Star. — London, England, 1829-10-29 00:00:00

'b i . • It is even now quite evident that the trilling forces which the Spaniards have sent to Tampico prove sufficiently that the Government at Madrid thought it had nothing to do but to display the Spanish standard to rally all the old colonists tinder the yoke of the mother country. Ferdinand 's soldiers have only possessed themselves of Tampico, and even there they have have been immediately attacked by the Mex i c an forces, who ;eft Vera Cruz to assail them. It is probable that the invasion will expire there, either under the sword of the Republicans, or under the attacks of disease. The following letter has been written by a European inhabitant of Vera Cruz—who had opportunities of judging the public spirit of the Mexicans — dated from that town the 15th of August, and addressed to a house at New York : According to the measures which Government has taken, and continues to take, 1 hazard little in predicting that the first expedition will be destroyed before the second arrives. This town and its vicinity have furnished about 9,000 men, all well-disciplined soldiers inured to war. Troops have likewise left San Luis, Potosi, Mexico, and other places. General Santa Anna, one of our most active and most intrepid officers, will assume the command of all the forces noun as be had effected their junction. it is supposed that Spain, by sending so inconsiderable an expedi tion as 4,000 or 5,000 men, was persuaded that as soon as she dis played her standand, it would assemble all the inhabitants. But let her undeceive herself. The Mexicans may be, and unfortu nately are, divided; but it is amongst themselves : against the Spaniards they are united. You may, ther fore. consider this expedition as a ridiculous attempt of a thing that is impossible." From the Gazette de France, dated Tuesday. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 1. It was after a great Council, held on the 87th, at the Palace of the Seraskler, Chosrew Pacha, at which, besides the Ministers of the Porte, the Mufti and the Sultan himself were present, that the ratifications of the Treaty of Adrianople were signed and dispatched the same day. It is affirmed that General Dlebitsch has replied to the applica tion made to him for passports for the Turkish Embassy which is going to St. Petersburgh, that he did not think himself au thorized to do this without first applying to his Sovereign; bet he had no doubt that his august master would look upon this step of the Porte as a fresh proof of its sincere de sire to consolidate the restoration of the amicable relations of Russia. The blockade of the Dardanelles by the Rus sian fleet is now raised, and merchantmen of all nations pass the Hellespont without obstacle, and without being searched. TOULON, Oct. 19. It appears that all our first-rate men of war will be soon dis mantled, and that only the smaller vessels will be retained, which will serve for the instruction of the young recruits. The first ves sel to be dismantled is the Scipio, which was stopped by a telegra phic dispatch at the moment that it was in the roads, on the point of sailing for the Levant. Already more than 5,000 sailors have been discharged in the maritime district of Toulon. Faucm FINDS OCT. 26. Renter, Five per Cents, 108(.15e. 41 per Cents, 82f. 55c. boc. Bank Actions, 1,8601. 1865 f. niacin Forms. Neaplolitan Rentes Cer. Fal. 891. 90c. 901. 9.0 c. Royal Spanish Loan 776 761. Interminable Span. Annuities, 591. Haytian Loan, 345 f. THE EVENING STAR. Ir. • ~- *l. Ciifleo - Venlit LONDON. THURSDAY, PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock 215 India Bonds 63 5 rer Cent. Red. 901 1 South Sea Stock 3 rer Ct. Cons. 911 1 1 New Annuities 35 per Ct. 1818, 98/ 91 £lOOO Rich. Bills (24.) 73 4 3i per Cent. Red. 99 8/ 91 £5OO Ditto 73 4 4 per Ct. 1031 * £lOO and £2OO Ditto 75 5 4 pr Ct. 189.6,105 41 Commercial, ler•F; Ann. 1913-16ths 1 Bank for Acct. Tads Stock Cons. fot De. 911 FORKIGNi Fitv tag, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazil Bonds, spr Ct. 661 51 Ditto Acct. 14 Do. Acet. 66j 5j 6 1) Rus. Bds. 1822, 5 p Ct. 104 j 1 D I‘l.ll 11.14. 3 p. 0 75 Sp. Bds. 5 per Ct. 9j 1 Ditto Acct. 75 21 Fr. Rentes, 3 per Ct. of, Neapolitan Bonds, 5 p C. 901 Exchange 251. 65c. Pertly. Bds. 6p C. Neapol. Bds. 5 pr Ct. 90 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHAPES, TWo O'CLOCK. .IFIAltg rain. nl& SHAM Brazilian, Imp. (iss. £5 pm.) 35 20 Do. National 25 10 14 Dined Mex. (iss. at £1 pm.) 40 29j 15 Marine Alliance 100 5 5 1 i OCTOBER 29. AT TWO O'CLOCK. