Star. — London, England, 1830-06-15 00:00:00

'^ PRICE OF rrOCRE I ~.k Sloe1:2141 14 3 r i r Cent. Rid. 911 1 per rt. Cnns. shut . 6 1 per Ct. 18111, 99: 31 per Ct. Red. Ng 4 per Cent. Ant 1 per Ct. 1826, 1 (me Ann. 191-16 19 110.1()Yean,Ap1.00.1111 13.16 Do. July. Jan. FOREIGN FUND, Brazil BJs. 5 pr Ct. 711 2 * Do Account • 72 Cobra. Eds. 6 pet Ct. D. WI,. 1624, 1t I mg , ,rr.-k Bonds, p Ct.:4 . . Do.B. 11125 , 5 p Ct. 36i 61 Onto Aer. 37 6/ SEITIsIi AND FOREIGN St! ttEs, TWO 0 CLOCK. 411,41i1 TAM PHA SHARI. 150 150 soo (iss. £5 pm.) 35 20 75 74 7S Rest ski Monte 400 400 Ditto Subscript. Thirds Carted Nies, (iss. at £1 MAILS ARRIV, ,) 40 11.1 1 'ED AND DUE TH D. F 2 ranee . 0 A. Flanders I 0 Holland 0 Hamburgh Leeward Islands 0 IS MORNING. A. D. O LI sb on 0 O Jamaica 0 O Sweden 0 1 Malta . 0 O Brazih I Dub1in......... 0 I Waterford..... 0 t) Guern. & Jersey 0 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 .... 1 THE EVENING STAR. "•,:. ‘atilseli, • ; • c • pj 4 6 1. ~ , A,4 , 74et v p urr , ,„ 1 6 tyl ai iir s i Au • • AT TWO O'CIA)CK. India Stock, India Bonds 78 Old Annuities 911 £lOOO Each. Bills 77 8 6 £5OO Ditto 77 • 6 £lOO and £2OO Do. 77 8 6 Commercial Advertised India for Acct. Cons. for Acc. 92j TWO O'CLOCK. Mex. Bds. S per Ct. Do. Bds. 189.5, 6 p Ct. Z6l 71 Do. Acc. 37 6/ Port. lids. 5 per Ct. 56 Sp. Bds. S per I t. 17) 1 Fr. R. S p Ct. 1031. 50c. Exchange, 251. 60c. GENERAL LITERATURE. LONOGN. TUESDAY, JUNE 15. " WINDSOR CASTLE, JUNE 13, 1830. " The Kixsa has passed a very good night. His M JESTY 's respiration continues easy, and ho feels better. (Signed) 6, HENRY HALFORD. " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY." Despatches dated the 29th of April were this day re ceived at the Colonial Office from Lieutenant Colonel LUMLEY, Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone ; from Mr. WARRINGTON, our Consul at Tripoli, dated the 20th March; from General Sir GEORGE Dow, Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar, dated the 18th of May; and from Mr. DotroLAs, our Consul at Morocco, dated the 21st of May. There arc also despatches from Malta of a very recent date. _ Just as we were going to press, we have learned that information has been receieved that the differences, which had so long existed in China, between the Hong Merchants and the British, had been amicably adjusted. By the same conveyance which brought this news, a sum of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds—on private account—has been received. Consols, at half past two o'clock, were 928 for the Account. There is a very singular report given in a private let ter, received by the Mail yesterday from Rio Janeiro. Although stated with the utmost confidence, we must premise that we do not believe one word of it :—" The Emperor PEDRO has just received, by a Portuguese brig of war from Lisbon, his share of inheritance from the late QUEEN, to the amount of two hundred thousand pounds, LeAides diamonds of great value ; and now, as the old Qt. Ll:s is out of the way, it is generally believed, that the affairs of Portugal will be arranged to the entire sa tisfaction of both parties; and that Don MIGUEL will, after all, not only be recognised, but permitted to marry Donna MA ILIA. This—adds the writer—we learn from the very first authority ; and it is now certain that all ap prehension of hostilities, between the two countries, are entirely removed." We have a file of Trinidad papers to the 2d of May. The rain hail fallen in torrents ; and, from the premature commencement of the wet season, all hope of further cultivating sugar had been given over. This visitation had done very great injury. The Grenada Free Press to the sth of May has reached us. From St. Lucia accounts of the most serious character have been received ; but as no freedom of the press is allowed in that Colony, they are so vague and unconnected, that a just opinion cannot be formed of the actual state of affairs there. The first President JZILI• MI E is represented as, on all occasions, interfering to inflame the slave against his master ; and strong fears exist of their breaking out in violent resistance. Open encouragement is also held out by him, for the desertion of slaves from the neighbouring French Colonies ; which, notwithstanding the endeavours of Colonel FA RQUIIAIL-. sow, the Acting Governor, to prevent, it is said daily takes place. _ The Hamburgh Reporter, just received, states that a rise has taken place in the price of wheat, on account of limited supplies from the interior. This, taken together with the apprehensions now existing of a deficiency in this country, is a very serious piece of intelligence.