Star. — London, England, 1829-10-23 00:00:00

IN '` ~ ~ 1 '- • he coast of Norway, SO or 30 miles from land,la the most dreary and dangerous seasons, they will be loved at Na, and, where so small boat can live, will ling themselves into the waters, enured by a rope, and be dragged into the noel they are to conduct to the port of destination. Is the navigation of the Elbe in the bands of the Bing of Hano ver, that be is authorised to levy taxes on those who pale ? Here is a demand an every traveller of ad. sterling for every package.-- What does It mean? It is a pitiful affair. and it would be carless to know by what authority the impost is exacted. The duty is called the Stade Duty—and one would like to ask to what purpose it is ham illabargh lain every respect an Warning phenomenon—as are all the Hanseatic free cities. They have grown up on the broad basis4l free trade, sad owe their splendour and their prosperity to the vetegnitioa of the *whist and safest, yet least understood of prinepes, go Buy whesio you ea buy cheapest—sell where you can sell dearest—end pot an Impedimelltr in the way of either.' There is number sort of arithnsede mesh, by some foolish profiteers, who bail , that it is possible to email youndwis faster by paying a large sum tb A. (if A. is a enlehhent).than a small sum to B. (if B. is a stranger). They are yet bind—they cannot be blind—to the con ultimo of their giving a Wang toe man in the next street foe that Which they could bay fee shrine two streets off—and yet t here is really no dillemace. Let the rote of trade, surrounded by restrictions, and proundens. and prohibitions. be contrasted with it where it perms Its usenolested course. Let ruined Vence, and Cadiz, and Barcelona, 'ad the ports of all bigb.tariffed nations, be compared with Hasesburgh or Smarms, or any of the places where to let commerce aloes has been the prevailing kgislatioae— Look at gigantic France, rich and productive with scarcely any foreign commerce. Russia, a nullity. compared to what it might be. China, smitten by the curse of monopoly. Remove restric tions, and imagination could hardly stretch to the limits which commerce might attain. Compare it now with what it was at any former period. It may be as unbounded as the desires of man, and march on its reductive career till every land pour forth its own lasuries Into the lap of every other. The sides of the Ribs remind me of the beautiful bankr of the Douro ' particularly the northern bank—the land of Holstein— which has been loot called the treasure of Denmark. As you approach Hensburgb, groves of pleasure-grounds. gardens, and shrubberies, pretty cottages and superb mansions. follow one ano ther in attractive variety. Thetis scarcely an elevation which is not crowned with a handsome abode—no declivity which is not tastefully decorated with trees and shrubs. The inhabitants hardly understand German ; there is an uncouth tilett tests* of equal antiquity perhaps, or of higher antiquity, than the classical lan guage of the country, but which has been little smoothed .by the influences of civilisation. On arrivice at the place of debarkation. great indeed Is the con fusion sad unbounded the pillage of boatmen. carmen, and porters. So badly is the landing srranged , that a learned Profes sor. who took the lead, fell head-foremost into the water in consequence of the inattention of the waterman. and great indeed was kis peril, and great was my diLcuky in running with a weight of learning from the deep stream. Rescued be was, and like a philosopher, the first thing be uttered war" Where Is my hat ? I knew, even while I was under the water, that I should rise again." Who shall say that philosophy is worth nothing ? My philosopher shook his head like a spaniel, and looked round in the sweetest good humour, as if no mischance had befallen him. Blessings be en him who bears life's ills with patience and pleasantness, and Rings over others the rays of his own complacency! THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Thu Nautical Burletta of the Floating Beacon, with its entirely new effect of the Foundering and Preservation by Life Boat, has been nightly received with cheers, and will be repeated this Week, when it must be withdrawn, on account of the Production of an .entirely new Romantic Scotch Burletta, in Thee Acts, called the ROSE of