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter of " A POJTUCUIII' to-morrow. This day his Excellency Baron ByLow had an inter view with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign Office, in Downing-street. STATE OF IRELAND. The condition of to letters from all quarters—proceeds rapidly from bad to worse ; from intolerable to terrific. The private correspondence from Dublin, which occupies a great space in the Times this morning, justifies the most gloomy forebodings. On the theme of the DONERAILE CONSPIRACY, the writer says—"it would not be judicious at present to expatiate." The peasantry of Cork and Kerry are in a state of per petual collision. It is reported at Dublin that a Tip perary clergyman—rector of Moyaliffe, and brother to Mr. GOING, the Police Magistrate—was shot dead on the 23d instant at Thurles. Mr. GOING, the Magistrate, was murdered just eight years ago. The Rev. Mr. Sit A w—the clergyman of Kilmactreny—it is said, has been attacked in his house by a party of Whiteboys, who have SWORN him to discharge his Protestant servants, and employ PAPISTS in their stead. They made him, also, take an oath to discontinue his schools. In the meantime, seventeen others—implicated in LEARY'S plot—are about to take their trials.—There is an account, also, of a political dinner given to Mr. SHEIL, which, probably, we shall not dismiss so summarily. Surely, Government must look with an anxious eye at these manifestations and de velopments ? The cloud which was "no bigger than a man's hand," already darkens the whole horizon with its shadow. In the first page of our Paper will be found the details of that Irish trial to which we made imperfect allusion yesterday. We are now collected and dispassionate— we have weighed impartially our first impressions—tnd they bear down the scale against all pro-Catholic sensibi lities with undiminished and stern preponderance. We will speak out : who has a better right to do so ? We appeal fearlessly to the integrity of our public career—to the consistency with which we have ever stood forward the friends of all liberal messures,the advocates of all improvement 1 Since we have conducted this enemy even has so much as attenwted to principles ? Who, among our silent awl lax has dared to assail the purity whisk has placed us so high above surrounding corruption ? Shall we not, then, speak out—without fear ---as without fa vour? The Noble Duke has been liberally used by us. We bore with him long and patiently, before we declared his incapacity to conduct the Government : we even bore with him—and his colleague in emancipation, Mr. PEEL —specifically because of that cardinal measure, and the promise which it was interpreted to carry, of a liberal administration of things. Through a series of successive acts—every one singly tending to alarm us more and more for the Constitution — we held the Noble Duke undisparaged for the sake of his " great Bill," and kept him upon trial in our opinion, 'till his understanding with Po LIG'S AC and METTERNICH became too visible in its effects to be longer questioned. We then denounced him as unfit to be entrusted with the direction of the public destinies—as an unsafe and incapable pilot—only steering the State vessel to disaster and shipwreck. We call back these ' things to the recollection of our readers—not for any arraignment of the Noble Duke to-day—but to show the side to which our predilection leaned on the merits of that measure, which has no mitigated the depravities that it loosed from bondage• We call back these things to show that so far from being intolerant, we rejoiced in the dispensation of re ligious liberty to our fellow-subjects—that we were not orangemen, but emancipationists—advocating systems of government, to which the NEWCASTLE faction is as an tipodal as darkness to the morning. Shall we not, then, speak out—without fear —as without favour ? As suredly we will. To what end, else, shall we have pre served ourselves clear from suspicion? Assuredly we will ! The often splendid, though corrupt Journal, from whose columns we copy to-day our account of the Done raile Conspiracy, tells us that it made his blood run cold to read it. The greater part of the world, he says—himself among them—discredited -at first the existence of such a fiendish plot. He then argues upon the motives which could have instigated the as sassins to band together, for the destruction of three innocent, Protestant lives : but he omits to tell us that the lives were Protestant, and the life -hunters Roman Catholic. But let him speak for himself; for even he is sufficiently stirring : " There was no insurrection in the county of Cork ; the Magis trates had not