Star. — London, England, 1830-01-01 00:00:00

eAki THE EVENING STAR. C r 0.0 ! 4 1 4 ; 4 22/e c = -4: k e s • Y- LONDON. FRIDAY, J. ,NUARY 1. . Hourar AT TUB BAIIIL—NEw lz*&a DAY. FOREIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil BJs. Spr Ct. 721 51 5 Greek Bonds,s p Ct. Do. Ace. 731 6 Do. B. 1825, 5 pCt. 50 Odom. lids. 6 per Ct. Dn. Are. 80136 1 30 Do. lids. 1824, Diu 100, 301 1 Ditto 100, 251 Prosy. lids. 6 p C. 181 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO tECLOCK IMAM% PAID. P 1 MAUL Anglo Mexican (isa. at Al pm) 100 160 93 Brasilia , Imp. (in. 25 pm.) 35 SO 94 Melican 100 35 I ' S Real del Monte 400 400 75 73 United Mex. (isa. at El pm.) 40 391 181 1 Protector Fire 2O 2 21 14s. Certain official formalities at the Stamp-ojict,neces gory upon every change in the title of a Newspaper—and with which we were not acquainted in time—oblige us to postpone for a day or two our intention to add to the STAR the appeTlatioss of the SOUTH AM/RICAN RE k.isTeu, the new type of which is already in our print ing-roons. In reply to our valued and distinguished Windsor cor respondent, we beg to assure him that the allusion in our notice of his MAJESTY'S health on Wednesday, to certain officious interference, did not apply to the household : for, like himself, we are convinced cordiality and a mutual interchange of kindly offices never pre vailed to a greater degree within the precincts of the pa lace, than at the present moment. We think we can felicitate our readers upon the brighter prospects, which seem to be opening upon the country with the opening year : and with all our hearts we do so. The too long stagnant energies of the people are exhibiting by little and little, symptoms of re animation. The dawning. of a great change are slowly, but visibly, breaking on us. To us—who have been accustomed to look far forward—these prognostics do not show themselves unexpected. We perceived, and hailed with delight, the restless agitation of the general mind— even while it lay heaving beneath the surface—in a neighbouring country, and we augured happily from that fermenting spirit. But when the PoLto wAC nomi nations were announced, the omen which we had drawn from smouldering principles became realised in declared events. The outcry against an illiberal and retrogressive Cabinet rose loud and general. The voice of the people mounted in concert, like a storm—threatening, but striking not—for the people knew their power, and felt that they might stay their uplifted hand': affording thus a practical illustration, not of the progress of intelligence merely, but of its moral restraining influence in crises of excitation and trouble. Their attitude was not the less imposing for their forbearance, and an odious Ministry wavered—passive and mute before them—uncertain to remain or retire. Brittany now stood prominently for ward, and was the first to set a glorions example of com bination, to resist illegal and iniquitous exactions. Her name became a watchword in the capital and in the pro vinces; the landed interest throughout France ad hered to her stirring declarations, and the spirit of the league pervaded the whole empire to salva tion. Controlled, at length, in spite of himself, by the power of universally expressed opinion, ClisaLls X. promulgated ordonuances, which proved that the talisman of a dictatorial government was broken. If the objectionable head remain, it is now clear that po pular alliances are courted by him ; but it is unlikely that the genuine friends of liberty will either coalesce with him, or suffer hint to continue Minister. We note this the more particularly, to show the sympathy of political manoeuvre, by which the Paeutza—as well there, as here—is endeavouring to strengthen his hands against a disapproving people. But the SEBASTIANIS, and CASIMIR PERRIERS,WO apprehend, are too pure to associate with POLIONAC; and we may predicate the same of the Whigs . in this country with regard to the Noble Luxe, unless—indeed—we except some, the very refuse of them. We have laid, advisedly, such a stress upon French occurrences, because there is a chain of connection between the two Ministries, which always more or less— but now, more than, ever—reciprocates a large moral influence over both countries. We said the other day, and we repeat it now, that European regeneration already dawns in Frahce : let us add, that the lambent fires of popular independence seem once more to be curling from the earth heavenwards, in our own country. Whoso looks at the Government, cannot be at a loss for the pl olucing cause:. to unerring is the truth, that—for nations as well as individuals—out ofevilproeeedetli good. At an'epoch, so auspicious as the new year is popularly ko. 1 to bio;—and so auspicious as we ourselves deem the pres.mt new year to be—something may, perhaps, be • kifeetel 'Porn . up, in the way of a confirmation of those pf which six months ago we undertook to