Star. — London, England, 1830-02-10 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICAN REGISTER. The national Congress, convened at the capital. De. c4mber 11, in extraordinary sessions, agreeably to s esll from the executive. The following is the message of President Guerrero : " The President of the Republic to the Mexicans. " Mexicans !—To-day the Chambers of the Union have assembled, to continue their constitutional march, which had been suspended by their own authority. Also, the general Government has relinquished the extraordi nary powers with which it was invested (the increase of which was never pleasant), which were admitted only by imperious necessity, and which, it is believed, have been productive of good. " Consequently the motives which influenced the di vision of reserve in making their declaration have totally vanished. If they are true men, and not pretenders, they ought to renounce every revolutionary movement, which can produce no other effects to the nation than a succes sion of incalculable evils. You already have had too much experience what revolutions are, and what effects they produce, not to have your attention turned with anxiety to those who create them. The Government is deeply penetrated with this important truth; and in order to consult, without delay, the public peace and tranquil lity, which is paramount to all other considerations, the step has been taken which I have just announced. " MEXICANS !—Every thing has been done by the General Government which could be done for the preser vation of tranquillity. It is presumed that the same will be the case with the States, and that through the good nse and subordination of the citizens, each one will ierui his aid to this object, in which the general good, as .ell as that of individuals, is so deeply interested. " Soldiers---You know what is the rigour of military subordination ; you know how far it is from your duty to dictate laws to the sovereign nation, unauthorised by that nation; and how strange in the ear of the laws is the danger of arms. Pause and reflect on the solemn re sponsibility which you incur before the uation, in respect to the evils which may happen if you renounce the path in which you ought to go. Do not deceive yourselves with false hopes of bettering your condition through the promptness and punctuality with which relief will be furnished. No, the nation will be ruined by civil war, and a new revolu lution will reduce to nothing the resources which are ne gotiating for your benefit, and which prove that your ne cessities will receive attention, provided the public order is sustained. " Sovereign States of the Mexican Federation !—The preservation of the system demands your full co-ope ration. " VICENTE GUERRERO." " Mezleq, Dee. 1 President Guerrero btu; relinquished the extraordinary powers granted him by Congress on account of the Spanish invasion. --.4 A, 1829." COBBETT'S LECTURES. MR. COBBETT will deliver his Fourth Lecture in London, at the Theatre of the Mechanic's Institute, to - morrow Evening, (Thunday, 11th February,) to begin at eight o'clock precisely. Price of entrance, is. HIGHLAND SOCIETY of LONDON.—A Gene ral COURT of ebb CORPORATION will be held at the Freemasons Tavern, on Saturday the nth instant. Dinner at Si: o'clock precisely. Visitors must be introduced by Members ; but Members of any of the Branch Societies established in Canada, at Madras, Bom bay, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, or Inverary. as wall as Mem bers of the Highland Society of Scotland, are admissible without introduction. The Highland Garb Naval and Military Uniform is adopted a all the General Courts of the Corporation. H. LONGLANDS, lion. Secretaries. I. MACDONALD, THE EVENING STAR. • )0( rr ; • , ive i p rf , or • PUCKTOS , • LON DON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. • PRICE OF STOCKS ATP OUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock Do. SO Years, Do. 241 il:per Cent. Red. 921 i India Stock, 236 S per Ct. Cons. 911 S 11 India Bonds 75 6 51 per Ct. Red. 991 4 2EIOOO Exch.Bilis 76 7 4:per Cent. 1011 1 .5500 Ditto 76 7 4 per Ct. ISM, 1051 1 .8100 and .5200 Do. 76 11 Long Ann. 19 1 11-16ths Commercial, Do. 30 Years, 19 7-16ths India for Acct. Do. Do. Jul.& Jan.l94 Cons. for Ace. 92 1 FOREIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil Bds, S pr Ce. 664 61 Ditto Ace. 541 51 1 Ditto Acet. 651 61 17 6 1 r Do.loo, 37 981 Oolom. Bds.6 per Ct. _, hies. Bds. S per Ct. Do. lids. 1894, Do B. 1225,6 p Ct. 141 : Do. Ace. 211 Do. Ace ' 941 4 Danish Bonds, 3 p. Ct. 741 Port. Ms. 3 p. Ct. Do. Ace. 75 Do. Ace. SS% 7 Greek Bonds, pc. 54 Sp. Ace. 3 11 Ct. 121 15 Do. R 152.5„ 5. 55 1 De. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CL4)Ck . --- --- -- SHAUL ?MD. MS MAIM Anglo Madam (be. at .15 pm) we 100 37i 611 7 Brazilian Company 20 5 2 Brasilia , , Imp. (is& X 5 pm.) 35 20 In • Do. Nadeau! 