been hunting down any claw or sect, or party, of the people ; the landlords had not been ejecting their tenants whole• sale ; of the tithe proctor there was no complaint ; there was to all appearance no spirit prevalent of more than ordinary anger or ill-blood ; there was no excitement visible to which a temporary excess or outrage might have appealed for pardon ; yet this time of imagined serenity and composure was perverted to objects fit only for the meditation of denten:ter—die foul and butcherly murder of persons in the upper walks of life, (or no reason but that one of them had exercised his lawful rights as a landlord ; another of them, Mr. Low, bad discharged his duties as a Magistrate ; and a third, Admiral EVANII, bad spoken and voted in Parliament against a popular measure, which had nevertheless been carried in spite of him ; so that in fact he had done no harm, and was, we believe, not thought capable of any. It the several actions thus imputed by the conspirators themselves to their future victims. as the only crimes for which they deserved assassination,—if such, we say, are to draw down the punishment of midnight murder on the gentle. men of an Irish county, can we feel much astonished at the crowds of absentees from Ireland, who infest Great Britain and every part of Europe ?" Two remarkable expressions ofour contemporary merit particular notice in this passage ;—" no spirit prevalent of more than ordinary anger or ill-blood"—" no excite ment risible :" and yet, with all his acumen, he does not seem, somehow, to lay his hand on the place ! May we, then, be so familiar as to ask the Times, what he means by the " ordinary" ill-blood and anger of Irish society ? When he says that "no excitement was visible," does he not allude to an agency, which--though occult—was dealing pes tilence round it from under its guilty shroud ? But as we have asked the question of our contemporary we will answer it also for him. It is the spirit of Popish Confederacy, which he designates by "the ordinary ill blood of Ireland:" he knows—he feels it is. It is the strong under-current of Roman Catholic hate, to which he points by his " no visible excitement :" GOD stay it, for emancipation will not ! It is this, which perverts a season of serenity and composure" into one of dark ness, and mystery, and bloody peril. This is the invi sible excitement which rouses the brooding Whiteboy " to objects fit only for the meditation of demons—the foul and butcherly murder of persons in the upper walks of life, for no reason" but that they are Protestants. We cannot shut our eyes to the conviction. Look at LEARY, the manager of these assassinations—his rank . _ in 'society, for he paid regularly, never once failing, a rent of £220 a year to the man against whose son's life he conspired—his advanced age, for he was nearly seventy—his delegated authority from somebody, for he it was who administered the secret baths. SHINE, too, was in easy circumstances. But men in easy circu.mstances do not commit murder for common mo tives. What then instigated LEARN to devote Admiral Ev ANS to death ? The vote which the Admiral gave in Parliament against Catholic Emancipation. It is in the evidence. But why does the Times print all this, and yet affect to misunder stand in his commentary the true principle which knits together the diabolical Papal league. Does he suppose that the inflammatory speeches of priests and demagogues —during the great holiday of agitation—are to produce no fruits ? Does he fancy that the everlasting rancour which has never ceased to distil from certain lips against the PROTESTANT RELIC; lON, is an iIIIIOXiOUS distillation ? We can tell him the contrary. Ask him—Would he sprinkle vitriol upon silken garments, or water violets with the tears of the Indian Ups ? Thus far we have permitted ourselves, and—if need arise—we will go even farther yet : nevertheless, we are friends to complete religious equality, and the unob structed exercise of every form of worship. Why not ? Who are we, that we should judge another man's ser vant ? To his own master he standeth, or falleth. The measure of emancipation has been carried. During the conflict for it, we never molested its advocates by opposi tion of ours. We held it unfair—while the religion was under a political ban—to join the bigot outcry which was raised to perpetuate oppression. But the moment that the disabilities were removed, we felt ourselves free as air to canvass and impugn, as we might see oecasioa. It was no longer a proscribed faith, a persecuted sect; but it stood erect—a great national establishment by the side of our own—in