Star. — London, England, 1830-11-17 00:00:00

PRICK OF Sl'ol KS Rink Stock, 206 7; 3 per Cent. Red. 82 817 7 26 2 3 per rt. otng. ti 3 2e 3i n 36 ptt . 3e per Cr. !Iva 9be le 31 per NcH, 83 21 42131 t p:r et. ir_B. I.4.tig Ann. la Do. 30r Apl. net. t 1 Yrt, do July Jan. F11111.:16N1 1:11:N:1! Brazil Mk. spr t't. 581 Do. Acct. 59i (*Glum 11.1.. I; per Cr. Du. ['dm. 1824. 114 D 1114% * I 3 . • 59 Ditto Ace. 591 Mex. Bd.. 5 In r Ct. Do. B. 1825. bp. Cr. Do. Acct. 36i AT FOUR O'CLOCK. India Stock, India Bonds 7s. "I•tuth s,.a Stock New Annuities TI , NRI Etch. Rills 26 2 26 Ai Ditto Altki Alla £2OO Do. .:3 2 7 India for Acct. c..r.•. for Ace. 831 . TWO ircLocK. Hum Mg 1822. 5 per Ct. 95y Da Ace. 96 Sp. Ms. spc r t. 11 Dn. Acc. 14j Sp. /16.1823, 5 per Ct. 10i Fr. Itts, 5 p Ct. 95f. 60c. rschange, 25f. 30c. Fr. tt. pr Cow'. 65f. Exchange, 25f. 30c. HRITI .11 AND I •RRUIN v‘v • ()CLOCK. 411 I• 14 Brazilian Imp. (iii. £5 pm.) 35 Guardian 100 PA It% Rt %MAIMS. 20 631 ti. div 20 '251 Protector !tolAtiot Protretor 150 150 St. Katharine 2 .C 1 th 13d. Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 25 244 United Meziean (ins. at 2 pm.) 40 394 114 Maine 100 5 4 COAL-EXCHANGE, Nov. 17. Twenty-tree new ships were entered for sale to-day. and of Newcastle Coal there was a good supply at market. Of Sunderland Coal the supply was only moderate. The Coal Exchange was thinly attended. Ships arrived during the month During the week Rost Wallsend Coals 4 idler aorta Ships at Market, 511 CI diN-RXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Nov. 17. The politics of the day has been the principal topic of conversation in the market, and who will form the new Administration ? has been more frequently asked than the price of Corn. We have a very scanty supply of all kinds of Grain, the winds having prevented the getting up of those vessels from which samples came to band on Monday. The prices are nominally the same u last quoted, with little business doing. INVOSTAIFIONIS /DICE MONDAY. Wheat, Falllib (qn.) - 1,020 Barley, Foreign . Irish . - . •-- Oats, English Foreign . Irish . Barley. English . 2,300 Foreign Irish - I Flour (sacks) - 1,400 . 4,760 2,200 TEI i EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17. Public expectation is much excited, to ascertain who are the men that are to form the new Administration. Be yond the choice of the KING, in delegating to Earl GREY that important task, all is conjecture at present. One thing, however, we believe is certain—that the Govern ment will be composed of temperate men, and not of ex perimentalists. The following noblemen are confidently mentioned, as likely to be called into dice on this occasicn Earl GREY, Lord HOLLAND, The Marquis of LA NSDOW N E, Lord PA LM ERSTON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Lord A LTIIOUP, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and, Perhaps, the Duke of Ric nst o ND. At a late hour this afternoon, we have received accounts from Brussels, by which it appears, that there are important movements among the diplomatic corps; and that the King of PRUSSIA has given orders to assemble all the troops stationed on the frontiers of Belgium to form a cordon— supposed to have for its object, the interruption of all com munication between the Belgians, and the Prussian State:. On this subject, the Quotidienne of Monday, received this day by express, gives the following letter from Brussels, dated 12th instant :—" There is still here, great movements in the diplomacy. French, English, and Dutch couriers, as well as Belgians, are in movement, in all directions; besides which, agents of the Provisional Government are sent on messages to the different Cabinets. M. BAZTHELI has set off for Paris, where he is to have a meeting with the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Congress yesterday had their second sitting, relating chiefly to the verification of their powers, and formation of the bureau. We this morning learn, that the Prince of Hass& Homazao, Governor of the fortress of Luxemburg, was near being assassinated near Aden, by the Belgian militia, when be was taking an airing on horseback. Two of the militia have been arrested, and conducted into the fortress." The intelligence given in the paragraph above, is con firmed by the following communication, received from Frankfort, by the express this day, dated the 10th inst.