Star. — London, England, 1829-11-10 00:00:00

tion bas a genius to itself, as it has its own particular language' and a good thought in English may appear common if expressed in French. There is between the thought and expression such an affinity and intimacy, that the one loses all its worth when deprived of the other. " This is a reason why a literal and complete translation of Mak . speare cannot be tolerated on the French stage. Genius may be . compared to the finest plants which lose their beauty and their taste on a foreign soil. " As to the public, if there was a public, in general it was weary every three hours out of four. Often applause was given in the pit, while they were laughing in the boxes, and hissing in Paradise; here they admired the Atte parts of this strange conception ; there, :,nd at passages the most in the spirit of buffonery, they clapped their hands with a son of fury, apostrophising the peaceful specta tors who did not partake of their own phrenzied enthusiasm." The piece is got up with a luxury that rivals the Opera. Made moiselle Mass has only two or three scenes, in which her admir able talent Agues with great splendour. THE EVENING STAR. e e ill -3K 1' <,•‘ ' LONDON. FOVEMBER 10. AT TWO O'CLOCK TUESDAY, PRICE OF STOCI India Bonds IS 4 South Sea Stock New Annuities .11000 Each. Bins (94.) 75 7 6 4500 Ditto 76 7 .e 100 and .5400 Ditto 75 7 Commerdal, Bank for Aect.ll Cons. for Do. 91. FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2141 14 1 3 per Cent. Red. 901 I 3 per Ct. Cone. 911 1 . 31 per Ct. 181 P, 991 33 per Ct. Red. 99. . 9 4 per Cent. 1033 . . 4 per Ct. 1826, 105. 5 Lon Ann. 19; 13-16th. India Stock Ditto Acct. 24 Perim. Ws. 6 p C 164 e Do Acct. l6e I I Port. Bds. S Q. Ct. Ditto Acct. SO * Se Rus. ads. 1822. S p Ct. 106 Sp. Bch. S per Ct. 26 fi 10 Do. Acc. 10 91 Do. 510. 106 Sp. 8d5.1823, S per Ct. 61 7 Fr. B. 3 p Ct. 841, 25e, 831,750. Exchange 251. 65c. Brazil Rd., 5 pr Ct. 67 61 7 61 1 1 Do. Acc. 67/ 1 61 7 61 Cbillan Bds. 6 per Ct. 25 Colons. Bds. 6 per Ct. Do. Bds. 1824, 4111 Ditto Ace. 215 Dtokli lids. 3p. Ct. 7311 Do. Ace.. 731 Greek Bands, 5 p Ct. 26 Do B. 1825, 5 p C. 26 7 61 71 Ditto Acct. 27 1 'Mexican Bds. 5 per Cent. Do. Bds, 1825,6 pr Ct. 241 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWn treLIICK. 4HA mi. PAM lift /HAIM Anglo Mexican (is*. at £5 pm) 100 100 Of Ditto Subscrip. S 81 Brasilia -. Imp. (as. .e 5 pm.) 35 20 We 80 Do. National 25 10 15* 16 Colombian (in. at £5 pm.) 100 35 5} 1 lexical) 100 35 91 Real del Monte 400 400 Ditto Script. Australian 10 221 100 20 9b In consequence of the indisposition of the RECORDER, the Council which was to have been held by the KING this day, at Windsor Castle, was put off. A notice to this effect was received early this morning. In the afternoon the Duke of WELLINGTON left town for Stmthfieldsay, and Sir GEORGE MU ARA Y, for Tun bridge Wells. We have never thought well of the sincerity of Mr. O'CON N ELL, but we have cautiously repressed our suspi cions, in the hope that they might have been too hastily adopted. As an asserter of religious equality, the Hon. Gentleman accomplished a glorious mission—he ran a splendid career : but with all his affectation of liberal sen timent— for it was an affectation with him—he never convinced us that he was really liberal. Neither will it be going too far, to say that he never convinced the country : by the country, we mean the Protestant mass of the Empire, who mistrusted O'Cow NELL from the timt, and mistrust him doubly now. Throughout the long" agitation" in which he was engaged, the cloven foot of his papistical partisanship stood out conspicuously fi om beneath the mantle of his Irish patriotism. Disaf fection to the political supremacy of England inter mingled largely with his endeavours to break the yoke of an ecclesiastical vassalage. His detestation of this country and its religion was perceptible in every speech he uttered, notwithstanding his anxiety to disguise it. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman has been ac cused of being a Jesuit, but we acquit him of that impu tation. He hates too heartily—too overtly—to belong to the hypocritical order of LOYOLA, though in him that order has found an inveterate and furious supporter. It has been impossible to resist these observations on reading the speech which Mr. O'CONNELL made at Yonghal, at a public dinner given to him there, on the Ist of November He has completely thrown off the mask : whether, because he thinks Government is committed too far in its policy of concession, to recede—or because he fancies the popular.organisation under him to be capable of setting it at defiance—we know not. All that we know is—that