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THE EVENING STAR. • , at . . ' P6OCAT - ' • LONDON. THURSDAY, MARCH 4. PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Rank Stock shut Do. Do. Jul.& Jan. 19i 4 per Cent. Red. shut India Stock, 242 40 3 per Ct. Cons. 921•* 1 S per Cent. 1751, 921 31 per Ct. 1818, 1001 £lOOO Excli.Bills 76 7 51 per Ct. Rad. 1001 1 1 d5OO Ditto 76 7 3 per Cent. 10211 1 £lOO and £2OO Do. 76 7 4 per Ct. 1826, shut Bank for Ace. 220 19 Long Ann. shut India for Acct. 240 Do. 30 Years, 191 . Cons. for Ace. 921 1 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazil Bds, S pr Ct. 691 Ditto 100, 481 Ditto Acct. 691 70 691 Mex. Bds. S per Ct. Colom. Bds.6 per Ct. Do B. 1825,6 p Ct. Do. ads. 1824, 23 21 Do. Ace. 261 Do. Ace. 231 Port. Bds. S pr Ct. 591 60* Danish Bonds, 3p. Ct. 741 si Do. Ace, 591 601 60 1 Do. Acc. 75 Ruse. Bds. 1822, 5 pret. 10111 1 Greek Bonds, S p Ct. I Fr. Rts, S per Ct. 1091. Do. 8.1625, 5 pCt. 46 411 &change, 151.65 e. Ditto Ace. 46* 211181 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO trel.tleti . SHAWL PAID. 11.1 smog. Anglo Blezicon (les. at siff.fus) 100 100 40 Brazilian Company go 5 101 Brasilia , Imp. (iss. 43 pm.) 35 20 Do. National 25 10 21 * United hies, (las. at £1 pm.) 40 591 21 e 221 Ditto Subscrip. 2 5 Phenix 50 57 401 The most important session of the French Chambers since the restoration, was opened by CHARLES X. in person on Tuesday. The Speech delivered on this occa sion will stand a most advantageous comparison with our own : indeed, it is infinitely more explicit and satisfac tory. There is one passage, which deserves to be most emphatically repeated : I HAVE SYMPATHISED IN THE SUFFERINGS which a long and rigo rous winter has inflicted upon my people : but cha rity has multiplied its succours, and it is with a lively satisfaction that I have seen the generous cares lavished upon indigence in ALL PARTS OF THE KING nom, and particularly in my good city of Paris." Why did not the composers of the Address of GEORGE IV. put words something like these into the mouth of their gracious Muter, instead of mocking the feelings of the people, and setting truth at defiance, by talking of partial distress? The answer is so obvious, that we shall not offend the good sense of our readers, by anticipating it in these columns. In the attempt made by the KING to assuage that irri tation which prevails among his subjects, there is one sen tence which is apparently pregnant with ominous allusion. 4 THE CHARTER has placed the public liberties under the safeguard of the rights of ma' CROWN. These rights are SACRED." It is by no means unlikely that the reply of the People will be—" Your rights are sacred, so long as they are exercised for the good of your subjects. But what is to become of us, if your MAJESTY chooses your advisers from the leaders of a faction, known to be the sworn and in veterate enemies of that Charter, on whose inviolability all our hopes of happiness and prosperity—as a free people—are exclusively founded ?" We shall look with intense anxiety to the proceedings of the Lower Chamber. In the meantime, it is worthy of remark that the Gazette de France—which gives the speech—also contains a virulent attack an the leaders of the Liberal Party. We are delighted to perceive that the great patriarch of human liberty— LATAYETTI—.4Vai at his post, and surrounded by the elite of the party. We need only name BENJAMIN CONSTANT, BIGNON, ETIENNE, SEBASTIAN', MIR TIN DE V AUX, and ROYER COLLARD. The CRUM" of freedom could not be in better hands, nor more elo quently pleaded than it is sure to be, by these i rnaments of their country and their generation. The death of Admiral HARVEY having caused a vacancy in the representation for Essex, three candidates have already advertised their pretensions—Colonel Con- Tana, Mr. BILANISTON, and Mr. LONG WELLESLEY. Of these, if we are to judge of their fitness by their addresses—which, we apprehend, are put forth by the respective parties to guide the county in the formation of its opinion —the popular preference, that is, the preference on pure principle, must be given without hesitation to Mr. WELLESLEY. We know nothing —except by name—of any one of the Candi-, dates : and him, of whom we judge the best, report her made known to us by the most inauspicious of intro ductions—we mean, his private Chancery case, with all its concomitant calumnies and contradictions. ant the yell of slander, or the exaggerations of personal hate, never weigh with us in our impartial estimate• el public men—or of men