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LW which was then math. Tiny were in a condition to show that iz it interests tequired the imposition of another shilling, or per is 31 r 6. CLERK explained that the great reason for reducing the duty upon spirits In Ireland and Scotland was to discounte sante private whisky-making, which' had been found to &Mora -lisc the people in these countries. If the duty were added now is any extent this smuggling would revive. The consumption of rum now bore a fair proportion to that of British spirits ; but, if tie duty was raised higher upon the latter article, rum would in crease in an undue proportion. Mr. WODEHOUSE hoped the interests of agriculture would not be lost sight of in this collision of manufacturing interests. It was of the last importance to look at the effect of a reduced duty on spirits, as it affected the consumption of barley. If the West India interests were to be relieved, they might be more effectually benefited by reducing the duties on sugar. Mr. MOORE said the interests of the Irish distillers ought to be attended to. Mr. VILLIAM SMITH contended that the distillers had been placed, by recent alterations, as well as by the increased price of grain, In much more disadvantageous circumstances than the West' India proprietors. During the last year there had been an increase in the quantity of rum imported of not less than 237,000 gallons, and since 1820, to 1829, there had been an increase in the price of malt of ss. 9d. All this was unfavourable to the distillers. But, besides that, the trade had been put to the expense of more than 250,0001. for alterations in their premises, in consequence of the new measure introduced by Lord Goelerich. He should like to know how the West India planters would have relished any measure which would have put them to an extra expense of 250,0001. He would not say more on the subject at present ; but when the ques tion came before the house for discussion, he would pledge himself to make good his case. Mr. C. PALLMER said that one cause of the increase of rum was that the West India planters were obliged to go on producing rum, and therefore, when the demand failed, they must sell it at a loss. He should like to see all restrictive laws removed, and all par ties left to fair competition. He was ready to admit that the dis tress had been subject to great hardships by the alterations which they had been obliged to make in their premises in consequence of the regulations of Lord Goderich. The petitions were then brought up and read, and ordered to be rrinted. A message from the Lords announced that their lordships bad passed several bills; among the rest the St. 011es's Vestry Bill. 3lr. HUSK I SSON pottponed some motion of which he had given notice, but which could not be ascertained, to the 4th of May. Mr. EASTHOPE presented a petition from the nobility, gentry, &c. of Hertfordshire, complaining of distress. Mr. IRVING presented a petition from Larges against the duty on seaborne coals. ... Mr. K. DOUGLAS moved for a return of the quantity of rum imported into Scotland and Ireland for the last five years. Mr. ATTWOOD moved for returns of the expense of conveying :IT snail from Dover to Calais and Ostend. LIBRARY OF THE HOUSE. Mr. AGAR ELLIS moved for a select committee to inquire into the present state and management of the Library of the House of Commons. Mr. S. RICE concurred in the motion, and at the same time bore testimony to the industry, attention, and efficiency of Mr. Spiller, the librarian. Sir R. INGLIS was understood to speak to the same effect. Mr. DAWSON spoke in high terms of the admirable manage. rent of Mr. Spiller, and stated that the laborious task of arranging the index wu done chiefly by him. Mr. WARBURTON said a few words, which were not distinctly audible. Mr. HUBIE said, that if any proposition should be made to raise the salary above 3001. the present amount, he should protest against it. He considered that an ample remuneration for the mere duty of librarian; but for filing papers, arranging indexes, ate. he saw no objection to pay extra. If the salary were made large, some in. dividual would be put into the situation who would not be fit for the duty, and he therefore thought the beat way was to give remu. reration for additional labour. _ • PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock 217 16* ex.div. 5 per Cent. Red. 91i i ex. di,. 3 per Ct. Cons. 93 24 4 3* per Ct. 1818, 31 per Ct. Red. 99j 4 100 11.4. 