Star. — London, England, 1829-12-23 00:00:00

• Al?. Si.-If, however, the Chamber of Peers should not emirely adopt the project of the Chamber of Deputies, but alters or adds to it, it will be returned in the following manner :•m." Tbe rh2artiter of Peers send►to the Chamber of Deputies their proposi •ion, (earning it) with the amendments, or additions, annexed: and•thinits that, with them• there is reason to ask the King for his royal sanction." Aar. 52.—1 f the Chamber of Peers, sitar having deliberated, 4h.11 judge. .bat the proposition, or project, cannot be admitted, they will announce it in the followineterms :—" The Chamber of Pre is returns to the Chamber of Deputies the proposition, (naming it) to which it has not been ableto give its consent." ART. 53.—When the project originates with the Chamber of Peers, that of the Deputies will follow the same routine. Aar. 54.—Should the .Chamber of Deputies tux approve of the amendments or additions of the Priers, or vice versa, and should the project still appear advantageous to the Chamber that rejected its a Committee, composed of equal number of Peers and Deputies, will be nominated; and according to their decision, the project of law shall be established or rejected. Aar. 55.—1 f either of the two Chambers, when the discussion is concluded, should entirely adopt the project which the other Chamber sent, it shall be reduced.to a decree; and after being read In Session, it will be directed to the King, in two autographs, signed by the President and two Secretaries, asking his sanction, thus The general Cones submit to the King the enclosed decree ; which they consider advantageous and useful to the king dom, and request that His Majesty will be pleased to give it his unction." Aar. /56.—ThIs transmission will be made by a deputation of seven Membersisent by the last deliberating Chamber, which will, at the same time, Thform the other Chamber in which the project originated, that they have adopted their proposition relative to such an object, and have directed it to the king, asking him to unction it. Aar. 57.—Should the King refuse his consent, be will answer in the following terms :—" The King wishes to meditate upon the proket of law, to resolve upon it in his own time." To which the Chamber will reply,—" That it thanks His Majesty for the concern he takes for the nation." Aar. 511.—This dental is absolutely decisive. Aar. 59.—The King will either give or refuse his sanction to each decree within one month after it has been presented to him. ART. 60.—Should the King adopt the project of the general Corte", he will thus expreu himself:—" The King consents."— With this it is sanctioned, and ready to be promulgated as a law of the kingdom ; and one of the two autographs, after being signed by the King, will be transmitted to the •Chamber which sent it; ' and the other will serve for the respective Secretary of State to promulgate the law from ; after which it will be lodged In the national archive (Torn do Took). - Aar. 61.—The form of promulgating the law shall be couched in the following terms :—" Don. Ste. by the grace of Gon, King of Portugal, Algarve', &c. We make knovni to all our subjects that the general Cortes have decreed. and we will, the following law, (copy of the law.) Therefore, we order all authorities, to, whom belong the knowledge and execution of the said law, that they obey, and cause to be obeyed, and keep it as entirely as is therein contained : the Secretary of State for the drain of (the competent department) will have it printed, published, and dis- • triboted." AZT. 62.—The law being signed by the King, and by the co m petent Secretary of State, and sealed with tha royal signet, the original will be kept in the archives of the kingdom, and printed copies of it will be sent to all the corporations, tribunals, and other pkces throughout the kingdom where it should be made public. 21, be maimed. THE EVENING STAR. 01, PUCATOS LON DON. )ECEMBER 23. AT TWO O'CLOCK• India Stock slum India Bonds 59 Oid Annuities AMC, liseh.Bills (2d) 74 /I 41500 Ditto 74 5 100 and £2OO Ditto 74 5 Adverting', WEDESDAY, PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock 2161 per Cent. Red. 94 SI 41 51 per Ct. Cons. shut SI per Ct. 3818, 51 per Ct. Rid. 991 1001 4 per Cent. shut 4-per Ct. 1626, 1051 1 Long Ann. 191 9-16ths Do. 50 Years, 191 FOREIGN FUN' Brazil Bds, 5 pt Ct. Do. Ace. 891 Chilian Bds. 6 pr Ct. 27 Colour. Bds,6 per Ct. Do. Bds. 1894, 25 1 kali° Acct. 941 Sl5 Ditto 100, 24 Greek Bonds, S p Ct. Do. B. 182 S, 5 pra. 251 Ilex. Bds. S per Ct. