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PRICE OP 81-0-ChE AT Two 0 CLOCK. bo k Stock 215 14/ 3 per Cent. Red. 91/ 1 per Ct. Cnne. shut 7,1 pi r C't. 181 R, 991 :s4 per Ct. Red. 99 81 91 4 per Cent. shut 4 per Ct. 1826, 1041 Lone Ann. 191-16 Do. 30Years, ApLOct. 181 1)o. July. Jan. India Stock, India Bonds 78 Old Annuities 914 f XlOOO Bich. Bills 77 8 6 2500 Ditto 77 8 6 2100 and .1200 Do. 77 8 Commercial Advertised India for Acct. Cons. for Ace. 921 1 FOREIGN FUN' Brazil Ede, 5 pr Ct. 73 Do Account 173 1 3 Colour. Bde. 6 per Ct. Do. 8d5.1824, 33 Do. Ace, 23 21 (,reek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Do. B. 1825, 5 p Ct. Ditto Ace. 361 9 ;, TWO O'CLOCK. Mn.z Bds. 5 per Ct. Do. Bds. 1825, 6 p Ct. 371 Do. Acc. 37i Port. Bds. 5 per Ct. 63 Ditto Aect. 60 5911 I Sp. Bds. 5 per Ct. 171 111 Do. Acct. Do. 510 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO ()CLOCK, aMI mi. PAM Pit SHARP. Israzaltanlmp. (iss. £5 pm.) 35 20 75 73 72e Do. National 25 121 291 30 St. John DO Rey —7! eif Pluenis 50 57 44 Van Diemen 's Land Agric. 100 10 7 a• MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING. D. A. D. A. D. I Dublin ... 0 0 France . 0 0 Lisbon ....... 0 1 Waterford ..... 0 0 Flanders O Guern. & Jersey 0 0 Holland 0 0 Sweden 1 O Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburgh .. . 1 0 Malta . 0 O America........ 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Brazils THE EVENING STAR. 1 1714titat ' ••••.\ CiPT?' c_Vs. 4, • e ATI S LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16. "WINDSOR CASTLE, JUNE IC, 1830. The KING has passed another good night; and his M AJESTY continues to find his respiration less impeded. (Signed) 6, HENRY HALFORD. “ MATTHEW J. TIERNEY.” Despatches were this day received at the Colonial office, from Lieutenant-General Sir JAMES KEMPT, Go vernor of Upper Canada, dated the 3d of May ; and from Major-General Sir J. COLBORNE, Lieutenant-Governor 44 Upper Canada, dated the 18th of May. Private letters by the express from Paris, just re ceived, state that contrary winds had prevented the landing of the French expedition to Algiers. We sub join the proclamation of the Kirra, relative to the elections. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Frans Me Moniteur of Monday. PROCLAMATION OF TILE KING. " CHARLES, by the Grace of GOD, King of France and Navarre. " The late Chamber of the Deputies were informed of my intentions, and I had a right to depend on their succour to accomplish that good I intended ; but they refused me. As father of my people, and King, I was dis pleased, and pronounced the dissolution of the Chamber. " Frenchmen ! your prosperity and happiness are my glory. The elections are going to commence at all parts of my kingdom. Listen to the voice of your King, and maintain the Constitutional Charter, and the institutions on which it is founded, which I will preserve with my best efforts ; but to attain this object I must freely exer cise, and cause to be respected, the sacred rights which belong to my crown, and which are the guarantee of pub lic peace and your liberties. As the nature of the Go vernment will be altered, if the culpable attempts to evade my prerogative should succeed, I shall break my oath if 1 submit to it. Under this Government, France has become flourishing and free, and owes to it her credit and industry. France does not envy other States, and only aspires to the preservation of the advantages which she enjoys. Remain assured of your rights, which I unite with my own, and will pro tect them with equal solicitude. Do not let yourselves be deceived by seditious persons, enemies to your repose; and do not listen to false fears, which may excite serious diborders. " Electors'--Hasten to join your colleges ; let the same sentiments animate you, and rally under the same standard. " 'Tis your KING that demands it. 'Tis the call of your father, and fulfil your duties, and I shall fulfil mine. Given at the Ttiilleries. " CHARLES." A Brazil mail has arrived this morning, by the Swallow packet ; but the advices from Rio Janeiro are not of so recent a date as those brought on Monday by his MA JESTY'S ship Forte—the packet having sailed from Rio on the 21st of April. Private letters from Murcia to the 24th ultimo are received this day, by which it would appear that an English squadron had appeared off Carthagena, and had sent a frigate and a sloop to reconnoitre. The Chief of ' Marine had received orders from Madrid to have in readiness anchors and cables, as well as all other necessary stores, that might he needed by the Algerine expedition. The demand for grain in the province of Murcia, which, on the fitting out of the expedition bad been considerable, has ceased. Papers from Prince Edward's Island have been re ceived to the 10th ult. The Session of Legislature had closed, when his Excellency, the Lieutenant-Governor, gave his assent to twenty-two Bills. Among these wore Bill, for establishing schools, for erecting a Government House and other public buildings, and for increasing the revenue, by levying a duty on mulasses and sugar. In the Speech with which Governor READY closed the Ses sion, he says—" I have received, with great satisfaction, the continued proofs which you have given me of your attention to public business; and of your zealous con cern for the welfare and prosperity of the country. The harmony which has pervaded both branches of the Legis lature, and characterised this Session, demands also my warmest applause and approbation."