O'CONNELL has thrown of the mask. It is time, therefore, to put aside all reservation, add false feelings of delicacy on our parts: we, on this side, are under no obligations to the Hon. and Learned Member for Clare, but ho owes largely to our forbearance. While the struggle was in progress, he received from the enlightened patriots of this country a co-operation which even exceeded prudence : if he betrayed, in the intemperance of a public harangue—as he frequently did -some lurking sinister intention, it was immediately ascribed to the natural excitement of his situation. None, but the Orange Ultras, ever charged Mr.O'CONItELL with bigotry, and intolerance, and Romish views. Now, however, we ourselves—we, who cannot be impeached of illiberal courses, or (lrange prejudices—charge him directly with papistical designs; with aims to separate, and subvert, and revolutionise ; with schemes incom patible with his allegiance to his lawful SOVEREIGN, and having for their object to dissolve the allegiance of his countrymen. Mr. O'CONNELL is the connecting link between the Roman PONTIFF, and his Jesuit mis sionaries in Ireland ; and feeling—aye, and knowing him to be such—why should we be longer scrupulous and delicate in declaring it ? The liberal Press has coquetted too long with this dangerous Agitator, and it is time for other than Orange writers to set his true character before the country. We are bound to England," says the Honourable and Learned Member for Clare, in his speech at Youghall— " by the golden link of the Crown, and far be it from me to weaken that connexion by my present observations : I want no disseveration ; but I want and I must have a re peal of that cursed measure which deprived Ireland of her Senate, and thereby made her a dependent upon British Aristocracy, and British intrigue, and British interests." Such a declaration as this cannot be misapprehended ; and when coupled with the speech of Mr. SIlEli at the Louth dinner, it shows for what objects these Ca tholic Patriots are working together. While they were yet unemancipated, they talked of the injustice of ineligibility to public honours and of f ices on account of their religion: it was a brand—they complained—of civil inferiority. Remove this, by putting us upon the same footing—in point of law—with our Protestant fellow subjects, and it is all that we desire ; surely nothing can be fairer ; we do not want the places themselves, but only eligibility to them: eligibility is not election. Such was the language of the unemancipated agitators : the disabi lities are repealed—they are made equal to the Protes tants in law—and immediately their tone is altered, and their demands rise. Mr. SIIEIL, at Louth, said it was ridiculous to talk of eligibility now : election. was what they wanted, and election they must have. What ! said the Learned Gentleman—are we to be put off with the appearance of things, when we are strong enough to take our share of the substance? That will never do. We are SEVEN sumo); s, and we must have our pro portionate share of emoluments and liononis. O'Cou- NELL has carried emancipation, and he now calls out for a repeal of the Union : if he could carry that, he would propose next a declaration of Ireland's independence upon England. It is that—and that alone—at which in the intoxication of his popularity, and self-astonishment at his own successes, the Honourable disturber aims. He wants, he says—the devil doubt him—and he must have a REPEAL of THAT CURSED MEASURE ! "He may be told " he proceeds " that to attempt a repeal of the Union would be chimerical: he pities the man that wants an argument, in support of the position that Ireland wants her Parliament." " Look to Dungarvan, where a steady POPISII agitator is ralllying its constituency." _ _ This admission—from the mouth of O'Cow Nsu.— that the objects of the new " agitation" are popish, is inappreciable in guiding us to determine the character of his patriotism. There can be no longer a difference of opinion about him: he is at once the organ, and instrument, and functionary of the POPE in Ire land. On his arrival in Dublin, he has pledged himself instantly to form there a new Association, under the revolutionary title of " SEVENTEEN HUN DRED AND EIG lITY-TNVO :" the object of this Association is to repeal the Union nor shall its influence cease, until the Parliament of Ireland be restored, and her sons be as ONE CREED—is the promise of the demagogue. A private letter from Paris mentions, that when Mr. EYNARD made his proposals for another Greek Loan to M. LAFITTE, the distinguished and liberal capitalist cut him short:—" Write to the PRESIDENT, and tell him that until he has acknowledged the loans