— At Hamburgh, the funds were flagging, and becoming heavy, owing—it was believed—to His MAJESTY'. illness. The motion to be brought before Parliament this night, by Lord MILTON, on the Corn Laws, and which will at least slim the inutility of those Laws and inadequacy to effect the objects for which they were said to be intended, in all probability will occasion a most interesting discus sion. We give the substance of the motion in another part of our paper; and, as we conceive this subject the most important, without exception, which can occupy the attention of the Public, we shall endeavour to explain to our readers our reason for so thinking, and our general views upon it. Never, at any period of our history, were the com mercial concerns of the country in so humiliating a situa tion. • Since the period of the panic, as it was called, which some politicans seemed to say, with affected sa tisfaction, was like a tornado or hurricane to clear the air, introductory of a long season of sunshine and pros perity, hardly any adventure in commerce has taken place, but to occasion certain loss to the adventurer. All species of commercial property has been gradually on the decline. Colonial produce, of all kinds, has, during the whole interval, not paid even the cultivation. The ma nufacturers, deprived of the merchants as their customers, became themselves the shippers of a stock, which their starving workmen compelled them to accumulate; and their own farther ruin has been the consequence. Ships have gone and returned from all parts of the globe so fre quently without obtaining freight, that they are now crowding our docks, with the broom at the mast head, to be purchased at one half their former value. A voyage to Swan River, to expatriate a starving population, or a tender from Government to convey convicts to Botany Bay, occasion now as much squabbling among com petitor ship-owners, as occurs among a smaller class of navigators for a fare at Billingsgate. All this is open to the daily observation of man, woman, and child, east of Temple-bar, and to every commercial community in the kingdom ; and yet we arc occasionally told, ex cathedra, of an increasing foreign commerce, and the quarterly returns of revenue are triumphantly quoted in support of the fact. A member of Parliament, whose integrity and sound useful sense, does not in our opinion, receive that attention that they deserve, (we allude to Mr. WAITIIMAN) has ventured a little to doubt the au thority of Custom-house returns. But if the question for inquiry were, how much the commercial interests of the country had solidly benefitted by the amount of expor tation, the Custom-house returns would bo found, with out any 'doubt, very deceptive criteria. It is a me lancholy fact, that the commerce of Great Britain has, for many years, been gradually becoming more a mat ter of adventure, and what is technically called specu lation, than that certain advantageous interchange be tween nations of their several productions, which for merly'was almost exclusively understood by the word trade. Those who now live in the world of commerce, know well that no foreign trade now remains—and that even the period of speculation has almost gone by ; no one can be found now to export to a foreign market, that is not in duced to it by some collateral object ; and when the em ployment of a ship, or the employment of a commander, or the inexperience and rashness of a pennyless adven turer, stimulate those who have a little cash or credit to make the attempt, nothing ensues but disappointment, and an increase of disgraceful confusion—for we cannot call it business—at the Bankrupt Court. The stocks high—land low—large unemployed collections of ca pital—and an emigrating population, are the phe nomena of the present day, and those which be tokeneth the ruined health of a commercial state. One cause of this deplorable state of affairs, among many, is, undoubtedly, the heavy taxation, which pre vents the productions of our ingenuity coming into fair competition with the improving similar productions of other now comparatively unburthened countries. It cer tainly was, therefore, expected that Government would make, as a remedy, sonic more adequate