— " An order of the Prussian Cabinet, dated the Ist Nov. has been published ; according to which all the troops which are assembled on the frontiers of the Pays Bas, from Brawn to Cleves, and Kranenberg, are to be formed into a Cordon. — The disturbances still continue in North Holland. At the vil lage of Mook, near the Prussian frontiers, Commissaries from the Provisional Government have arrived, to take pos session of that village, which has caused much anxiety." At the hour at which we now write, nothing, we believe, is with certainty known, as to the formation of the new Administration. Our readers will perceive from the extracts which we have made from all the Morning Journals, what are the views of our cotemporaries, as to the event that has taken place, and its consequences. They will like wise perceive, that Lord GREY is generally believed to have been charged with the important task of com bining, for the service of the State, those individuals who may be deemed adequate to occupy the offices about to be vacated. His Lordship's experience, talent, high honour, and general dignity of character, have, no doubt, induced his MAJESTY to select him, as the person most qualified, among the circle of statesmen at Court, to perform, advantageously, the pre-eminent duty to-which he has been called ; and we are of opinion, that his MAJZSTeII judgment. in this instance, will be considered, by the majority of his subjects, to be mad ; and consonaat to that anxiety, to govern himself, by the interests and sen timents of the country,which bays rendered his MAJESTY PO justly and universally beloved. We sincerely hope, that the peculiar difficulties of the State, will have a tendency to produce a reciprocal inclination among the public men, looked to on the present occasion, to modify, or smooth down, any slight discrepancies in opinion which may exist ; and prevent that homogeneity which can alone render any administration, either permanent or usefully efficient. On many subjects—and on none so much as on reform— there must be entertained, by public men, very different opi nions. If the paramount object of our enquiry be, what extent of Parliamentary Reform will a•ld to the security of our constitutional edifice, as constructed of three materials— of an amalgamation of three estates—King, Lords, and Commons—then our enquiry has a legitimate object ; and its solution, we conceive, will not admit of much difference of view. But if we allow ourselves to be careless about the existing structure, and to speculate on the probability of forming a better, should it, while under repair, fall to the ground, our enquiry has not the same object, and must have a different solution. Without acced ing to all that is said by DE LoLsa,and other panegyrists of our constitution, as to the fine equilibrium constantly exist ing between the three estates; and rather inclining to believe, that such an exact equilibrium is theoretical, and that it has existed at no period of our history,—yet, we are in clined to believe, that to adopt the hacknied metaphor, the constitutional balance has generally, owing to a happy self adjusting part of its mechanism, kept as near the equili brium as the uncertainty of human events, and the changes in human character render practicable ; and we are of opi nion that the existing energies—the industrious and moral habits-end the influence, among the nations of the world, of the people of a country geographically inconsiderable— prove to demonstration, unless we deny that causes must be adequate to effects, thatour social structure has been hitherto felicitous. We conceive the desideratum then is, to do just so much, and no more, than will be consistent with the safety of our main timbers. We have ventured to make these remarks, as prefatory to what we think should be the public disposition at the present moment; which is, to be moderate in their expec tations of what public men can do, advisedly, at such a junc ture. We have often said, that we think some reforms in the representative code necessary. We said we expected the Duke of WLLLU G TON to i;itroduce them; and we have said, that we cannot but regret he has not done so, because he, of all ministers, seemed formed safely to accom plish the enough, and withstand the too much.