standing forward to WINN' public. The principles avowed by Mr. Wziaast.mt it his address, are popular principles: be advocates Par liamentary Reform, on a tolerably extensive scale— large reductions of taxation—and the abolition a political jobbing. We do not, for all that, think that he' goes far enough: nevertheless, if he be sincere hi his advocacies eatenUs, we do not fear that the rest will come. The very condition of the country will drive a sincere man—if he be not utterly destitute of judgment —the whole length that sincerity ought to go. As to Mr. BRAMSTON, he positively says nothing, that he solicits the votes of the freeholders—for the all conceivable reasons, that Mr. BRA MITOWARE g to say. He is.the ministerial canvasser, and he the value of the hacknied adage, the least mid it soonest mended. What, indeed, can a man my to t community whose suffrages he solicits in thine these, whop it is known' to that wirsitaky upholds the mischief which commas k 1, and glories in his connexion with those, incapable and averse from 'skewing the pablis Let us hope that tie emasty 41.1111.3104.41111 jp occasion—will not suffer itself to be jobbed like a borough, even though the whole influence of Government shall be employed to degrade it. Let us hope that it will unite in firm phalanx to assert its elective independence, and to repudiate by acclamation the man who comes to insult it by insinuating his Ministerial attachments, and the sources which he thence commands of rewarding the votes of freemen. There is no reward for the vote of a true freeman, except that which is inherent in the vote itself, from the consciousness that it is given with purity. Colonel Cow YEAS, though we have reason to believe that he starts upon independent principles, and even popular interest—we mean that of the yeomanry and farmers of the county—says hardly more than his nisterial rival. This is a serious bevue in the gallant aspirant for &sex, if—as we have been pri vately assured—his feelings are with the people. It will not do—in times of national trial and emergency, such' as these—to leave to the conjecture of a whole consti tuency points of such vital importance, as the poli tical bias and determination of the candidate who claims its voices. Colonel Cots TERS—•-it is affirmed— goes even much farther in the race of amelioration and reform than his popular opponent, Mr.WiLLEsi.aY, preemies to go : but the freemen of Essex will do well to require from the gallant CoLowet a similar Mani festo of his opinions and intentions, to that which has been volunteered by his Rival, and—in default of compliance—to give their suffrages where, alone, the purest principle is avowed. We do not make these re marks, in any spirit of unfair preference for Mr. Wit ' LIZSLIY, nor in any disparagement of the pre tensions of Colonel Cow Tans: all that we shall ob serve now is, that Mr. WILLEILZT'S declaration in favour of extensive Parliamentary Reforms, and animate diets and great reduction of the public burdens, gives him a superiority of claim over his competitor, which nothing but equal explicitness—and a higher standard of public purity—on the part of Colonel CON YEAS, can, or ought to, supersede. Intelligence has this day transpired respecting the stoppage of the Trade with China. It is stated that a dispute bad arisen between the Company's Agents and the China authorities ; and that all communication between the ships and the shore had been suspended. It was even said that all the vessels had dropped down to Urmston Bay. The American vessel, by which this intel ligence was given, passed the Celia, however, so rapidly, that more could not be understood : until the next ac counts, therefore, we must remain in the dark, as to the particulars of this matter. CITY, TWILLTK O'CLOCK. MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING. 1 Deb1ia......... 0 1 Waterford ..... 0 I Guero.&Jersey 0 0 Lrevrard Islands 0 1 France ..... 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Holland. 0 1 Hamburgls O Lisboa 0 o Jennies 0 O Swedes 0 O Skates ...... 