remodel this Newspaper. We will comply with this ex peel scion—though we hardly deem it necessary—not by ashy rru' declaration, but by a reiteration here of a part of +'..,t we said on that subject, on the first of July last. " In announcing these "—that is, the arrangements . ' by which we came upon the STAR—" the P- ROPRIRTORS do not feel it at all necessary to make any declaration i of principles, in the strict sense of the term. Never theless, they think this a proper opportunity to state, that they come forward in a pure and liberal spirit, fettered by no party, though certainly favouring the remains of one, Which it was once equally popular and patriotic to up hold. Concerning this Party they have elsewhere given their opinion at greater length—and perhaps with keener animadversion—than comports with the equanimity of these explanations. But they are not bound, nor do they be long, to any set of men whatever ; and it is only in consideration that the body alluded to yet contains within its pale some shining and uncorrupt individuals—a nu cleus of redeeming purity—that they permit them selves to mention it for a moment. Higher—incalcu lably higher—is the errand on which they start : yet if, in the discharge of their great advocacies, they find themselves side by side with men wham the people have ceased to count upon as their na tural auxiliaries, their satisfaction will be proportionate to the surprise. From their youth upwards, the writers of this announcement have always attached themselves to that scheme of Government which has seemed to them to unite the greatest administrative purity with the soundest views of practical improvement. During the , last twelve years, they have lent to such principles of policy no feeble advocacy through the press." It is for the public to say—since the above sentences were first printed in its columns—with what effect the STAB, has stood forward, in the Caine of rational free dom. On foreign politics, it appeals fearlessly to its discussions respecting Portugal and Greece, and— with equal confidence—to the sentiments which it was the first to promulgate, on the accession of the ultra-royalist Cabinet in France. On questions of domestic admi nistration, it has equally scorned a wavering and equi vocal career. It has proved by incontrovertible argu ments, that popular opinion can make no peace with a Ministry compounded of such pernicious ingredients as military overbearance, and an attachment to principles which antagonise with the spirit of the age. Impressed with the conviction that there is no salvation for this debt-encembered country, but in a downright and pure REFORM, it has been advocated to its greatest practical extent ; but the system of uni versalised suffrage and annual elections, has been steadily diseonntenanced : above all, the total abolition of the proprietary influence in boroughs, has formed—and wilt continue to form--a conspicuous feature in its arro gations. Looking forward, as we do, to the assembling of Parliament, and the important notices that stand for motion there, it is not possible to pass in si lence—now that we have touched on reform—the name of Lord BLANDFORD. We should not stand excused to the country—we could not forgive ourselves High are the hopes that animate the public bosom, as the hour draws nigh for the Noble Marquis to redeem the pledge that he made last summer. Never—to our knowledge—were the eyes of an anticipating people con centered with more confidence ,even on the tried champions of our Constitution, than they are on this virgin patriot. Nor will the prevalent expectation be disappointed in the Noble Marquis, who—we do not fear to predict—is des tined to restore all the ancient splendour of the glorious coronet that he inherits, and to make the name of MARLBOROUGM as illustrious in civil history, as it is yet unrivalled in military fame. It was our intention in this ankle to have spoken at same length concerning the state of Portugal, and also on the subject of South America : but topics so important as these—branching as they do, into all the interests and vitalities of freedom—are better reserved fora specific dis cussion. Concerning the lax principles of our contempora ries, air*, it may be well imagined that we could say much. The Panes is the natural bulwark and guardian of the people's rights and liberties,but we have not found it always forward to defend them : though, latterly—in the cafe of the late Old Bailey trials —it has manifested somewhat of a redeeming spirit. We have no desire to speak in vidiously ; at this happy season, we will rather look forward with hope : and with these senti ments we end--as we began—wishing our country all ' happy changes, and anticipating them from many sus picious signs and concurrences. The Allgemeine Zeitung to the 25th ultimo is re ceived this morning, in which we find a contradiction of the reported relapse of the Emperor NICHOLAS; and a repetition of the current rumour, that Prince LEOPOLD is -to ascend the throne of Greece. The subjoined notices will be found interesting. 