Star. — London, England, 1829-12-02 00:00:00

; PRUSSIAN LOAN, of 1822, negotiated by Mr. N. M. Roensenn.n, in London.—The Half-yearly Div o n on the above Loan, falling due on Friday, the lit of January ne en xt, will be paid on that, and every succeeding day (Saturdays and Sundays excepted) by Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD. between the hours of Ten and Two. The Dividend Warrants, with a Ust thereof in numerical order, must be left two days previous for examination. The printed forms to be previously called tor. NEAPOLITAN LOA N.—The Half-yearly Dividend, due on the above Loan, falling due do Friday, the Ist of January next, will be paid on that, and every succeeding day (Saturday and Sundays excepted) by Mr N. M. ROVISCHILD, on such Bonds as have been negotiated by bini. The Dividend Warrants, with a list thereof, in numerical order, must be left for examination two days previous. The printed forms to be previously called for. TH E EVENING STAR. LON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO DCLoCK. 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National gs 10 16 Real del Monte 400 400 73 United Alex, (is.. at 21 pm.) 40 293 17 18 173 18 stmeemElmenolosot This morning dispatches were received at the Colo nial Office in Downing-street, from Major General Sir JAMES LYON, Governor of Barbadoes; from Governor MAXWELL, at St. Christopher's; from Major- General Sir P. Ross, Governor of Antigua ; from Major- General NIcoLAY, Governor of Dominica; from Major- General Sir JAMES CAMPBELL, Governor of Grenada; Major General Sir DAVID STUART, Governor of St. Lucia ; from Sir C. BRISBAN S, Governor of St. Vincent's; from Major Gen. BLAc icw ELL, Governor of Tobago; from Major-General LEWIS GRANT, Governor of Trinidad; from Major-General Sir B. D'UaBAN, Governor of De magma and Essequibo; and from Lieutenant-Governor BEARD, at Berbice. The numerous Parisian private correspondents of the Times have found a formidable rival in the columns of another Morning Paper, whose politics are quite as am phibious and contradictory as those of the " Leading Journal." Although we are not prepared to ac quiesce in all that 0. P. Q. advances, still he comes much nearer the truth, that either E. E. B. —or the writer who signs himself X. does in the Times. It is infinitely better that there should be some e xaggeration ovh ere such high interests are at stake than that attempts should be made to bolster up an unpopu lar Cabinet and rotten system, by sophistry and falsehood. We have all along—even from our very first allusion to French politics—prepared our readers for their inevitable issue : namely, that the Korn would throw himself into the arms of the Jesuits and ultra Royalists. Surely such a fatality—approaching, as it does, to madness—har ever befel a Monarch ! But the assertion of 0. P. Q. that France is hastening towards Republican Institutions —is a stretch beyond the fact. We admit that the measures of the Court, ever since the restoration, have had a powerful tendency to bring Royalty into disrepute ; but we are convinced that the liberal party do not en tertain the project of establishing a republican form of Government. The whole country is besides averse from incurring again the risk and miseries brought on by the revolution ; and the people of France—with all their versatility—have too much sagacity not to apprehend that the abolition of the monarchy would lead to another fitruggle on the part of the remaining Sovereigns of Eu. , rope. Should the King persist in his present fatal course, we should rather be inclined to anticipate a transfer of the crown to the ORLEANS branch: we know this plan has been frequently discussed among the leaders in both Chambers. Whatever the future destinies of France may be we are again irresistibly impelled to press upon the Ministers of this country the necessity of pro fiting—ere it be too late—by the lessons which are read ing to them from the opposite side of the channel. Above all, we would hope that there is no truth in the oft-re peated assertion of their having clandestinely interfered, to promote the elevation of the Prince DE POLIGNAC. An act of greater temerity, or more fertile in fatal conse quences, could not be attributed to any set of men. If, on the other hand, the Noble Duke and his friends have the smallest weight with CRARLES X. let them at once counsel him to yield to the loudly-expressed and unani mous remonstrances of his subjects : for by no other course can he hope to preserve his Crown, and avert another convulsion in this country, and a