4 per Cent. 102 1 4 4 per Ct. 1926, 104 4 ex. div. Long Ann. 19 cx. lv.l MALT REGULATIONS. Mr. DAWSON moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the 7th and Bth of Geo. IV. chap. 62, respecting the malt duties. It was not likely, he said, that any opposition would be made to the measure, as the most important of the clauses were agreed to both by the raaltsters and the Commissioners of Excise. The great ob. ject of the new measure was to protect the honest dealer, and place the trade on a fair footing. The moat material alterations were to do away with the malt book—that, namely, in which the quantity of barley, malt, &c. was entered, and how long they remained on the premises ; to shorten the period from sprinkling from twelve to eight days (as was understood;) and to abolish the certificate system. The motion was then agreed to.. FOUR PER CERT. ANNRITT BILL. On the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moving the third reading of this bill, 111 r. BRIGHT asked whether it was the intention of Government to introduce a bill this Session for the consolidation of the assessed taxes.. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was not intended to introduce such a bill this Session. He should have a better opportunity for doing so next Session, when he should have more time for so important a subject. Mr. HUME objected to the delay. - - - - - Mr. HERRIES said that what with the variety of bills which were before the house, and the labours attending the consolidation of the stamp duties, there.could not be time this session to do jus tice to such a measure as the consolidation of the laws respecting the assessed taxes. Mr. BRIGHT wished the subject to be referred to a committee. Mr. HUME said it was a libel on the 600 members of that house to say that there could• not be found one amongst them competent to bring forward the measure. One bill for consolidating the stamp ditties was not a sufficient excuse for delay. Mr. HERRIES said that after Easter the hon. member would ti id there were more bills than one before the house. • - - Mr. lIU3IE remarked that in the number of appeals made from assessments, there had been so many reversions, that the subject ad mitted of no procrastination. Mr. ROBINSON said that out of 120 cases of appeal only 34 had been confirmed. Mr. 11U31E asked if there were any intention to consolidate the Post-office laws, which, he said, were full of inconveniences and abuses. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the wishes of the honourable member had been already anticipated, ani that these laws were at that moment in a course of that Mr. HUSIE hoped the bill would be brought up this sossion. The third reading of the bill to reduce the Four per Cent. An. !nettles to Three and a half per Cents. was then put and carried. The house then, on the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, resolved itself into a committee to consider the repeal of the present, and the enactment of other laws for the regu lation of the stamp duties. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that it was not his intention to enter upon the investigation of this subject at present. He should merely present a schedule of the new duties to the house, and reserve discussion for a future occasion. He should state, that he had no disposition to increase the duties it this part of the kingdom. Mr. S. RICE and Mr. HUME made a few observations on the application of the proposed laws to Scotland and Ireland. Mr. BRIGHT hoped the bill would be introduced speedily, as the inconvenience attending the application of the present system la the legal documents was most serious and perplexing . _ .„ Mr. ROBINSON recommended that the preeein system regardhig receipts for small sums should be paiticularly attended to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that..by his new measure, he should consolidate 152 separate sets with 12. By this means every person would be at once enabled to lay his hand on the laws which applied to his own case. He should bring in a bill immediately after Easter. The house then resumed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then introduced his Bill for the regulation of the tobacco duties. He remarked that, hitherto, the persons who were allowed to grow and sell tobacco in Ireland made a clear profit to the amount of the duties imposed upon the foreign importer. This was inequitable, and he proposal w render them subject to such a duty as would make the condition of both parties equal. After a few words from Mr. Htrsea, Mr. POWLZTT TIIOXIIOII, and Mr. S. RICE, the resolutions were agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to light o'Clock. •.is Pew • !7;.