attempt to re duce the burthens of the people, and expenditure of the country, than what they have hitherto brought forward. But when physicians are called in, particularly in com plicated diseases, more, perhaps, is expected of them than can be accomplished ; and we must admit, that what they have done, if not enough, has been judicious. We are not inclined to think with Mr. Hunt, that any reduction in the army or navy would have been proper; but with many of the other suggestions of that Gentleman, we should most certainly concur ; —and we have little doubt, that so would the leading Members of the Administration— but could they have ventured on such sweeping retrench ment, and still held that influence essential to the preser vation of power ? The maintenance of authority in this country depends on machinery too complicated not to render that which is right, at variance sometimes with that which is practically expedient ; and re flection will inform us, that in the conduct of all Governments much must in liberality be excused, and accounted for from this cause. The removal of those legal restrictions which, pre vented, between this country and foreign countries, a re ciprocity of trade, or what has been termed freedom of commerce—has been, however sound in principle, rather unsatisfactory in its results ; in our opinion because it has been only partially carried into execution. A free trade, and corn, the most important article of trade—that by which all other commodities are appreciated, left under restrictions is a solicism in language—an absurdity in policy ; and here again we have to regret the sacrifice made to timid ex pediency ; but here we hesitate not to state that the ex pediency, as far as it regards securing the influence of government, is mistaken. Real commercial prudence— that prudence which was the necessary political principle of the great COLBERT, would really have accomplish ed more for the merchant, manufacturer, and agricul turist, and ultimately more for the popularity of adminis tration, than all that result from a reduced national expenditure, or reduced taxation. We are sorry our time will not allow us to pursue the subject further to-day—but we shall renew it at another opportunity. COL CMOS RIE, of Ballyheigue Castle, will offer him self as a candidate for the representation of the county of Kerry, at the next General Election. The Longford Journal says, that the contest at the ensuing election will be between Lord &macs and Mr. ANTHONY LEFROE. Sir G. FETIIERSTON, it adds, is quite out of the break. Capt. SMITH, of the 32d, the principal in the late fatal duel with Mr. O'GRADY, has resigned his com. mission. The Government having abandoned the new Forgery Bill, it will be introduced into the Lords by the Marquis of Lansdowne, but its success is considered doubtful. In case of its not passing, the Judges, as well as the Home Department, will be placed in a delicate situation, as the administrators of the existing law, after the ouse of Commons have declared it unfit to be continued in force. INTELLIGENCE IN SCIENCE, ARTS, AND We wish it to be understood by our readers, that we only promise them in this department of our Paper, no tices of such new works in Science, Arta, and General Literature, as may come under ourown observation, which, as far as other indispensable duties will admit, we shall endeavour to make include most of the prominent novel ties of the day. It is not intended to lumber our columns with mere eulogistic notices, which would convey no information to the minds of our readers, except what might be derived from what is often the counterpart of such reviews, the booksellers' advertisements. We shall trouble our readers with the mention of no work from, which we cannot either extract in matter or spirit, or which does not suggest to ourselves something for his instruction or amusement. We last night, or more correctly this morning, for it occupied us till past the " witching hour," perused the second number of the" Family Magazine," which, at the good old-fashioned price of eightpence, has afforded the public six honest closely-printed octavo sheets of original, tasteful, and instructive matter, besides a portrait of his Majesty, and two illustrative wood cuts. This portrait and accompanying Memoir, which commences the number, we must confess, and perhaps it will surprise the publishers, rather prejudiced us against the number. The King's