—The Register gives a copy of the joint address of the Council and As sembly, upon the subject of opening the ports of the West Indies to the Americans. It is couched in very strong language. We have a file of Malta Gazettes this morning. Ac • cording to a census, taken by order of the Viceroy of , Sicily, that island contained in 1829, a population of 1,780,000 inhabitants, exclusive of 300,000 Ecclesias tics. There were in the island 1,117 Convents, con taining about 30,000 Monks, and 30,000 Nuns. The nobility of Sicily consists of 61 Dukes, 217 Princes, 217 Marquesses, 2,000 Barons, and 2,000 Gentlemen. — Palermo, the capital, contains 150,000 inhabitants, and 388 churches. The export of Sicilian produce yearly, is about five millions and a half of ducats ; and the im ports to about six millions and three-quarters. No instance can more strongly display the sure, and even rapid, progress which truth is making on almost every subject, connected with the interests of man in this country, than the progress of opinion on the subject of emigration. Within the memory of every person who indulges himself in speculating on the means of advanc ing social happiness, the generally received opinion was, that the population of a country was almost synonymous with its wealth ; and that the exertions of legislators should be always directed towards the object of in creasing the population of the country. In consequence of this opinion a kind of fortification of legisla tive enactments was, in the course of time, es tablished round the land—preventative, as far as was possible, of certain classes of individuals emigrating to another country. But the obstructions of statutes were found in this, as in every similar point, miserably feeble, when in opposition to the interests of the governed. There might, in the aggregating period of a new settle ment, be some apparent sense in an attempt to encourage popular aggregation, and to prevent retrogradation as to' that object; but even under such circumstances, legisla tive interference, unless directed to the general subject of promoting, in every way, the happiness of the society go verned, becomes a mere futile waste of time—and such legislation, which might be considered merely futile in a growing state, in one full grown, becomes soon actually injurious. We shall now view what has been the course of events on this subject. The success of the American Revolution, and fair field for adventure which that Continent offered—attracted early the attention of a few of that class, who first think of emigration—those who from some personal fault or adoption of peculiar opinions become discontented at home. The French Revolution soon increased the numbers, and emigration became in some degree a popular theme—but one by no means countenanced by the Government of the country. A state of things occurred in a distant district of the country, about the earliest year of the century, which brought the question a little more under discussion. The landed proprietors of the Highlands of Scotland had, about this time, found it their interest to throw their estates into the form of large sheep farms, and so occupy them on their own account, or let them to spe culators in that department of agriculture. The former black cattle employment of the land had been consistent with its more minute subdivision, and entertained a much larger mass of population. The consequence was, throwing thousands into a state of absolute destitution. The landlords, in short, found it their interest to have sheep instead of men—and the natural consequence was, the men began to desiderate, where they could find a country that men were more in consideration than sheep. The Earl of SELKIRK, it will be recollected, availed himself of the opportunity ; and, under his sanction, a large emigration to a particular district of America took place—to such an extent as to alarm the very landhold ers themselves, that nothing but sheep would soon be found upon thoir estates. Some of those whose charac teristic nationality, and warmth of heart towards the real interests of Scotland, saw with regret her valuable at people embarking with tears of true patriotism, for a distant shore, became alarmed at what was going on ; and joining with the alarmed but selfish land-holder, raised a popular clamour against the undertaking of those who were encouraging the emigration, Thus it was that the Earl of SELKIRK, about the year 1805, published his work on the subject, and in our opinion, a most tri- umphant piece of reasoning it was ; and so it was consi• dered, we believe, at the time, by the writers of the Edinburgh Review, and other able political economists. In so far, the advocates of emigration, under certain events, had the advantage of an experiment on, com paratively to what was afterwards to happen, a small scale. But the same state of affairs which was then partial to a particular district, became in a manner soon general to the country ; and the'reasoning upon the minor case became applicable to the major. The peculiar state of Great