25 10 23 Colombian (im. at JCS pm.) 52 37} s Ural del Monte 400 400 Spe 2 United Mess (Ise. at . 11 pm.) 40 19i 16i Hibernian 60 9 it There is a paragraph in the Times to-day, concerning the dismissal of General KIN G from his post at Windsor Castle, as one of the Grooms of his MR ) &STY'S Bedchamber, because he voted against the Address. Our contemporary says, that his Mw •JESTY dismisied him peremptorily the moment Al was in postillion of the list, and saw the Generars name among the minority 1 We do not believe" that our' gracious SOVEREIGN is capable Of such' an arbitrary act :on the contrary—if we bad not pay doubt before•—the earnestness of the num to screen the PREMIER from the odium of this dismissal, is with us a sufficient .proof of the quarter in which it was • k w ill b e p o nneiend,by our King's Bench report, that Kr. AMMAN DLit • has been sentenced to a fine of T a l on indinnuxu t!ouwos, and imprisonment for own YLA in Neirgate, for his offences sigainst the majesty] of Government. His fine wiU be paid by subscription r. and his imprisonment we suspect will be soon remitted. The press will soon get the better of its &arletina. aIIMMEMP At half-past two o'clock this day, a sudden improve ment took place in consols. From 911 they mounted to 92 three eighths in the course of a few minutes. This has been ascribed to a rumour on 'Change, that measures shall be adopted to-morrow at the Bank for discounting at three per Cent. We have received a file of the Gaceta de Cartagena up to the 29th of November, but too late for notice to day. Large extracts will be given to-morrow. The abandoned profligacy, and even effrontery of Mi nisters, was never placed in a more conspicuous point of view, than when they attempted last night to resolve the House of Commons into a Committee of Supply, with only twenty-eight Members present ! are at a loss to say whether the audacity of this attempt, or its unprin cipled disregard of the public interests, ought to bear the palm as a nefarious exploit. Certain we are, at all events, that the country never yet was so deeply indebted to any CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, as it will feel itself to Mr. GOULBURY, for his enormous propo sition of last night. For let it be remarked, that if the House had gone into a Committee—as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed—at that far spent hour of the evening, we, out of doors, should have continued utterly ignorant of the astounding fact, that only TWENTY-EIGHT Members of the Commons —and these, of course, all ministerial satellites—had constituted them selves a BODY OF SUPPLY, to vote away millions of the public money after midnight! We say after midnight, because the contending influences of wine and sleep—superadded 'to the natural Bceotian crassitude of many a voter—make midnight, for any dis cussions affecting the interests of a whole nation, a very deprecable season. Yet this after all is the season, and this the indifference, and this the numerical wisdom, by which—for many a by-gone session—no REPRESEN TA TI V E of the PEOPLE concerning himself to inquire into the matter—burden after burden has been piled upon our bending backs. What, then, must not be the debt of gratitude which the country owes to Mr. GOULBURN, for his attempt to trick it—more solito—last night, by a repetition of the old heartless legerdemain, in the presence of one of the people's most vigilant guardians ? Either he could not have seen the Marquis of BLANDVORD in his place, or he must have been disseized of his five senses, before he could have counted on winning over that incorruptible servant of the public, to acquiesce in his flagrant proposal. The lan guage used by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on this occasion, shows how far gone he was in the conviction' that nobody in that House cared a button for the concerns of the people ; and that—however parties there might split, and fight, and squabble among themselves about the public plunder—all were at least united, as a matter of course, on the broad common principle, that the people were to be given over to plunder. The Right Honourable Gentleman understood—he said— that it was arranged between the two sides of the House, that there should be no discussion on the question of going into a Committee of Supply. Arranged between the two sides of the House! Why, then, what is the use of having two sides, if that side—calling itself Op position—instead of offering a barrier to ministerial en croachments, comes to a grossly corrupt understanding with the Minister, whenever it is his unprincipled caprice to impose fresh burdens upon a groaning people ? Mr. GOULBURN evidently felt the scrape he was in, but the SPEAKER had put the question, and the step was irretrievable. He betook himself, therefore, to that sort of deprecatory and half-cajoling remonstrance, which any common pickpocket