- LIST OF THE MINORITY , . Of 16, who rated 'galas' die ddrd raiding of bora Ellenberougles Dlvoiee Bill. Attwooll, H. InSibi Sir R. White, S. ' Batley, C. H. Lambert, J. J. Wood, Ald. Besunkat, T. Osborne, - Lord F. —... C, e kborpe, Hon. F. PlsiDinion, Dr. Tellers. Franidand, It. Stara* J. - Blandford, Marquis Grant, R. VIM, IV. H. Hume, J, . . Grant, lit. Hon. C. Wlllthman, Ald. . . THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 8. Despatches have been received this day from Lord STUART DE ROTHSAY, our Ambassador at Paris, and from the Right Honourable Sir CHARLES BACOT, our Ambassador at the Hague. At two o'clock this afternoon a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, in Downing Street. The Council was very numerously attended, and continued in deliberation for a considerable time. Mr. PEEL arri ved in town this morning, having left the sick-bed of bis father to attend the Council. Lord Viscount MaLvILLE was absent from indisposition. We have hitherto strenuously advocated the cause of PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, from a conviction that, as the evils under which the country now suffers, were mainly, if not entirely, attributable to the abuses which have long rendered the boasted " Representation of the People" a mere illusion, so must the resuscitation of our national interests be effected by the purification of that system. But we should only deceive ourselves, could we cherish a hope of witnessing the attainment of that great, object, whilst we see its most zealous champions divided, not only in the views which they labour to promote, but in the means by which they would promote those views. We have already expressed, in the most unqualified terms, our cordial concurrence in the sentiments so ably embodied in the DECLARATION of the BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION, and our firm persuasion that the principles pro mulgated in that Declaration, are more calculated to en sure the success of the cause than any that have ever before emanated from such an Association. These prin ciples were founded upon the just and legitimate basis of Constitutional right ; sanctioned by precedent, and jus tified by the experience of ages. That DECLARATION, which appears in another part of our paper, will be read with deep interest, and with that attention, to which the importance of the subject would alone entitle such a document—but which its own intrinsic merits, the moderation of its purposes, and the temperate but manly tone of its assertions, im peratively claim. All visionary and speculative doc trines are rejected ; and Universal suffrage, Annual Par liaments, and the Vote by Ballot, are utterly disclaimed, as being at once unfounded in constitutional right, and calculated to weaken the cause of Reform, by creating dissentions in the upper and middle classes of society. But whilst these principles are thus consistently main tained by the BIRMINGHAM POLPPICAL UNION, all hope of the effectual co-operation of the Reformers, as a body, is for the present destroyed, by the avowal of the very different motives and views, which, on a primary and most essential point, actuate the METROPOLITAN Asso- CIATION, whose members declare that "the mode of taking the poll at elections SHOULD EL by ballot." Untll unanimity prevails in the' councils, the cause of reform may be discussed and advocated, but it never can succeed. We shall resume the subject to-morrow. Although we are not called upon to vindicate our poli tical conduct, or the course which we feel bound to pursue in the conscientious discharge of our duty to the public, from the imputations of anonymous censors; yet, as the writer of a letter bearing the somewhat indefinite signa ture of A.B. and the no lees equivocal address of Gros venor-street, evidently labours under an erroneous im pression with respect to the notice of a former letter, in serted in TUE STAR of February 25th;—we concede to his error that reply to which neither the tenor nor the tone of his present remonstrance entitles him at our hands. Before we address ourselves seriatim to the points on which he has thought pteper to bestow his counsel upon us, we must say, that we were no parties to the " un gracious" reception of his lust communication : but in doing so, we are also bons* to state, that, under similar circumstances, we ihould have treated that letter precisely as it was then treated—and as we think it deserved to be treated. As the letter to which we now more immedi ately allude, purports to be an " admonitory" epistle, we . cannot but regret, for its writer's sake, that it was not more temperate in spirit, and more courteous in manner. A little reflection will, we trust, convince our anonymous but angry Monitor, that he who affects to give whole some advice to others, should regulate his own conduct by the observance of that good breeding which alone can extenuate the freedom with which his admonitions have been obtruded, or entitle his opinions to respect.