Britain, preinduced by the long war, and the more proximate effect of a long peace, has thrown the working population of this country ge nerally, into a situation which we consider almost analogous to the population of the Highlands at the period of their emigration ; and a society has been estab lished in this country, to act the part, on public princi ples, which the Earl of SELKIRK took, perhaps, from private motives, of relieving the existing poverty and dis tress by assisting emigration. Mr. Wit. mot. HORTON has been unceasing in his exertions to elucidate this subject, and we think he has been successful. In giving our opinion in favour of encouraging emigra tion in the present state of this country, we wish to be clearly understood. We decidedly think, that by the corrections of false Legislation, on several subjects inter fering with the free exertion of the human energies, par ticularly what are called the Corn Laws, and other laws protective of partial exclusive interests, emigration might be legitimately prevented ;—but we maintain a right in man unalienable, to decide upon his own location accord ing to his own choice. As things are, we think it be comes the interest of many to change that location; and we believe that it has likewise become the interest of those, whose choice it is to remain, to facilitate the gra tification of such of their unhappy neighbours who may make a different choice. Our attention has been incidentally directed to this subject, by noticing an advertisement in the Morning Papers, for a meeting of the National Colonization So ciety. It is a subject on which we could wish to indulge at greater length ; and on some future opportunity we promise our Readers to resume it—as our room will not allow us at present to do it that justice we think its im portance merits. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The daily improvement of his Majesty's health has the effect of keeping the market steady. Consols, which left off yesterday at 92g for the account, opened at the same price, since which they have been done at 9241; as yet little business is doing, as most of the speculators are still waiting to bear the result of the French expedition, which, according to the French offi cial dispatch, was still at Palma on the 2d June, waiting for a favourable wind to continue their operations. In the Foreign market, Greek, Brazil, and Portu guese stocks, have rather improved. We have no ar rivals as yet of consequence. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 14.—The demand for British plantation sugar this week has taken off about 1,000 hhds, consisting chiefly of grocery description ; the prices have, however, declined Is. per cwt. There has been a good demand for rum ; upwards of 400 puns. Demerara and Jamaica have been sold at full prices. We have also a good inquiry for coffee. Our cotton market, in the early part of the week, remained dull ; but sub sequently the demand has improved, and the present sales have fully realized our last quotations. There has been very little doing in pine timber during the week, the bounty demand having been very limited ; two or three cargoes lately arrived, have been disposed of. No sales to report of indigo. CITY, HALF.PAST ONE. Consols improved 92f. COURT INTELLIGENCE. Tate Kimi.—Sir Matthew Tierney left the Palace about nine o'clock yesterday morning for London, and returned about seven o'clock in the evening. Sir Henry Hal ford remained in attendance on the King. His Majesty enjoyed some sound sleep on Monday night, and passed the best night he has had since the commencement of his indisposition. The King appeared refreshed yesterday morning, and conversed cheerfully with those around him. At the King's Palace, St. James's, the bulletin was shown by E►rl Warwick, as Lord, and Sir William Houston, as Groom in Waiting. WINDSOR, Tuesday Evening. Yesterday evening the Marquis Wellesley called at the Castle, to inquire after the health of the Ring.—Mr. Brodie left the Castle this morning, at nine o'clock, and returned again this evening.—Sir Matthew Tierney and the Bishop of Chichester left this morning, and returned to the Castle to dinner.--Up to this time his Majesty continues getting better, and he has this day taken more nourish ment than he has for some time put.—The Princesses have not been to-day, neither were they expected.—His Majesty is anxious to get to the Royal Lodge ; but should he continue to improve in health, there is no probability of his being removed fora fortnight or three weeks. Prince Leopold arrived in town yesterday from his re sidence at Claremont. His Royal Highness paid a visit to Prince Frederick of Prussia, at the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, and Prince Frederick of Prussia, came to town yesterday from Kew. The Duchess visited Princess Esterhazy, at Chandos house ; the Princess is indisposed. Prince Frederick honoured Sir George Rose with his ! company to dinner in the evening, at his residence in Old Palace-yard. The new Russian Minister visited the Earl of Aber deen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Robert Peel, Sir George Murray, the Chancellor f the Exchequer, and the Judge Advocate, had interviews with the Duke of Wellington yesterday, at the Treasury. This evening the Right Hon. Sir G. MURRAY gives a grand dinner to the Cabinet Ministers, at his house in Belg,rave-square. The public are right in their conjectures that Prince Frederick William Louis of Prussia is a candidate for the crown of Greece, " resigned before 'twas wen," by an other Prince : but it is not so clear that success will crown his wishes, though the thing is not impossible.