— There is now little doubt, but something will be done; and we would recommend our readers to be satisfied with small and timid rectifications, for we are convinced no public men, with the legitimate object in view, which we have endea voured to define, would deserve well of their country, who were experimentally bold. We would likewise recommend a disposition in the public, to be liberal towards those who may come forward to serve them; and not exclude the utility of any, by exacting from them an unaccommodating, impracticable, scrupulous adherence, to the letter of early opinion. • With respect to the retiring Statesmen, we yesterday expressed our opinion. We believe none ever retired from office more generally respected. We are forcibly reminded of a passage in the ballad of Chevy Chace--vix. The news was brought to Rdinburgh, Where Scotland's King did reign, That brave Earl Douglas suddenly Was by an arrow slain. 0 heavy news, King JAMES did say, Scotland can witness he, I have not any Captain more Of such account as be. His Majesty King WILLIAM, may, we think, with great truth, express himself in somewhat similar terms on the pre sent, which however, fortunately, is not quite so melancholy, an occasion. FOREIGN INEXCLUSIVE. PARIS, Nov. 13. S —Th e approach of winter, which is always, in this city, a period of distress, especially if long and severe, with the working classes, always causes the municipal body to be prepared for the exigencies that may arise. Poor laws are unknown in France, and her numerous paupers are sup ported by the collections made in the churches, and by voluntary contributions collected in the different cities. The immense proportion in this city, of those inscribed on the books of the Bureaux de Charity, are almost beyond belief, and of the annual number of deaths, those who die in its different hospitals, bear a very large proportion. The last winter was excessively long, and unparalleled in its severity. The Seine was twice completely frozen, and had it not been for the excellent dispositions taken by the engineers of the city, its breaking up or debacle, from the multiplicity of bridges, might have led to a frightful destruction of life, and property. The Seine runs rapidly downwards, and had an accumulation of Boating ice occurred at a bridge, the im prisoned water, and mimic ice-bergs, would have over whelmed the city, and from the solid construction of several of the bridges, they would have borne an immense pressure ere they gave way, if that circumstance would have taken place at all. From the severity of the wea ther, all building was brought to a total cessation, and the labouring masons, a most numerous class, were desti tute of employment. It was then, that the charitable nature of the Parisians was called into full exercise, and although no compulsatory law provides for these unhappy partners of our kind, I firmly believe that in no capital of Europe did they suffer less. The dethroned monarch setting the ex ample, subscribed largely for their relief, of whatever faith, a great stretch of liberal feeling in him, Who was so com pletely priest-ridden, and his subjects were not slow in following his footsteps. Even vanity and frivolity were made subservient to the calls of humanity . — Masquerades, balls, and private theatricals, yielded con siderable sums. Every theatre joined in the glorious work, and the whole, united, furnished the unemployed, and th e incapable, with the necessary supplies, until milder weather enabled them to return to their own resources. I must not omit the House of Refuge, established by that excellent Prefect of Police, De Belleyme, who now fills the office of President of the Court of Premiere Instance. His great popularity drew large sums from the pockets of the public, and having taken the extensive buildings of an old convent, at a rate amazingly small, many hundreds of the poor found shelter and food. He availed himself of the chemical knowledge of the age, and extracted gelatine and nutritious aliment, from various substances, not before supposed to yield them. It is true that the priests op posed this benevolent plan ; they even preached against it. They asserted that the poor were the care of the church, and that the priesthood were the almoners established by Christianity. That the constant exercise of charity would be lost to those who subscribed a certain sum, and imagined that their contributions at mass and confession were no longer requisite. In short, these reve rend dist, ibutors of the bounty of their parishioners, ima gined that a great part of their power would be surren dered by this innovation upon former and fixed custom. Any