contracted in England, and made an arrangement with the creditors of Greece there. I cannot enter into any engagement with him." This reply, so honourable to the character of the great Parisian Banker, fully confirms all that we have advanced on the subject. The rise of two per cent— which we noticed yesterday—in Greek Securities, was plainly a stock-jobbing contrivance ; since, under the circumstances of this refusal, their decline would be the only natural operation. Notwithstanding the positive asssumption of the Mi guelite Journals, that their idol has been recognized by the POPE, neither the Paris papers, nor the latest private letters say a word on the subject. If, however, the Pontiff should be subsequently induced to commit such an act, how will it change a question in which the whole public opinion of Europe has been so often and decidedly expressed ? The recognition of the usurper by the head of the Catholic Church, would only furnish another proof of the total indifference that prevails with regard to all those principles on which the other sovereigns of Europe are permitted to hold their thrones. We have German Papers this day to the 4th instant ; but they contain little matter of interest. All eyes are now turned on unhappy Greece ; and the most intense anxieties are felt about the political as well as the geographical status which she is to hold in the East of Europe. Albeit the silence of the Continental Papers seem to be marked on this matter, certain private ad vices—to which, by the way, we do not always give the most implicit credit—inform us that the choice of a Knro for Greece forms at present one of the subjects of con ference among the Representatives of the Powers— parties to the treaty of the 6th July. The Prince PAUL DE WIRTEMBERG is now in Paris, making every effort to induce the French Ministry to present him as a can didate for the kingly office. His Serene Highness is incessant in his applications to Prince DE POLIGNAC; but it does not appear that he is likely to succeed. The Prince of Lucca is, we believe, also a candidate—but nothing decisive has taken place. The truth is, that none of the Europeaa Powers dare to move in the mat ter, till NICHOLAS "nods his head." FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, Orr. W. Within these few days it is reported that various cues of plague have occurred in the Principalities, namely, at Jusy and Bucha rest, w►ich have induced the authorities to take the promptest measures, .everal soldiers of the garrison having been attacked. It is believed that in consequence of this circumstance, the troops left for the occupation of the Principalities will not be numerous. It is thought in the Russian army that the Porte has obtained a reduction of four anions of ducats in the amount of the military contribution. and that the Emperor Nicholas intends on this ac count to order the evacuation of the Turkish territory four years before the time stipulated a: Adrianople. Large mediates of berms are making in Poland to 111111111110 t the light r.avalry.---44Ege• wiser Zoltan, Nov. 4. EGINA, Sam I. The National Congress at Argos has passed the (Wowing rss lotion respecting the declaim of causes that were pending in the Criminal Courts before the arrival et the Preideut of Greece :- 1. AU disputes between natives of the country, vides from actions that are to be considered as cringes and misdemeanours, committed between the 48th February (0.5.) 1821, and the in stallation of the Provisional Government in 1828, shall be decided in the first and lass instance by a Tribunal of Arbitration, consist ing of three Members. 2. Bacb of the two parties will name an Arbitrator ; the third will be appointed by the Government. The majority of two decides. S. If the plaintiff or the defendant does not name his arbitrator, the Government has the right to appoint him. 4. The arbitrators are chiefly to aim, in the execution of their duties, at the extinction of hostile passions, and take equity for their guide. 5. In all the above cases the usual course of proceeding shall be observed, with the reserve of such modigicadons u the Go►ern meet may think ht to order, either in general, or for the particular MN. 6. This Tribunal decides finally on such cases with respect to the damages to which the plaintiff has proved his right ; but every thing relative to the application of the punishment is left to the Government. The last (136) Decree of the National Coovess relates to the re-assembling of the fourth Congress, and the renewal of its Sit tings. The Members at the present Congress will form the next Assembly, which is to be considered as only the continuation of the present, as soon as the Government has prepared the plan of a Coo stitution, or when the cases enumerated in the 3d Article of the first Decree render it necessary—the Members of the present Con gress are to be agala called together.