— His pretensions are advocated by France. The Opposi tion are not only sick of the ex-Sovereign of Greece, but of the whole Greek business : they are perplexed and fa tigued by the want of uniformity of opinion in their own body. The Portuguese quarrel seems to be almost wearing it self out by mere duration or continuance, and therefore the special mission of an Ambassador from Don Pedro to Europe, is of itself not ill-timed. The new diplomat is said to be the Marquis of Santo Amaro, and lie may be daily expected at Brest, whither he is b ound in the first . instance. The evil attending these repeated special mis sions is, that they protract a negotiation which might be more promptly settled at Rio. Whether by war or treaty, however, it is greatly to be desired that the disputes be tween Brazil and Portugal, or rather between the Em peror of Brazil and his brother, should be effectively terminated. A private letter from Oporto mentions the death of the Visconde de Varzea, the Governor of that city, and adds that his death was so sudden as to give rise to the sus picion that he was poisoned. This rumour, the letter states, was strengthened by the circumstance of its being known that the Viscount was no favourite of the ad herents of Don Miguel. Extract of a letter, dated Venice, June 4 :—" Mea sures are in progress to give every facility to the trade of this port. By advice' from Vienna, the Emperor has decreed that Venice shall be exempt from the consump tion or excise duty, towards payment of a certain sum which the city takes to itself ; and therefore trade will be free from every shackle, which in a small degree still exists." The measure brought forward on Tuesday night, in the House of Commons, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a modification of the duties on sugars, appears to meet with the decided disapproval of the great majority of persons connected with the West India trade. At the same time, scarcely two persona agree as to what the pro posed plan really is ; while a great number profess to be quite unable to understand it. From the various versions of it given in the Papers, the reporters were pretty much in the same predicament, for no two reports appear to agree. Under these circumstances, some persons have come to the not very improbable conclusion that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not himself know what , he meant. PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Alexr. Alexander, of Newtownlimavady, has pot chased a share of the Ponsonby estate in the county of Derry, for £48,500. There are 96 freeholders on this Mate. LORD DUNCANNON.—The Kilkenny Jotnnal pub hshes the following letter, received by Captain Bryan, the High Sheriff of that county, from Lord Duncan non :—Bessborough, June 3, 1830.—My dear Sir—A, I am still kept here by Lady Duncannon's continue! indisposition, and as I am unwilling any longer te delay the presentation of the county petition which was entrusted to me, I have taken the liberty of forward. ing it to my friend, Mr. Spring Rice, with a request that he will present it for me to the House of Commons. need not assure you, that it is a subject of great regret to me to be under the necessity of absenting myself from this and many other important subjects that have been under the consideration of Parliament during the present session. I remain, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours, DUNCANNes. TNUNDLR STORM.—Sunday, the 30th ult. a slime, of hail, accompanied with terrific peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning, fell out, about Auchintoul and Foggieloan, in the parish of Marnoch, more destructive In its nature than any thing of the kind remembered it the oldest inhabitant in that district. The morning and early part of the day was calm and sultry, and the cloud. lowring, and shifting with great rapidity, till about three o'clock, P.M. when the southern part of the hemispheie assumed a threatening aspect, and about four o'clock a slight rain commenced. A little after a most vivid flash of lightning, of the forked kind, was seen, and was almost instantly followed by a peal of thunder, which, for loudness and terrific grandeur, has had no parallel in that part of the country for many years. To the thunder in stantly succeeded a shower of hail, or rather ice, attended with a loud noise resembling that of a distant cataract.