would be very apt to try with one of PEEL'S policemen, who might have caught him inchoante delicto : " I know that the power is yours, and that—according to Act of Parliament — you may deal with me as you please : you are sent here for the prevention of crime, but I entreat you not to in terrupt me to-night—l shall be here, with a great many more accomplices, on Friday night-.you had better let me go till then"—i. e. till the Thieves are too many for the thief-takers ! Precisely of the above description,was the expostulation which Mr. GOULBURN addressed to the Noble LORD: Utere sorte tutl—the wheedling, and wily deprecation of a subjected adversary. But like )Er EAS, who beheld the spoils of his beloved PA LL AS upon the shoulders of the crafty suppliant, the Noble MARQUIS only beard in the Right Honourable Gentleman the entreaties of a plunderer of the people—the people, whom he came into that House to defend : and when he thought of the prostrate people plundered, he became inflexible too. It is a long, long time, since the country has been blessed with an advocate, uniting so much purity, ability and enrage, with the high station of the Noble Ma Ron to. It will be impossible for corruption to hold out against an antagonist, at once so elevated in rank and so popular in his assertions : for there is no class, whether of the highest Aristocracy, or of the humblest among Ilse people, which is not represented in his person, and included in his advocacies. In the mean time, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has received a lesson last night, which he will not readily forget ; and—we should think—one calculated to make him apprehensive lest he receive another like it on Friday, though no doubt there will be a strong muster of the serviles. The saucy expe riment of going into a Committee of Supply, when there was positively NOT A HOUSE, in the constitutional and legal sense, will hardly be attempted again. MINORITY OW LORD ILANDWORD'S AMILIDDRNT. O'CONNEL, DANIEL • - DAWSON, ALEXANDER HUME, JOSEPH WOOD, JOHN • • • Las; . . On the motion of Lord ELLIIIIIIOIIOI7OII is and of Mr. Pen. in the Commons, • 13e was last night appointed in each House, to inquire into the affairs of the East India Company. Mr. Peet. ex pressed his belief that the inquiry would reflect credit on the East India Company, and that the expectations of the advantages to be derived from the opening of the trade beyond its present extent, were too sanguine. The general feeling of the House excited by the tenor of the Right Honourable Member's speech seemed to be, that the Ministers are friendly to the renewal of the Charter, but we trust it will be importantly modified. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that about three months ago, when ministers had determined to re cognise the usurper of DONN • MARIA'S throne, or enter into diplomatic relations with him, which is the same thing, an article appeared in the Times in approbation of the measure, and preparing the public for its being car ried into effect. While the doctrines of the " leading Journal," found but too many echoes in the columns of our contemporaries, we entered our solemn protest against an act which could not fail to cover Eng land with ignominy ; an act, which, as we still contend, would be a flagrant violation of justice, without pro ducing one solitary advantage. A counterpart to the fallacious arguments then broached by the Times having appeared this morning, we again protest against the pro jected recognition, as being unjust in itself, and fraught with the most ruinous consequences to the British cha racter and British interests. If we are asked the motives of our continuing so inflexible on this subject, we reply by referring to the oft-repeated proofs contained in the columns of the STA n during the last seven months, that the Usurper has no claim to the Crown, that he seized power through perjury and treason, and that he subsequently maintained it through persecution and bloodshed. Having given so many and such irrefragable proofs on these points, we now repeat for the fiftieth time, and in direct contradiction to the recent assertion of Lord ABERDEEN, that MIGUEL is not the choice of the Portuguese People. It is natural for those who have done their utmost to sustain the Usur per, to make this and other statements which, every body acquainted with the real state of the question knows to be utterly unfounded. We now ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department, whether the un contradicted and incontestable fact of there being at this moment THIRTY THOUSAND Patriots, including nearly all the virtue, learning, and talent of Portugal, either imprisoned and proscribed at home, or exiles in foreign lands, does not furnish a satisfactory refutation to the assertion in question ? With this single fact before us, is it not a cruel mockery, to use no harsher