Head is too common a sign—and so familiar to every body that owns a new shilling, that we were' almost suspicious we should find the letter-press equally trite and common-place—but we fortunately pursued our researches a little farther, and the result was, as we shall explain—two or three hours most agreeable entertain ment. We shall now let our readers in for a small share of our good fortune. The second article in the number, entitled " Scenes of the War in Spain, by a French Officer," is a truly picturesque production, and conveys a dreadfully vivid idea of the horrors of the Guerilla warfare. As a spe cimen of this article, we shall extract, with some little abridgment, a portion of the narrative, which might well employ the pencil of even WILKIE. The narrator entered a house in one of the desolated towns, which he thus describes : " From bottom to top there was not an article of furniture : the French had bivouacked in the best apartment, as was evident from the inscriptions scribbled with charcoal upon the walls, and a figure of the Virgin Mary, with a pair of black mustachioes and a pipe in her mouth. I entered a roan on the ground-floor—no doubt the kitchen, because it had a fire-place, the distinguishing mark of every Spanish kitchen--and great was my surprise to find there two old men, and a boy, of about twelve years, seated by the tire. At the clatter made by my sabre dragging along the flag stones, the boy crossed himself at if he had seen the foul Send, and slipped behind a great leathern arm-chair, beneath a Madonna. One of the men looked proudly at mc ; he neither rose nor moved his hat. " Officer,' " said he " my name is Antonio Nunez. This is my brother, late alcalde of the town. He is so old and so ill, that he could not leave the place with our townspeople : I have staid with hint to take care of him, and this boy waits on us both.' " Just then, adds the writer, a noise called me into the street. It was the arrival of an aid-de-camp of the French general, Milhaud, attired in the monastic habit of a Capuchin. He ordered an old quarter-master, by name Rapatier, to remain with twenty-five men for the service of the expresses, and all the remainder, with myself, to proceed with him to Palencia, where he said they were wanted. We arrived too late for the battle, but on the way had some severe skirmishing with the Spanish Guerilla parties. " They are," says our nar rator, " fine troops, and I expected a severe contest ; but, at the first onset, the black-bearded fellows betook themselves to their heels, and commended their souls to Go n." " A eircuinstance, however, occurred to reconcile me with the Spaniards. A young drummer, who could not run so fast as the rest, feeling the points of our sabres, stood still, begged for quar. ter, waving his shako, and crying: Viva Napoleon ! At this moment an officer of the regiment of Cordua-1 see him still— who was already on the other side of the wall, on horseback and out of danger, galloped back to the field of battle, thnut his sword into the breast of the drummer, saying Muera el trador ! (Die traitor!) and fell himself pierced with a hundred wounds. " Such are these people : it is often the case that a whole regi. went is not worth so much as one man and that one man is worth more than a whole regiment. We had soon occasion to learn what energy of mind, and what contempt of death, a Spaniard who is quite independent can display." The next article to which we shall call the attention of our readers, is of a different character from that which we have just noticed, and has merit of quite a different description. It is entitled, "On the Planets and their Inhabitants"—a title which seemed to promise no great novelty ; for, used as we are to hear of despatches, cou riers, and estafettes, we certainly do not hear of their often arriving from the Planets, and we really suspected the despatch which we were about to open must convey what is termed by synecdoche old news, if it could be termed news at all. The first authentic accounts from that quarter were favoured us by the celebrated Christian Huygins, and the last by Hershall—for as to the communications of the Baron Munchausen, they are, we believe, considered a little incorrect. We were seriously, then most agreeably, surprised to obtain from this Paper more curious intelligence from the planets, and about their inhabitants, than we thought it was in any astronomer's power to afford. A