general collision in Europe. The Correspondent of the Morning Chro nick , has remarked with great good sense on the indiffer ence to passing events in France, which is so strikingly manifested by the London Journals ; and aptly quotes the frequent assertions of the Times, that there is nothing in the French Papers except disputes about a new Ministry, which is a subject only inte resting to thembelves. In opposition ,to this flippant absurdity, we bare been continually directing the atten lion of Ministers and ,the public to France ; and we now meat, thatahe state of popular feeling there, prevails more of lass throughout Europe, Indeed, how can we •enpect it otherwise, when we see the same system of, , f - -:,''ir., • 1 - e, - ''''filf _--- , iv 3 3 . 7----1 ", ~. 4Wcap, A . -4. ~, , • ' - 1 4 .1V : ' :r.0 ,.. - ,-..,--z-.r.--. 2i i t. g am ,ll pu eLT 1 s - ........, ‘ ~......-..._ . ‘ ~, . oppression and contempt for the people's opinion predominant almost every where? The political projects of Austria--where M. DE METTER.. WICII has been engaged in a crusade against freedom for the last fifteen years—are of themselves quite sufficient to arouse the spirit of resistance and re venge, wherever a spark of liberty remains. Abetted by the Ministers and Royal Family of France, what incalculable ruin has not this person achieved in Europe, while every act of himself and a late Minister of this country, was calculated to heap the kingly power with public contumely and hatred ! Seeing, as the people saw—after their best blood had been shed to destroy the military system of NAPOLEON—that so far from obtaining those institutions and guarantees which had been so lavishly promised them in the Proclama tions of 1813, a plan for their general partition and spoliation was organised by the sceptred promisers, and every demonstration on their parts towards liberal forms inexorably and instantaneouly crushed, what could reflecting Statesmen anticipate, but the condition of things which has now arrived ? To talk of any more coalitions against freedom, would be to betray a lament able ignorance of human nature. We are sure that 0. P. Q., in alluding to this matter, is not serious, when he speaks of English " seventy-fours and frigates cruis ing in the Channel—and Dutch and Prussian troops stationed along the frontiers." Instead of such a state of things, the probabilities all run in a totally op posite direction. The people of France will not go into extremities unless they are forced to do so by the ob stinacy of the Court. They are therefore more likely to meet the sympathy and support of Europe, than its hatred and opposition. This is the great truth we would fain impress on the minds of Princes and Cabinets. Let it be the main subject of their future meditations, and some hope may then be entertained of avoiding that convulsion to which Mr. CANNING so emphatically alluded, when—in the best speech which was ever heard within the walls of Parliament—he sus pended the war of opinion" in terrorent over guilty tyrants. We have had sent to us the December Number of the Monthly Gazette of Health, conducted by Doctor RICHARD REECE; and in the very first article—headed Medical Biography—which purports to be a life of Doctor ELLIOTSON, we find a passage on which it is imperative to animadvert without delay. We do so—as those who know us will readily believe—without any admixture of personal feeling towards the respectable subject of this trashy memoir. On the contrary, we are sorry to see a man, with such claims to the gratitude of the profession as the learned translator of RUMEN BACH'S Elements of Physiology indisputably pos sesses, thus dragged in the mire by editorial puff mongers. The piece of imposture to which we al lude runs thus :—" A stronger proof of his me dical acquirements cannot be recorded, than the fact of his having been elected a PRESIDENT of the Medical Society of Edinburgh, which is the arena where all the medical talent and knowledge of the modern Athens is displayed." Dangerous and dishonest passages like this, calcu lated to mislead public opinion on so general and serious a concernment ; written too, as they must expressly be, to impose on the credulity of families, where health and even life is at stake ; or—equally fatal in their effect—the emanations of hardened ignorance ; cannot be too signally exposed. If Doctor ELLIOTSON, for whom we have a great respect—and whom, quite independently of all Edinburgh confirmation, we believe to be a clever physician—can put upon " record" no stronger proof of his professional