Star. — London, England, 1829-10-28 00:00:00

~ t This lesson was quite sufficient to leave an everlasting impression on the memory of Spaniards. It is not, therefore, without 1 Ho- pod reason that this saying has become common among them— nour thy King, but lend him not thy money.' " Were the Spanish financiers to limit the exercise of their ta lents to Spain, we should refrain front comment ; but seeing the threats held out to the pockets of oar fellow-citizens by the an nouncement in the Moraiteur, we deem it our duty to place them on their guard. " Is it to this magnificent project that we are to attribute the slight improvement which has lately taken place in the rente porpetedelk, or has any one believed that the expedition .against Mexico is to lead to the re-establishment of Spain's finances? Had the 3,500 soldiers, whose landing has met with a reception unquestionably hostile, succeeded in the re-conquest of the vast provinces of America, many people might have imagined that the galleons were already on their way to the ports of the Peninsula, and that some of the riches brought by them would be instantly spread among us in payment of arrears. But even this supposition would be an illusion ; for at the time when the provinces its question were under the dominion of Spain, they hardly ever yielded as much as 500,000,000 of reals in contributions, all which sum was absorbed by the internal Ad ministration. " We may soon learn the secret of these intrigues, by means of which the Spanish finances obtain credit on our market. Certain disputes among themselves have already begun to transpire ; they will most likely speedily lead to disclosures useful to the public." It appears by the letters of the Bth inst. from Gibraltar, received at Lloyd's yesterday, that His Majesty's ships Britannia and Mel ville had both passed the Straits for the Mediterranean. The Dartmouth frigate, stationed at Gibraltar, got under weigh, and communicated with the Melville. Thesr are the vessels respecting which such absurd panics were raised in the city, u a great naval armament to the 'Mediterranean. THE EVENING STAR. IIL 'k• • it^ SS' % I 4 eoe, S Tl4* ET Is • r • . LONDON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28. HOLIDAY AT TRH BANL—ST. JOHN AND S. JUDI. FOREIGN FONDS. TWO °Tit itisl Brazil Bonds, spr Ct. 661 1 Mexican Bds. 5 per Cent. Do. Acet. 66/ Do. Bds, 1825, 6 pr Ct. CO/ 1 Cotom. Bds. 6 per Ct. Ditto Acct. 20/ Ditto Acct. 19. Rus. Ms. 1822, 5 p Ct. Dioi‘h Kt.. 3e. et. 731 Do Acct.lo4l Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Sp. Bds. 5 per. Ct. 6/ / Do Bonds, 1823, 5 p Ct. 20 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWIT .RANI. PAIN Mt !SARI. Arlo Mexican (iss. at £5 pm) 100 100 U Kaolin 300 300 365 Brazilla . Imp. (iss. £5 pm.) 33 20 Do. National '25 10 41 Columb. (iss. at XS pm.) 100 35 41 Real del Monte 400 400 SO Alliance British and Foreign 100 5 si I DREADFUL CONSPIRACY IN IRELAND. There is an account to-day—given at full length in the Times, and which we shall give to-morrow—of a trial for CONSPIRACY TO MURDER, which in point of fact is only one ramification of a much more extended conspi racy, originating in the principle of the late Irish Asso c ATIONS, and exceeding in its character of deliberate and cold bloodthirstiness, all the perpetrations which we yet ever heard of in that disorganised and distracted land. The victims marked out for destruction by these barbarous way-layers of life without provocation given, were GEORGE BOND Low, ESQ. MICHAEL CREAGII, ESQ. and Admiral Ev xxs—all Magistrates of the county of Cork, and Protestants—and marked out for the slugs of the assassin, for no other reason than that they were " Magistrates and Protestants." The names of the four criminals who are more immediately concerned in this conspiracy—but who form only an insigni ficant branch—a twig, as it were—of a terrible, wide extended, and oath-bound confederacy against Pro testant life in Ireland—are John Leary, James Roche, James Magrath, and William Shine. In our state of excitement to-day, we cannot unhurthen ourselves of half our feelings at this enormous disclosure : indeed, they are so complicated and so unutterable, that we prefer to let our agitation subside, lest perchance any thing might fall from us, which might be imputed to party bitterness. Some passages, however, of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S address to the Court—in technical phraseology, the open ing of the case—we cannot resist transcribing : they will pave the way for our minuter analysis to-morrow. "It