ETTRICK ; or the Bridal of the Borders! The Revival of the Original Flying Dutchman is received with the greatest applause by crowded Houses. THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, will be pre sented an entirely New Comic Barletta, in Two Acts, called LOVE LAUGHS AT BAILIFFS. Characters by Messrs. Mathews. Yates, Wilkinson, Gallo. Hemmings, Sanders, Miss Daly, and Miss Apjobn. After which, the admired Nautical Barletta called THE FLYING DUTCHMAN! or, the Phantom Ship. Principal Characters by Messrs. Yates. ;John Reeve, 0. Smith, t ler, Hemmings, 'Paulo, Mrs Fitzwilliam. and Miss Apjohn. A Nautical Barletta, called THE FLOATING BEACON. Principal Characters by Mesas. Yates, Oallot, Butler, Hemmings, Mrs. Edwin, and Miss Apjohn. Tba Piece will terminate with the Foundering of the Beacom. and Preservation by the Life Boat, an Effect which no other Stage 4o London can produce. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23. 'FMCS OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Sank Stock oz. die. India Bonds 64 S 3 per Cent. Red. 110 f f f Smith Sea Stock 1 per Ct. Cons. 4 /11 i i 4 Oki Annuities, 101 51 per Ct. tale, 119 f : 41000 Escheq. SUL, (Id.) 74 5 Sj per Cent. Red.92l 1 f 4500 Ditto 74 S 4 per Ct.lo3f 1 4 f .2100 and 4200 Ditto T 4 5 4 pr Ct.:826,105i 5 Bank for Acct. Long Ann.'s. d. 264 20 India for Acct. India Stock; Conk for Acct. 911 f f I FOIIRIGNI FUNDS. TWO Ott.oCK Brasil Bonds, Spr Ct. 67* 7 Mexican Bds. 3 per Cent. Do. Acct. 671 I 17 f Ditto 100,20 f Cabot. Eds. 6 per Ct. Port. Ms. sp. Ct. 501 50 Do. 8d5.1824, 19f I f Ditto Acet. IA f 1 49. i Ditto Acct. 191 I 20 Prose. Bonds, 5 p Ct 102 Diode% lids. 3v. Ct. Rua eds. 1222, 5 p 0.105 44 Ditto Acct. 74 Do Acct.los Greek Bonds, S p Ct. Spanish 13ds. 5 per Ct. 91 f f Russ. 1id5,1625.5 per Ct. 20f 191 Do Bonds, 1523, 5 p Ct. 16 Ditto Acct. 20. Peru% Uds. • p C. BRITISH ANI) FOREIGN SHARES, TWO 41et..)Ch. INAiLL WA KS MARE. Anglo Hellcats (is. at £5 pm) 100 100 25 Nana 300 300 WS Brasilia.. Imp. (ise. XS pm.) 35 20 00 51 Do. Nadonal 25 74 11 6 United Mex. (ies. at Al pm) 40 29i 15 1 16 Ditto Sabscrip._ —... 1 4 Genstal Steam Navigation 100 13 5 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 25 24 THE EVENING STAR. - e tit P CAVA LONDON. NOTICE OF THE COSMORAMA. TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMIS MIMES OF THE BOAED OF SWUM. GENTLEMEN, We feel it our duty to call your attention to a prac tice in the STAMP-OFFICE, which—we apprehend—can hardly be enforced with the privity, certainly still less with the sanction, of your HONOURABLY BOARD. We allude to the arbitrary exaction of Advertisement- Duty upon paragraphs, which not only have never been paid for by the parties or establishments to which they bear allusion, bat which—in point of fact—are the bond fide suggestions of editorial comment, and impartial pub lic criticism. Of such a nature was the notice which appeared in our columns on the Bth of August last, con cerning the Cosmorama. Impressed with a sense of its real merit as an exhibition, we concluded that notice in these words : - " We hope the public will continue to give it its due share of encouragement." At Soinetset House. this was decided to be an Adver tisement. In vain our paying-clerk explained to Mr. SAXVIL Mae Quoin--the Registrar of your Howoun- AZLE BOARD— that it was a spontaneous tribute, super induced by the excellence of the thing praised, and that DO money had been paid for it. Mr. SAMUEL MAC QUOID—who, it seems, acts in the fourfold capacity of Arbiter, as well as Exacter, Registrar, and Receiver on these occasions—adhered inflexibly to his first interpre- tation, and refused to deduct from his account the petti fogging and vexatious overcharge. Surely, your Ho- Nov SABLE Bowan does not contemplate such a coercion of fair remark, as this which we now feel ourselves bound to repudiate ? Surely,the expression of an opinion upon the fine arts, or objects of taste or science, is not to draw with it the penalty of a fiscal visitation, upon the public writer who has the patriotism and the spirit to make it ? _ _ But if, contrary to our expectation, the liberty of criticism is to be made a phantom under the Government of the Noble Duke—u other liberties have been—at least in your quality of COMMISSIONERS, take care that these acts of indefensible rapacity