more neat abridgment of what is known on the planets we never perused, and a well-preserved chain of analogical reasoning runs through the whole, which does credit to the philosophy of the author. He takes his readers on a kind of tour through the several planets of our system, and endeavours, from the known astronomical facts and different constitutions of the planets, to discover the condition of their inhabitants, and the modification to which life is there subject. In so far, he may be said to follow the steps of Huygins and others who have conjectured on planetary concerns ; but in one of his views he is, we think, quite original, and boldly ingenious. It is the conjecture that there are increase of perfections in what are called the superior planets. Several rather important, and, to us original philosophical conjectures, on the different atmospheric phenomena of the planets, occur in this paper, to which we are sorry we cannot, for want of room, do justice. His reasoning renders it probable that Jupiter, Saturn, and the Georgium Sidus, or Uranus, are perhaps the most comfortable departments of our system—and, at the con clusion, the author indulges himself in some conjec tures of a more abstract nature, but which we cannot now touch, on what he calls a " Planetary Metempsychosis ;" but we must close our remarks. There are several sketches and tales in the number of great merit, and the poetry is of that character which truly deserves the title. We can state, on very go od authority, that the worthy and independent Member or this County, Charles Dun das, Faq. has no intention whatever of resigning his seat. We have authority for stating that Mr. Puzey will not offer himself u a representative for this county.—Read jug Mercury. A silver tea spoon being placed by Dr. Roger, of Chel tenham, on the tongue of one of the Siamese twins, end a disk of zinc on the tongue of the other, the moment the two metals were brought into contact, both the boys ex claimed, '• sour, sour ;" thus proving the galvanic influ ence paned from one to the other by the connecting fluid. 1 CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at the same price diet left off yesterday-92Ri for the account, with little doin . 4 at present. Reduced is 91i. Accounts received from Paris state, that a pen wit near the throne, touched at the menacing differences which agitates the country, had submitted to the Kite a true picture of the critical state of affairs, which ni a such an impression on the royal mind, as to induc e promise of the adoption of a more conciliatory system This report had the effect of improving the Fienel, Funds. On Thursday last an extraordinary courier arrived to the Spanish Ambassador's, at Paris, from Madrid, and proceeded immediately for London : same day a Spani s h courier arrived on his way from London to Madrid. MA yam, MAY 24.—The English Ambassador employing his utmost influence, to induce the Kin:.., the delivery of the Queen, to permit to return to native land all the Spaniards who have been forced t., emigrate. There i 3 a singular report in the Quotidienno, that • Captain residing near Toulon had received accoin.t3, , pigeon, in the following terns:—" Bay of Algicis. J;;:.; 1, Three o'Clock in the Morning.—We are landing ; t;,. weather is fine." A Malta Mail has arrived, brought by the Os!, , ma sailed on the 26th April; from Gibraltar, 25th May ; Cadiz, 27th May. A letter frolo Port-au-Prince states that a comm., sioner is going to France, to try to settle the differences IMPORTANT, r•ttOM Rio JANElRO.—Extract of a letter received by the mail arrived yesterday : " Tw•o persons, both great favourites of the F.►nperei . are going to England by the frigate. They have ',co') long opposed to the Ultra-Bra'ilian party, who have st last taken the lead in his Majesty's council , and thi Ministry are fast getting rid of Portuguese influence, which has too long prevailed. CITY, 11ALF-I'AST ONE. The Consol market has remained steady during tit: whole of the morning, with little or no fluctuation, al 92R for the Account. We still continue A‘ ithout any official information in regard to the French expedition to Algiers, which, no doubt, is owing to the winds being contrary. In the Foreign Market it is settling day, and the only business doing is settling their Accounts to the present time. We do not hear of any defaulters.