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO Wel A Cl. MIAMI. PAID. TIMIL Anglo Mexican (Ise. at £5 pm) 100 • 100' 401 41 Bolan*, , 500 300 420 20 94 951 941 Brasilia - . Imp. Qat. 4 • 5 pm.) 55 • • . Do. National liS • • IN • Colombian (iss. at AS pas.) U 38 • 111 Mexican 100 5.4 171 . Rai del M,ste . 400 400 721 United Me:, (iss. at .21 pm.) 4b a9l 171 • DittO Subicript. 2 24 • GuardianFite Au. 100 so 2111 • Having• some time , ago determined to hiy j a correct h▪ iiiabilion of thnPertiquesaCharter. before our readers, ,we this dai :j imbiisha portion of this highly import .. ant document, Ws. are sure 'that,: at . ..the. present moment, it will be read - with ..diMpintaresi. One., • •Of our Ipincipal • motives for • promulgating thn carter 'of 'Den • PktOto, is le leave, that so far from the fears 'ofilione`;tahitietti Who banal toloratedthe j usurpation; it does nevcontsin a single clause • tarrhie,h aity'reasenahle.objection can bens& ; sincatiti Mdit - lihOlif privileges which it tam* to trio nation, SW such checks; that it is ihveyi in the . pp** • , ogablOnarch to prevent every excess into j which the Of freedom might be led, either from impr j udenen • .4 mithuilism. We Audi return to this subject on an early j • dif; and endeavour to prove that none big those who, " like thenpostolieal J faction, are 'only intent on keeping . thghuman Mind iihondage, aui entertsiike j ny fear! from • . the establishment of such a compact. -'s boils for Acct. 11241 5 Cobs. fir Jan. 95 41 5 1 ~ TWO O'CLOCK. Do B. 1015,6 p Ct. Do. Ace. 951 6 51 Peruv. lids.6p C. 171 Do. Ace. If 17/ ' Port. Bd.. s p. C. 60 Do. Aec. 591 si 60 111 p. Us. 5 per Ct. 10 Ditto Acct. 104 Bp. 8d5.71125, 5 par Ct. 71 , • --agaetiozi to be able to aanotke to the *. public some' dila sines- , before timillatortuation txre- Pirid***/.oojei. some 'that' iPil*OtY &Vanua t 'l'it t seee.itt.abip*ttat Angora= Maks tbatilioitiak'et • M It*T*44l94lo*.rrokl AIM!! is %Imu lit •Coiefiettibe seariba pismaire adikAit*litattiot ited,),Oftg.e4Tietaso *at Oda fellow is setaidy ceiiigeoCto 1610,45.TuA011 We had .> ~:, ::~ We call the attention of our readers to the thiri lette r of MEXICAN us. The fourth shall appear to-nnrrow. We regret that unavoidable circumstances have . thlayed ' the publication of the letters from Bogota, illustrative of the internal state of Colombia ; but they shall tppear forthwith. We have not the time to-day to make any commute upon the despatch of General SANTA ANNA, which, however, will be found to merit, on various seconds the greatest attention from our readers. It is our desire to avoid as much as possible any t. cussion of the trial for libel, which ended yesterday in the conviction of the Proprietors of the Norning Journal. Where the prosecuted matter confnes so closely upon private reputation, however deeply we may lament to see the Press the object of ministerial attack, we confess that we have no sympathies ranged on the side of those who bring it into so opprobrious a position. Let it be understood always, tat we are speaking only of such libels as border upon ineecorous personal detraction, and which therefore are destitute — in a proportionate degree—of private dignity or public object. But when a writer, in the fervour of political excitation, exceeds the boundary of prudeut animadver sion, and reprobates in strong language perhaps the Mi nister of the day—especially if he be a SOLDIER, arrogating to himself unconstitutional power- , -far be it from us to witness unmoved his jeopardy in the public cause, or to assent from any dastardly motive to his sacri fice at the shrine of tyranny. We think it necessary to be thus explicit, lest in our reprehension of the slander against Lord LyNDHIJRST, we may be conceived as pronouncing also against the paragraphs under prosecution by the Premier. That these paragraphs have been managed with a deplorable want of tact, we shall be among the last to deny ; but the occasion is too serious--and the interest excited by it comes too home to our " business and bosoms"—for us to be indifferent here. The infliction of penal severi ties at the will of an arbitrary prosecutor, whenever the press happens to counteract or expose Ministerial ma lignity, may do very well in other countries—has done very well in this—but can no longer be tolerated as it has been. There is no safeguard for our Constitutional ' rights —no shield for our popular liberties—if • the press be trampled in the dust : for at this epoch, perhaps to a greater degree than retrospective history fer long years can parallel, the baseness of our public men has