stranger, whom curiosity tempts to enter a Catholic church, must be struck with the general want of respecta bility in the appearance of the congregation. The fact is that the greater part are dependent upon the Tronc de M. le Cure, for subsistence, and the moot regular attendants upon the numberless ordinances and festivals of the church, are the most favoured recipients of his bounty. Without this, I apprehend, the priest would be too often " Vox cla mantis in deserto," and we cannot wonder at their jealousy, of any attempts at niched power. However from the combination of these efforts, the winter was passed with much less of individual suffering than was apprehended, and we were not shocked, as the feelings of many in your charitable metropolis must have been, by wretches found dead, from want of the necessaries of life, of which the English papers furnished several melan choly examples. When the Archbishop of Paris, Hyacinth de Quelen, published his usual pastoral, and admoni tory letter at the celebration of Easter, he took notice, that even those amusements and dissipations pursued by the' young and unthinking, and which would have met with his decided reprobation, had their produce been otherwise employed, had been converted, like poisonous substances, into medicinal purposes, into the means of rendering mare tolerable the sufferings of the poor. This was a great con cession, from a man so bigotted as the Archbishop. Already have the municipality begun to issue bread tickets, which will continue the whole winter. This is an excellent mode of distributing relief at a small expense, and is one among many other hints, which we might take from our neighbours. Any person or family applying at the Maisie, may purchase as many tickets as he thinks fit, entitling him to tour pounds of beat bread (the pound is eighteen ounces) for fifteen sons, or sevenpence halfpenny, and whatever the Assize may be, the city pays the baker the difference. In a capital where bread is the staple of existence, this is a great alleviation of distress, especially if a family be large. The consumption of this provision is astonishing le an Englishman. A four pound loaf being the usual guess tity eaten by a labouring man, and his wife, and children in the same proportion. Experience has taught the Govern ment, that nothing ,causes an insurrection among the populace, so readily as a scarcity of this article, and it is sur prising to a stranger, to see the bakers shops barricaded with iron bars, and strong means of defence, where the jew ellers and the money-changers are totally exposed to depre dation, upon their already din The debates of Saturday did not contain much of inte rest; and from the hour when the post-otlico closes, I must defer the pleasure of writing any more until to-morrow. In the mean time, I am, Sir, yours, J. L. We have a file of Dominica papers, this morning, which are interesting. They announce a circumstance highly ho nourable to the slave owners of that colony : namely, that a return had been made to the Governor, to be transmitted to the Colonial Department, exhibiting a list of 606 manumis sions, between the let of January, 1825, and the lit of August, 1830; of which 481 have been by Government ; 119 by bequest ; and only 6 by purchase. These papers contain the draft of a bill, introduced into Trinidad, providing for the removal of slaves from one British colony to another, by an amendment of the laws relating to the abolition of the slave trade. We find, by the advises from Martinique, that the Gover nor had issued a decree, prohibiting the entry of all vessels under sixty tons burthen, from Dominica and St. Lucia. It is said that this measure has been adopted, to prevent the escape of slaves from the former, to either of the latter islands. We have a file of the Newfoundland Royal Gazette, to the 26th Oct. The Governor had returned from his excnr• sion round the island, the account of which is interesting. The population of St. George's Bay was found to be three hundred and fifty. The country in the interior exhibited no great depth of soil, but was better wooded than at St. John's. After visiting the Dead Islands, his Excellency proceeded to the Borgeo Islands. They bear a barren and rocky appear. once, being barely studded with a slight scalp of verdure.