are not carried too far. It is not the trifle wrested from us by the Exchepier— but the principle on which it has been wrested—which rouses us: and we appeal to your HONOURABLE BOARD, either to vindicate its fair dignity by disowning a transac tion so unworthy of it, or to cause to be published, " for the benefit of all whom it may concern," by what Act of Parliament a subaltern in Somerset House presumes to levy an arbitrary tax, like that against which we remonstrate. We have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your HONOURABLE BOARD'S Obedient Servants, THE PROPRIETORS OF THE STAR. By the latest accounts from VcaA Caus, which are dated on the 20th of August, it appears that the in vading corps under BARRADAS was still encamped at Tampico, without having advanced a mile, or indeed effected any thing more than a mere landing. We are anxiously waiting the arrival of the Mexican packet, and have little doubt but the result of this attempt will prove highly advantageous to the future consolidation of the republic, since one of its most natural effects will be that of uniting those patriots, whose differences, fo mented by Spanish intrigue, have hitherto proved so injurious to their common country. We blame our selves for having so long neglected Mexican affairs, and shall take an early opportunity of exposing the conse quences of that insane policy on the part of England, which could allow the new state to be invaded with impunity. We took occasion yesterday to astiee •the strange commentary made by the Times on the circular of M. BEUGNOT, A Morning Paper of to-day, while dwelling with considerable emphasis on the ruinous consequemies of the late Treaty, observes, " This obnoxious and infa mous treaty is in character with all the treaties which we owe to the patriotism and tender mercies of the liberals." Now, while we perfectly agree with some of the positions of our contemporary, and even find—in what he says concerning the carrying trade—our pre viously expressed sentiments re-echoed, we are at a loss for language to designate his extreme absurdity, in attri buting the Treaty of Adrianople to the Liberals. The assertion is so glaringly ridiculous—so opposite to noto rious fact—that it is unworthy of any serious refutation. If it had any foundation, we ask, what conclusion could his readers draw—but that the Noble Duke and the Noble Earl, and Sir GEORGE MURRAY and Mr. PEEL, are Liberals ! Want of space alone, prevented us from calling the attention of our readers to an able article which ap peared in yesterday's papers, from the Courrier Fran cais. The writer's object is, to repel certain charges lately put forth in this country, relative to the anti pathy felt towards us in France. While rebutting these, it cannot be denied that he has interspersed several ob servations on which it would be well if British statesmen would seriously meditate. Alluding to the comments in which our writers have indulged so freely concerning the Treaty of Adrianople, and subjugation of the Turkish Empire, the Courrier says :—" There ought to have been, they say, a close alliance between the two coun 7 tries, and unfortunately national prejudices are still air rished in Francs,—the hatred of England has revived with increased strength. These Journals are deceived : the prejudices they condemn are disappearing from among us. We do not hate the English nation, but its Government." This - remark, in the justice of which we thoroughly coincide, is followed up by a repetition of the assertion so often made, that the detested POLIGNAC Ministry with which France is saddled is entirely due to the Duke of Wara.niciTow. The writer then preceeds : " It rut be remembered that there was not at the time of Mr. CANN two, in the public opinion of France, the least sentiment of hostility to England. Coat w two wished for civil and religious liberty for his own country, and for every country of the Globe. He would not have employed his ascendency to inflict on France an oppres sive Ministry. He would not have hesitated when dan ger threatened the independence of Europe, any more than he hesitated to repress the plots of Spain against the liberty of Portugal; he would not, above all, have dis played an ignoble condescension for the monster who is destroying the ancient ally of England. This conni vance has borne its