0 Consols which left off yesterday at 921 1, opened at the earns peke, after which they were done at 92i, 92j I. and at present may is quoted 04 Buyers. In the Foreign Market nothing doing at present. The King of France's speech, which has been anxiously looked for by the speculators, has at length arrived; and, with the ex. caption of the latter part, in his address to the peers of France, in which he says you will repel the perfidious insinuations which malevolence seeks to propagate, and if culpable ma. nceuvres should raise up against my Govanment—this latter part of his address is rather looked upon as a foreboding of some great opposition to his Government, and which may cause gran agitations in the capital. It is evident that the French funds have lowered sines the above speech ; therefore it is conclusive that the lance part has not given satisfaction to the Parisians. Madras Papers to the 18th Oct. Cape of Good Hope to the 10th Dec. and Mauritius to the 29th Nov. have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. The Cape Papers con tain an account of the French force having burnt Taniatavie, in the Island of Madagascar; the consequence of which is,*tlie total ces sation of intercourse between that country and the Mauritius. The cause of this strange conduct on the part of the French is not ex. planed. The Madras Papers state, that the monsoons may be considered as fairly set in, and a large quantity of rain has fallen at intervals. Ftom Calcutta they state that the Half Bans has ceased to agi• tate, and the new Union Bank Is just about commenting active operations. The Mauritius Papers contain a Government notice for repeal ing the ordinance of the 12th September, 1827, establishing a Chamber of Commerce in the Wand, and for permitting the forma. don of a new Chamber of COMM* upon other regulations. According to the French papers received this morning, it appears that the expedition to Algiers meets with some difficulty in regard to procuring seamen The letter from Mar.eiles of the 23d of July, states the principle Broker there has freighted 120 of the largest vessels In that port, and three or four thousand cavalry are to em. bark. Six steens.vessels are expected at Toulon to keep up the communication between the Barbary coast and France, when the expedition sails. We have a report, said to be brought by the Mac Naghten from Madras, that an insurrection has broke out in China. HALF-FAST ONE. The extreme fluctuation in Consols during the morning has been about per cent.—from 91 to 92j for the accouht. At present they are ailf I, and 92i for money, with Hide businessdoing. The King of France's Speech hu not had much effect on the Funds. • The approaching Budget of our Ministers is anxiously looked for. In the Foreign Market Greek Bonds has been the favourite spe culation this day : they have got up from 46 to 49. In other secu rities little doing. • Cow xs, 31aacn 3.—The Celia, arrived at St. Helena, from the Mauritius, spoke cif the Cape of Good Hope an American ship, ap— parently light, and the Master seemed anxious to communicate that an Insurrection had taken place among the Chinese, and that the shipping had left for Urmanstin Bay, owing to it *log blown hard. No further particulars were obtained. The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, took an airing together yester day in the Parks. The Duke of Gloucester joined the royal party on their return to the residence of the Prin cess Augusta, in the King's Palace, St. James's. Great numbers of the nobility and gentry called yesterday and on Tuesday at the residence of the Princess Augusta, to make their inquiries after her Royal Highness on her re turn to town. The Aastrian Ambassador and the Princess Esterhuy honoured the performance of Mademoiselle Blasis as Ni nette, in La Gazza Ladra, at the Italian Opera House, on Tuesday evening. The Prussian and Neapolitan Ministers transacted bu siness yesterday at the oific.e pf the Secretary of State I for Foreign A&irs. • - THE GREEK QUESTION. TO LORD HOLLAND ME Loan—The object of my previous letters has been to prove, that the contracted boundary of Greece would be cruel, impolitic, and unjust. I shall now only add, that unless the Christians of Candia, Westein Greece, and Attica be comprised—that is to say, the boundary line of Volo and Arta be adopted—neither the happiness of the Greek people, nor the peace of Europe, can be permanently established. With respect to the removal of CAPO DISTRIAS, it is undoubtedly a politic measure, since there was no possibility of separating this individual from Russian interests. The nomination of Prince LEOPOLD can only be regarded as an experi ment. Should the Prince unite great firmness of cha racter to high talents for governing, he will succeed in Greece : if deficient in either of these qualities, his failure is inevitable. I beg your Lordship to bear this prediction in mind. I would stake my existence on its perfect accuracy. Those who know any thing of the Greek character, and the conflict of parties and opinions