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gees to England and Portugal. Pending the obscurities of negotiation, the brave Patriots under La Vallejo are performing prodigies of valour and patriotism, and are masters of the country, shutting up the Brazilians in Montevideo. It has been said for several dayeihrt General Le Cor is about to make a great clinic by a vigorous sortie, but his force in cavalry is not equal to that of the Patriots ; and, as you well know, infantry avails but little in the warfare of this country. The Brazilian flcet is still riding at anchor in our outer roaes.-1 hope that our Government will soon send out . a sloop of war and a schooner to this river to expound international ' law to these Gentlemen." SPAIN, FROM THE QUOTIDIENNE. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. _ " MADRID, JANUARY & _ _ _ • " The Consultative Junta has ceased its function& M. Castanos, the President, has communicated to each of the Members his Majesty's determination on this subject. It is the Council of State which is to propose and determine en the different affairs, which will be afterwards distributed according to the internal regu lation of the Council, and which will soon be completed. The Council of State v ill consequently receive an augmentation, so that it may form a number of sections sufficient for all the classes of political bpsiness. Thus it may be supposed that there will be as many sections, at least, as Ministerial departments, It seems that the form of the Ancient Council of State in France has been adopted. • " The Duke de Mon:enar, President of the Council of the Indies, died the day before yesterday, at a very advanced age. He has been Member of the Regency, of which the Duke De l'lnfantada was President. It has caused some surprise that neither M. de Montenar nor Don Antonio Calderon, who was also a Member of the same Regency, have been called to the Council of State. We soon hope to see mong the Members of the Council of State, who are yet to be appointed, some of these good Royalists, whose services and opinions are so dear to all Spaniards. It is besides an indemnity t hich is due to them tor the persecution they have lately endured. " Accounts received from Cadiz inform us of the arrival of the expedition from Corunna at Puerto Rico, the 18th November ; 1500 me• were landed in that island. A vessel, which had just arrived at Gibraltar, and had left the Havannah at the end of the same month, brought the news of the arrival of the lest of the expedif.liton at Cuba. • • The Gazette of to-day publishes an Ordonnance of his Majesty, decreeing, that from the lit of January, 1826, all the tribunals may sit on haif holidays, which have hitherto always been vacation days, which was a great hindrance to business. This ordonnance likewise decrees, that the C.runcil of Castile shall present, as soon as possible, a new regulation to accelerate the pro gins of law suits. " M. de Corpas is still at Burgos, where he has re ceived no order since the first, which commanded him to remain there till further orders from his Majesty.— He waits with the confidence and resignation which are given by a good conscience, and the conviction that he has never dore anything but for the good of the Mo narchy, and the King." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. 194. STOCK EXCHANGR, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This is settling day at the Stock Exchange in Consols. Up to the present time, we only hear of one failure In the House, and that of no great consequence. Consols opened at $l4, got up to 614 j for the Account ; up to the present time they are 614 4 for the Account, and for next Fe bruary Account 614 4. Little is doing except in settling Accounts. In the Foreign Market nothing is doing. Current Prices: Old Spanish 134, Mexican 644 4, Colombian New 574 511, Russian 644, Brazilian Bonds 654 66, Greek Benda 14 13. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 214 213 3 per Cent. Red. 81 1 / 8 80% 3 per Cent. Cons. 80% 80 3i per Cent. 88 1 ,4 89 88 1 /i 4 per Cent. Assented 88% % A 4 per Cent. New es div. 961 1 / 2 1 ,e 2 Long Ann. 20 1 /i India Stock•es div. 237 238 -India Bonds 6 8 7 1.1,00 Excheq. Bills 4 1 2 dis. £5OO ditto 2 dis. par. 4.100 and L2OO ditto 1 prem. Cons. for February 80 1 4 % 79 7 / 8 FOItKION FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Austrian lids 5p Cs Alex. Scrip, Brazilian Bond., Neapolitan Bond , _ Ditto Acct._ Peru+. lids, 6 p C. I /v.Scr ip,sp C. 1825, Purnos Ares Bonds Bonds, 6 p Cr. Colombian Ibis, G p C. Do. Bd. 1821, 581 571 Po. Ace. 581 71 1 * I I Danish. Bonds, Du. Marks De.likls, 3 pC. 1825, Ditto Acct. Greek Bonds D. Bds, 1825. Ditto Acct. Ditto Scrip, 1825,4 p C. Portuguese Bonds PfIISS. 13.14. c p C. Do. Booth, 1822, Iturs.l3tli t t 822, i p C. 821 Ditto Acct. 821 Span. 5 p Ct. C. Ditto for Ace. Ditto 510, Span. sp. Ct. C. 1823, French Renter, S p C. Ditto Acct. Exchange, Mex. Bonds 5 p. Ct. French Ileum. 