capacities, than his Presidency over a green assembly like that in question, we shall indeed be sorry for him. That t'bere is often much enlightened and scientific discussion in the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, far be it from us to contravene : but that the election of any indi vidual to the Presidency of that Society implies his superiority in medical knowledge, we do distinctly deny. It is a severe duty which we are now discharging to the public, but that duty is paramount over all per sonal considerations. We have a great affection for that Society, and many of our most pleasing recollections are interwoven with it : for it is the theatre where great abi lities often have been first unfolded, and—we fondly hope—often will be. CULLEN, GREGORY, and Mov no, presided in that Chair. In that Chair, also, Sir JAMES MACKINTOSII.--aIMI whom a name more distinguished as a Statesman, a philo pher, and a patriot, it would be hard to find—a youth then—delivered his maiden speeches to a youthful auditory, and served his apprenticeship to that popular eloquence, in which sines he has so gloriously excelled. It does not, however, depend upon medical qualifica tions—but upon the connexions, or party, with which a young man surrounds himself—to arrive at this honorary distinction : for, in point of fact, it is nothing else. We have seen it frequently bestowed, where professional attainments bad no share in securing the be stowal. Let not the public, then, deceive them selves; nor fancy—because an individual may have once presided in the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh—that therefore be is a capable physician. We hnow that it is often the contrary. The writer of this remonstrance is himself an EXTRAORDINARY FELLOW of that Society, and has filled the very Chair about which the present discussion originates, when he could scarcely have told the difference between bark and sarsaparilla. The Nuremberg,' Correspondent of the 23d Nov. is this day received, in which we find a letter from Odessa, of the 6th, setting forth that Count PAHLEN, one of the negociators of the treaty of Adrianople, arrived there from Bourgas, on board a Russian frigate. We have no in formation of the Turkish Legation to St. Petersburgh having left the Bosphorus. Several hundred Turkish pri soners of war were embarked in transports to be conveyed to Bourgas.--From Bucharest of the same date, we have 1 an article which informs us that the plague had consider ably abated there, and in all the affected places in Wal lachia, in consequence of the setting in of the cold weather. For several days previous to those accounts, they had no new cases. Lisbon Gazettes, to the 15th inst. are this day re ceived ; and it appears from a despatch of the Por tuguese Chargi d'Affairs in the United States of North America, dated the 7th Sept. last, that the yellow fever had manifested itself in the city of New Orleans, with such dreadful violence, that from 60 to 80 persons died daily,—and as, in consequence of this official notice, it was necessary to adopt strict measures to preserve those kingdoms from the introduction of so destructive a scourge—which measures, however, may with the more reason be expected to be temporary as the winter season is at band which usually checks the de_ leterious effects of such miasmata—it was ordered, I. That vessels, persons, and effects, coming from New Or leans, and the neighbouring ports, shall not be admitted into any part of these kingdoms, whatever be thei r cargo, or even if they are is ballast. 11. That vessels, persons, and e ffects, coming from other ports of Louisiana, not included in the preceding article, as well as those coming from the ports on the west bank of the Missis sippi, shall be admitted into the Port of Lisbon only, and subjected to a rigorous quarantine. 111. That vessels, persons, and effects, from the other ports of the United States, in which the yellow fever usually prevails in the • summer months, shall be admitted in the Port of Lisbon, only when the whole or part of the cargo consists of goods susceptible of contagion, and subjected to a quarantine of 21 days; but if the largos' of goods be not susceptible of conta gion, the term of quarantine shall be twelve days only. IV. That veuels,persons, and effects, from the Havannah, and the Gulf of Mealco, shall be admitted in the Port of Lisbon only under a rigorous quarantine, whatever be their cargo ; a or if they are in ballast, their farther fate depending on the leglity of the Papers , &e- V. That the chief officers (Guardas