throughout the confederacy, will coincide in the foregoing assertion. It is true that the Prince goes to Greece under the most favourable auspices ; the eyes of the nation were directed to him as far back as 1824, and as your Lordship probably knows, the deputies then in London applied to Mr. CANNING on the subject. If the reply of that lamented minister was somewhat unsatisfactory and evasive, it arose from the impossibility of acceding to the wishes of the Greeks, at a time when he was himself the only statesman pos sessing power in Europe, who felt any real sympathy for Greece. But there is a point connected with the arrangement, which surely merited more attention in Parliament that it seems to have obtained. Is it not, my Lord, contrary to all notions of equity and justice, to place a sovereign over any people without some previous public expression of their will ? Would it not have been advisable to take such steps as would prevent any party in Greece or other places from saying hereafter, that the Prince had been forced on them by England ? That this will be the case, there is little doubt, more especially among them who have been excluded from independence. lam aware of the incon venience that might have attended any expression of the national will while CAPO DISTRIAS remained in the country : but how easy it was for him to have withdrawn while a Congress decided a point of such vital import ance to the new state ? Having thus shortly noticed a matter which seems to involve a breach of justice and public law, it remains for me to express an ardent hope that Prince LZOPOLD may prove himself worthy of the exalted mission with which he is said to be entrusted.— Twoauxiliaries are indispensable to his success—money, and a foreign corps to make his authority respected, and to show an example of discipline to the wayward Palicari. As to the foreign troops, they might be easily recruited in Germany or Switzerland. It would neither be politic nor prudent to introduce English or French sol diers into Greece. The tithe is not yet arrived for the establishment of Colonies in the new State. Before this source of wealth and civilisation can be made available, it is absolutely necessary that a firm and permanent sys tem of government should be established. The union of the lonian Islands with Greece has long been a favourite topic among politicians. This measure, however desirable on every account, must also be deferred. The disparity of improvement and knowledge between the two states is so great, that they could not poisibly amalgamate just now. The period is not, however, far 'distant. In the meantime, the field which opens to Prince LZOPOLD, is one of the most vast and interesting that could well enter into the contempla tion of civilized man. He is called upon to direct the energies of a people, whose early history not less than their recent struggle, entities:them to the warmest sympa thies of Europe. With regard to the capabilities of Greece to become rich and powerful, my couvictions,even long before the insurrection broke out, have been regu larly gaining strength, nor is it any trifling consolation to reflect, that those who stigmatised the Greeks as the worst of their species, and the anticipations of their friends as wild and visionary, are now among the fore most to retract opinions which were purely the offspring of ignorance and prejudice. I have the honor to be, your Lordship's very faithful and devoted servant, Mardi 2. B. Mr. C. Greville left town yesterday for the Continent. Mr. Groville took dispatches from the Foreign Office, for Lord Burghersh, our Minister at Florence ; and also for the Right Hon. Noel Hill, our Minister at Naples. The Earl of Roselyn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and Lord Leveson Gower,visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday, at the Treasury. It looks very ill for the sincerity of the promises of retrenchment and economy which ministers have made that they object to the re-appointment of the Finance Committee. The answer which the Duke of Wellington gave to Lord Winchilsea on this subject, in the House of Lords, on Monday night, was as abrupt and decisive as the most devoted admirer of military dominion and lavish expenditure could wish. It is not long since the " Finance Committee" was pointed out as the hope and future salvation of the country. Who were its warmest admirers, and the most eloquent prophets of the bene ficial7l )- results which the nation was to derive from the a plication of its political arithmetic to the