left the country obnoxious to en oligarchal confederacy, which the voice of the people can alone hold in salutaty check. Now, the voice of the people is the PRESS ; and any attempt to intimidate, or silence that, excites in us a very sensitive suspicion and alarm. The noble Duke at the head of his MAJESTY'S govern ment knows well the uncompromising hostility which we bear his administration—and ever shall bear—on constitutional grounds. We have intermitted lately, in our exhortations to oppose a military ministry, not be cause we were growing reconciled to its domination, but because—from day to day—we have looked for its dissolu tion ; and which even yet we sanguinely anticipate at no distant period. Let us take this opportunity once again to say, that but for the servility of men, whose professions can never more deceive the country, the Duke of WEL LINGTON could not have mounted to power at all. He , only reigns, through their degeneracy ; he owes all his prevalence to their abject sycophancy, or unnatural alliance. It is impossible to dismiss this subject, without no ticing some of the ominous generalities, which fell in the course of his speech from Mr. Attorney-Ge neral. Sir JAMES SCARLETT Is DOI the man, to be guilty of aimless utterances, and it is there fore we direct attention to , his portentous lan guage. After speaking of the introduction of the first press into England, under the auspices of H n RT. VII. —and casting a " longing, lingering look"' at the* mo wopoly of opinion ,in those good days when it was d by the KrNo—he contrasts its well-behavedaseo under the fostering wing of the despot, with its ken tiousness and audacity now. At last, no longer capable Of coercing the vehement antipathies that Swelled within him, he proclaims • emphatically that the exigenCies of modern power demand that new chains should be forged for opinion. " I confess"—says the Right Ho and Learned Gentleman—" that I am one of those wile think, that within the last ten years the license if the l Press has been too much unrestrained. Lam free to say, that,' have thought the use of the IPresa would haw been. better preserved, if somewhat more of wholesomm correction had been exercised' over it." • No doubt, he thinks so : and so must all his fellow tevgivereators. Only notice the epoch to which Sir JAMES refers, - as furnishing his beau -idial of the Press of England Tex years ago ; that is, in the veinier of 1819- 20 , when the SIX ACTS, of blighting rnetnory--:blighted be the memory of those who passed them--were l baposOd by a damineering Cabinet. Tex years ago! But Si JAMES was not Attorney-General then Andllad not ratt ed for place and pay, !re; Nos est quails list, boot job rip* Cynara t . • • : geed ilateama bast otis he spos,, '"Whealawilsesei Saba. 4 . 44 Whilerlaiaae penning this notico''itbiin, the '.Right lionoifsble :Gentian= is followiptip our .wounded conteniporarf, grounds which: allot et strongly on the side of the persecuted Party. The Wax.- Litioxint libels are on to-day, and we bear it ht sill going in favOur of the Military Premier. ilerttep; , ask—eip it be. otherwise, with ./peciai /skip. ao' Spcial 40m to aid thswf wasp of tbe.lfoble Duke are iretthy':ol44lliii and countries hole fos:-does he asanit#o? (4_ .z• 4 " We eve the Alhjesee!se &shag Al!O Mort .initant. Judging by Whit his liiiittrristittlieirilmil, here as well es over ell Europe, while the Evoloter; ~,,. ~. ~ , NICHOLAS was indisposed, we have to acquiesce with shame in the position laid down by the Journal now before us :—" The fears excited by the illness of the Emperor are now happily allayed by his convalescence ; but they prove how deeply it is felt that the tranquillity of Europe depends on the life one great Prince." VIENNA, Dec. 10. The bulletins published yesterday in the At Murry have removed ell apprehensions respecting the health of the Emperor of Reid% and have not failed to affect the Funds, which have risen a little. An English and a French courier, from London and Paris, have passed thVough Vienna, proceeding with all ail haste to Con- stantinople. C om mercial letters from Lemberg speak with alarm of the pro pagation of the plague from the Principalities to OaMeta, and even intimate ihat symptoms of it have already manifested themselves in the vicinity of Lemberg. No official notice of such a circumstance bas yet been given, and it therefore needs confirmation. FROM THE DANUBE, Deo. 13. The fears excited by the illness of the Russian Emperor are now happily allayed by his convalescence, but they prove how deeply it Is felt that the