is a case"—said the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman—" in which, if well founded, every man's interest is involved ; but of the many consi derations bound up with the enquiry, all others fade before the high enormity, the branching extent and atrocity, of the crime itself. It does NOT confine itself to the persons now on trial: but if esta blished, tends to prove what does not alone exist in the present charge, but grows out of a SYSTEM ruinous, extensive, and desolating." "Ifl am rightly informed, it will be established by evidence, that there exists—and has long existed—an extensive CONFE DERACY, bound together by oaths, acting in concert —headed by CAPTAINS, directed by COMMIT TEES—whose authority is acted on, and obeyed by instruments ever ripe and ready to act their guilty bidding, and obey their edicts of robbery and murder. It will be sworn that LEARY ranks high in the gradations of this conspiracy, not simply as a Captain—he takes his station as a Com- MITTEE-MAN-11 man of years, of station, of compa rative importance." " Not only is he of the Committee, but he also administers OATHS.—first, an oath of a general nature, imposing secresy, and readiness at all times to take aims, and for all purposes ; and then, par titular oaths as to the individual transactions. We are now but treating a symptom of the disease, which prompts to this taking up of arms for no definite purpose—not to protect, but to perpetrate. I could traverse back for months into a narrative of this conspiracy, of which to-day um probe but a singb mem ber. ITS OBJECT DID ROT MERELY ♦FFECT TUE GENTLEMEN AGAINST WHOM THE !RESENT PRO- CEEDINGS WERE POINTED-IT EMBRACED A WIDER SCHEME, AND CONTEMPLATED MORE GENERAL PUR- POSES." These extracts must suffice until to-morrow, when we promise to give the entire report, accompanied with such comments, as—under calmer influences—we shall feel it our bounden duty to put forth. The tools in this hellish plot were all found guilty, and are to be immediately executed : but the instigators, the organisers—where are TH EY In the Frankfort Papers of the 2 ISt inst. received this morning, we have a singular defence of the inactivity and indifference displayed by England, Austria, and Prussia, during the conquest of European Turkey by the Russians. The three former Powers are admitted to be deeply interested in the matter, because " England by its distant, and Austria and Prussia by their near, possessions, come more or less into contact with the con queror and the conquered." They are therefore further admitted to be—or they might have been—the arbiters in the cause. The day for arbitration, however, is past ; and then, enquires the writer, " Is the English policy, which asks nothing for itself, egotistical ?" No, truly ; it has not only asked nothing ; but it has tamely per mitted itself to be ousted out of its place, and yielded much without the shadow of a remonstrance. The Frankfort Papers speak thus : COLOGNE, OCT. 18. The Paris Constitutions'sl of the 15th instant contains a long ar ticle, in which it endeavoun to prove, that the Commander of the several corps of the Turkish army will not submit to the conditions of the treaty concluded at Adrianople. The march of the Pacha of Widdin to Sophia give It ccculonh for the conjecture and im mediately it Is ready with new plans of operation,—removes the theatre of the new war, of which it dreams, from the east to the west side of Mount Hcemus,—makes General Diebitach come into great embarrassment; and Russia, Greece, and all Europe, into new danger—and all this, for what ?—Why, truly, because France has not made common cause with Russia in this war! England's selfish and inhuman conduct is, of course, on this, as on all other occasions, the cause of these evils. " How many reflec tions," says the Journalist, " arise from this concourse of circum ►tances." Truly we are led to many, and melancholy reflections-- not by the concourse of circumstances in the East, which are only imaginary—but in the combinations of the Cosssfiturienuci and its party. From the very beginning of this war to the last mo ment, they have dreamt of nothing but conquests and the aggran disement of France : while all the Cabinets of Europe—that of England in particular—have endeavoured to maintain the laud able principle of " every mat his own." England, Austria, and Prussia, were, and still are, without dispute, mote im mediately interested in the affairs of the East than France ; be cause England by its distant, and Austria and Prussia by their near possessions, come