—We now pass at once to the topics upon which our corres pondent has felt warranted in remonstrating with us ; and, in the first place, we must say that we know of no more ef fectual means of rendering a service to the people, than by exposing the insincerity of those upon whose advocacy of their rights, arid whose defence of their interests, they have so long but so vainly calculated.We know no way of render ing our own efforts in the public cause more available than by "correcting the errors and exposing the knavery"—as our correspondent has it—of our contemporaries. That our endeavours to work out such a reform of the abuses by which the Metropolitan Press has too long been degraded, have not been hitherto without effect, we verily believe ; and that belief is founded upon testimony much more va luable to us, and much more satisfactory, than the vague and intemperate assertions of a whole alphabet of anony mous hypercritics. The article to which A. B. refers— the leading article of the STAa of yesterday—did not only " narrate the Editor's views" of a most important " occurrence"—the official promulgation of the State of the Revenue,—but it likewise bore with it a perfect confir mation of those views, by the self-styled " leading Journal of all Europe." As for the proceedings connected with Lord ELLENBOROUG n's Divorce Bill, it really surprises us to find our " sage and venerable mentor" thus urging us to bring so unseemly a subject more immediately under the notice of our readers, than we are compelled to do by the professional usage which exacts the insertion of our Parliamentary reports. The proceedings to which that Bill has given rise, are in our opinion so disgrace ful to the moral character of the country—so disreputable to the party who has voluntarily become the object of universal reflection, and, we may add, of universal oppro brium,—that, however qualified the nauseous details may be to gratify the vicious and insatiable appetite of some portion of the community—such perhaps as Miss STEELE might term " the best, but not the most respectable, part of.society"—for scandal ; yet we do think the jour nalisis of the empire would infinitely better consult the dignity of their stations, and the reputation and morals of the people, by excluding from their columns such disgusting evidences of the vice and infamy with which the higher orders are tainted ;—and devoting their talents and their energies to the consideration of the ca lamitous condition to which every class of the people is reduced, and to the means of alleviating the general and unprecedented distress.—Our allusion to the Courier ema nated from no disposition to make an idle " parade" of " having found out a mare's nest ;" nor was it so mere "a squib" as A. B. may imagine. Whenever the Courier, who has alone the right to demand an explanation of the matter to which we "so darkly alluded," thinks proper to call upon us, "out it shall come;" and then A. B. and "the public" may alike Be satisfied whether, "non constat, there is any thing at all." "The long Report . of the Radical Reform Meeting" might perhaps have been " more preferable" to A. B. but our columns are devoted to the service of the public, and not to the exclusive gratification of individual interest, feeling, or taste. And now, having candidly, and we trust dispassionately, replied to the objections that have been so captiously and so peremptorily urged against us by our correspondent; we cannot conclude without assuring him that whilst we are sensible of the deference that is due to public opinion, and anxious to propitiate the favourable consideration of all men of integrity and worth ; whilst we are at all times proud and gratified in " noticing" the communications of every Subscriber to the STAR, in " that respectful manner," which they are individually and collectively " entitled to expect ;" we also know what is due to the station we hold in society ; and we, too, must be allowed to vindicate our claim to the respectful treatment and courtesy which that station entitles us to expect. The Corn Averages, as they will appear in the Ga zette to-morrow, are as follows :—Aggregate of the six weeks, by which the duty is regulated: Wheat, 61s. sd. Barley, 295. sd. Oats, 21s. 10d. Rye, 355. Id. Beans, 31s. 6d. Peas, 355. 