fruits." Remarks like these furnish abundant source of bitter reflection, and ought to sink deep into the mind of every Englishman possessing a single spark of patriotism. We shall confine ourselves to one solitary fact—namely, the 1 interruption of that harmony, which the policy of Mr. CANNING had so happily established between the two countries. When the friends of that lamented Minis ter were driven from office by . the Noble Duke and his friends, we foresaw the consequences, and pointed them out to the notice of our country. The result now fully justifies us in asserting that a more cala mitous event could not have happened for Europe, than the schism and distrust which followed the Duke Of WELLINGTON'S accession to power. Had matters remained as they were leR by Mr. CANNING, a Russian army would never have been suffered to cross the Danube; nor had Don MiGnsr. been allowed to trample on the rights of legitimacy and justice in Portugal. Had Mr. Caw N INC'S policy been ad hered to, Greece, instead of becoming little more than a Russian province, would have ere now been erected into a formidable barrier against Russian ambition. It is needless to dwell on the other evils which have sprung from a change so calculated to destroy all confidence between the two nations. We shall merely observe, that it is utterly impossible for England and France to unite for any great European object, while the present jea lousy exists. On the other hand, we should not feel the lea . st surprise, were the state of irritation into which the • people of France have been thrown by the late ominous nominations, to cause a convulsion there which should in volve a general conflagration. With one conviction we are deeply impressed : it is, that so long as England and France are governed by men notoriously opposed to free dom and political improvement, it would be the height of absurdity ever to expect or hope for that cordiality which is so essential to the happiness of both, and so usceesery to the great interests• of Europe and the whole civilised world. We have Dutch Papers this day to the 21st inst. and the Allgenteine Zeitung to the 17th. The former do not contain any thing of particular interest ; but the latter speaks ominously, in a communication fromOdema, of the " Conquered Turkish Ports," and of the proceed ings of" the Governor General of New Russia l"—wits, by the Emperor's orders, has been graciously pleased " to allow the exportation of certain commodities from the ports of the Black Sea and the Sea of Moll." la it come to this ? The following are our brief selections : THE HAGUE. On. 17. Last week a great number .f camas and mortars. wit► their carriages, were brought to Ghent; which are intended for the I:- wainscot of the towels of Ondenarde. Most of them were cast at Leige in ism The well-known French writer. M. Polon, has arrived in the territory of Hanover. HAOUR. Oct. SD. Is the Sitting of the Second Chamber to.day, Committees were appointed to 'amine the goalamigos of the mew members, which •being kuod satisfactory, they were all admitted to take their seats, with the exception of IL Brognsans, whose admissibility the Cons. mittee judged to be doubtful. because he is a member of the Per manent Committee of the Syndicate of the Slaking Fund. The Chamber afterwards proceeded to choose those Members from whom the Lag is to select the President of the Chamber for the preemie Steam The c►oice fell on Mr. Carver Hoeft, Mr. G. G. °Mott, and Mr. Reyphins. Aurreasam, Oer. 20.—Exchange on London, lit to 11-20 Two Months, 1110 31-15. ODBSSA, San. 30. The Awing qf Odessa, of the above date, announces that in con sequence of contrart winds, no ship bad arrived for some days, either from Constanthxyle or the conquered Turkish ports. How ever. the Governer-General of New Russia and Bessarabia, bad, by the Emperor's orders, allowed the ezportatioa of all articles from the ports of the Black Sea, and the Sea of dila, which bad been prohibited during the war. Among the troops of the Sanitary Cordon, there had occurred two deaths. and several suspicions cases ; agaiost the possible consequences of which the most prompt and decisive masons had been tan. Algeffseim iritung, Oct 17. We have the Journal of the Two Sicilia of the 29th September this day, by which it appears that his MA JESTY of these dominions has