—Frankfort Papers, Nov. 3. THE NEW POLICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Slit—Your Paper of yesterday evening contains the following paragraph, which, to my poor comprehension, requires some explanation: " The Police Commissioners have directed that persons taken up by the Constables for drunkenness only, may be discharged when sober, without being taken before a Magistrate." Perhaps you, Mr. Editor, or some of your intelligent correspondents, would afford the public the slight satis faction of knowing by what clause or provision of the New Police Act such an extraordinary power is vested in the Co"-- 'en, of changing at their will and which has either hr the law of pleasure that system .. _ ~een the land, or the shadow of law, under which fines and penalties have hitherto been inflicted on the people. Soon after the establishment of the present gendarmerie force, two cases occurred, in which it was evident that the Po lice Commissioners possessed no authority, under the Act, to delegate to the privates, or even to the sergeants or corporals of the anti-national force, the power of dia. charging a person once taken into custody, without bring ing the complaint before a magistrate. In the first case,which occurred at Hatton Garden, on the 2d of October, the inspector asked "whether the officer of the night had any discretionary power to set at liberty a person given in charge for a trivial matter, such as being brought off the streets in a state of intoxication ?" The Magistrate, Mr. ROGERS, although he then pronounced no decision on the point, yet observed, that " at least whatever name was entered in the Report, must be brought to the office, or the office discharge could not be entered." But in the second case, at Bow-street, on the 6th of October, the " discretionary power" was not only de nied, but its assumption censured as "highly improper" —ss the Report of the proceedings published in " the STAR" of that date specifies : " Among the night charges brought before Mr. Mut su via., was one against a man charged with an offence against the Vagrant Act, who did not appear. Mr. MINSIIULL asked the reason of this? and Preece, the inspector, replied that he understood the man had been allowed to go about his business. Mr. MINSHULL said, that " such an exercise of authority was highly impro per; THE POLICE HAD NO DISCRETION—and it was their bounden duty to bring every individual whom they took in charge, before a Magistrate." And moat assuredly it is their bounden duty to do so : were it otherwise, no man's person would be safe—no man's liberty would be sacred, from the capricious or revengeful humour of these privileged violators of public decorum, some of whom are more frequently to be seen in company with the wretched and abandoned females who infest our streets after night-fall, than in the vigorous discharge of their duty. No Act of Parliament has passed since Mr. MINSHULL, an experienced and upright Magistrate, declared that " the police had no dis cretion"...-and it would be satisfactory to know what authority there exists of greater force than the law of the land, by virtue of which the Commissioners have empowered their constables to " discharge an offender without being taken before a Magistrate ?" We shall next be told that " every petty, pelting officer," is empowered to sit on the Bench, in the absence of the Magistrates, and decide upon the cases of persons whom be himself has taken into custody. To say nothing of the inducements to bribery and peculation, which must thus be held out, it is time that the people should know when the Acts were repealed under which they have so long been subject to fines and penalties, at the discretion of the Magistracy—or whether such in flictions have been nnautborised by the law ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant Links, Nov. 10. lase. ONE OF THE PEOPLE. CITY. Tvinvz o'CLoet. We are rather scarce in arrivals this morning, and those which have come to hand are of little import : consequently our Fends remain steady thin morning. Consols, which left of yesterday at 911 for Money, and 914 j for the Account, opened at the same price, and at present may be quoted 914. alternately buyers and sellers, for the Account, and for January 924 I. The Megan and Hamburgit steamers are not yet arrived. The Foreign Market is the grand focus of attraction this morn- Ing—owing to the great speculations in the Greek Stock. which bas bean done at 274, and which is a rise since yesterday