6d. The duty on Foreign Corn is 255. Bd. per qr. on Wheat, 18s. 4d. on Barley, 15s. 3d. on Oats, 16s. 9d. on Rye, 225. 9d. on Beans, and 16s. 9d. on Peas. The chief attention of the speculators this morning is occupied by the payment of the dividends to the public, which has commenced this morning. The Consol Market generally wears a very firm appearance, at 93 Sellers for the Account. Reports are current that at the meeting of the Bank Directors to-day the rate of discount will be lowered to. 3 percent. This, in fact, although it will not probably be done, .is almost necessary to secure to the Bank any of the discount business, as the bankers will readily discount unexceptionable hills at 21 to 2i per cent. The abundance of money continues, and the rate at which it is obtainable for short periods is about 2 per , cent. with many eager advancers. A Meeting of the National Society took place yesterday morning at St. Martin's Vestry Room. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Bishop of Chester; Joshua Watson, Req. James Trimmer, Esq. Rev. Dr. Walmsley, Rev. Dr. D'Oyley, Rev. J. C. Wigram, See. Grants of money for the erection of schools were voted to five different places, amounting in the whole to 3854 and the schools of eight places were also re cei ved into union. Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India. House for the election of a Director in the room of James Paulson, Esq. who has disqualified. At six o'clock the glasses were closed, and delivered to the scrutineers, who reported the election to have fallen on H. Shank, Esq. The numbers were, for H. Shank, Esq. 1,056 ; and for R. Ethoe,Haq. 406. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India Hoses, when J. Forbes, Esq. took the usual oath and his seat as a Director, in the room of John Hebb, Esq. who had disqualified. The following Commanders took leave of the Court previous to de. IV:for their reepeedve destinations, —via. Capt. T. W. Barrow, e the Fourth ; Capt. R. C. Yowler, Lord Lowther; Capt. B. Broughton, Earl of Saltness ; Capt. D. J. Ward, Sir David Sow Capt. P. Baylis, Canning ; and Capt. J. Lawrence , Midi, Chin a irest. •• CITY, TwzLvv. o'CLocx. The Stock Exchange is rather thinly attended this morning. cia big to the holyday of the Hebrews, who will not make their appc:a once till after one o'clock; and in consequence of which fetv ladons are going forward. Consols opened at the same price they left off yesterday, 92; R the Account. The atock-jobbing report of yesterday, that the Bank is goin., 7 .„ 'count at 3 per cent. dues not gain credit. In the Foreign Market (creek Bonds arc a little better. It is reported, in commercial letters from Odessa, of the 4 t - March, that the Turkish Commissioners were on their return from St. Petersburgh, without having accomplished the object of their mission; and that his Imperial Majesty refuses to remit any r aft of the money agreed to be paid by the Sublime Porte, for the ex pense of the war. He also refuses to alter the Tariff of duties. Accounts from Liverpool state, that a vessel has arrived there from Arieo, in 110 days, with 30,0001. in dollars. Accounts from Bergen, of the 2d ult. bring informaticn of most dreadful conflagration which broke out there on the evening o! the 26th February. The number of dwelling.houses consumed wcr 115, and upwards of 100 warehouses. We have information from Gibraltar to the 19th March, stating. that on the 13th a most dreadful tempest took place there: several ships were driven on shove. The tempest has done great damage the inhabitants of Catalan Bay. Letters from Leghorn, dated Marsh 23, state that the Tripolitars and Tunisians have joined the irregular troops of Algiers ; and &at. the Arabs of the interior have received orders to take up arms on the first signal. Information from Lisbon states, that the affair of the American vessel, captured at Terceira, has been decided ; and the Minister of Marine has ordered it to be restored. Lentos from Madrid, of the 26th March, state, that the circutr. stance of three ladies being arrested in the above capital, accused of selling places, has caused great excitemeht. The Journal of Commerce of St. Petersbutgh has published a statement of the state of the Russian manufactures in that country according to which, in the year 1828 there were 5,244 of different descriptions, which employed 225,414 workmen, HALF.PAST ONE. Although but very few of the Hebrew speculators made their :p. pearanee in the Consul market, Consols have risen since the early part of the morning, when they were at 92 I 93 for the account , since which they have been done at 93j and 94 for next account. This improvement will greatly assist Ministers in the assents to the reduction of the 4 per cents. The private letters this morning from Paris bring the French Three per Cents. 