instituted a new order of Knighthood, called " Tun ROYAL ORDER OF FRAN CIS I." to be bestowed exclusively for the successful cultivation " of the Sciences, the Fine Arts, and the several branches of Manufactures, Agriculture, and Commerce." The following are the particulars with which we are furnished : NAPLES, Stn.. 19. His Majesty has been pleased to issue a decree to the following Mete :—" It being one of our principal cares to excite, by Iq gauss in our power, the seal of our subjects in the exercise of the various civil functions coollded to them by us, and as we desire always to encourage the cultivation of the sciences, the AM arts, and the several branches of manufactures, agricature, and com merce, on the prosperity of which that of the kingdom depends " Considering that marks of distinction and honour are the most powerful stimulus to virtuous and laudable actions : " By the advice of our Council of &ate, . 4 4 We have resolved to unction the present law, via.—We la. stints, in our kingdom of the Two Makes. as Order of Knight• hood exclusively, as a recompense for civil meek, • which shall be called the Royal Order of Francis I. "To give this new order greater lustre, the reigning Sovereign is to be at all times the Head and Graad.Meater. It will moat of lye classes, vts. Grand Crosses, Conansesders, Knights, Gold Medals, Silver Medals." (The remainder of the articles, in all 32, casein the statutes sad regulation& A long list of nominations in the naval dames le an aexed.) We showed yesterday, in consonance with the affirma tion of the Chronicle, and in opposition to the argument of the Globe, that the distribution of political influence operates on the mass of popular property, in such a man ner as to cause it to rivet the chains of the people.— The case 3f the Bossugh of Newark satisfactorily settles that; and what is proved by the borough of Newark, stands good in reference to the whole system of boroughs. We revert now to the Globe, because he has availed himself of this occasion furnished him by 3 contemporary, to feel the pulse cc certain oligarchs before whom he crouches, with an insinuation of doctrines a daring, as it is profli gate and false. Alluding to the Peers named in the Morning aironick, the Globe observes If this doyen of individuals possess incomes so large in propor tion to the secondary gentry, it becomes more difficult for them to derive individually a share from the public pima der, equivalent to their loss by the public wtste." It is not too clear what he means by " the public waste" : but let us take it without cavilling. " individually" is good equivocal phraseology to set oat with :it leaves a loop-hole for him to creep through, if any one should assert in his face—as we do—that collectively the whole body of Oligarchs fattens upon " the public plunder." As to the loss which he repre sents as falling more heavily on them in proportion as they contribute more to the taxes, what do they pay with one hand, which they do not get back with the other ? And then again—talking of " equivalents"—is it not equivalent enough for them, that by their combi nation they can save the system? Talk of equivalents ! what " equivalent" does the mass obtain, for the taxes wrung from it by rough-riding governors ? If these taxes were ten tinees higher than they are, and there- fore extracted from the pockets of the grandees ten times their present amount of contribution, what would THEY care, who only disburse from a superfluity ? whereas the taxes which are wrested from the mass, are paid in sweat, and tears and misery. So far, then, from the aristocrat going without his equivalent for the Ilan which he contributes to the taxes, the aristocrat is the only payer who gains it. The ruined tradesman, and **distressed farmer—the ejected tenant—what " equi valent" does the Globe insinuate is theirs, who are driven by these exactions to bankruptcy, and beggary, and shame ? Does not the crowd, reduced from compe tence—do not the manufacturer and the mechanic, the master and the journeyman—give the lie to this cold blooded assertion, from the garrets of every workhouse in the kingdom ? Shame on the grovelling sentiment, which could betray a public writer into such forgetfulness et his high prerogative. Owe more sentence from the Globe, and we shall turn him over to his admiring