3 p C. 66175 c Ditto Acct. S p C. Exchange, 251 15c Do. 1ic1a,11125, 5 p C. 65 641 Guatemala Bonds, Do. Acct. 641 51 41 5 4/ Ditto Scrip bitinsu AND FOREIGN SHARES, Two O'CLOCK. SRA AL MAW. 100 5 61 10 50 3 16 100 5 2k 40 20 40 10 17 18 100 10 4 Brazillan Bolivar Paws Peruvian United Mexican Ditto New Nex.cau Company If the principles of Legitimacy which are now so much in fashion be limited to hereditary succession, in the order of primogeniture, it is certain that there is no country in Europe in which that rule h ►s been so little observed as in Russia, even in modern times. Tae law of succession seems to have depended on the will of the reigning Emperor, influenced very mach by the ordinary course of descent, but greatly modified by the possession of power on the part of the intended suc cessor. During the short period in which the pre,ent ragouts family hate held possession of the throne, th 4 iiMMii*Aokotomi exceptions to the rule of primogeniture have ees so numerous in practice, that' there may be great reason to doubt whether the rule itself holds any very great ascendancy, on 'the minds of the Magnates of • the Empire, who are alone the depositories of the very lit tle political power which exists in Russia, independent of that which may be delegated by the person actually exercising the sovereignty. Nay, the reigning Dynasty themselves are totally unconnected, by the ties of blood, with the ancient Czars of Muscovy, as will appear by the following brief abstract. Ivara BamowiTzthe Great, who died in 1584, mar ried ANASTATIA, daughter of GEORGE RObIANOFF, a Noble of high rank. To him succeeded his son FEODOR, the last sovereign of the race of Ruatc, the descendants of whom had reigned for 700 years. After FEODOR'S death, in 1597; a succession of U.urpers appeared, and disappeared, until at length, in 1615, the Noblei con ferred the Sovereignty on MICHAEL ROMANOFP, grand son of the brother of the above ANASTATIA, who died in 1645, and from whom the present Imperial Family are descended. He was succeeded by his son ALEXIUS, who died in 1676, having been twice married. By his first wife he had ) besides several daughters, his eldest son FRC/DOR, who succeeded to the throne, and reigned six years, and a second son, Iva% By his second wife he had a son, who afterwards became renowned as PETER the Great. But, on the death of Feonon, being deemed incapable, was, after the Empire had for some time been governed by their sister, SOPHIA, in the joint names of himself and Pam, finally de posed, and PATER assumed the sole sway in 1689, and was the first who held the title of Emperor and Auto crat. IVAN deceased in 1696, leaving three daughters, the eldest of whom was CATHERINE, Duchess of Meck lenburg, who died in 1733, having had a daughter, ANNE, Duchess of Brunswick, who died in 1744, and by her a grandson, IVAN, who afterwards became Em peror, but was deposed in 1740. The second daughter of Ivex was ANNE, Duchess of Courland, who died in 1740, having subsequently become Empress ; and the third daughter was PRESCOVIA, who died in 1731. PETER the GREAT, by his first Empress, ATTOICESA, whop► he married in 1692, and who died in 1737, had a son, ALextua, who died in 1718, leaving a sou, after wards PETER IL and a daughter, NATALIA, who died in 1728. Having separated from his first Empress, and married CATHERINE AutlowNA, the widow of a Swe dish Officer, he had by her two daughters, ANN and ELIZABETH, besides five other children, who all died in youth. ANN married the Duke of HOLSTEIN GOTTORP, and died in 1728, having had a son, afterwards PETER the THIRD, who married the famous CATHRRINR, Prin cess of Anhaltzerbest, afterwards EMPRESS, and grand mother of the present Imperial Family. ELIZABETH was unmarried, but became Emrazaa, and died in 1762. PETER the GREAT died in 1725, but, notwithstand- ing the claims of his elder brother's three daughters, and the claims of the son and daughter of his only son, Auratru—notwithstaading also the claims of his own two daughters, ANN and ELIZABETH, he..bequeathed the Thre De to his second Empress, CATHERINE, who quietly succeeded, and reigned to the great satisfaction of the nation;Though only for two years. She was suc ceeded, however, in 1727, not by her own children, but by PETER the Second, son of Armius, who died in 1730 ; and then, by the voice of the Senate and Nobles, the succession passed for a time altogether from the family of PETER the GREAT to that of his brother 'Yam, but not to the eldest sister, CATHERINE, Duchess of Mecklenburgh, but to her younger sister ANN, Duchess of Courland, who was proclaimed EMPRESS, and died in 1740, as before stated. By her will she appointed as her successor, not her niece, ANN, Duchess of Brunswick, daughter of her elder sister just men tioned, but the son of that niece, IvAN IV. this young Prince, and his father and mother were, however, im mediately sent