more or less into contact with the conqueror or the conquered. These Powers, however, have never spoken of conquests, though such could only be made by them, or hindered through them. They, therefore, were the arbiters in the cause ; and not the more-remotely-interested France. The latter--or at least the partisans of the plans of French aggrandisement whom we here censure—wanted to conquer—not to preserve. On which side, then, we ask, was the selfishness? Is the English policy, which asks nothing for itself that is, in this case, egotistical ; or is it the party in France, which, in order to get possession of the ter ritory of its neighbours, would plunge all Europe into war, and has recourse to every sophism in order to justify it ? The Austrian Observer of the 16th, just received, gives a letter from Aleppo, dated the 15th August, de tailing the fate of NAIM-BEI, whom the SUBLIME PORTE had sent there in order to collect various extra ordinary taxes and contributions, required to meet the expenses of the war. This otlicer fell a sacrifice to the disinclination of the people to submit to his exactions ; and the malcontents afterwards committed many ex cesses, in seizing public and private property. ALEPPO, Auauss 15. (raox A Limns lISCESTED AT CONSTANTINOPLE.) It is well known that the Porte, some time ago, sent Commis sioners to several provinces of the empire, in order to facilitate and accel he collection of various extraordinary taxes and contributions, required to meet the expences of the war. Nal m- Bei was sent in the beginning of July, with the rank of a capdgi bascbi, as Commissioner to Aleppo; but found the inhabitants so little disposed to pay those taxes, that he thought it necessary and justifiable to have recourse to violent means. Nairn-Bei was, pro bably, too little acquainted with the refractory spirit manifested on many former occasions, by a part of the inhabitants of Aleppo ; or placed too much confidence in his own power; but unhappily atoned for his imprudence with his life. Oa the 31st July, an armed band of young and desperate mal contents, paraded through the city, compelled the Cadi to follow them to the residence of Naim-bei, and to call on the latter to go to the Governor of the city. The frightened Cacti obeyed, and Naim-bei also submitted; but he was scarcely ten paces from his house when he was attacked by the rioters, pulled from his horse, and beaten to death with clubs. The Cadi baste' fed in his tenor to his own house, the rioters attacked the house of Naim-bei, did not spare even the harem, and retired with rich booty. The inhabitants, who were thrown into consternation by this frightful scene, and trembling for their lives and property, were indebted to their safety and the speedy restora tion of order and tranquillity, entirely to the intrepidity and cour age of Ali Bey, the Governor ; who, with that presence of mind and firmness which be has displayed on all occasions, immediately called together the principal inhabitants, and consulted with them on the means of seizing the rioters, and recovering the public and private property which they had plundered. Five days passed in segociatlons without success; on the contrary the fury of the rioters increased ; they paraded the streets, compelling old and young to take arms for the purpose of attacking and ripening the governor. The latter, sensible that his troops were too few in number, to put down the rebels, endeavoured• with much dezteiity and in secret, to assure hintalf of the senti ments of the better pan of the inhabitants, who had been com pelled by violence to join the doors, to draw them to his sides and to form a party, with which he resolved to attack the riotous, on a signal being given on the sth Aug. in the morning. A heavy cannonade began, which was answered only by a faint fire of musketry ; the rebels soon found themselves alone ; their leaders sought safety in flight, and the misled populace dispersed. AU- Bey, with his troops and pan of the armed citizens, is in pursuit of the flying chiefs of the rioters. Perfect tranquillity prevails in the city , and both natives and foreigners, encouraged by a proclama tion of the governor, pursue their ousel occupations.