81111 LIN. It is knows here that the health of the Ifinpuror Masks daily Improves. elmsh private letters say that he had not yet quitted hi. chamber ; wlikh Is. however, conformable to the saws( course of his monism's,. It Is said this General Von Mona& before he assumes the own. sped of the forms. of blayence,will sake a journey to Sc. Poem burgh. r ssloodeoce as ow of our prinass. It is aimed in some of the circles hors, ie motradicdoe to other accesass o llist k is the Prise. of Coburg who it to mead the time of Greats. The amoseakelpie attach on ear gerntar Ilinister.the gam Tea Stein, Midi is contained in the amok' di Boardisse, sad was net hews to the public In geoeral dll Vs. Stets himself repiiod to it, has excited the indlinadoo of every honest dud. On the 7th Odds month It was fifty years dace his Majesty the Meg. then nine years of age s entered tbe Guards, tbe reign of Trawl -A the Great. Io conformity with tbe unalected tenth moots of ear beloved Monereb. this jubilee was kept without any ostentation ; but with the more cordiality in the bosom of the Royal Fy. Mr. C A A. G. Fresthel, a merthant, and who died In London In test, 'educed by attachment to Ms native city, Magdeburg, left a legacy of 455,000 smith& to found a school there for poor children of both sezes, and to maintain it by the interest. AU the formali ties in England being complied with, the sum for the foundation. ready from the accumulation of the interest. and the Royal permis sion obtained, this charitable Institution will be forded at Burg, near Magdeburg. Eighty children will be received into it, and brought up as artisans er domestiss ; and thus the memory of the generous founder be reasenthered with gratitude to the latest posterity. Frankfort Papers to tho 25th ult. are likewise received to-day. By an article dated Bucharest, 4th December, we find that General ICtssaturs, the new President of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, had ar rived in that city. The day after his arrival, he assembled the executive Divan, and addressed him in a speech, of which the following is the substance : " The Reapetor haa confided to me the administntioa of those provinces. ram sensible of the importance of the duties imposed on me, and shall be happy to justify the choice of my Sovereign, your powerful protector. whohas strengthened the protection which his ancestors granted to you. It is for you, Gentlemen, to com plete the work. When the war commenced, it was his Majesty's intention to make it as little burdensome as possible to the priadp.e Udes ; and the burdens would certainly have been light, if the authorities of the country had been penetrated with the Idea, that dills:skies thrown in the way would be injurious to the general interest. A new ergs:deaden Is preparing by a committee. whose members, chosen from amoog yourselves, are distinguished by their perfect knowledge of the laws and customs of the country. I in form you, Gentiomen.that the present mode of administration will be wholly retained. till it shall be satisfactorily proved that changes are necessary or useful. Lastly. I venture to hope that we. guided by the wisdom of the brave Commander of the Army, shall Mill the generous intention of your august protector; and that the me mory of this time will be transmitted by a happy people to the re motest posterity." Manuel Argyro Nubs, one of the members of the Divan, made a suitable reply to this speech. FRANKFORT, Dm 24. litscuLsos on Lams—Two months, 1514. The subjoined article from St. Petorsburgh is highly important. The universal feeling throughout Russia is clearly against the arrangements made at Adrianople, " both on the whole and iu the details." It also appears that great disunion prevails amongst the leading mem bers of the Imperial family. s' St. Pinianuacu. Dac. 10. " Notwithstanding the public rejoicings and religious ceremonies with which the Treaty of Adrianople has been celebrated here, it is no less true that this peace has caused great discontent among all classes. The stipula tions of the treaty, far from answering the expectations of the nation, are universally blamed both on the whole and in the details. The indemnities stipulated are not propor tioned to the sacrifices which the war has caused ; and whatever pains may be taken to diminish the losses sus tained by our armies, it is however notorious that the two campaigns have cost us above 100,000 soldiers. And when at length, people, say with indignation, sour brave soldiers had passed the Balkan, which was never before forced, and had entered victorious the second capital of the empire, they are suddenly stopped, as if they were envied the fruit and the honour, which 'key so well deserved, of planting their victorious stand%rds on the walls of Con