— Some days were spent in intercourse with the simple inhabit ants of these islands, and in exploring their numerous reaches and inlets. The population of the bay is estimated at eight hundred. His Excellency then proceeded to the extreme head of Bay Despair, where the woods, for several miles in the interior, are of a bolder description, from which place his Excellency returned to St. John's. A mail has arrived from Lisbon, by which the Lisbon Gazettes have been received. Nothing can be gathered, of course, from them, as to the condition of that miserable counwi try. For some particulars on this subject, we refer to the private correspondence of a morning cotemporary, inserted in a subsequent column. Mr. BROUGHAM'S MOTION.—BO great was the anxiety to hear the intended motion, and introduction of a plan for Reform, by the shore learned gentleman, that seats were en gaged some time before the appointed day, and so much as a guinea given for admission. The gallery, yesterday even ing, was crowded to excess, and the disappointment occa sioned by its not coming on, may be more easily imagined than described. There was a very numerous attendance of landed proprie tors end capitalists yesterday at the Mart, attracted by the sale in twenty lots, of the celebrated Staunton Park Mute, three miles from Harrow, Middlesex. The first lot com prised Stanmors House, mansion, and park, with gardens, pleasure grounds. numerous domestic and other buildings, plantations, woods and land, in a 11446 acres, predusimg an estimated mute! of 1,2061. per annum. The timber sod fixtures to be paid for at a valuation in addition to the par. chase money. This important property was loathed down at 35,0001. The pupils of the Royal Academy of Music had e assent, on Saturday atteroom, at their rooms. Miss Willow soil the recitative and air, " Dore sone (Le Nam Firaro), Mozart ; and Mr. Segue the air, "Ve se beinsuado, ' ( Faust), Spohr. Both these piens were mush applauded. CITT, ONS O'CLO( The Public are now waiting for an official account of th e formation of the new Ministry which at present g reat l y excites their attention, in the meantime we shall be i nee l dated with reports on the subject. Although there i s no want of talent to form the Cabinet, still it may take som e time to make choice of those who will act in unison, ln d for the welfare of the State, and during which period %, cannot expect any stability in the Funds, which at pr,s" are continually fluctuating. Consols, which left off yesterday at 831 for the Account, opened at 82f ; 83, soon after lowered to 82i ; at prey, u thew are 824 ; and for next Account 82ii. The variation in the Foreign Market is very unimpo r t al „ at present ; in fact, the quotations are chiefly nominal, a , there is no business doing, the attention of the sp ec ,. lators being entirely given to the English Market. Ltv IRPOOL, Nov. 15.—The Muscovado Sugar Market has continued dull all the week. The purchases are esti mated at 2,000 hbds. end tierces: in several instance a reduction of 6d. to le. has been submitted to. The Rum Market is dull, but the holders do not force sales, as tiler expect a renewal of the demand. There is rather more inclination to do business in Cotton, but the purchases are still inconsiderable. East India sales, 800 tons of Company's saltpetre, one and half to three Ter cent, reaction 40 to 42 6; 300 bale, of pepper, middling 31d. nnsifted 3d. Up to the present hour no reports, or any thing to be depended upon in the City in regard to the new Ministry. curr, TWO O'CLOCI: Consols continue at 821 83, and 83 to I for Money. Consols are better for Money than for the Account ; there• is still a great scarcity of money stock. The express from Paris brings the French 3 per cents, much higher, an improvement of two per cent. 64 80. This is owing to the new Ministers declaring that they are determined to maintain a general peace in Europe. Little doing in the Foreign Market. Spanish bonds 144 to 1:5. entrifirtmanAu: Between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternon, Earl Grey arrived at the Palace, and had an audience of the king. In the evening, their Majesties entertained the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland and a select party to dinner. Prince George of Cumberland and Prince George of Cam. bridge, visited the Apollonicon yesterday, and examined the mechanism of this noble instrument. The Austrian, French, and Netherlands Ambassadors bad interviews with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Fo reign-office. . . . _ . . The present French ministry, in