84.10. The payment of the dividends causes money to be plentiful in the City. In the Foreign Market, Greek and Brazil Stocks have improved; the former about 2 per cent., and the latter about 4 per cent. The Jamaica and Mexican Packets still remain due. They are anxiously looked for by the merchants. The DUKE of WELLINGTON eneertained a numerous party_ of the Nobility and Gentry to dinner, on 3londay, at Apel e y House. The Rev. Dr. Barrow, Prebendary of Southw•ell, and not the Rev. Joe. Sikes, LL.D. has bet.n appointed Archdeacon of Nottingham, in the room of the late Archdattlon Eyre. Monday week, the remains of the late venerable Arch deacon Eyre were interred in the family vault at Hendon, near East Retford. The funeral was strictly private. A man, who stated that he had just arrived from Gibraltar, called upon a poor widow, residing at 10, Southampton street, Somer's-tnwn, yesterday afternoon, and having ascertained the : she was acquainted with petsons residing at Gibraltar, and pre tending to bare known her late husband. wished to take apartments in her louse. He said he had left his trunks at Blackwall, for the procuring of which he required 61. and as a stcurity for the same, untl he returned, he offered to leave with her three China crape shawls, and one straw-coloured worsted ditto. He received the money, and it was soon afterwards found the articles were not worth 6s. WHY A ROPE DANCER CARRIES A POLE.—The feats of rope dancers are experiments on the management of the centre of gravity. The evolutions of the performer arc touto to be facilitated by holding in his hand a heavy pole. His se curity in this case depends, not on the centre of gravity of his body, but on that of his body and the pole taken together. This point is near the centre of the pole t so that, in fact, he may be said to bold in his hands the point on the position of which the facility of his feats depends. iirithout the aid of the pole the centre of gra vity would be within the trunk of the body, and its position could not be adapted to circumstances with the same ease and rapidity.— , (Cabinet Cyclopedia.) On Friday evening a most splendid Ball was given at the Auesthly Rooms, Bedford, which, for beauty and fashion, cur every thing of the kind that has taken place In the neigh. passed for some time. The company was most select, consisting of upwards of 300 of the first families of distinction in the county and its neighbourhood. The bail.room was elegantly lighted and decorated. At eleven o'clock dancing commenced to VirEIPPEST'i. band, and did not terminate until nearly five, when the company separated, highly gratified with their entertainment. The medical virtue of asparagus have long been sup to be much greater than the .faculty have admitted them to sup posed in corroboration of which a French; physician has lately ascer tained that this vegetable polstsses ex•raordinary powers in quieting excessive action of the built and arteries. S/NOULAR OCCURRLNCE.—By the last vessel from New South Wales, a letter was brought, addressed to the Town Clerk of Sheffield, from a person named Cooper, who, it appears, had sentence of transportation pawed upon him about twenty-five years ago, when he had scarcely arrived at manhood. After under going many accidents, one of which was his escape from the hulks, and another his subsequent escape, with five others, front Chester Gaol, he was a third time apprehended, and finally consigned to Sydney. Here is natural talents soon brought him into notice, and a reformation in his conduct gained him a degree of respectability. About eight years ago, he received a free pardon front the govern ment authorities at the settlement, and began to acquire property of his own. The letter alluded to states that his possessions produce him 600/. per annum, and that he is anxious to discover, if alive, an infant daughter, whom be left in this town when