tranquillity of Europe depends on the life of one great prince. In the complex, and frequently conflicting interests which occur in the internal affairs, and foreign relations of state, the influence of a prince distinguished by talents and energy, and by wise moderation in the use of victory, is of the utmost im portance. The security offered by the life and activity of such a prince is strengthened by his being in the prime of life, not attached by his own recollections to a period in which the straggles of political parties threw every thing into con fusion by exciting the most irreconcilable passions, mid pro. , dyeing a state of things which could not possibly he &Mil& The Emperor Nicholas has no knowledge of this event except sea matter of history ; be belongs to the new era which begins with him, and has already shown the possibility of effectual iaterpositke in the cause of civilisation, without requiring the aid of revolu tions, which seems powerful only In the fever of delusion. That the great interests of Europe enjoy the effectual protection of a legitimate power, this it is that has called for the acknowledgment of the beneficial influence of the Russian Emperor. Vienna, Dec. 11.—Mstalliques, 1031; Four per Cent. 91j; Bank Shares, 11141.—Illgentsine_Zeitung, Dee. 10. Our attention has been called to the negligence of I many weulthy householders at the we st end of the town, with regard to the state in which they suffer the foot way in the front of their mansions to be left, when there is any fall of snow or bad weather. Surely, the gentle men's servants might be allowed to give a sixpence to a poor man to do this work for them, if they should think themselves not hired for such service. We trust that informations will be laid in future against all palaces, Churchwardens, clubs-, hotels, and great houses, where the public are endangered and annoyed by this want of attention to the comfort and safety of foot passengers. VICTORY OF TAMPICO. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. Copy of a despatch addressed to the Secretary of War, and Marine by General SANTA ANNA : ARM! OF OPERATIONS. HAD QUAILTWI, OLD talitleo, Seer. IS, I Sidi • MOST EXCELLENT SIR, In my former communications I detailed to your Excellency my operations against the enemy, and you will have been informed of the arrangements I made either to induce him to surrender or force him into a battle. Owing to the scarcity of provisions which prevailed, I was unable to collect any of the divisions destined for this service, except two hundred men of the bat talion of Mextitlan, seventy of the first civic of Mexico, with 100 dragoons of the third regiment, who had arrived after the other troops, under the General of Brigade, VELasoukz. I was thus enabled 'to esta blish my batteries at the points 'called Las Piedras and ii Humo, on this side the river. I then ordered the General of Brigade, TERAN, my second in command, to .march from Altamira, bringing with him all the light ar tillery and disposable troops that might be there, except 500 cavalry which were to remain for its defence, under the command of General Fernandez. GeneralTeran accordingly came and posted himself at the pass of Cecilia, on the shore between the entrance of the river and Tam pion di Tamaulipas. He, arrived on the evening of the 7th with three field-pieces, five hundred infantry, and five hundred cavalry, being the whole force he could remove from Altamira, owing to the non-arrival of the reinforcements so anxiously expected there from the interior. Being joined immediately by a select novpa of 600 infantry, trenches were cut, and the communications between the enemy centirely cut off, leaving him without resources or any chance if /del , at his head quarters. In this state of things, summoned the Spanish General to surrender at discretion, with his troops, to the generosity of Mexico, within forty-eight hours, and that in the event .nf refusal, I should attack him with the brave men under my command, and give no quarter. But before my com munication had time to reach the enemy's head quarters, he bad hoisted a white gag, and sent ah . officer to my camp with a despatch in which he offered to evacuate the republic, for which ob ject he war ready to enter into negociations. I replied to his communication by a direct negative, repeating the intimation already sent, as your Excellency will perceive by the documents marked 1,2, and 3. On the following morning, the enemy again demanded a parley, by sanding Brigadier D. JOSS SALOMON to reiterate the solicitations of the preceding diy, and