--Greek Bonds are rather lower. COURT INTELLIGRNCE. Tit E KrN c . —His Majesty was better during Sunday tham he has been for some time past. With assistanet the King has walked from his apartment into an adjoin ing. room. The bulletin yesterday was shown to the no bility and gentry at the King's Palace, St. James's, by the Earl of Warwick, as Lord, and Sir William Houston. as Groom in Waiting. WINDSOR, Monday Evening, 5 o'Clocek. I know nothing of importance respecting the King this evening, excepting that his Majesty continues better.—The only arrivals to. day are the Duke of Gordon and herd Clinton, who canto to makL their personal inquiries respecting the health of the King, and re. mined but a short time at the Casrle.—Mr. Brodie returned la+• night, and left this morning at nine, for Londor. Prince Lectrold dined with the Duke and Duchess of Clarence on Sunday, at their residence in Bushy Park Prince Frederick of Prussia and some members of tht. Royal Family were of the party. A deputation of noblemen and gentlemen, headed by the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Rose!wry, Lord Wharncliffe, Mr. W. Dundas. M.P. and Mr. Littlehorn, M.P. attendad at the Treasury yesterday, by appoint ment, to have a conference with the Duke of Wellington. The deputation were received by the Duke of WeMhz ton, Sic Robert Peel, and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. The interview lasted upwards aan hour. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir George Murray visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury. The Princess Sophia of Gloucester, a few days sine . paid a visit to Lady Webster at Battle Abbey. Het Royal Highness remained with her Ladyship for better than an hour, and expressed herself highly delighted with the magnificence of the Abbey. The Countess of Arran entertained a select party fashionables yesterday evening, at her house in Dover street. Sir Richard and Lady Phillips had grand dinner Far ties, on Saturday and Sunday, at their house in Pordand• place. Mr. and Mrs. Orbv Hunter entertained, on Sunday. Lord and Lady Tankerville, Mr. and Mrs. NVornbwell, Lord Palmerston, Lord Foley, Mr. Doneombe, &c.— Yesterday, Mr. and Lady Sarah Baylv, Sir Thomas and Lady Farquhar, N 1 r. and Mrs. 'Womimell, Lord Deer burst, the Earl of Stradbroke, Lord Rattelagh, Mr. Lush ington, Mr. Grcvlle, &c. MA RRI AG EtN Hlc. ti Ll FE.—Thursday evening, by special license, at the house of Sir James Graham, Bart Grosvenor-place, by the Rev. John Vane, Lord Seymour. eldest son of his Grace the Duke of Somerset, to Jan. Georgiana, youngest daughter of the late Thomas She ridan, Esq. The Duke and Duchess of Gordon, Marquis of Valle tort, Countess of Dartmouth. the Ladies and the Hon Capt. Curzon, Sir George Smart, Mr. Braham, Miss Stephens, and Dr. Carnaby, have been among the recerr. visitors of Michel Boai, the musical wonder. The freight of bullion by his Majesty's ship Forte. which amounts to 1,500,000 dollars, is all on private account, and has been chiefly collected at the ports on ti Pacific, from St. Blas down to Valparaiso. There has been, consequently, a delay of several months in its con • veyance to England, in itself a heavy tax, independently 'of the Government charge, which amounts to 7,5001. or. the freight of this single vessel. There is little doubt, should the return of either of the present worthy Members for the borough and hundreds of Aylesbury be opposed, it will, in all probability, lead to a serious agitation of the county of Buckingham, as many independent freeholders feel disposed to bring for , ward another candidate of liberal principles for the rept, sentation of that county. In reference to a statement that three-fourth of the cases of hydrophobia mentioned are fictitious, some Mem ber of Parliament should move for a return of the number of deaths occasioned by that most dreadful of all diseases within the last two years. APPROACHING ELECTIONS.—G. R. Dawson, Esq has again announced his intention of offering himself as a candidate for the County Deny. It seems that Captain Jones, R.N. a son of the Rev. Mr. Jones, Rector of limey, has commenced a canvas for the representation of the county of Derry, on the Be resford interest. It is confidently reported in Tralee that the Hon. Mr. Browne has given up his intention of standing for Kerry. In that event a candidate of independent principles and fortune will start. The person alluded to is John O'Connell, of Grua, Esq. brother of the Member fa: Clue.