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your Royal Throne, to renew our rows of loyalty and attachment. We thank you, under the KING of KINGS, Most , _ _ _ _ Gracious Sovereign, for uhe blessings which during your reign have smiled to this kingdom. From the expe , iience of the past we look forrivard to the future with unbounded confidence in your firmness and wisdom. • We trust that the ALMIGHTY, who has hitherto watched over our pure Reformed Religion, and our Olorioos Constitution, will continue his Divine protec tion, and it shall be our unceasing prayer to the same source of bount► and beneficence, that he will, with his &your, behold our King. We cannot conclude, without expressing our sincere conviction, that in the person of your Majesty, the sceptre has devolved on a Prince, who has determined to maintain unimpaired the Constitution in Church and St4te, as at present established, and to hold inviolate those principles which placed your Majesty's illustrious !louse on the throne of these realms. MR. STEPHENSON. THE BANKER. The most precise account yet received of Stephenson is contained in a letter received from' Sti,tol. dated Sunday, in which the writer says--. 4 Of course you - have heard that B.ephenson and his Conspanion passed . through this place on Tuesday; they embarked on beard a pilot boat, and madefor the Channel, evidently with the intention-of being taken up by some vessel outward bound. Severed-vessels are gone in pursuit of him since Friday, and as the wind has been eastward since his sailing, it is possible they May be in time to bring him back." This letter is written by an individual who holds the office of a Magistrate at Bristol, and the person to whom it .is addressed infers from its tone that those who ire more im• mediately interested in the pursuit and capture of Stephenson were apprised in due time of his • having passed through Bristol, and have been instru mental to the means eserted to bring him back. The chances pf his escape are much diminished by this.ac count ; but it is possible that, having failed in getting on board any vessel that would convey him to America, he may have relanded on some part of the coast, and be still concealed in England. The Bristol statement is at all events reco mileable with the general belief that existed on Saturday, and is still not altogether relin quished, that Stephenson is lurking somewhere in or near London. The excitement, however, which has been produced by this very extraordinary case, is be ginning to diminish in the city, and would soon cea e, - as regards the monied interest, were Stephenson either taken, or the certainty of his escape established. The imerest'excited by the conduct of this person, in creases every day. The search after him is pro.ecuted with t• e most unwearied activity and zeal. Never was . there felt a• more general or ardent wish for the appre hension and punishaser.t of a criminal than prevails amongst the communi , y. The Government have united shit the Bankers' Committee most heartily in the • pursuit; every means that occurred to the ingenious rnhids of the police has been adopted, and Mr. Peel has declared • that if a 'Let were necessary upon the occasion, a fleet should not be withheld. Mr. Gates, of whose exertions, mental and physical, too much cairn , t be said, was on Saturday, Sunday, and yes terday, frequently in communica ion with the Home Secretary and the Lords of t e Admiralty ; and it has been ascertained, opon examination of the great variety of intelligence received by Government that the object of their anxiety has not left the kingdom, The Cambrian had been well searched before she left tsmouth. It happened that a solicitor Was ordered on theFriday-prt ceding the disappearance of Stephenson to go to Portsmouth after a bankrupt, who had com mitted a fraud to the amount of betwt en 4 . W01. and 5.0001. The first thing he did was to search the Cam b. f.in, which he did mist act upulomiy; with the hearty cnncutrerice of the Captain and crew. He afterwards met the object of his visit to Portsmouth walking on the P er, and conveyed Min to 'London. The prisoner was committed to Nessate in the course of yesterday. The solicitor knew Stephenson well, and" must have seen him if he had.been on board. The telegraph has been constantly at work. The most effectual measures have been adopted for preventing the escape of Stephenson from the kingdom, and it is believed that he has but very little money in his possession. Some, who knew what his habits of expense were, do not think that he is master of mote than 504.