morning of Ave to six per cent. This rise is attributed to a supposition of a Greek Loan, and the President of Greece going to the Russian bead-quarters. Spanish Stock is also better. Most of the Foreign Securities have rather improve& CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. The Camel Market modem steady the whole of the siontiog, at nt II for the ♦ecoent. and !lig for Mooey, with very little business doing ; but the Foreign Market has been very lively. par. Ocularly la Greek and Russian Storks. The imprommeet in Greek Hoods has hues considerable, and remain firm at our for. user quotation. As to the ;moral opinion that Greece will soon become a kingdom, with a great extent of territory. it is said that the choke of her &iverelp is between a Prince of the Hones of Bavaria and dee Ea. King of Sweden; but in the choice of the latter there is some diliedey. owing to his Wag a nephew of the Emperor of Russia. The New York Advertiser states, that the duties se cured at the Custom-bouse in the above City, for the quarter ending at the 30th June, amounted to 4,300,000 dollars, and that the amount secured in the month of July exceeded 1,000,000 of dollars. RECOGNITION of DON MIGUEL by SPAIN The Lisbon Correspondent. of the Journal des Debats, had addressed the following observations to that Paper. They are dated on the 17th of October, and well entitled to public attention The Court of Spain has et last openly avowed its own work, by recognising Dam Simon—that is to say, in renouncing the system of dissimulation which she bad followed up for 18 months, and fall of chagrin at being unable in spite of all the efforts of her diplomacy to persuade the ether Powers of Europe to sanction the most scandalous of usurpations, she has determined to throw off the mask in the hopes,perbaps,tbat her example would be more powerful than her exhortations. But this hope will be abortive, for happily the policy of the Cabinet of Madrid is not a model which odic s are either in the habit of imitating or eager to follow. The Portuguese Nation cannot fear that the European Cabinet► could have entertained the idea of sending firth Spain to prepare the way which they themselves reject; and tkat they wished to be, u it were. covered by her shadow, in order to strike the last fatal blow to this unhappy country. On the other hand, the recognition by Spain. considered of itself, is not, with regard to Portugal, of the smallest importance. In effect, the most intimate relations have not ceased to exist between Lisbon and Madrid ever since the first moment of the Usurpation. M. as CAMIWZA3I, who was at Lisbon when it took place, charged with an extraordinary mission, continued to reside there after the pretended rupture of all diplomatic intercourse. He was replaced by M. D'ACOSTA MOISTALSYNI. The latter has been regarded, during the last six months, as the life and soul of Ilitoun'sor rather the Queen's government. Oa the recent occasion, all he did was to present his credentials under a new form, and place the arms of Spain over his door. It is not unimportant to observe, that this same ACOSTA, who was minister at Vienna when Don Mona happened to reside in that capital, was then the secret agent of the correspondence kept up with these Portuguese rebels, who were plotting the destruc tion of the legitimate throne. This fact alone la sufficient, If any thing was required, to prove the open protection afforded to these very rebels by Spain, as well as the part played by the Cabinet of Madrid in the affairs of Portugal since 1826. This part is ren dered still more odious, by the simulated adhesion of Spain to the reproaches which all the Powers addressed to the usurper. But to return to this as of recognition, we demand—not indeed of the Cabinet of Madrid—we know that it enjoys the happy pri vilege of not being responsible for its actions ;—nor of Spanish nation—nor of any other authority ;—but of the admirers and advo cates of that measure, out of Spain—of the Quoadinsne for instance which has reiterated its praises of so generous a determination— we demand by what principle his Most Catholic Majesty is influ enced in recognising the Infant Don Miguel u legitimate King ? For it is not merely the Government della° that has been recog nised by Spain. History, past and present, sufficiently demon strates the little importance that Spain in her inert impassibility attaches to a Government de facto. It fellows, then, that she must recognise the Infant Don Miguel as the Elect of the Portuguese nation (supposing that she confers this title upon the factious and illegal assembly which has decreed the Crown to him)—and thus sanctions the doctrine of national sovereignty--a