equality of right, and privilege, and legal recognition. In this state of things we can engage it par pari—and perhaps we shall. We took off its manacles, but not to arm it for our own extermination : we gave the boon ; precipitate gift—we fear—if we do. not misapprehend the symptoms ! But—no : after the speech of Mr. SHELL at Dundalk—who can misappre hend these ? By the Flanders Mail this morning, we have received a variety of notices from the Continental Papers—none of them of much importance. The Frankfort Papers are still indulging in idle speculations on what might have been the case—if the OTTOMAN PORTE had been properly supported ; while the Allgemeine Zei tung, in a tone far more decided, informs us that it is impossible for the SULTAN to fulfil the conditions of the Treaty,—his treasury being quite exhausted. The same print, in an article from Ancona, dated the 11 th instant, states that important events are about to take place in Greece " which demand the atten tion of the British Government ; and that the English troops in the lonian Islands will again receive consi derable reinforcements. A fortnight before, about 4,000 troops were landed at Malta." ti political improvi Journal, what e arraign our prim contemporaries, FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, Orr. 8. The peace having been ratified on the 27th September, it is bo hewed that the ratifications will be exchanged by the middle .f October. The Porte is said to have had much difficulty in pro viding the first instalment of the stun fixed for the indemnification of the merchants; and this is reported to be the chief ground why the Sultan delayed the ratification thirteen days. If it was diffi cult to find even the sum which is so small in proportion to the whole, It does not appear how the Porte will be able to fulfil the engagements into which it has entered with Russia for the pay ment of the sums agreed upon, unless Russia should consent to a considerable reduction of the amount, or some new source be opened to fill the treasury of the Sultan, which le now quite ex hausted. The English Ambassador, Mr. Robert Gordon, is said to have limited Admiral Malcolm to cruise with his squadron a( the DardaneUes. Admiral Hayden, on his side, has raised the blockade, and intends to go to Poros. The Pacha of Scutari, who was inactive during the whole cam paign, and must have been weU informed at the close of it of the negotiations for peace, and their progress, seems to have undertaken his expedition towards Sophia, chiefly for the purpose of making himself talked of, and thereby to regain the favour of the Sultan It Is said he intends to go to Greece, if he should not succeed la getting himself summoned to the capital. ANCONA, Om 11. Furious tempests have done much damage in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic. The exchange of couriers between Corfu and London is very active. Last week, two couriers to the Lord High Commissioner passed through this city. It is affirmed that important events will take place in Greece, which demand the attention of the English Government ; and that the English troops in the lonian islands will again receive considerable reinforce ments. A fortnight ago about 4,000 troops were landed at Malta. —..filgesteittc Zeitotg, Oct. 23. FRANKFORT, OM 21. We have received some numbers of the Cestrrier de Smynse which come down to 13th Sept. and are partly filled with transac tions of the fourth National Assembly of Greece ; the chief par ticulars of which we have already communicated. The accounts from Constantinople are only to the 7th Sept, The &wrier speaks in high terms of General Diebitsch and those under him. On the second campaign it obsesves : " Three things have chiefly decided the issue of the second cam paign : the exclusive possession of the Mask Sea by the Russians, the particular character of the Grand Vizier, and the talents of the Russian Commander-in-Chief. Aftet the destruction of the Sul- tan's Beet, the way was opened for the Russians to their victories on the coast of the Ruzine, and to the Bosphorus. This is a fact against which no reasoning will avail. If the army of General Diebitsch bad been deprived of the means of receiving supplies and reinforcements, by way of Saseboli, and of threatening the capital from Bourgas and Ainada, the Russian army would not have ventured to cross the Balkan, however weak the resistance that might have been there made to it. The Grand Vizier bad the courage of a soldier, and desired to measure his strength fairly with the enemy ; but his zeal led him too far. But what man of honour can blame him ? His regular