—Astrien (Xfsereer, 16th Oct. The prostrate condition of the SULTAN is far more strikingly illustrated by his consent to send an Ambas sador to St. Petersburgh, than it could be by his ac quiescence in any Treaty, no matter how severe the conditions. It is the last conceivable humiliation to which the pride of the Ottoman Sovereign could have subjected itself, and yet retain—though but in outward s^eming merely—any portion of his Empire undis membered. To the custom even of receiving the Am bassadors of Christian State", the SUBLIME PORTE has ever accommodated itself with a stiff frstidiousneis and condescension: but a delegation—such as this is to Russia—from the Successor of MAHOMET to the Courts of the Unbelieving Powers, is not orly unp:ecedented in Turkish practice, but abhorrent from the very institutions of Islamism. MAHMOUD may isderd be said to possess a rage for innovations. The Separate Act—which we published on Monday— between Turkey and Russia, relates exclusively to the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. These may be said now to be wrested from the dominion of the Turk for ever. The Hospodars who held their dignity hitherto on a septennial tenure, are by this Treaty to be invested with it for life, except in the case of a free ab dication, or of an expulsion for crime. In fact, they are to hold their authority during the pleasure of Russia, for the SULTAN cannot interfere with them on any pretext. " Their administration shall not be dis turbed by any command, tending to the violation of those rights" which have been stipulated forthem by the Treaties of NICHOLAS. The better to secure the inviolability of these territories, there shall not be Mahometan fortifica tion—nor even settlement of any kind—on the left bank of the Danube : nor shall any Mahometan be ever al lowed to leave his residence in Wallachia or Moldavia, on the pretence of trading with Turkey. Whatever " may be required for the consumption of Constanti nople," merchants coming from that place alone—and furnished with proper passports—shall be admitted into the Principalities to buy. So that the subjects of the SULTAN—who is yet acknowledged as feudal Lord, in spite of all this barring out—cannot enter the Moldavian territory, even on their So v EREIGN'S business, without a Moldavian firman ! But this is not all, nor even half. The Turkish cities on the left bank of the Danube are to be incorporated with Wallachia; and the Mahometan proprietors—resident either in these cities or anywhere left of the Danube—are to sell all their property within eighteen months to the natives, and decamp : that is, if they can show a good title to the property : if they have obtained it—as millions have theirs in France, and even innocently—through revolutionary contingen cies, they must abandon it without indemnity. Such are some of the means, by which NICHOLAS is extending Christianity in Moslem Europe, and his " moderation" carries all before it. Large corn tributes, and contributions in cattle, provisions, and timber, were paid annually to the SULTAN by these Principalities, as well for the supply of Constantinople, as that of the Danubian fortresses. These, the poor Turk is now con strained to say, that he renounces in the most complete and unconditional manner. All claim to forced service, by right of feudal supremacy, is in like manner unequi vocally relinquished. As an indemnification, however, to the Grand Seignorial Treasury, Moldavia and Wal lachia are to pay MAHuoUD a sort of compensatory tribute, the amount of which is to be arranged " here after" between him and NICHOLAS. But they are not to be called upon for this tribute, until two years after the clear evacuation of the Principalities by the troops of Russia : that is—according to the Treaty of Adrianople— not for twelve years to come. Is not this "moderate ?” To say nothing of the intention, never to evacuate the said Principalities at all. In the meantime, the Principalities are to enjoy an unlimited freedom of trade—they are to navigate the Danube with their own vessels, and go where they please with their own passports—and they shall have the right of frequenting, for the purposes of trade, all harbours and ports of the Sublime Porte, without being subject to any oppression whatever. Finally, the internal Government of the Principalities—agreeably to the spirit and forms in which it was administered during their occupation by the Russian armies—ls CONFIRMED BY THE SUBLIME PORTE: save and except, all infringements upon its Sovereign dignity!!! Such are the principal stipulations of this " Separate Act," which—by a gentler transpo sition of terms, than it operates on countries—may be called with great truth an ACT OF SEPARATION, which it is, of these Principalities from Turkey for ever. It remains only to add, that the right of these Hospodorates to maintain a large standing army along the left line of the Danube is