supposition too repugnant to his Most Catholic Majesty to be admitted;—or else she adopts the arguments adduced by that assembly, in declaring that Don Pedro was disseised of the throne, and that the right to the Crown reverted to the Infant Don Miguel. nitre h so medium to justify the recognition of Spain ; that Power must either consider Don MJCIVSL u tinted by the nation, or u replacing, as of right, the King his brother thus disseized of the Throne. Let us now consider the motives alleged by the mi-disant Cones for declaring the forfeiture of Don Panto. They bate asserted that the fundamental laws of Portugal exclude foreigners from the Throne: this Is false. They say that Dan PICNICS from the day in which be was acknowledged Emperor of Brazil, bad lost all rights as a Portuguese : this is equally false. They pretend that on his forfeiture, the Crown reverted to his younger brother. An animism still more illegal and unjust—for even if he bad renounced his own rights, he never could have despoiled his children, born before the separation of the crowns, of the rights of their itdieritancei Such are, notwithstanding, the only principles by which the revolutionary faction has attempted to prove the de fault of Don Pznao. But what renders the conduct of Spain per fectly incomprehensible, is, that she does not recognise, and never has recognized, Don Pssao—as the Emperor of Brazil. Now as by this doctrine of Spain, he could not have become a foreign So vereign—it follows that by the doctrine even of the revolutionary Portuguese themselves, he cannot have forfeited the crown of Por tugal, to which he bad been called by the right of primogeniture. It must be acknowledged that on this point, the Cabinet of Madrid has attained the very sublimity of absurdity—for it admits an effect without a cause, and an act so 'important as the succession to a neighbouring Crown, as the consequence of a prindple which it does not acknowledge. We defy the most subtle and experienced casuist to clear up this ridiculous imbroglio j and we maintain that Spain was of all the European Powers, the most unfortunately situated for furnishing a pretest to sanction the criminal decision of the Cortes of Lisbon. But, let us ask, what will become of Den Penao according to this decision of Spain ? lf, by the opinion which she hes adopted, he cannot be both Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal, be must be one or the other—unless indeed she would annihilate him altogether. The truth of the matter is, the Cabinet of Madrid will become like Haman, when he bad overcome all the difficulties that bad been raised to the marriage of his daughter—" tens charts"—these words alone replied to all. The principles of legitimacy, the voice of humanity, the sanctity of oaths, the reproaches of all the world, the dangers which web examples present to all Royal Families— all these, and a thousand considerations besides, would produce no effect when she reputed " Sens ante." Let us hope for the welfare of the Portuguese nation, that these magical words may not have the same influence in France and elsewhere. It must be admitted, however, that the moment has been happily chosen fat misting the new King, and that the voice of Spain re-echoing but the sanguinary sentences of Oporto, forms a concert worthy to celebrate his recognition." Accounts from Callao in July state, that grails re mained tranquil there under the new order of things ; and .the people were pleased at the change of the government. General Fuentes is very popular and much in favour of low duties, and the extension of commerce. The Government at Sydney has passed an Act for ascertaining the number of inhabitants, horses, cattle, and sheep, and the number of acres of land cultivated and uncultivated, by attaching a fine of at least 101. in any case where such return is not made, or is made falsely. It has been decided, that the large wooden boards, placed by the brewers against public houses, are dan gerous nuisances, calculated to facilitate fires, and to prevent inhabitants escaping by the windows, and liable, under the Building Act, to be taken down. PEE ALTY FOIL SWEARIITG.—It is perhaps not gene rally known that a day labourer, common soldier, or sailor, is liable to a fine of Is. a adesman of 2s. and a gentleman, &c. of ss. for everyprofane oath; for a second offence the fine is doubled, and for a third offence tie bled.—Cheltenham Journal. The number of Englishmen now residing in France amounts to near 36,000, and in this number are to be in cluded 7,000 workmen. Their annual expenditure is calculated at 96,000,000 of francs (4,000,000/. sterling) giving an average of 2,700 fr. (1121. 10s.) per individual. ,••