into exile, by another faction of the Nobles, who were desirous that the succession should revert back to the daughters of PETER the GREAT by his s i'e CATHERINE. IvAN was deposed, and shut up in the Castle of Schlusselberg, where he was mur dered, in 1764, not without suspicion of the connivance of the great CATHERINE, then E►teasris. On reverting to the line of PETER the GREAT, it is remarkable that the Nobles again passed by the son of the eldest daughter, ANN, Duchess of Holstein Gottorp, in favour of the younger daughter ELIZABETH, who was proclaimed Empiess in 1741, and died . in 1762. She had, however, settled the succession on that Prince in 1712, on his first embracing the Greek faith ; and he was soon after married to the ambitious CATHERINE of Anhalt, as befote stated. This remarkable woman, within six months after his succession, hurled him from the throne, which she herself ascended, in 1762, on the murder of her unfortunate husband, without any pre tence of right whatsoever, other than her power to make good her daring attempt. At her death, in 1796, her only son, the Emperor PAUL, succeeded. Having met the same fate as his unhappy father, he was suc ceeded, in 1801, by ALEXANDER, his eldest son, whose next brother, CONSTANTINE, has now renounced the sucl cession in favour of his younger brother NICHOLAS. The Irish Catholic Association commenced its four. teen days' Session on Monday last, in the Catholic Rooms, Burgh-quay, Dublin. As usual, there was a good deal of speaking, and sum• little sparring among the Members, though it did not, we confess, betray anything like a " fiend-I;ke spirit," which Mr. SHIEL acknowledges to have arisen among them. The meeting on Monday was nit very numerously attended, except the galleries, which were filled by the- Ladies, who, no doubt, wished to let how far the It is'. Lords of the creation surpass their own sex in loqua - Tllji city, when Cathdlic Emancipation is the subject of de• bate. The chair was takett by Lord GORMANSTON, who •ery properly begged . the member's would not fritter away their time in useless discussion. Mr. CHARLES EITZSIMON being appointed Secretary, he read a letter from Mr. O'GORMAN, the Secretary to the Old Association, urging the getting up of petitions to Par liament immediately, and deprecating an idea suggested by Mr. MiDosmsm., that of trying the Catholic ques tion first in the House of Lords. Lord KILLEEN read some regulations, and moved the appointment of a Comrnittee,which Mr.O'Cotmect. seconded in a speech, in which he declared, that if Mr. PEEL's Jury Bill was extended to Ireland, be " would not hesitate in putting himself forward as the object of a prosecution, for the re-assembling of the ori ginal Catholic Association, in name, substance, and reality." So much for Mr. O'CoNNELL's obeJience to the law. A Committee of nine being appointed, Mr. O'Coromr, again addressed the Meeting in a speech, in which he began with abusing the Duke of YORK ; he then cast a glance at the probability of England being embroiled in war, when, of course, she must yield the Catholic claims. The new Autocrat of RUSSIA next came in for a notice: si Who knew," said Mr. O'C. " whether the self-made Emperor Nicholas and his ruffian guards of legitimacy—those sapient lawgivers, who have more than once decided questions of consti tutional rights and theoretic principles, may consider it his interest to preserve the existing state of continental affairs." The fact is, that Mr. O'Cow NELL, who ex pressed a savage joy at the recent embarrassments in the commercial world, does not care what calamity fall upon this country, if his views are only promoted by it. After such vituperation, it is rather amusing to find the orator recommending temperate discussion. Mr. O'Cotorm,L. concluded by proposing several Re solutions, one of which was against his own project for disfranchising the forty shilling freeholders. He was followed by Mr. SNIEL, who gave notice of a motion, thanking Dr. KELLY, the Catholic Bishop of Waterford, for commencing the numbering of the people in his diocese. Mr. LA LESS next rose, and entered into a review of Mr. O'CONNELL'S bargaining with the Government and the ATTORNEY•GENERAL, " degrading to the poor Catholics of Ireland." Mr. LAWLESS said, " he depre cated any traffic of their rights with any Government or any Attorney• General," and stated that " he meant to propose what be conceived to be a stronger resolution than that introduced by Mr. O'CoNNELL, in order to put upon record a fair image of the public mind, on the subject of the Wings, which had been the cause of so much discussion." Sir JOHN &MEE nest addressed the meeting ; he denied that the failure of the Catholic Bill last Session was entirely owing to the Duke of YORK, and observed, that, " instead of saying that the British nation was averse to the claims of the Catholics, they had a tight to assume that they were in their favour, having the