—a mere trifle to a man irr his desperate circumstances, with the band of every man raised against him. 1 has been said by several commercial men, that _ _ S:ephensori, if he be apprehended. will in all probability escape at the Old Bailey. This belief. no doubt. mists from the ignorance cf the particulars I £ the care upon which the Lbid Mayor granted the warrant on Wed resday. The fact is. that a more clear case under the Act of the 7th and Bth of Gen. IV. cap. 29. sec. 49 that upon which the indictments will be framed in the desi ed event of his caption—was never made out. Many have asked, who c.sts say that Rowland Stephen- son had not an in'ere•t in those securities upon tallith he ol,tair.PJ the 31.0001.? The answer to this gm stion is a•ntained in the folio% ism statement and evidence: The assign , es of Coleman and Co. the bankers of Leominster, thought plo t er, immediately upon the Isnot/ uptc yof that boas-, to send the assets t tke house of lterninytim and C . Mi. Stephenson teceived the am , ant. we think het w ern 4,0(x0/. and 5,0001. with directit , ns to clia.e Litchever Bills, which were to be kept in sale custod) lor the benefit of the coeditors to tie estate. Steps enson did pu'chase Exchequer Bi.l, as directed, and transmitted to Mr. Davis, one of the as.ignee.i, the broker's note, specifying the num bees, &c. I'..ose Exchequer form part of the bundle of securities upon which Stephenson coStAineo the 31 0001. at William's banking house. Mr. Donne, who was the broker whom Stephenson employed iuthis transaction, was out of town when the first appicatioii was made for the walrus!, and without his testimony it must be manifest to all who knqw any thing of the rules of evidence ) it could not be said with ceetAii ti that Stephenson embezzled the property. Ikon the arrival of the broker, the case was made complce ; and 'live is no more chance of escape.for him tot ;be in genui y of the.bar, against such a straight f .twdrd and unembarrassed accumulation of facts, than there was of the much less criminal Hunt , a. Sir It. Bailie has received numerous comitultications • from anonymous sources, as well as from persons who do not think it necessary to conceal their names. In • such a case it mast be expected that people will 01116! themselves by giving a wrong scent ; but the i Stews reject no information. They quietly enter premises, and, without offence, do not dOtt until they have made the most minute search. If ttrey cm put chase the pos session of the hotly of the deliosplat, it is impossible that he can escape. So vigorous and prompt were the measures taken by Mr. Gate% that before the fiattint which has been so much and sl unnecessarily talked about was issued, several of the officers who had been instructed to ap prebend Stephenson if be aptreared at the outposts re• turned to London, and were engaged in searlhing the' , environs. Should' the object of the Comeiittie of Rankers—indeed we may say rather the object of tbe• Government and the communityz be accomplished, the public cannot be many hours in ignorance of the event, as the telegraphs are daily at Mo,k, and a communica tion can be made from Portsmouth to the Admiralty in two hoors and a half. The gre.test compassion is felt for Mr. Remington, who is in his 82J )ear, and has been always known to be one of the most assiduous and honourable mend.— Those who used to keep accounts at this onfortonite house declare, that from nine in the morning until the time of closing, the venerable man was never missed from his desk. The following particulars, which may be considered the latest and most authentic respecting the flight of Stephenson and bis associates, transpired last night in the course of a conversation which occurred between Sir IL. Birnie and some gentlemen who happened to be present. It appears now as a certain fact that Stephen. son left town on Saturday morning in his own carnage, upon the panels of which his crest and initials were painted; and notwith-tanding that on his first intima tion a flight directions were sent to the several turn pikes in tie neighbourhood of the metropolis to detain any carriage actwering the description, or to state if any such had passed in the course of the morn • ing, the toll takers, either through inattention or some other more culpable motive, were all equally silent with respect to the above circumstance, which was not ascertained until yesterday. The two gray horses belonging to Stephenson wete sent back Satur day afternoon, and post-horses employed in lieu of them., There is now no doubt who ever but that Ste phenson, Lloyd, his ties k, and the coachman, proceeded direct to Bristol, and having left the