guaranteed by this Convention, under the portentous appellation of Cordon Sanitaire. Thus the DANUBE—instead of the Pi uth—is now become the boundary of Russia Proper ; while the Bul garian and Rumelian provinces—owning her yoke, and governed by her administration—remain un annexed, it is true, for a season, but not unoc cupied nor unappropriated. It would be a pity to destroy this eloquent exposition of the views of the ARCH PADISHA, by any forced interpretations of our own. The unembellished simplicity of the Treaty will best illustrate the " moderation" of the CzAR. Our private correspondent at Paris has furnished some information which is entitled to considerable attention at the present moment ; the more especially, as it seems to confirm the report alreedy circulated relative to the growing influence of Russia. We understand that the Marquis Of PALMELLA will sFortly be in town, and that his arrival will be followed by some decisive measure on the part of the Regency, of which his Excellency is at the head. Besides the letter nom Paris, we call the atten tion of our readers to some remarks which a PORTUGUESE EMIGRANT has addressed to the Times on the subject of Portugal. We ere informed that there is not a shadow of foun • dation for the report that the celebrated Runnymede is about to be enclosed. We are much gratified in announcing the partial re covery of the Earl of MORLEY, from a severe attack of gout in the hands and elbows. Sir EDWARD SUDDEN, the Solicitor-General, made his third visit to the Fleet prison, last week, and bene volently relieved several victims to " contempts of Chancery." CITY. TwitLys o'CLota. Owing to no &Weft/ arriving on Wednesday from Paris, and a yet we do not bear of any private express from that Capital ; w e are deprived to the present hour of any Continental informatin n and in consequence of which the;Consol Market is in a stagnan state. Consols which'. Mk of yesterday at 91i for Money and 911 for the Account, opened at the same price this morning and at present may be quoted 911 Buyers for the Account. In the Foreign Market, link or nothing doing u yet. CITY. HALF-PAST ONE. Up to the present hour, we have neither arrivals of ship letters or any foreign intelligence; nor have we any feature of the least consequence to communicate in regard to the funds, which have continued the whole of the morning at Ole for money, and elk akernately buyers and sellers for the account. The Foreign Market is in the same uninteresting state as that of the British, with the ex ception of a little doing in Mexican Bonds. New York Papers to the 2d August, Montreal to the 27th September, and Quebec Papers to the 24th Sep tember, have been received at the North and South nerican Coffee-house. (From the New-York Advertiser, of the 10th Oct.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Washington, Sept. 21. GENTLEMEN,—I have the honour to inform you, in reference to the memorial which you addressed to the President, that before it reached his hands, he had given the necessary orders for the employment of such part of the naval force of the United States, as could be convt•- niently spared for the public service elsewhere to he off the coast of Mexico, with a view to the eventual aid which it might be able to render to the citizens of the United States, residing in the ports of that country, where persons or property were exposed to any risk front the existing state of things there. (Signed) VAN BUREN. Letters from Havannah, of the sth Sept. state, that the affairs of the dry goods dealers have been settled. One company has agreed to pay one-third in cash, on their notes falling due, one-third in eight months, and one-third in 15 months. The other company has agreed to pay one-third cash, and the other third in nme months, and one-third in 18 months. The New-York Paper states, that the Spanish soldier, claimed as a deserter at New Orleans, has been discharged by Judge Preys!, after two hearings, on the ground that there was no sufficient evidence of his enlistment. The question of international LW was not touched upon. The soldier was still imprisoned on a charge of felony made by some of his comrades. The sale of indigo, which commenced on the 14th inst. at the India House, terminated yeste.day afternoon, and, on the whole, has gone off very unfavourably. At the commencement of the sale the prices were unusually de pressed, and about 1,000 chests of the Company's goods (broken and speckly) sold at a decline of 9d. to Is. 3d. per lb. The total quantity put up was 5,671 chests of Bengal and Benares; 