endeavour to convince me of the justice of his propositions. I now rejected the overtures,. adding, I would enter into no father discussions, or suffer my operations to be interrupted, except by the enemy's surrendering at discretion, and that in case of "his adopting r different cause, be must' be an swerable for the catastrophe which must : otherwise ensue. Your Excellenc will see who'l l /ma is the this point by referring to letters No. 4 '6. The Spanish officer on hearing my answer, requested a man pension of arms until four o'clock on t he following day ip deliberate on so important a matter. -During lise *OR of:the same day, a furious hurricane commenced, whites besides its usual ravages, increased in an extraordinary manner, the river and lake Arierflowing my encamp , mein, destroying' in part the redoubts , and the .detach , meat at Humo, maid ecaresly itself from pe rishing in the bxendation wb reached the 'fishery. This unfortunate : ea:idiot led a great influence on my elfwatiOn. The total want of supplies, the Mari of lids ti i n ch my entrenchments, the detention of drop **pond As the weather is damp and putrid Wi shro geoffoilltewl sat in the painful situation. of Alt I be obliged *to • &bend= my pass . thi essesniy 'submitted. At lour o'clock semi* of the Stowing day the storm, sub- .seal I wig informed drat the enemy ha •' :the . Feet of the • Bar, and had sought rapunmin during the tompost---11 i s sinuaaidy monsent, and mucking to the camp of the second'division, put in motion anolumn of a thousand men, under the immediate commend of Lieut.- • Colonel Pedro Lemus, and proceeded myself with C-- floral Teran,to take possession of the important fort of the Bar : but, unfortunately, on my arrival I found the enemy had repossessed himself of it, in consequence of my rot being sufficiently timely advised of the evacuation. I have already stated the hardships encountered by my troops in consequence of the severity of the weather, hilt finding them full of enthusiasm to meet the enemy, who bad dared to invade our country, I determined to carry my first resolution into effect. Lieutenant Colonel LEstus was therefore ordered to storm the battery of the Bar ; upon which, my soldiers —despising the heavy fire of the enemy—rushed forward with the greatest intrepidity, and soon made themselves masters of the inner line of the enemy's work. After a most unequal contest of three hours, during which every soldier vied with his fellow in acts of heroism and valour, we perceived the white flag again displayed at the head quarters of the Spaniards, and soon after Colonels Don JOSE SA LomoN, and Don F. SALAs presented themselves before me with a communication from their General, communicating the full powers they had to treat and ac cept such conditions as might be imposed, sparing their lives, personal property, and their honor, as far as cir cumstances would permit. To be concluded to-morrow. CITY, TWKLVE O'CLOCK. Accounts received this morning from Liverpool, gist December. state, that the sales in British Plantation Sugar this week amounts only to 500 bhds. chiefly Barbadoes, at fell prices; besides which 950 bap fine White Bengal have been taken at 755. 6d. The demand for Cotton this week has been steady, and the prices of the middling and fair qualities of Bowed and Alabama have ad vanced id. per lb. Several cargoes of the late arrivals of Pine Timber have been disposed of during the week. There has been some little inquiry for Indigo, and sales have been made at fair prices. The Canso! Market, which left 4' yesterday at 95 for the Ac count, opened rather averse this morning at 94 95, with little business doing at present. In the Foreign Market. Colombian Stock has improved, owing to a report that the Colombian Government, instead of raising money on tobacco, are about to send it to that country for sale. HALF-PAST ONE. Little speculation is going forward in the Consol Market to the present time, although the Market appesee rather fidgitty. Con sols, which well In the early part of the morning at 94j to 95 for the Account, may be quoted 95 to e. The Commissioners purchased in Three per Cents. Reduced at 94i. and Three sad a Half per Cents at 100 e. Some business has been doing in the Foreign Market, in Colons bian, Portuguese, and Mexican Stocks. Portuguese feU in the early part of the day to S 8 j, since which are-action has taken place in the above Stock, and they are now 591 to 60. C olombian Stock has improved le per cent. The other Foreign Securities are much the same as yesterday. Quebec Papers to the sad of