profuse '- gality of our system of government ? Those very hig politicians who now admire, applaud, and uphold the Statesmen who rejoice over its untimely end, and pledge themselves that the phcenix shall never again arise from its ahem llf ever there was base inconsistency—if ever there was sordid adoration of - power, at the expense of every claim to public virtue—it is this ! The Chancellor of the Exchequer has given us his plan of reduction. As a relief to the suffering interests of the country, it is ludicrous and contemptible. Is he afraid that the pruning -knife, in the hands of the Finance Committee, would' lop off more of the luxuriant branches of costly and corrupt patronage than his circumspect and delicate patriotism can afford to lose ? Is he apprehensive that more than the salaries of petty clerks and official areal: terns might be reduced ? and does he dread tbat bloated sinecures might be cut away as foul and unwholesome excressoces ? Whatever may be the reason, it is quite clear that a Finance Committee is looked upon as an in convenient, if not a dangerous thing, by those immacu late Ministers who have ever economy on their lips, and a love for eternal profusion in their hearts. We have no doubt that the renegade liberals will find that ibis in terdiction of their applauded project of a Finance Com 'mines is founded in the strictest virtue and the soundest wisdom. They can no longer see the people suffering, that their rulers may tent in the luxury of profligate enjoyment. They look through a reversed political.tele scope, and see the many made for the few and not the few for the many. They ar• already Tallied for power, by ettlubintiug its vices.—Morning Herald. exoe t pt f tin beenothing t 4 knows the the soone, greet cot like th em that b e Pieceme a l who are i rongs ? ORATORIOS.-COVENT-CARDEN. The second of thin Lent oratoridd was given last night at Covent-Gardev, under the direction, as we formerly announced, of Mr. Hawes. The arrangements • were in the same splendid and extensive scale as at Drury-lane. The musical department however was, we think, more efficient and complete than on Friday night at Drury. Wssza's Overture to Der Freyehuis was per formed in a most effective and ir.asterly style, and cheited unanimous applause ; it was loudly encored. Its selection wee of a very popular kind. Mill PATON sang most delightfully, and MIS. ATKINSON and Mts. Pitman, upon whom much of the labour of the night devolved, were much and deservedly applauded. Mils BRUCE also is entitled to notice. Her voice, though not of much compass, is well cultivated, and her manner is chatacterisal by a good deal of chasteness. ' , Should he upbraid" was sung by her with much taste and sweetness. Miss BZI.LCIIASSIGIUI also sang with considerable app sure. Mr. BENNETT and Mr. MILLAIt gave a number of songs, very effectively. •• The Rose of the Valley," (a glee, Mimic.) by Mrs. ATKINSON, Mr. (ion; LOIN, Mr. BENNETT, and Mr. J. 0. ATat vs, was aho warmly and deservedly applauded. MEETING OF REFORMERS. At a meeting of the Reform Abbociation held hat night in the Globe Tavern, Fleet.btreet, HtXRY HUNT, Esq. in the clia;t, it was announced that the Loan Alaroa, in civilly declining to convene the public meeting for forming the Metropolitan Übiol• the GuUdltall, stated that he was friendly to the formation ant: objects of the Union. It was further announced that, since then, anangements had been entered into for holding the public meet. ing, on Monday next, in the bowlingipeen or the Eagle Taxer., lathe City card a pleamitewheed to socowwwedete • et least, twenty five thousand persons. ' The reading of the Rules, Regulations, and Objects of the Great Metropolitan Political Union, formed the chief business of the evening. But as they ate yet subject to improvements and amend ments, previous to the Meeting on Monday, •here they are to be brought forward amongst the resolutions, we refrain from giving them currency till they come before the public in an authentik shape. The CHAIIIKAK, in a few brief observations on the business of the evening, stated that the most eminent, constitutional, and legal advice had been had on the subject of the Union, and that there exist., no legal objection to this mode of concentrating public opinion.— A few desultory opinions were then given by several of the gentle. men present ; and, ultimately, the details were left to the manage. ment of the Committec.