troops emu lated his seal lu the battle of the 11th of June ; and 40.000 men, after a battle of four hours. obliged the best troops of Russia to give up their whole line of battle, and to bring forward 70,000 men to obtain the victory. On this occasion, this new institution proved what it could already perform, and what may be expected from it. But when the well-being of an empire is at stake, the suggestions of elevated feelings must not always be attended to; this battle was a fault, and an immense fault ; and such a one as only a great mind could have been guilty of. From that moment, General Diebitsch displayed military talents of the highest order, and may be placed smog those illustrious men who have distinguished themselves in the wars of our times."—Fronlfeet Papers, 22d Oct. _ BRUSSELS, Ocr. SS. The Duish Journal, published at the Hague, says, The last news from Batavia is of the 30th May : information was received there on the 24th that M. &Meres t Governor of the Moluccas/ had died at Macassar. Major-General Bischoff, appointed by his Ma. jesty to the chief command of our army in India, was still very in disposed, which will delay the departure of Lieutenant-General de Kock for Europe, at least, till the arrival of the new commissioner General Van den Bosch. 2T.—Prince Albert of Frugal' arrived at the Hague Saturday everting. _ _ _ Letters from Batavia of 20th June, arm that the negotiations for peace between the Colonial Government and the natives conti nued ; and that them was good reason to hope they would end favourably. CARLSRUHE. OCT. 20. The Duke of Becht:4lmm passed through this city a few days ago, and likewise lira. Wyse (whose maiden name was Letitia Buonaparte) coming from lingland.—Brusstis Papas, Ocs. fa A Portrait of Don MIGUEL will be found in another c olumn, together with some leading facts connected with the atrocious career of the Usurper. Convinced as we are, that this frightful picture is rather underdrawn than otherwise, bow is it possible to pass over it without once more appealing to the whole country, whether such a person can ever be recognised by England, without a violation of every principle of honour, good faith, and justice ? The publication of facts so appalling, and which nothing but a sense of what we owe to the na tional character of our country, as well as the oppressed people of Portugal, would induce us to promulgate, gives rise to a question of equal delicacy and importance. With this statement before the public, every; particle of which can be proved in any Court of Justice, or at the Bar of Parliament, we ask, in sober sadness, upon what plea, or by what moral or political expediency the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord ABERDEEN can hold further communication with the Usurper, far less attempt to pre pare the nation for recognising him ? That the Noble Duke and his friends are meditating something like a recognition, seems evident from the insidious article of the Times, to which we replied on Saturday last, and the demi-official character of which was too palpable to im pose on the most besotted of its readers: " At the same time we are bound to confess," says the writer of that unprincipled article,—" with whatever reluctance, that the ultimate recognition of MIGUEL, should he not be upset by his own people, is an inevitable evil: and, however offensive to our moral feelings, is an event which the exigencies of the state and commerce may absolutely demand."—",Our moral feelings," indeed! To have contemplated such an exigency, with all the damning facts of the last two years before him, it is easy to comprehend the extent of " moral feeling" which must animate this writer. Having, as we trust, trium phantly confuted the dangerous and untenable doctrines of the Times, we put it to the people of England, and to all Europe, whether any Government possessing the smallest regard to legitimacy, or public principle, can recognise a person whose crimes have been so enormous, as the ruler of a Christian community ? That he should have so long received the encouragement and support of a British Ministry, is one of the most painful and de grading facts connected with the history of our country. A private letter, bearing all the marks of authenti city, dated Frankfort, the 22d instant, has this day been received in the City, and is to the following effect : " The new Loan which Austria intends to negociate, seems to corroborate the opinion of those who maintain that the tranquillity of Europe is far from being secured by the peace of Adrianople. A most extraordinary inci dent of the loan is, that the Austrian