Nov. have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. From the Paper of so t November ; upwards of thirty vesseh are still in port, and as the • season continues opal and mild. there is every probability that they will be able to get out of port before the navigation is obstructed The Montreal Paper of the 19th Nov. contains the following We, learn from a source on which reliance can be placed, that his Excellency Sir Howard Douglas and the Honourable Ward Chap man, were to appal before the King of the Netherlands the be ginning of Jan. neat, on the abject of the North Eastern Boun dary. which was left to the decision of this Prince. From the Charlatan Papers to the 23d Nov. " We hear from New Orleans of the Bth Nov. that Gen. Barradas was to remain there for some time." _ _ The Spanish corvette Diana, the brig of war Jasin, and a ship with Gets. blorente, and OM sailors. arrived at Porte Rico on the toth Oct. on the way to Havanna. Another expedition was to sail from Ferol to loin the above. We hear from New York that several Russian dicers had ar rived there to practice in the American navy, also that the Emperor of Russia intends to purchase several American ships of war. There is a very strong rumour abroad—indeed, it is given upon an authority which is entitled to greater re spect than to be designated as a rumour—that, among other retrenchments about to be carried into effect, the emoluments of the highest Dignitaries of the Church are to be considerably reduced, and it is added, much to the honour of the Archbishop of Canterbury, that be has con sented to the proposed reduction. What the` amount of the reduction per cent. may be, we profess not to know, but if it be according to the increased value of money, and the decline of every other commodity, the saving to the country will be very considerable. In very truth, there ought long ago to have been some arrangement of the kind, for it is undeniable that money has increased in value 501 per cent. as was admitted by the late lamented Lord LIVERPOOL, and consequently our tithes have been increased in a similar proportion. The Church cannot have wished this—nor is it their fault, for it arose entirely out of the circumstances of a return from a paper to a metallic currency. While on the subject of the currency it may be proper to add, that our other taxes have in creased in the same proportion, and to these complicated misfortunes may be mainly, if not entirely, traced the dis tressed state of the country.—Sussex Advertiser. The letters from Paris by the French mails delivered yesterday, were read with an increased degree of inter est from the expectation that they might communi cate something of a decided character from Lisbon, 'that either discontents had broken out there, or some other occurrence, to justify the great rise in Portuguese Bonds, which, since this day week shine, has amounted to upwards of eight per cent. We find, however, although the dates by way of Paris are rather later than by the packet from the Tagus, that no satis factory clew is afforded, and that Don Miguel continued in quiet • of the Government up to the. 12th instant. e are w therefore, inclined to suppose that the high value given for Portuguese and other descriptions of Foreign Stock, is to be traced to the disinclination - of the public to make investments in the English Three per Cents. which have arrived at within about 5 per cent. of par, and give the preference to Foreign Securities, al though attended with much greater risk. Brazil Bonds, for instance, in which there has been no hesitation in the payment of the dividends, yields an annual interest of nearly double that arising from investments in the English 4 per Cents, while Russian, Prussian, and other North ern Securities, looked upon in a muchi more favourable light than Brazilian, produce a return of nearly 5 per cent. on money laid out in them. The opening of the Black Sea for the export of corn from Odessa has already had the good effect of reducing the cost of provisions in the Mediterranean. By putting , an end to the drain of such supplies from Sicily, the sur plus produce of that island is disposable for the markets of Italy and the South of France. WATZSPOAD ELICTION....at has been deemed proper to postpone the meeting intended to be convened at Dan gervan, until Tuesday, the 29th, There were several gentlemen absent from the county, who could not be pima . at the meeting convened for this day, and it was properly determined by the original reqnisitionists no con sult the convenience of all.-..-Dttbiin Morning Register. r