stantinople. The pretended danger to the Christian popu lation of Constantinople was probably a vain pretext. On the entrance of our troops into that capital we should have beheld the same spectacle as in all the other towns conquered from the Turks : instead of attacking their Christian fellow-citizens, the Mahome tans would have hastened to meet our troops and implore their protection ; still less reason was there to fear the pas sage of the Dardanelles by the English bet. In 1807, Ad miral Duckworth, having passed them, was glad to escape with pretty considerable loss, though he had to do only with a single man, General Sebastiani. The reason that our troops were envied the triumphal entry into Constantino ple was, that they alone would have had all the honour, and that no ally would have shared it with them. " The Emperor Nicholas is not ignorant of this lan guage, which is heard among all classes. His brothers, the Grand Dukes Constantine and Michael, were the first to hold it to him, which, as well as the mission of General Muffling, has caused that coolness between the brothers which still continues, and in which we must look for the chief cause of the melancholy of the Emperor Nicholas, and the slowness of his convalescence. Heaven grant that he may not have a dangerous relapse ! His Majesty is pale, feeble, and gloomy, which does not • little in crease our fears. The following has been received at Lloyd's : •• Atli:shaky Mee, Dee. 31. Sts,—ln return to your letter of this date, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Com mittee managing the affairs of Lloyd's, that their Lordships have directed the Admirals at Plymouth and Cork to send out any vessels that may be disposable to the Chops of the Channel, to afford supplies to the trade which may be kept out by the easterly winds. (Simi) el To Mr. Brooeft, Lloyd's." siJOIIN BARROW. CITY, Tw ztv 1 o'CLocr. - - - - We have ably skip letters from lbstyroa, aid a French Mail. By the latter we lam seaman that four esstramon ban appeared as bidden for the French Loss of deity minima frisks, which bid dies takes place oo the 12th instant, as follows s —M. Assad° has Made the first offer, to Reeelver•Unteral the second, the third M. Delessert. and the [mull a Company. The offer el the Rs. eelver•Genenl is said to her. boss 104 hems for the Pear per Qom It was repined on die 'Change at Paris, that he de illgo• died Climber the Zuhaege Brokers (Wad. after a spletted emstoo. that the meesores adopted, of giving emit of te per emu es the Royal Is to ho postponed ler a nissult. Amounts from mete Est pert or ths ammi. may has pasaad the above town es go has winter 'eaten. • Private letters have brat received Ikea Harts of the ilith De. amber. which are silent In regard to the relapse of the Emperor of Rawls. The Consul Market, which loft of yesterday very heavy at 936 to j for the Account, opened in the same state this looming at 94, and soon after were done for the opening of Consols at 95. but at pre sent may be weed 95i. This decline is attributed to th e Recta having come 4 per cent. lower, owing to the near approach kw the contract of the French Loan. L the Foreign Market little or nothing doing as yet. The Brasil, Sleeken, and Colombian packet% are anziossly ex. as it is thought they will bring commerdal accounts of -- E;;;;riting the above a rmacdon has taken place to amok, whkh are net for the Acclaim. _ _ HALF-PAST ONL - - - accest In the Trench Papers of the Raceiver-Gsoseal hav ing bid 101 frump for the Peer per Cents fer the any French Loan. is iscorrest t as we understated. fres pod &whacky. that there we live Nets. amongst which is that el Misers Itewascon.a, and the prices el the ditinat bidding" sans be ascertained until the mit January. The Coned Waritet continues In the lease state el SaWykr MS ' he the esrly part el the sersies, st ter the Assns. sing is yet kasha as pedals. whether the Bask wiN ens* thdr diessents besid the leaked date. In the Fend. Madtat no speculadens d etesepeont la gig ' %mud at present, and ones et the prices ere moth the nose as L en yesterday. FASHIONAME INTELLIGENCE. __L ~.1 ..-- ARRIVAUL im am and p r i sms Llswn, Princes George and Arthur I.Areen, at Adsbarnbam House. Dover-street, from Earl Cowper seat . Passenger, Hero ; Lord and Lady Brudeneil, at their house in Hereford-street, from Melton Mowbray ; Viscount Templetown at Me home in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, from Ireland ; Jun es Grieve, Esq. at Fenton% Hotel. St. Juneee-street.from Scotland; Major Campbell, at Gould's Hotel, Jermya•street, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. J. Tucker, hr Albemarle-street, from their seat in Bucks. DEPARTURES. Mr Charles Greetlle. But. from the Brunswick Hotel, Jertnyu. street. for Ms brother's (the Bari of Warwick's) seat, Warwick Castle, Warwickshire; Owea Williams, MR. M.P. from his house in Berkeley-square, for his seat, Temple House, Great