carriage it an inn in that town, took a boat, and went over to the Isle of Lundy, where they bribed some boatmen, and for (it is supposed) a considerable suns of money hired a skiff, in which they have been cruising ever since between the Isle of Lundy and B.deford, in the expectation of meeting with sonic vessel bound to America, or some past of the woad at a di,tance from Europe. In 'e l ly to the questions put by the parties who ascer tained the above particulars, a most minute and circumstantial description was given of the fugitive-, so that no doubt remains of the truth of this statement The person and manners of the principal delinquent a ere .iescribed, and Lloyd, the desk, was stated to have worn spectacles, which he naa always in the habit of using. The parties, it was said, were laden with specie, and, in their dealings with the boatmen, money appeared to be not of the slightest object. The Society of Bankers and the police have been charged with inertness, in not pur suing the parties with greater promptitude. That asser non, however, may be judged from this circumstance— that although the discos ery of Stephenson's flight was not known to a certainty until about two o'clock on Saturday week, messengers were instantly dispatched in coaches and four t o the several out-ports in the king dom, and Inflate ten o'clock next morning the whole t f the coast was in a suite of alarm. The Government vessels, as well as the men on the blockade duty, having received orders to intercept any vessel that might at empt to leave the coast, and detain her until duly examined. The Board of Admiralty, in the most praiseworthy m as soon as the eight of Stephe son was made known to them, immediately sent orders to the Dockyard at Falmouth to equip two fast sailing vessels, for the purpose of pursuing and inteicept ing any ship in which it should be ascertained that the delinquent had embarked. (heifers had also been sent to Plymouth, Poittmou h, and other seaport towns, in order that swift vessels should be ready to put to sea at a moment's notice. The police, too, have been snore than usually active; and long before the Lord Maya r signed the warrant for Stephenson's apprehension, offi cer s from the city and from Bow-street were dispatched to intercept and capture him, if possible. As soon as Sir Richard Birnie ascertained that Stephenson and his companions were cruising in the Channel in an open boat, be dispatched Ellis and Lidbiter in Met ent directions to the coast, and Bishop was di.patched with orders to take another route. It has be-n sati-factorili ascertained that no vessel has passed down the Bristol Channel by which the fugitives could have availed themselves, so that they have ptobely run into a neighbr wing port to wait fur the expected chance, or are still cruising ab ut the Channel in expectation of a vs ssel. In either of these cases their capture is now beyond a doubt, as the whOle line of coast from Bristol to Falmouth was an are a f the course a f the fugitive, tut and thirty hours ago. Sir R. Birnie observed last night, that if Stephenson and his associates were at sea in an open I oat on the night of Sunday, it was more than probable that he principal delinquent had given his creditors a receipt in full. In answer to a question, the Chiet Magistrate replied, that in the event of Ste phenson's appieheastioe, of which there is now bat little doubt, he will be conveyed forthwith to Bow-street. Many persons who were aware of the adroitness with which he managed matters sip to the period of his ffght, are surptised at the want of t ict which he exhibited in leaving town in his own enrage, bearing his vest and cipher. The fact, ton, oaf his not having been prepared with a vessel to convey him away at an hours notice, and his depending up n chance to obtain one, argues a great want of foietbnsight, and appears to he the result of that bland fatuity by which men of the most vigorous and daring minds toren allow their actions to be governed. THE EVENING! STAR. LW DON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 6, 1899 OLD CHRISTMAS DAY.-110LIDAT AT TIES BANE. FORUM N VU NUS. TWO O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bala. S pet. 63 21 Do Acct. 531 Lka Acct. 631 11 21 Rum 1id5.1822. S p Ct. 9S amisit 14.1%. 3 pl't. 631 3 Do. Acc. 94 4i sireak 13.1..1825. 