— The hail, or ice, bad the form of a double cone, very solid twards the apex, and were of the greatest diameter—the size, most unusual in this, or it is believed in any other country--the generality measuring from four to four and a half inches, and some of the largest above five inches in circumference. Such was their elasticity and velocity of descent, that they rebounded several feet from the ground where they fell. This shower did not last above ten or fif teen minutes, yet the ground was covered in many places fifteen inches deep ; and notwithstanding the warmth of the day, the hail remained upwards of thirty hours undis solved, retaining also the original shape. This dreadful shower was accompanied with many other flashes of dis tant thunder ; and the vivid glare of the fire, mingling in wild confusion with the hail, rendered the scene at once awful and appalling ! The extent of the damage occasioned to the district where the storm fell out, has not, as vet, been properly ascertained. At Auchin toul House alone, there have been upwards of two thou sand square feet of glass broken to atoms in the exten sive hot-houses, and many of the windows in the front and sides of the mansion-house were shattered from the rebounding of the hail ; and Mr. 'Morison's beautiful garden also has been greatly injured. The trees were stripped of their foliage and young branches, and the cabbage pierced through, like as if with grape shot, and all beaten down to the earth. By the destruc tion of the glass over the green-houses, the choice collec tion of valuable plants there have suffered greatly. In the village of Foggieloan every skylight was broken in pieces, and some tile-covering shattered at the same time. Alexander Chalmers, Esq. of Cluny, lost the handsome cupola of his new house, besides a range of glass in his green-houses. Many birds were killed in their nests, and the destruction of young trees in the neighbouring plantations is most extensive. At the very time the above destruction was going on, a tornado or whirl wind passed through the same district, and was at tended by a like rushing noise as that which accom panied the storm. This tornado was first observed near the Mill of Auchintoul, proceeding in a westerly direction, collecting and gathering up the pools of wa ter, and straw, hay, &c. as it passed along : and at a place called \Vhitemuir, it nearly unroofed the whole te nement of offices ; the thatch was torn from the roofs and carried to an immense height in the air, assuming as l it ascended a regular spiral form ; and was distinctly seen whirling in the air, at Banff and Portsoy, a dis tance of fifteen miles from the spot, and the gene rality of the mass, among which was a peat stack, was ultimatt.ly deposited about the Braes of Crombie and Ardmellie, a distance of several miles. The fall of the peat staca was distinctly seen by a lady from her carriage, and, Croin its very extraordinary appear ance, seemed at firA liee a numerous flock of crows at one of their extra gambols. Many extravagant accounts of this very remarkable stone are abroad ; and although all the particulars of damage &L have not yet reached us, the above, as far as they go, may be relied on, as they have been handed by a respectable and ;ntelligent eye-witness. and who has unfortunately been a sixere sufferer himself. IThe same evening, the lightning struck a hedge, about two miles from Banff, scattering the earth in every direction. Next day our correspondent visited the spot, and found that the electric fluid had struck the ground close to a beech tree growing in the hedge by the road side, where it had torn up a large quantity of earth, the greater part of which was thrown into a ditch on the opposite side of the zaad. a distance of upwards of forty feet. The lower parts of the tree were stript of the bark, and the wood perfectly carbonized. Several of the roots were cut off and carried away, and the parts remaining were split into a teausand fiibres. The hedge and Bras in the neighbourhood a t . peered scorched. A person in an adjacent house repre sented the peal of thunder as being awful in the extreme. and insisted that the house and ground around were vio lently shaken, as if by an earthquake.—A berdcen Journal. DROGIIEDA.—It is announced that a Gentleman with strong claims on the representation of the county of the town of Drogheda will offer himself to the independent interest on the first vacancy. Last night a conversation took place in the House of Commons as to the protracted state of what is termed " public business," namely, the orders of the day and the notices of motions—the petitions , a nd other miscel laneous matter having frequently, for many weeks past, occupied the honourable house till eight and nine o'clock , .. i to the exclusion of the said orders and notices, which Sr R. Peel styled " public business." He added, that, as the session was so far advanced, he would not move a re solution on the subject, but suggest that it should be an understanding for the remainder of the session, o that pub lic business should commence at h alf- p ast five clock, to the exclusion of petitions, &c. This proposition was loudly cheered. Mr. Brougham admitted the necessity Isoaft fifty h some regulation in eaocnh week, thesu subje c t, cit,looask, looked back, though thheeycohual could not see that much business had been done ; and observed that, after the petitions and the discussions were ex hausted, it was scarcely possible to keep the mental or physical body awake to cope with other matters. It wa s eventually determined that on, and after, Thursday nex t, p at re h se alfa t r on half-past fur e er petitions, o'clock, t ti he tio S n p s e , a a k n e d r cal sh l o o ul n d 2 n p t u e b rru lic p b t the nem" One member said they must meet at twelve o ' clock. I