—Reveral subscriptions from Mends to the cause of Reform were paid in . and the meeting separated at eleven o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Wm. Thompson, from New York, has arrived off Holy head. • The Vittoria, late Smith, from Manilla to London. put into the Mauritius on the 15th November, in consequence of the muter. second mate, boatswain, carpenter, and part of the crew, having been killed by some Malays. The Vittoria was in want of a foremast, and considerable repairs. The Ceres, Cam, from Liverpool to New Orleans, was driven oo shore near Ballet about the 10th January. The Celia, Mist, sailed from Mauritius 24th November, and from Sc. Helena the 7th of January, for London ; spoke an Ame rica& skip from China, which reported that the trade was stopped, In consequence of an insurrection at Canton. Daps, Mascu S.—Wind E.—The whole of the outward-bound have sailed. Arrived the Ulysses, —, from Sicily. Posvutootrn, Wee* ff.— Wind B.—Olt tee port, the Lady DVNaglaten, Faith, from Madras—sailed the 17th October, and Mauritius Ist December. PLYMOUTH, Mawr S.—Wind B.S.B.—Arrived the Onder neeming, Middle, from Batavia. Off the port, the Isabella, Kurtz. from Charleaten. Fauravvr, MAR= 2.—Arrived the Navarino, Mora. (rem Aux Cayes. The Duke of Devonshire had a grand dinner party on l'usiday, at Doroaskin House. In the evening his Grace entertained* numerous party of the hunt ton. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond, Lady Harrowby, Lady Georgians Wortley, &c. were on the roof of the House of Cumulous during Tuesday night, to hear the de bate on the Attorney's-General's conduct. Mr. Secretary Peel entertained the Cabinet Minister» to dinner yesterday evening, at his residence, in Privy Gardens. We are glad to learn that the poems of the late Editor of the Courier, Mr. Eugenius Roche, which have been deferred till the present, in consequence of some necessary preliminary arrangements, will be shortly published for the benefit of his unfortunate family. We hope that the numerous friends and admirers of the amiable deceased will exert themselves to the utmost in this benevolent cause. The Duke of ATHOL is building a princely mansion at his seat at Dunkeld, after a design by HOPPER. It will stand in front of the " high bill of Dunsinane," so re nowned in Scottish story as connected with the exploits and witchery of Macbeth, and is so placed as to command one of the most romantic and picturesque scenes in all Perthshire, from far Ben More and the Grampian chain northward to the Pass of Killicrankie. His Grace has been one of the most extensive and successful planters iu North Britain : it is supposed that be has spent in plantation no less than 15,0001. per annum for the last twenty years. So exceedingly sensitive was Lord Byron, on the score of censure, that he confessed that " the depreciation of the lowest of mankind was more painful to him than the applause of the highest was pleasing." . A report has been prevalent for the last two days, that Mr. Sergeant Lefroy has resigned, in consequence of the selection of his junior, Mr. Sergeant Blackburne, as one of the Judges of Assize for the Munster Circuit. Morning Register. Mr. R. Grant has given notice, that on Monday next (the Bth inst.) he will move for leave to bring ie a bill for the repeal of the tivillisabilities affecting the British born subjects professing' the Jewish religion. The late Sir Stamford Raffles is represented to have received only two years' boarding-school education at Hammersmith, baring been at the early age of fourteen placed as an extra clerk at the India House ; but was enabled, by great industry and a most retentive me• mory, to overcome every obstacle and rise to great eminence. SMITHFIELD, MARCH 4. CATISI Al MA MST: Beasts.. 6ls 1 t alves Sheep sod Lambs 2,810 i Pigs Bad Ss id to 41 04 Veal% ........5e 04 to 61 04 Motton 4s Od 4s 4d Pork 4s 4sl Ss 6d Lainb Hay (pet load). AS Os. to ,C 5 05.....C105tr, £3 10s to £5 Ss Straw, sell Ss. to £1 14s. NEWGATZ AND LEADENHALL, Mulcts 4. By the Grew.—Per stone of Vbs. Beef - .. 3o Oil to 3 44 Mottos FARRINGLIONI mARKET, M•scse 4. Price* per S. Ben—Float Roasting, tlid. Llltto Boil;ni, 41d. Prat quail tky of each, Sid. Romp Busks. Pd. Rump of Beef, 41d. Beef Steaks, dd. Wenn Honow—Log, numb, 6d. Baddle, 6d. 13boolder, Sid. Neu, 41d. Breast, 4d. Lass, 10d. rout. SO. to bid. IT. JAMES'S HAY-MARKET, Maws 4. Coarse Han Lowlasd Meadow lia_y, so ,C 3 Ow MOW Meadow Hay, .113 Os. lo oft IS& lbw Upland MoadoW sod Rye Orme Hay, £4 Is to AS Ss. Clow Hay, le 355. to "104. Oar Straw, Ils. to 411 10s. What Straw, 1$ lOs to ft us. per load of if trusses. • 1. - -..lailbMi aWirsi mob ko