520 chests Madras and Manilla; 1,348 chests of Oude, and 20 chests of Java. Of the Bengals and Benares, 1,019 chests were withdrawn or refused ; of the Madras and Manila, 22 chests ; and of the Oude, 25 chests. Of the private trade goods, about 1,200 chests were bought in, and 1,000 chests refused. The prices obtained at the sale just concluded, as com pared with the July declaration, shows a decline on fine and good Bengal of 6d. per lb. ; on ditto middling, 6d. to le. ; on ordinary and mixed, 9d. to Is. 3d. ; on Mad ras, about 6d. ; on Oude, fine and good, 6d. to 9d.; and on middling and ordinary, 3d. to 6d. per lb. The quota tions obtained were as follow :-Bengal blue, fine, Bs. to Bs. 9d. ; purple and violet, 78. 3d. to 7s. 9d.; good and middling, 6s. 3d. to 78. ; red violet, fine, 7s. 6d. to Bs. good and middling, 6s. 6d. to 75.; copper, good and fine, ss. 6d. to 6s. 3d. ; middling and ordinary, 4s. 3d. to ss. Oudes, violet fine, 6s. to 6s. Bd. ; good and middling, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d.; copper violet, good, 45. to ss. 9d. ; ordinary, 2s. 6d. to 3s, 6d. ; Madras violet, good, 4s. to 4s. 6d. ; ordinary and middling, 2s. 9d. to 3s. 9d. ; Ben gal texture, 3s. 3d. to 48. 9d. ; Manilla, Is. to 3s. 3d.; Java, 3s. 9d. to ss. per lb. These quotations, are, as compared with the prices given in the October sale last year, from Is. 3d. to 28. lower on Bengals ; from Is. 6d. to Is. 10d. lower on Oudes ; from Is. to 2s. 3d. lower on Madras; and from Is. 6d. to 25.6 d. lower on Manilla. The Montreal Papers contain an interesting expost of the Chamber of Commerce, on the Newfoundland fisheries :-Extract of the Report of the Chamber of Commerce of Saint John's, Newfoundland, for the past year :-" The cod fishery, being of paramount conside ration, must ever excite the greatest interest, and com mand the welfare and prosperity of Newfoundland- to produce fish cheap, and of good quality, should be the earnest endeavour of every person engaged in the trade and fisheries.-The Chamber notices with pleasure the increased cultivation of potatoes and other vegetables, by planters, engaged in the fisheries. The Chamber cannot too strongly impress upon the minds of the people, that already the Norwegians have nearly driven British fish out of the Spanish market ; that they are actually interfering by competition with us in Portugal, that the consumption of bad fish in Italy has suffered a lamentable diminution within the past two years ; and that in South America our fish ship ments are met with rivals at every port ; and all the fo reign markets have been very unfavourable for the sale of our fish during the past year, and in many instances the result of our shipments have been almost ruinous. The Chamber, however, has the satisfaction to ob serve the West Indian Colonies continue to take from the island about the usual quantity annually ; and that an increased demand and consumption of fish has evidently taken place in the United Kingdoms, espe cially in Ireland. Next to the cod fishery, the Chamber would notice that important branch of nature, the seal fishery ; which, though not equally productive as in some former seasons, has yielded this year a large quan tity of oil and skins; the Fishery employing about 300 sail of vessels of all descriptions, and about 5,000 men, has produced about 190,000 seal, which may be fairly estimated at 100,0001. We learn from Philadelphia that the schooner Virginia arrived there from Buenos Ayres, in 44 days. General Lavella still remained at the head of the Government, and things were settling-tranquilly remaining in the same situation as reported by the two Marys'. No ma terial change in the market. The Gazette Mercantile of the 9th August states, that Gen. Rosas had disbanded his army, previous to which he summoned the Cacizues who commanded the different Indians, and announced to them the conclusion of peace, thanking them for their assistance. Thursday Captain BY No was fined 21. by the Magis trates of College-street, Dublin, for the assault on Mr. JACOB. A robbery was accomplished at the malt and hop stores of Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and Co. the extensive brewers, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, on Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning. The goods which the thieves got possession of were six large pockets of hope, and a quantity of malt, which they uninterruptedly, from the ides of their being the servants of the firm, carried off i n broad daylight. The value of the property is about 2501. I