the excess of their berality. have introduced a bill into the Chamber of Deputies fur granting salaries to ministers of the Jewish worship. The Marquis of Salisbury, Earls Bathurst, Rosalyn, and Aberdeen, Viscount Melville, Lords Leveson Gower, and Ellenborough, Sir George Murray, Mr. Croker, Mr. Ar buthnot, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Herrin, and other gentlemen holding official situations, together with a number of Members of the Houses of Peers and Commons, visited the Duke of Wellington y e sterday at the Treasury. Sir Robert Peel had a long conference with his Grace previous to going to the House of Commons. Among those shut out on Monday night, who would have voted in favour of Sir Henry Parnell's amendment, were Mr. Coke and the Hon. George Anson. The Bath Journal says, that the Corporation of Poole bare formally dispossessed themselves oft eir exclusive pri vilege to return members to Parliament, and have offered the elective franchise to aU the inhabitants of the town sho may choose to accept it. Another conference took place late on Saturday night, between his Majesty's ministers and the Foreign Ambassa dors, on the occasion of the sudden arrival of the two com missioners, T. Cartwright, Esq. and Monsieur Bresson, who recently left town for the Netherlands. The parties present were Prince Talleyrand, Prince &tertiary, Count Matouche vitz, Baron Bulow, Baron Feick, the Duke of Wellington. and the Earl of Aberdeen. The conference lasted until nearly two o'clock on Sunday morning. The return of Mr. Cartwright and M. Bresson was unexpected,those gentlemen having travelled with the utmost expedition, and met with a quick passage. TII PHAN C E AND PRINCESS CAROLUTH. The Prince • and Princess Caroluth, accompanied by their daughters, the Princesses Adelaide and Lucy, of Silesia, and suite, occupying five carriages, quitted Mivart's Hotel, on Sunday, and embarked on board the Attwood steam vessel, for Rotterdam, on their return to Prussia. The Princess, it may be remembered, is cousin to her present Majesty. On the evening previous to their Royal Highnesses' departure, the King was pleased to forward a rich gold snuff-box, on the lid of which was a beautifully executed miniature of his Majesty, set round with brilliants, and of most chaste fabrique, and also a magnificent pair of diamond bracelets, of a very costly description, for the Princess. The present was accompanied by an autograph letter from his Majesty, couched in the most affectionate terms. The Prussian Ambassador, Baron Bulow, accompanied their Royal Highnesses to the place of embarkation. Tilt.* LATH RIGHT HON. W. HVSKISSON.—The will of this distinguished statesman was proved on Monday ; and the personal property of the deceased sworn under ' 60, 0001 An estate at Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, left . to Mr. Husk isson, we believe, by his maternal great uncle, Dr. Gem, is bequeathed to his brother, General Huskiseon. All the residue, with the exception of a pecuniary remem brance to his other brother, Charles Huskisson, Esq. and a few trifling legacies, is left to Mrs. Huskisson. This in cludes his beautiful and favourite villa at Earthammear Chi chester,which be purchased about 30 years ago, of Mr. Ha yley, the poet,and biographer of Cowper, and had made sub sequently considerable additions to. The codicil, which he executed immediately after the fatal accident which deprived the country of his invaluable services, merely secures to his widow any property acquired by him since the execution of his will, which is dated in 1827. His signature to it is. I considering the circumstances under which it was written. astonishingly firm and clear. A second, but unsigned. codicil, of the same day, confirms the nomination of the Rev. R. Cockburn, Vicar of Bexley, in Kent, Alexander Milne, Fag, of the office of Woods and Forests, and James Bennett Freeland, of Chichester, Esq, to be his executors. The codicils are both witnessed by Lord Wilton, Viscount Granville, and Mr. Wainwright. Thursday a petition was presented to the House of Commons on the part of Sir J. W. Lubbock and ‘i , • Tooke, Esq. complaining of an undue return for the borough of Truro, and claiming to be seated by the votes of the is habitant burgesses, and alleging partiality in the »turning Amor, bribery and treating on behalf of the skiing members, and improper interfering* in their favour by a peer of Per , haziest.