Mores) of health in the kingdom shall strictly observe the regulations of the edict of 25th November, 3826, respecting the legality of the papers of vessels coming from foreign parts; and shall be individually responsible for every omission in a matter so essential, and so often recommended. That the present edict may be generally known, and that so person may be able to plead ignorance, it Is ordered to be posted up in all the public places of the ports of the kingdom. DR. JOAQUIN XAVIER DA SILVA. Another notice of the Board of Health, dated Sd November, announces that the Portuguese Consul at Bayonne has sent word, that the Board of Health in that city has revoked the order by which vessels from the ports of Portugal were subjected to qua. rantine ; and that the Portuguese Consul at Trieste has likewise announced, that the quarantine imposed at Them., Genoa, and Venice, on vessels from Portugal is now abolished : so that it ap pears that the false reports of the plague having shown itself in Portugal are now dispelled, as in fact the state of the public health is as good as possible.—Liston Gasette, Nos. 15. In a spirited article on the French Cabinet, in the Foreign Review, just published, a few questions are put, which may too soon require the utmost skill of our first rate politicians—Whigs as well as Tories—and our mis guided Ministers, to answer in a satisfactory manner. To-day we need not encumber their importance with any comment : they are forcible, and must awaken the most serious alarm for the safety of our country in the most cold-blooded of all our senators. Speaking of the re cent triumphs of Russia, and the apathy with which the progress of that great Power has been witnessed by all parties in England, as well as in France, the writer asks, how came we to manifest even " our satisfaction at measures which can only tend to spread more widely, and in closer approximation with the condition of Western Europe, the reign of absolutism ? Is not this in contra diction and to the utter confusion of the very first axiom of their political faith—the levelling of sovereigns, and the upraising of the majesty of the people ? Better, may they, exchange a Tartar or Barbarian sway , for an i,uro pean protection. Better, say we a Tartar or Barbarian sway, than the yoke of Russia, if it were only for the clipping and curtailing, and paring down the lion's claws, and breaking out the strong teeth of absolutism. With the possession of European Turkey and the Asiatic bor ders of the Black Sea—with the enjoyment of its com merce, and Greece, and the passage of the Bosphorus, and the lordship of the thousand islands of the Archi pelago—is not Russia likely to become more formidable than if she had been confined within her ancient bounda ries ? How many more States will she not now, by the extension of her capacities, dictate to, command, over bear, over-reach, possess, and destroy? However—re gret is vain ; the Treaty of Adrianople has been signed and perfected, and Mahmoud is now a vassal of the house of Romanoff. France, doubtless, might have saved him by her remonstrances and opposition, had she been under the guidance of an able Administration. But she was cursed with vaccilating councils and undecided leaders, who were quarrelling among themselves for pre-eminence, while the Administration of England was too fully occu pied by the troubles and anxieties of our home policy, in the conciliation of animosities, and in organizing and strengthening its own ranks. And so Turkey fell, con trary to all human belief, and all human and blind pro phecy : and to add to her dishonour, the disgrace of her fall was aggravated by her rank cowardice, and her cold blooded treachery to herself. The mallison of our own Richard Crook-back, and in his own words, were no un fitting judgment for that crime which he has thus laid prostrate: " Then !et her slot, and be the seas on her, "-"red reoepde !"-- It will, however, be some time forced on the consideration of England, what in all probability will be the ultimate fate of Turkey ? And as diplomacy is now reduced from what it heretofore was, a game of chance—and may, with some truth, be assimilated to a wall-appointed and patent machine, the settlement of all doubtful points will not require any very long-headed Talleyrand, when a Con gress shall be called—the necessity for such a meeting daily becoming more obvious and more urgent." crry. Twscvs o'CLoaa. Consols, which left o 1 yesterday at 954 t for Money, and 94i to i for the Account, opened at 98i 4 ; and for January Account 94i. This being the day for the shutting of Consols, an improve ment has taken place in the Market, and Console may be quoted at present 9Si 94 for money, and 94i buyers for 20th January. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. There has . been a great deal of bust le in the Consul Market this Morning, owing to the closing of Contd., which have improved from 94i to 944 for the Account, and are at present 95$ to 94 for Money ; and 944 for 20th January. The Comutbaioners for the Life Annuities purchased about 15,000 to 16,000 Si per Cents. The public are unsteady waiting the result of the meeting of the Bank Directors to-morrow, wheel it is espected that a new financial measure will be adopted, Which is understood will make money more plentiful In the Ferelin Market Greek Mock has Improved from 99 to so. In other Foreign Securities Uttle dot,. A Lisbon Mail% arrived, brought by the Magnet, sailed on the 15th November; also a Leeward Island Mail, by the Barracoata, sailed from Barbados. 24th September. . Received, at the North and South American Coffee house, Boston Papers to the 3d November; Halifax to the 16th October; Miramichi to the 7th October; St. John's, N.B. to t he 17th October. MEXICAN EXPEDITION. Want of apace prevented us from giving place to the following judicious remarks of the Times of yesterday, on the late expedition against Mexico. We shall always be ready to do justice to our Contemporary, whether it regards his frequent aberrations from public principle, or occasional fits of patriotism and right feeling : Is Some carious facts are in circulation as to the indirect views with which this abortive enterprise was undertaken, and the resolts which Ferdinand nattered himself that be might contrive to draw from it. " In his groping. about for matey wherever that useful article could be begged, borrowed, er purloined, the beloved Ferdinand was induced to believe that the wealthy Spaniards banished from bleak() would render him solid assistance. A sort of bargain was accordingly struck between them. Says Ferdinand, " Give me money, and I will send an army to restore you to your country." " Send an army," was the response, " to conquer Mexico, and we will give you money." Well, some hard cash—not much— was furnished to the beloved as an encouragement ; and when the expedition, such as it was, bad sailed—" Now," quoth be, look what I have done for you—hand out money—a great deal of mouer—moantains of mettey—for I know you have them." " Call you that an expedition I" cried the indignant capitalists:— "verily Don Isidore Barradas and his companions might as well bare stayed behind at Cadhs." Now it must be understood that the Hispano-Mesican exiles knew perfectly what they were doing when they made this reply to Ferdinand's importunities for a por don of their remaining dollars. They were not iw Spain when they ventured thus to pluck him by the beard. Like wary segodators, they would not trust him whom no human being bad ever yet trusted with impunity ; but they put the Pyrenneee be tweets themselves and the oath-breaker, and fixed their head quarters at Bourdeaux. Another interesting absurdity is related of retdinand and his more favoured counsellors on this occasion. The secret, but most serious, motive with that paragon of Kings for at tempting the re-conquest of Mexico, was less of a political than a Inancial nature. Driven to desperation for means to carry on any semblance or shadow of a government at home, and dreading the vengeance of the Spanish clergy if be Oswald so far yield to neces sity es to acknowledge the debt incurred under his own conaltu tienal Government, be was told that by recovering the mines of Mexico, but by no other earthly expedient, could he escape the recognition of the Cortes bonds. One of his Ministers gave a pledge to Fenermore, that if he could only despatch troops sosf dent to take and keep, for even a few weeks, possession of any point ea the coast of Mexico, so as to persuade foreigners that the Republic was unable to dislodge them, such a proof of his Ma jesty's power would be manifested, and such a prospect of the even tual subjugation of Mexico enfolded, that be might negociate on say Exchange in Europe a loan to whatever amount be pleased. The belt was swallowed ; a money association is said to have beat opened in consequence, and now after the catastrophe of Tampico, it may be judged with what probability of success. " It is more evident every day that the present system of the Spi el& Government is drawing towards a miserable dissolution ; and It may be fairly added, that no