Government has chosen the very moment of its being announced to suppress the tax called the person and class-tax. It is therefore evident that Austria does not apply to our cos mopolite bankers, in order to make use of their purse for her ordinary wants, her regular income being adequate to their exigencies. We must therefore suppose that her prudence prompts her to secure a reverse, but she may not be surprised by any fortuitous event. Our politi cians can also scarcely comprehend how Russia, after such brilliant success, would have condescended to sign a peace apparently so advantageous to the Turks, and which does not even obtain for her the full payment of the expenses of the war, if she did not foresee that she will soon have to turn her.forces against another Power. Our accounts from Russia are far from announcing that that country is preparing to enjoy peace and tran quillity. The last order for recruiting here his not been countermanded, as it might have been expected. The Imperial is still quartered at Foulkzir and its environs. Volhynia, Podolia, and the adjacent provinces, are full of troops, which seem to be waiting for orders to march onward ; and in the interior of Russia the roads are covered with newly-raised battalions, which continue to be directed towards the frontiers." sEmmenargmems CITY. TwaLvs o'CLoes. The Express from Paris received this morning having brought the information that the last act of the ratification of peace was accomplished, which now mast decidedly put at rest the public curiosity, and that Europe may expect with confidence several years of peace, has bad some little effect ou our Funds this morn ing, which opened at 91# 1 for the Account, since which they have reached 91i ; but owing to some Money Stock being brought to Market, Consols receded to 911 for the Account; and 91 for Money ; at present may be quoted 93e to i for the Account, with a Market not so promising as yesterday.—Letters from Lisbon of the same date u our last account, gives the following statement of Don bitoum's usurpation :—The number of persons to the 11th of this month are 23,190 exiled, or secretly confined; 40,790, asoassi nations 1,123 ; houses burnt, 166 ; and 17,313 persons' property sequestrated. Persons executed are not mentioned. In the Foreign Market nothing doing u yet. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. The Bears have obtained this day a victory over the Bolls. Consols, which were at the commencement of the market at 91j for the Account, with an apparently good market, are now heavy at 91 to j, and 90 for Money, owing to a quantity of money Stock having been pawned to a banker, which was sent to the market, and which has depressed it. This has give, fresh courage to the Bear party, who, no doubt, will make further attacks on the Bulls, who are said to be well prepared to receive them, alleging, that u there is now a general peace in Europe, they can bring their main forces to bear on them, particularly the immense property they are possessed of, u no farther Loans are required. In the Foreign Market, Brazilian Stock has lowered a per cent. owing chiefly to the setting-day to-morrow. In other Foreign Securities little or nothing doing. The French frigate Galatea, armed en flute, is said to be going to sail from Toulon, to bring back the troops from the Mores. The following is another version of the affair of the Spanish expedition at Tampico, received this morning at the North and South American Coffee-house, dated New York, Oct. 1 : PICTOW.—The grain crops in this district are finer than they have been for several years. Large fires have been raging in the neighbourhood on Monday week. Serious apprehensions were entertained for the safety of many of the Settlements ; the - fires having appeared in many places, and the air was loaded with smoke, but a heavy shower quenched some of the fires. Letters from Constantinople, of the same date as the last accounts, state that the Sultan rarely appears in public ; and his former firmness seems to have aban doned him. The unfavourable result of the war has made a great impression on his mind. Eleven ships have arrived in the port. The ship Princess Royal has been lost. This vessel sailed for Grenada on the 17th June, and was overset twelve days after in a whirlwind, in lat. 38. Two boys in the cabin were drowned. The Captain and crew suc ceeded in getting on the bottom of the ship, where they remained six days, and were six days in the jolly-boat. Afternoon was fallen in with by the Rolls of Baltimore. Toni, UPPER CANADA.—Accounts from that psi of the province, announce an abundant harvest. I