup posed to. have been left by the ship Brampton, lately arrived from Bombay. COSTOM.HOUSR, JANVAILV 14.—Entered Inwards: The He roine, Garrick, from Calcutta, Madras, and the Cape of Good Hope.—Entered Outwards: The Antony, Jewell, for Lisboa. —Cleared Outwards: The Neptune, Barrick, for the Cape of Good Hope. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTIND AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY. ODDS ON THE GREA T RACES TO COME. MUM 11 to I opt Mr. Pierce's colt lllto I apt Brother to Blucher to I apt Piodaree 18 to 1 am Duke if to 1 agu Briseis 20 to I agst any other. _ . oAis.-31 to 1 against Duke sf :Rutland. IttabLisrotosait—Same u before. OLIVER AND SHELTO/L—(Further Particulars op the Fight).—lt was admitted by all the Fancy who were present, that such a gallant fight has not oc curred for the last seven years. Shelton, it appears, had two of his. ribs broken in ,the .tecond round, which were set by two surgeons, on Thursday after noon, at Harlow; but he returned to Town yester day, and speaks highly of the generous and noble conduct of his brave opponent. He is dreadfully punished; but his backer is so well satisfied with his exertions, that he has offered to back him against Oliver for one hundred guineas a side, in next July. In the course of the battle, the men often conversed with each other in the most friendly manner. Shel ton attributes his defeat to the breaking of his ribs, in the second round. It was fifteen to one on Oliver, in the early part of the fight; and in the twelfth round, it was a guinea to sixpence against him. The changes were frequent, and it was also 15 to one on Shelton. Oliver's face, excepting his mouth, does not exhibit any mark of punishment. He remains at Saw. bridgeworth.---The partisans of OliTer will back hint against Spring for £lOO a side, and the friends if the latter are also quite ready; and as soon as time per mits, there is no doubt but a match will be the result. Saturday last, the Magistrates of Paisley passed sentence on Samuel APICey and William Young, con.. victed of having committed an assault upon a Spe cial Constable, while he was assisting in securing a prisoner. M.Kay was adjudged to three months imprisonment, and to be fed on bread and water alone, and to pay £1 10s. of expenses, and failing payment, to suffer a fourth month's imprisonment. Young's sentence was, two month s i mpr i sonment , a fine of £5 and £1 10s. of expenses: and, failing pay ment of these sums, to, be imprisoned another month. We believe this previous character and circumstances of these persons, may have had some influence in causing a difference in their punishment ; and we trust that these examples will have a happy effect in checking that spirit of resistance to legal authority, which, we are sorry to say, has lately manifested itself in Paisley. FIRS IN MALIDALEN-HALL, OXFONIL—The prin cipal losers by the Fire are, Mr. Parr, a Gentleman Commoner, whose rooms were immediately over the Common Room ; Mr. Carter, also a Gentleman Corn moner, who resided opposite Mr. Parr, and Mr. Bel -1 four, a Student of Civil . Law.—M r . parrs loss con sisted principally of curious and valuable books, an of many curiosities-of value, collected on the CoaS nent during his travels. Mr. Carter's well-selected library, of considerable value, was entirely destroyed. Mr. Belfour, whose rooms were over Mr. Parr's, lost two trunks full of wearing apparel and valuable papers. It was noticed that this gentleman was par ticularly- active in his exertions during the fire. For tunately for his personal safety, he slept that night in the nertherts staircase, and was the first down stairs, He immediately ran into the High-street, called for the engines, and continued his -exertions, incessantly, until the flames were extinguished,- One Gentleman, Mr. Clarke, who slept opposite the Common Room, had a narrow escape. He nao taken from his bed when the flames were burstiag into his room. The priucipal,.and indeed almost the only article belonging to- this Gentleman, rescued from the devouring element, was a rare and valuable copy of The Works of Aristotle, in folio. The fir 4 thought of Mr. Clarke, after he himself had been placed in safety, was the preservation of his favourite , philosopher.--.. For GOD'S sake," nee:claimed, drag . ging the servant towards the flames, save my Aris totle!" Dr. Mach' ide, the Principal; and Mr. James, Vice Principal, were both in Devonshire. The former, with some Members of the Hall, who were resident during the vacation, took the earliest opportunity, after his return, on Thursday morning, of personally acknowledging the kind and zealous as , .istance of these who were most active in stopping the progress of the fluroes, and in 4 securing the property of the Society.