cad of such Government, let it some when it may, can be more ignominious in itself than its colonce for the last eve years has been to this age and the Spanish mdse. " As for say future attempts by Ferdinand upon the Republica& states across the Atlantis, they must be subjects more of ridicule shin alarm. If the wise policy pursued by the Mealcans in the re cent instance—of leaving the adventurers to waste and rot, unless au overwhelming force can be at once brought against them—be ad hered to on future occasions, no possible mischief, beyond that of a little temporary inconvenience, can ever be inflicted by Spain upon these infant powers. We do not, however, anticipate a renewal of any such frantic projects. If we did, we might be among the foremost to suggest again to the British Government the justice et that course at which we not long ago hinted—namely, an ind uction to Spain that the universal Interests of peace and cote. wee required her to desist from such vexatious disturb slices of both, especially as we had given an early and deci sive rebuke to the republics, when they meditated, and were preparing an attack upon the Havannab, which, If made, would unavoidably, but for England, have succeeded. We do not regret nor disapprove of such our interference. The well-being of our own West Indian colonies required it ; but since the first and most direct operation of that interference was in favour of Spain, so common justice may demand that with the leave of Eng land neither Colombia nor Mexico should be exposed to molests -A from Cuba." The Rev. Mr. YOUNG, Vicar of Heathfield, at his tithe-audit, on Tuesday ee'nnight, very liberally abated 10 per cent. on his composition, in consequence of the distressed state of agriculture. JURISPRUDENCE.--Those who take an interest in this great subject, will be glad to learn that Mr. Living ston has completed a code of law, civil and penal, on the principles of Mr: Bentham, for the State of Louisiana. The enactment of this code is suspended only, we under stand, until Mr. L. has deliberately considered the Rationale of Judicial Evidence, recently published by Mr. Bentham. At the close of Petitions for Justice and Codification," a work just completed by Mr. B. there is a proposal for the institution of a Despatch Court, on the principle of substituting something like our present summary forms for the existing regular forms of pro cedure. The plan has been examined, and approved of fully by the most eminent (reformist) practising lawyers in England. Measures founded on this plan will be moved immediately on the sitting down of Parliament.-- Scotsman. Don Mt° vEL.--aar be it from us ever to sanction the rule of such a brutal " cut-purse of the empire" as Don P&G t; ; but the mean, sneaking, dubious, two sided policy of our government is much more to be repro bated than the conduct of America. It would have been more manly in us to have said " we do not like this King: we do not gainsay the right of DONNA MARIA to the throne of Portugal : but for commercial purposes, for the sake of all British subjects who trade with MIGUEL, or who live in his dominions, we will acknow ledge him as de facto ruler at the court of Lisbon"-- than to do as We did---to recognise DONNA MARIA as a Queen, without a kingdom, and to tr eat Don MIG vEL as the real King without daring so to call him 11 !--- Tyne Mercury. On the 24th ultimo the Committee of this Association attended a trial of Captain Manby's apparatus, stationed at South Shields. The mortar was managed by the men belonging to the - coast blockade service stationed at Clifford's Fort. The day was well suited fer put ting the efficacy of this mode of saving lives from shipwreck to the test ? as a gale was blowing from the eastward. The greatest length of rope carried out by the ball with a charge of ten ounces of powder, was ninety•seven fathoms in a direction nearly opposed to the wind, and the shots were made with considerable precision at the objects aimed at. The Committee re turned from the trial much gratified, and convinced of the great utility of the apparatus. It is the intention of the Committee shortly to have the set of apparatus at tached to their Tynemouth station exercised, and they Lope by these trials the public, more generally than here tofore, may be led to consider the importance of the sub ject of saving lives from shipwreck, and aid with annual subscriptions the funds now applicable to the furnishing boats and apparatus for this purpose, and for rewarding those who liasiud their own lives to save the lives of others.—lbid.