British House of Commons on their side, which must be considered as the virtual representation of the Eng lish people." A little altercation ensued between Mr. O'CoNotra., Mr. LAWLESS, and Mr. O'REtt.ty, about the Wings, as the Bills for disfranchising the Irish freeholders and paying the Catholic Clergy are called. Mr. O'Coxust4. then proceeded to read his resolution on the Wings, when Mr. LAWLESS begged the resolution he meant to propose to the meeting should be read; Mr. O'CONNELL assented, and read the resolution, which was as follows : " Resolved, That having maturely considered the alteration in the Elective Franchise contemplated by the measure connected with the late Catholic Emancipation Bill, this Meeting is of opinion that such a change would be a violation of the most valued principles of the Constitution; an unjust surrender of the rights of our Protestant and Dissenting Brethren, and would tend to deprive the Catholics of Ireland of that political power which they have so advantageously exercised for the last tbirtyrtwo years ; and the peasantry of Ireland of that protection which the exercise of the elective franchise invaria►ly afforded them." Mr. O'CorniaLL, who did not, could not, like a reso lution so fatal to his own measures to pass, sneered at the past which adverted to the Dissenters, observing that " he had no objection to a little hypocrisy ;" he afterwards said the resolution had but one fault, and that was, that nine-tenths of it was not true. After a few more speeches had been made, and Mr. LUKE PLUNKETT had declared, that " the more faults Mr. O'CONNELL had, the fonder he got of him ;" and after Mr. LAWLESS had declared his determination to press his resolution, when he perceival a more crowded meeting, the subject dropped—thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated; and thus ended the first day's proceedings of the fourteen sittings of the New Catholic Association. By the arrival of tl7ll7,TCze tar, at Cowes, which left Calcutta on the 17th S:ptember, accounts have been received to that date ; the cholera morbus is said to pre vail in an alarming degree at that place, particularly among the natives. One letter states the bazars have been dint up. Money was scarce ; and the intelligence from the seat of war was unfavourable. We have received German papers to the 13th inst. Oae of them contains an article from Hanover, on the flourishing condition of that kingdom. It appears one old German vice prevails still, that of drunkenness. It is not confined to a few individuals, "but there are entire villages, Which ruin themselves by drinking and feast ing." It is related of a German Ambassador, that when asked by GEonce H. if drinking then prevailed as much in Germany as formerly ? he replied " only in the Eccle siastical States," it, however, seems not to be confined to these now. The following are ettracts: 'HANOVER, Dgcsmaga 30. In the country he Ise Isle ar.2 busy with the election or the new assembly o, ►h: States, which is to meet `on the 23d of next month. The King, on dissolving the late Assembly, expressed his satisfaction to the members for their patriotic exeiti•,ns in promoting his designs for the good of his subjects, and especially in improving the mode of distributing the b•ltslens which - the obli gations and the wants of the kingdom render nece nary; in ensuring the gradual reduction of the public debt; in encouraging the sciences and pulsiic instruc tion ; in promoting agriculture and commerce; and in alleviating the distress which has visited a great part of his beloved subjects. in consequence . of the dreadful inundations. His Majesty is convinced that the next Diet will duly exert itself in promoting the permanent welfare of all the inhabitants of the king. • dom. The new Diet will have a great deal of very important business to perform, even without includine the regulations for mortgage, which, from the distress of the landowners, has its peculiar difficulties for the moment. The long discussions on the new ?eneral land tax, and the question relative to the former exemption, from land tax, await their final decision. Besides this , a new criminal code is expected, the plan of which has been printed at Gottingen, with remarks by Counsellcr Bauer. Penal legislation, unfortunately, cannot cure the most frequent transgression in this country, namely, drunkenness, for the new penalties w ill not be more severe than the old ones ; but the evil is so great, aat it seems to require the employment of all practicable remedies, and deserves to become a subject of special consideration. There are entire villages which ruin themselves by drinking and feasting. There is plenty of money in circulation, and gold has unexpectedly fallen in price, though it is so scarce in Ragland. But as so many English houses have become insolvent, the Hamburgh Bankers, will take care how they remit gold to England, without having security in their