5 pCt. 15 Fr.ltentes.Spe. lO7f Jae PortagAltla.Spls. Exchange 25f 30c BILITI3H AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. stiAal PAID. 20 271 65 111 131 *Jailing Coionsblaa In the Sr** of yesterday we gave a statement of the produce the Revenue for the Quarter which ended that . d. 47. which was as correct as could then be .ascer. tained. We now present, in somber column, the official Returns, and it gives us much pleasure to find that the Revenue irf seen more flourishing than we represented it. The iactease upon the quarter just ended is 686 2211. and upon the )ear no less a sum than 1 660.6471. In tie whole of the branches there has been a considerable ircre..se, with the excess. tion of those of the Miscellaneous and the Customs. The former, from' its constantly fluctuating name, i requires no remark; and the apparent , deficiency . . - - in thf latter is perfectly teconcileable from the factl that the sum received on Corn last "year .cacankad, lthe amount received.this. year by 620,(04. and that • transfer' of Tea Duties of 270,0001. was made froth the Customs to the Excise. These two beads of Receipts being added, will infinitely more than connterbalance the apparent deficiency under the head of Customs, whilst a material increase will still be left in the department of the Excise. Thus has tl e statement cf theCuANCILLOR of the EfttrEQUalt been more than realized ; and in every respect di• we feel perfectly warranted in offering our most cordial congratulations to the Public upon t' .e highly prosperous state r f the Count. y. We understand that the Roman Catholics in Ireland presume to say in their private cor cleges, as sell as in the frantic revels of their public orgies, that they will not permit the Government to dictate, not the I..egi,lature prescribe, what moderate men term a wholesome Eman cipation Bill. The forty shilling freelvildets mu t not be disfranchised—the Clergy must not be regally pen sioned. Whether Emancipation k to sully the vccortls of the laws of England, and the memory of Lord SotuEns and his associate Peers to receive additional glory firm ithe contracting clouds that lower upon the policy c.f . present Legislators, we presume not to inquire. But in ail events, we join the universal voice of Protestant England in demanding the annihilation of the lorty shilling freeholders. The ezercise of their peri.icicu, power is detrimental to Jae Church 4 England—to kbe Protestants of the Eospire..o the interest: of the S we —to every grade of slickly, from tl.e hurnble4 me. chanic and the rudest peasant to the noblest Peer. While their influence is continued, Ir.! .nd will be under the governntect of a democracy, and f f the worst kind, a democracy of Papist , whose MA KATO and COUTEAUS are Priests envenomed against note?. tantism, and thirsting for power. From tl e way i which the system has worked, we may read the history of its tame operations. As ambiti -n sill continue to have sway upon the minds of men, the aristocracy ill Leland will still seek either f ei themzelves, r r then se lations, tl.e honour of bring Members of Par liament.-;- Hitherto a ° residence in the country, the reputation or kindness as a lindiord, of justice as a Magistrate, and of benevolence as a man. were the pi incipal !eateries of character urged on the attention of the electors at the hustings. But now the election is in the hands e f the Pr'ests.— If the swinish herd, more sunk in harb.irism than the insane devotee that places his neck under the ss heels of the juggernaut car, feel one sting of conscience in op posing his kind and parental landl-rd, I ell, with all its terrors, is denounced as the fell judgment of the is.. ceased Priest upon his sr ul. Even miracles, that St. FRANCIS XAVIER confessed he could not pet form for the idolaters of Japan. ate wrought with wondrous facility for the idolaters of Ireland. This infernal prostitution of the divine cMce, has assumed even the virtue of a zeal for liberty, in the contemplation of the aristocratic Lord, or the rich Plebeian—they turn the mischief that the Priest woks to the fur therance of their own object. And, let the truth be known—the contagion has suread and is spread ing, and the rabic and respectability ..1 Ireland, are falling down one af:ei the other under the Priest's feet. When these men, who have sought power through such base means, have secured it, the Pant being the bestower of it, becomes naturally the distri butor of place and pensi , n. him the middling ranks look up. He, a Popish Priest, besotted with ignorance, vulgarity, and an ungovernable bate to every thing Protestant, is the pattern of his surround ing neighbourhood. His complying clients, im;tating the servility of the Priest-made senators, fill in with the cry of demolition to the Protestant Church, and the slanderous and poisonous anathemas against the es. piession of Protestant sentiments. To hint a 14.ve or admiration of what the