term, fur any man, or set of men, to proclaim that this monster, stained as be is by every• crime, should be the choice of the nation ? Deeming it quite unnecessary to repeat the numerous facts and arguments which we have so often put forth on this most painful subject, it is, however, impossible to pass over that doctrine of our contemporary, which, while it acknowledges the crimes and oppressions of the despot, concludes by saying, as he did on the former oc casion, " The British Government must shortly renew► its diplomatic relations with him." The phrase by which this sentence is previously qualified, also deserves notice. "If there be no prospect of seeing so pestilent a ruler dismissed by the discontents of his subjects, or overthrown by the forces of his brother." Now we will ask the writer, whether he is not aware that there is a prospect of hurling the usurper from the power he has so much abused ? Having put this question, does he not well know how the recognition at such a mo ment would operate on the efforts of the Emperor ? Knowing this, upon what principle would Ministers be justified in renewing our relations with Mta a EL, until it be seen whether he be really the choice of the people, and that the patriots are resisted by them ?—it being our own firm conviction, that a much smaller force than the QUEEN has actually at her disposal, would be sufficient to deliver Portugal. Whatever, therefore, may be the future intentions of Ministers, we call on them, in the name of an oppressed and suffering people, to suspend the recognition. As we have already said, this act, which would at any time it an indelible disgrace to us, could not fail, if carried into effect now, to prove to the whole world, beyond a shadow of doubt, that secret connection and sympathy which is said to prevail be tween the NoaLE DUKE and the tyrant. We are rejoiced to perceive that Lord PALMERSTON has given notice of a motion on the subject of Portugal for the 18th, and we anticipate the happiest results from the Noble Lord's efforts on that day. Although be is already master of the whole case, we strongly recommend both his Lordship and all those who are desirous of adding to their stock of information, with regard tOthe Portuguese question, attentively to read the two Pamphlets which we have just noticed—namely " Papers Relative to the Af fairs of Portugal," and the " Historical Illustrations." We conclude by calling the attention of Lord Asso nant and the public, to the fact of the export of Port wine from Portugal having decreased ONE THIRD during the last year. So much for the prosperity attendant on usurpation 1 —....--. The following paragraph has appeared in a Morning Paper. We give it without guaranteeing its authenticity: " We have received New York papers to the 17th ult. They contain accounts from Vera Cruz to the 21st of December. General BUSTAMMITZ, the Vice-President of Mexico, who commanded the army of reserve at Xalapa, had revolted against the Government, and was marching on the capital 'with his troops. He had declared the existing Government null, but acknow ledged submission to Guesser», the President, so far uhe consented to his plans. GUERRIRO bad been appointed. Canepander-hi-Chief of the army, and had set out fro* Mugu te meet BUSTAMMITR. SANTA Au If A , whi was * it Vera Crus, had marched, with the troops imdsrlds command, to assist the Predated to put down di, !eel, who would thus be placed between two ken Iles gesseal opinion is. that BE/STAB/MDT& would bot easily sulgosa, and trawrinity Itetor:d.- * CITY, TwiLvE O'CLoCt. WAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING. a. D.l a. D. II. a Wl 1 D0n......... 0 0 France 1 Waterford-- 0I 0 Flanders & 0 Gnern.Jersey 0 1 Holland 0 0 Sweden 5 0 Leeward Ltand. 0 0 Hamburgh .... 2 0 Brasil The Coned Market to the present time continues steady. Con. sole which left off yesterday at elf j for the Account opened at el j, st which price they remain alternately buyers and sellers.— The public attention this morning is greatly engrossed by the ex. planation and refutation in certain Morning Journals, in regard to the late melancholy event of Lord Graves, and the public learn with much satisfacdon, that the scandalous insinuations against a person of high rank is without the least foundation.