hands. Barley is here equal in price to rye, and hai on the whole risen, other species of grain continue invariably at a low price. The farmers, indeed, suffer by this, yet, in the villages and fields, we see no signs of decay, but improvement. The country towns present a still more pleasing picture, where, from the combined effects of cheap provisions and an active intercourse with the sea, which is near at hand, and flee, comfort, neatness, and even elegance in furniture and dress are increasing. Here, at Hanover, we find all this on a much larger scale. A great many new buildings are . erected of stone, and in the most eleg nt style; George-street would be an or. nament to any metropolis. The luxury of dress, pet haps, approaches too nearly that of a great capital, without the wealth to support it. His Royal Highal,s, the Duke of Cambridge sets no example of such extra vagance, but of beneficence; his greatest expense is in ample weekly support of the poor. This is said by everybody. The education of his children is carried on under his own eye, w ith very strict attention to the choice of the persons about them, and wit , lout any in judicious restrictions of expense. The Duke is univel. sally beloved and esteemed. The Court establishment - is economical: on the other hand, the Government enc.ni rages public works, and a monument - for the vict,4 yof Waterloo is now in hand. BOW-STREET-THIS DAY. EXAMINATION OF MR. TURNBULL This Gentleman, whose case is reported in the last page. was again brought up in custody, and examined, charged by Ann Net tiefold with forging a cheque for £lO. Capt. Small was this day brought forward, and swore positively, that he, Mr.Turnbull,was at his own lodgings at eleven o'clock on the night in question. This was as strongly sworn not to be the fact, and the result was, that the accused was ordered to find bail, him self in £BO, and two sureties in £4O each. The Lotto CHANCELLOR, we are happy to state, is so far recovered, that be has fixed Saturday next for the resumption of business in the Court of Chancery. Yesterday, the dispatches for Bengal and China, by the ship Thames, Captain Was. llavisme, were closed at the East India Houle, and delivered to the Purser of that ship. Yesterday morning, the Earl of LIVERPOOL. came to town from Cumbe Wood, and transacted business at his house in Whitehall till past four o'clock, when the Noble Earl left Loudon in his chariot and four, ors his return to Combo Wood. Yesterday, Mr. CROMER transacted business at the Foreign Mee. Sir JOHN BERESFORD transacted business at the Trea sury yesterday. A file broke out last evening, at seven o'clock, at Percy House Academy, Coal Harbour-lane, Camber ' well, kept by the Rev. Dr. TROWES. It was occasioned by the servant going up to one of her boxes in the attic with a lighted candle, and incautiously setting some thing on fire. No water could be had, but fortunately , the fire burnt so deliberately downwards, that the family, assisted by the neighbours, were not only ena bled to save the whole of the furniture, excedt what was in the attics, but they even had time to take out the vt indows, and some of the doors, and the portico. The house was ultimately burnt down. Salt butter, which not long since in Cork was at the price of 104 s. the hundred weight, is now 88s. An Inquest was held on the body of James D ckitt son, the son of Captain Dickinson, of Homerton, at the Three Anglers, Lea Bridge. By the evidence it ap peared, that the deceased was on Sunday skating on the Ittver Lea, when, from the rapidity at which I.e was going, and nut perceiving a hole, owing to near sightedness, which was immediately before him, he fell in and was drowned. Three brothers named Moore, ran immediately to give their assistance, but they, together with a brother of his own, were all plecipi tated into the water. By the exertion of some barge men, however, they were got out, and all, with the exception of the deceased, by the usual means, testored to their families.—Verdict, Accidentally prowl ed. When ROUSSRAU was in England, Mr. G ARRICK paid him the compliment of playing two character, Oil put- , pose to oblige him ; they were Lusignan and Lord Cholkstone ; and as it was known that Rousseau was to be present, the Theatre was of course crowded to excess. ROUSSEAU was highly gratified, but Mrs. GAR RICK told me th•tt she had never passed a mote uncorn• fortable evening in her life, for the secluse philosopher was so very anxious to display himself, and hung so for ward over the front of the box, that she was obliged to hold him by the skirt of his coat, that he might nut hall over into the pit. After the performance, however, he paid a very handsome compliment to NIr.GARHICIC, by saying, « I have cried all through your tragedy, and laughed all through your comedy, without bei- g .tt al 'able to understand the language."—L rod° Cs Memo rs. f~ •i 1 Le hal fell lifte furl triv the woi the dye latt