lessons of infancy had invited, bangs down the thunderbolt of Primly vengeance The Squire colours in the free if t'.e Priest should over• take him talking with a Brunswicker. To desire the ascendancy of Protestantism is to be a bir t. To vene rate the Church c f England, is to loathe the person of Roman Catholics. To praise a sermon preached by a Protestant, is to be a saint. To be zealous in the cause of GOD, is to be an Orangeman; and to love the Bible is to hate the Priest. This ablative power of the Priest, which removes from society all the ancient land-marks that preserved it, is a contradiction to that binding organization of tanks which our laws, and the distinction of King, Lords, and Commons were intended to preserve. For ni , w, att authority and jurisdiction in Ireland can be traced to the Priest's sway. If he dislike a landbrd. his tenants hate him. If he disapprove of a Magistt 4te, the pat ish: condemn him. If a Protestant Minister is not a Liberal he is an exile amid thousand , for they almost refuse to salute him. Virtue has no honours, unless the tongue . utter Popery ; religion nu sanctity, unless there is an eternal silence about idolatry. A heart is not honest, unless it throbs to the pulsations of thr Priest ; nor the mind any endowments, unless its cultivation be frittered away in speeches at Liberal Clubs,orahe orgies of a de secrated Sabbath day. Gracious Heaven ! is this state of society to be permitted by Protestant England ? Is this frightful democracy to rear its bydra•head in a nation of freemen and of cavaliers? Ate the laws of the land_ ate the grand capital features of the Constitution—are the pledges of the Union, all dead letters, mete empty sounds ? Is the Protestant Church to be preserved in Ireland, or is that ill•fated land to be made a mad house f it Dittoes from Salamanca, or insane boots from Maynootb ? We ihall take an early opportuu,ty of ,hos► ins that the payment of the Priests, under any modification of it that has ever been proposed, is futil and cannot be . productive of the least advantage. V r. VI • le Palos Papers a Sunday led leifyigy iv ,. „ a ceived lag night. Their con nts ate not of a - tam., unless in one pat ticular, in the dispatch tert i ati from General MAISON, commanding the Pinch trees in the Morea, where, alter stating . that the army i lk an improved state of health, announces that KIN Cuiets of Western Greece have commenced o fr euitt • operat i o ns against the Ottoman tate. This retry activity of the Greeks, if followed by the success Mid i - may be erpected horn the diminished power of thor . great belligerent: ;et .the East. mo d e le r :M tn Moldavia represent the Toth as opponents, cannot fail to e:.:barrassthenuestion °fp" - between I 'operating on the Russian line in Bulgaria, but n o iri . ticulars are given. _ We received this morning Dutch and Hamby* Papers to a Late date. It appears by an extract from* Pruu:an Gan:::1:, of the 2e:th ult. that the Twi t have tmdc:takt a a winter campaign, aud made mi n , tempt to recapture Patna, in which, after some h o d 47.,;hting. they have failed to succeed. No par:kali f , -are given ; but it appears both a:mies have sul'a t 4 con,iderable toss. The brave SERA:J(IER, who cna , man.led tie Tu. Its, is reported to be severely smatuled, Ts e following are extra( ts HAMBURGII, Dec. :,;,. The Prossion Sate t:atret:e oryesterday contains the followiugs Several letters from the Turkish frontiers contain the intetllgettte that the Turks have failed In an attempt upon Varna. The km is said to have been cowiderahle to both armies, aad the Streik*, vsboeotrotanded tire Turks, is said to be seserely vroisodet Letters from Odessa of ICsh December say, ttat Omer Vtione li.visig made r movement from Sebum!' uptm Baurditk, General Ruth advanced against him from Varna.—Haoss. Iteperstr i Decjo. ST. PETERAURGIL • Den. 10. yesterday the. Saint's day .►f his Majesty the .7:.sipsow was kr% with the usual so!cmnity. Te Deems was performed hi ei t h e Churches of the capital, and the city was Illuminated. —avow 4 AV kr110w.24, !At 20. Ul be St. li.rershsciA Jatirmil from the ifitb to the 10th d D o 4 haae tio news whatever from the army.) itorrEnDA 51, Jar. 2. The number of ships that have arrived in the Muse during* year I ttA was 2,C113. Among theta wete-3Z-1 from Lonsleumg from liars' is h,161 from Null, and 29 from Newcastle. &like., 2,07 • The arrivals at Amsterdam wets 2,t32, and at Antwtrp 935. HAGUR., JAN. I. The First Chamber of the Stakes General adopted, loy a majority of 34 to 2, tie project of Lter foe a Ilan of 15 tni hoes of 1401 for the East InJia Culun vs —Dutch Papers, Ji s. 5. ODESSA, Dan. u. Lieutenart General Corm Von Witt arrived hire yrt'erday from Jassy. Ott Journal to day contains no news from the army be. tides the t bn...tin relative to the retrograde movement of the way from St-bomb. L)rc. 24.