—ln the Fo reign Market little or nothing is doing as yet. Most of the prices are nominal. The Isabella: fripte is arrived front Rio Janeiro, but not . of so late a date u the last Brazil packet. Calcutta Papers to the 20th of Sept. have been received at the North and South American Coirec-house. CALCUTTA MCI CURTEST Of TUE 17TH UPT. Cortex—The market my quiet. GRAIN—The market continues to have a very heavy appearance. Sat TIPITSITIte market is getting very bare of this, and parcels going off as they arrive. Sucon—Condnues in active demand. Sns—The market has been very dull during the past week, and with a tendency to a decline. Eimors Goons—Geoeru peanut of improvement. the market overstocked ; little ap• Freights to London. still rates £4 for dead weight, and ,e 5 los to 46 for light goods. For some time past the weather, after it had the appearance of any approaching change to cooler, has again become partially hot and sultry. which has caused an increase of fever and other com plaints. Rumour is busy and contradictory as to the result of the long agitated half hat& question ; some will have it that the Military Finance Committee, with one ezeeptioo, has recommended the estention of the order to all the army ; others assert that the restoration to full hats accompanies the Earl of Dacus!. It is stated in the Harkin that the Directors of the Bank of Bengal have received a sharp rebuff from the Government for ex pecting or asking the Company to make up the losses sustained by the Bank. Montreal Papers to the 12th January, and Quebec Papers to the Tth January, have been received at the North and South Ameri can Coffee-house. The Quebec Paper says, that on Monday morn ing there was at last a fan of snow, just sufficient to make good winter roads. A Vera Cruz Paper has also been received to the 40th Decem ber, in which there is a very long Manifesto by General Santa Anna, addressed to his fellow citizens, relating to the different dissensions which prevail in the republic. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Consols have continued during the whole of the morning at 911 to 9u for the account, and 911 1 for mousey, with little business doing.—ln the Foreign Market, a great deal has been done in Brazil Stock in the early part of the morning. When the arrival of the Isabella frigate, from Rio Janeiro, was known, a report was put in circulation that she brought a declaration of war against Portugal, which turns out to be unfounded. COURT OF KING'S BENCH-(TH IS DA Y.) THE KING V. ALEXANDER, SAACSON, AND MARSDEN. In this matter the judgment of the Court was, that the defendant, ROBERT ALEXANDER, on each of the three separate libels, be imprisoned is his Majesty's gaol of Newgate for four calendar months ; and that upon each he do pay to the King • fine of £lOO, and give security for his good behaviour for three years—himself in 6001. and two sureties in 2501. The defendant STEPIIZN ISAACSON was sentenced to pay a fine of 1001. and MARSDEN was directed to enter into his own recognizance to appear to receive judgment when called on; and to give security for his good behaviour for three years. TRADE WITH PORTUGAL. From the Pagueti du Portugal. The following is a statement of the quantities of Wine exported from Oporto during the year 1829 : T0ta1....17,981 pipes and 3 almudes. pipes almudes England Low Countries France Genoa Brazil Gibraltar Hamborgh • Sweden America (South) l* 0 * I canadas 0 9 0 0 Russia. . ; (ssrasano) txrzatoi. Total 7364 pipes, 1 almude, 3 eanadas. pipes almudes made. Brasil 231 0 0 Low Countries ... • Island of St. Michael America, South Newfoundland Raids ..... ....... ..... Genoa .. • • Hamburgh .. Denmark Angola .. .. France The factory wines esported from Oporto for England during the last year wows third less than the preceding. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Eli.., from =aloe to Liverpool, was totally lest on the deb inst. of the Point of Ayr. Tie Triton, Gams. from Harrington to Dublin, is sunk near Denagbadee. Materials expected to be saved. The Libert Watson. from Jersey to London, struck on Good win Band on Monday night, and sunk in deep water. Crew saved. The Crown, of Ortteaeet. frog Charleston. was wrecked on Sunday, sear Straarser. Crew saved. Dear., Fee. 9.—Alod W. by N.—Arrived the Leslie OgUby, Hare. from Pan; Doe. Campbell, frost Pernambuco • and Pro tector....---.. f ro m Bombay. Arrived from Lawlor:, the Cor sets.. Heilman. fee Madras. ossum:N. Pm. O.—Aind Amt.—Arrived the Oledstorke. Harm. from Jamaica. PLessoomt Fear O.—Alad W.S.A.—Arrived tbe Isabel, Gras" from i Brasil; Kansa, hew Si. Michael's; sad &rob. Wilson, from Charente. Faraeonvs. Fs. a.—Wind A. SM.—Arrived the *Wel %carAreasbam, from Owe& Idled the Plow lobo. for ats. sod Vigilant peas be Lbboo. *mu% rm. g o —Arrived the Jon. Guards, Camin o Sum Sodom CORN-SXCHANOIL. 111111111-LANR. Fa. Is. The sale of all articles of Otilm ommalmass wort heavy, but too- Ocularly Barley. the quaky wadi bobs bumwase; and to stet sales. a reduction of to per aratr most be submittal to. Wheat and Oats remain as as lisa‘y. athousawors ssocs Whew. implisb (qrs.) . ISO Barley. Foreign it . .-- Oats. liosliab Foreign . ISO Madge . lAD° kith . m o b . . near Indus) . COAL MARLET—Tma Day. Doi Walesa Cods Otbor sorts ... 501 OIL MAIL OWes wind dialog die nom* 1171.—Dorimi die week, 40. Alpat Mabel-.......... Loom s Mated aid Polibbod by ism Main., tube low Ovum Nita. Pkbatilbse,Toaqk Bar. . .....- 1000 ....- • m. 0.. 1,1100 . 4 F. 1