he was sent abroad, and endow her with a portion of his wealth. In this oommunim doo, the names of several gentlemen now living are given as dews to the inquiry. Mr. Crossland, the vestry clerk, has happily sue ended in tricing the infant, who has been feund a totaled woman, settled in London, with but small means. An Inquest was held on Saturday evening, at the Turf Tap, Hyde.park.corner, on the body of Humphry Johnstone, aged 27, who was thrown from a cart on the preceding Tuesday evening, in consequence of the said cart coming in concussion with the coach of Mr. C. Drummond, Stratford.place, though the coachman had pulled up, called out, and endeavoured to avoid the mischief. He died of the , injuries received. Verdict—" Accidental Death." The first clock known in this country was put up in an old tower of Westminster Hall, in the year 1288 ; and in 1292 there was one in the Cathedral of Canterbury. These were, probably, of foreign workmanshir ; and it may be doubted if there was at that time any person who followed the besi ness of making clocks. There was, however, one wry in pinions artist, Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans, who constructed a clock which represented the motions of the sun, moon, and stars, and the ebbing and flowing of the sea. T iat this wonderful piece of mechanism might be of permanent utility to biz abbey, he composed a book of directions for the man; gan . .nt of it ; and Leland, who appears to have seen it, says that, in his opinions all Europe could not produce such another. There b a fine speci men of clock-making in Wells Cathedral. It is a clock construc . ed by Peter Lightfoot, one of the Monks of Ohstonbury, 'abuse the year 1325, of complicated design and ingenious exeeution. It was originally put up in that celebrated monastery, and was Ilpleced in the south transept,:and by boons of a cow moldable°, tolled the hansom the great bell of the canal tower, *Milt the quarters were struck by automats on two mull belle in the transept. The dial plate shows the hours, and also the changes of the moon, the 86U: and other astronomical motions'; so i s saw mit there Is an horbontal framework, which exhibit', by the aid of machinery, eight knights on horseback, armed for a transimmt. and pursuing each' other with a rapid rotatory motion. At the Reformation this clock was removed from Glastonbury Abbey to its present situation In Wells Cathedral. The clock in Exeter Cathedral was erected by Bishop Courtenay, in due ye 1480. It is on the Ptolemaic systan of astronomy, and of • a sonatructien, for the age in which it was put up. The earth is le presented by a globe in the centre; the sun by a deur-dear t aad the moon by a ball painted half black and NU whit*, addall on its axis, and shows the dial:rent phases of that luminary. HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON. AGENERAL COURT of this Corporation will be held at the Freemasons' TIMID, on SATURDAY, the 17th Inst. Dinner at Biz o'Cloek. The Right Hon. Earl CAWDOR, President, in the Chair. Islembeis are requested to appear in the Highland Garb, or in Uniform. Visitors to be introduced by Members; but Members of any of The Branch Societies established in Canada, Madras, Bombay, Abeideen, Dundee, Inverness, or Inverary, as well as Members of the Highland Society of Scotland, are admissible without Introduction. Tickets to be procured at the Tavern. J. MACDONALD, Sec. ED AND DUE TH A. D. 1 France 0 1 Flanders 0 O Holland. 0 O Hunburgb . 1 O Mediterranean . 0 D. 30Years,ex.div. 18 15-18 FOREIGN FUN BrasU Bds, 3 pr Ct. 7lf Do. Ace. "If Colom. Ms. 6 per Ct. Do. Bds. t 824, 413 Dmish Bd.. >s r . Do. Ace, 743 Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. BUMS' ARRII D. Dublin .. 0 Waterford ..... 0 Duero. & Jersey 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 Brazil AT TWO O'CLOCK. Do. Do. Jul.& Jan. 19 5-16 India Bonds 82 Old Annuities .11000 Each. Bills 79 80 ,1500 Ditto 79 80 4100 and X2OO Do. 79 80 Bank for Aect. India for do 245 i Cons. for Ace. 93 21 51 , TWO O'CLOCK. Do. B. 1825, 44 Do. Ace. 431 4 1 1 51 41 Slez.Bds. 5 per Ct. 29 Pertly. Mk 6 pr Ct.2l* Russ. Bds. 1822,5 pr Ct.llol Do. ill, 1101 111 Sp.Bd.. 5 per Ct. 151 * S MORNING. A. D. O Lisbon 0 0 Jamaica 1 O Sweden 2 O Malta . 0 O Mexico 1 f ~...y,: =••••\ BRITISH AND FOREIGN StIA RES, TWO ()CLOCK. MAIM. PAID. rsa SNARL Anglo Mexican (in. at £5 pm) 100 100 38 Brazilian Company 20 5 Brazillanlmp. (in. £5 pm.) 35 23 —. Do. National 25 10 181 i St. John Del Bey 20 5 8 Colombian (in. at .55 pm.) 55 40 10 El