oligarchs : if they have any predilection for suppleness and servility, after this article they will surely become his patrons, and make him their organ. "To say that the few families who are, per haps, least of all interested in the support of abuses, corrupt the rest, appears to us to be beginning at the wrong end." After this, to look for integrity or public spirit in the Globe, would certainly be looking in tie wrong place : we take our leave of him, as a self-con victed and incorrigible corruptionist. The Morning Chronicle, in its rejoinder upon the Globe, admits that the high nobility " who possess overwhelming estates," cannot get back in places all that they disburse in taxes : but this is a narrow view of so great an argument. We have shown that they get back an ample equivalent, in the conservation of the system itself : and that if their sacrifices to that end were ten times greater than they are, yet—re ferentially considered—they cannot claimto be reckoned sacrifices at all. A sacrifice involves privation : but of what outward gorgeousness, or domestic luxury, do the proprietors of only ten thousand a-year, in an as cending scale, mulct themselves to satisfy the tax-col lector ? If you desire to see privation—that harrowing privation which a grinding fiscal generates—.thro from these children of voluptuousness, to the habitations of men struggling with the world. Go, mingle in the mass, if you desire to see PRIVATION-.401r she is a harbourer and a denizen there ! But tell not us of oligarchal sacrifices, to maintain a class ex alted by enormous wealth above the temperature of human sympathies, in its dominant and bestriding atti tude. These are not even considered sacrifices, by the parties who make them—but useasures for the con servation of their power. The Chronicle comes nearer to the point, when he says—" The dozen Peers who possess kingly incomes give stability to the state of things, which enables the boroughnsongers of their order to draw to themselves the great prizes in the lottery of Church and State." This is the true philosophy of our corruption; and the I..tvrs OP pßimoGENlTuzE—we say it advisedly—must under go some adaptation to our new necessities, ere the de moralising flood can be stayed. Under them, we have grown up to be the first of nations: but within a cen tury, they have begun to operate inversely upon the common prosperity— Hoe Note &Aosta glades, Quo popull vipers—Sulk! Reform—to be effectual—must begin at this end. If not, we are of opinion, with our able contemporary, that " the aristocracy of this country will, like other poten tates, push their triumphs to the point where re-action CITY. Twin.vs (Max. The Cowl Market Is spin lively this morning. The great abundance of Money, and the want of easroyeaent thereof, he corauserce, causes the capitalists, as well as the rabic," to purchase all descripdoos of Funds. by which they can obtain a high interest, rather then discossodng at 116 per cent. Console which left et yes terday at ate to for Money. and 9111 for the Ammo. opened at 9111 for Money, and 911 for Account, and got up 10 el i 1. Stone which a slight ro.action has taken place, and at wenn may be quoted 911 i for the Account. in the Foreign Market all Secarkies are improtieg• mused by the impube of the Edda market. The dist badness doing is in Brasil and Portuguese Stocks. CITY. HALF•PAST ONE. The Cowl Market is net so good as in the early part of the awning. when Consols was dews at 911 for the Account, and at present they are 911 6. This re.scden le attributed to parties having teased and pocketed a profit of 11 per cent. Consols fee maw' may be quoted at 9111. This has been a great deal of money boldness transactions. In the Foreign Market 'kiwi' has been dose at Is since which k has hasp to 67i ; Pampas has been at 501--not so good at present. The Lisbon Gazettes, from the sth to 10th Oct. in elusive, received this day, contain no news whatever. The St. Petersburgh Papers to Bth Oct. do not yet give the Treaty of Peace. These Papers contain a long list of promormus. Accounts from Genoa state, that during the n ight of the 7th and Bth October, a great storm was experienced there, which lasted from 11 o'clock at night till four o'clock in the morning ; and great apprehensions leer entertained for the safety of the numemus sbiplumg la the port. I