—Metalliques, 95 11-16; Bank Shares, hoot —Algemenie Zeitawg. Ike 30. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HANBURCII. 11cc. 30.-13 I —Two mooths,l3 I)ic. 17. Three months. 6 20. Hamm, Dec. 27.—Tlarer molt`,, 6 20i. FaaatrunT, Dec. 29 —Two month., 147:. Anwrasnan . Jan. 2.-11 94 5-10—Two months, 11 U. Bt. P sun, Dcc. 16..—Tlwee months, 10 21-32. A Brazil Mail arrived this morning, bringing Rio Parrs to the 25th Nov. The following are extracts: RID DE JANEIRO. Ills Britannic Majesty's packet the GoManch. Captain Jobs Wilkie, sailed from Falmouth the 513 d Sept. On the follonieg day, twenty leagues East of Falmouth, met and spoke the Imrrarris frigate, from Gibraltar to Falmouth, with the young Quite of Portugal on board. Captain Wilkie states, that be saluted ►er Majesty with 21 guns, and informed the Marquis de Babson& that' orders were given in all the ports of England to receivy her Majesty as a crowned head. with all the honours due to her rank. The Marquis presented the young Queen to the Captein, that he •might inform the Emperor that her Majesty was in perfect kakis, and to present to him•her affectionate respects. When it was known at Lisboa that the Queen had arrived at Gibraltar, and that in consequence of the disastrous state of Portugal her Minty would go to En:land, Don Miguel immediately ordered all the ships at war to put to sea, to intercept her, but she happily escaped the designs of the Usurper.—Diaria Fhsaitseitae. Net. B. The Dian . to 25th Nov. contains so awn. RECEIVED ET THE TRENCH NAIL THIS N'R?IN6• Fiom the frontiers of Poland they write, . ( the 16th December, that since the return of +he Grand Duke Commie= to Warsaw, the greatest activity is displayed in all the departments of the Administration. The Polish army is to he augmented, m well as that of the Russian army, and they are to follow the system ad General BARCLAY as TOLLY. The Reserve will also be put into activity, as the army of Asia does not require reinforcements. At the Cannon Foundry they are going on with activity, also said of Moscow, which contains live hundred pieces. From Valachi of the 17th. December they state, that by MI merci.ll letters accounts have been received of a dasposis agar meat near Basattljilt, between the Treks and nimble% but odd without any result. The Russians maintained dm& Oil" after which the Ottomans retired on &Mnia, each party Ibtaltilii themselves. The Turks are occupied in provisioning di* limilist places, and provisions were !Midi,* dear. • LIT Y. TwaLvt o'CLocc. Up to the present hour we have no information in regard to Mr. Svarnrosom the Banker. Consols opened this morning at s7j, at which price they are at present, iikernately buyers awl sellers. CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK: The Consol market, which was Boling up In the early pan of the morning, in consequence of the Quarter's Revenue ►elag f.viorable, has. within this hour, declined from 87i to 17i I. By the letters from Rio de Janeiro this morning, the &change there on London has gone down to 214 : said to be owing to the Emperor of the BRAZILS remitting large sums of money fur his daughtsr, the young Qualm, as well as some supplies for the Pet• tureen refugees. This is a prong of his hostile intentioop against Dion Minos& The total number of bankrupts last year was 1,009, being a less number than in any year since 1824. Dispatches were yesterday received at the Foreiga Mee, from Lord STUMM se .ROTNIAT. at Paris. Lard MARYBOROUGH'S Physician has taken his leave, and his Lordship is recovering rapidly front his late indisposition. The friends of Sir JOHN MALCOLI4 will be happy to hear, that he was in perfect health at Abissedouggar on the 3d of August last, which is the very day that it watt repotted he was taken dangerously ill in church at Poona's, which latter plan upwards of 100 miles from the former. Major General Bounica, C.D. (late Lieutenant Gover nor of the eastern district of the Cape of Good Hope) has artived in town, and had an interview on Saturday with Sir Grottos MURRAY, at the Colonial 0110, Downing-strest. M NCH UTZ R. JAN. S.—STATIC Or TRADIte—WO have no tematk to make under this head this'week, bet that the same dulness continues in every department of _the cotton trade as we have recently had occult* to notice; and which. to a cettain extent, it aiwrlll perienced at this season of the year. .... tc . . si Ii a