Marlow, Bucks ; J. Du Pre, Esq. from his house in Portland - place, for hit seat, Wilton Park, Bucks; Sir Compton DomeMe, Bart. from Be. James's-street, no a tour ; the Ladies Fitspatrick, from Grosvenor place, for their seat, fermi% Woods l Northamptonshire. DRURT-LA NE THEATRE. Whatever may be said of that decline of public test( to which the deterioration of the Drama has been so ge nerally ascribed, the progressive results of the present sea son must have convinced the Managers of both our great National Theatres, that it requires but the attraction of genuine talent to give a fresh and vigorous impulse tc that task, and to ensure the renewal of that fostering pa. tronage which it should be not less their duty, than their interest, to propitiate by the most liberal encouragement on their parts, of histrionic merit. The announcement of KEAN'S Lucius Junius Brutu. proved so attractive, that very soon after the doors were opened on Wednesday evening, Drury-Lane Theatre wa , . crowded, to witness his inimitable personification of th* avenging Roman; and if—after the auspicious resump tion of his brilliant career, as Richard, Othello, and Si. Giles Overreach—a doubt could have been entertaine( of the perfect renovation of his great powers, or of hi influence over the feelings and the passions of the au dience, his success in Brutus must have assured eve' the most sceptical, that his mental and physical qualitie are not only unimpaired, but are even heightened it their display by a more chastened judgement, a mon severe simplicity of manner, and a more masterly deve lopement of his own internal resources, than, in our opi nion, even this great and gifted actor ever before exhi bited. His appearance as the idiot, when every gesture and every word is suited to a , The mask necessity has leads him war," the heedless gait, the loose and unconnected walk, th. listlessness of limb, and total vacancy of countenance all the outward indications of his assumed folly, were ad mirably contrasted with the occasional flashing forth o the spirit veiled in " the visor of his madness." Hi first soliloquy and his delivery of that passage in whicl he pants to " see revenge spring like a lion from its den: was most eloquently and passionately uttered. His in terview with Titus and the self-command with which h. suppresses even the father's anxious wish to confide th , secret of his imposture to his son, the indirect excitemen to assert the liberty of his country, and the skill witl which, recalling his fondest aspiration when he finds n corresponding enthusiasm in Titus, he says, I'm foolish; My brain is weak and waistless ; you abuse it—" elicited bursts of applause. Nothing can be more appalls:l than the imprecations which, in his excited fury, ha vents upon the astonished Sexists ; nothing more ener getic than his resolve to avenge the violation of " the heroic matron;" nothing more tender or more spirit stirring than the tribute to the beauties and the virtues o Lucretia, with which he invokes the people to " swel the general sound, revenge, revenge !" But all the attributes of KEAN's excellence are cou centrated in the fifth act, where the contention of pa rental fondness with the sternness of Roman virtue, du sorrow of the man with the indignation of the patriot, an( the sympathy of a generous nature with the imperiou duty of the judge, were eloquently attested in tha emphatic address to the son he was about to doom ts death: Think that I love thee by my present passion. By throe unmanly tears, these eartbqualtes bete. These 646 that strain the very strings of life ; Let these consicee you that no other cause Cuuld force a father thus to wrong his nature. It is impossible to pass unnoticed the impassioned ant tearful utterance with which K Es, gives to two brie; words meaning of whole pages : we allude to the speech in which, reminding Valerists of the sacrifice which the latter had made to the public good by levelling his proud palace, he says " With what afiuherty delight you summoned Each grace and ornament that might enrich The child of your creation. In the text they seemed almost misapplied; in the delivery of the actor they told the anguish of a breaking heart with a desolating bitterness that baffles all descrip tion. The closing scene, the re-ascending of the Tri bune, the orders to the lictors to bear their prisoner forth, the summoning up the convulsed energies of nature to the great effort; in short the three lines •' hook* now Demands her victim ! A nide moment And lam childless. One team and 'tis past ! Justice is satisfied, and Rome Is Inv!" are as far beyond all praise, as they are superior to all rivalry. Mr. COOPER played Titus excellentli well. Revolting a character as Tullis appears, Mrs. FRI:TIT sustained it with great effect ; and the Tarquinia of Miss FA UCIT merits equal commendation. At the fall of the curtain BEAN was loudly called for, and, on his appearance, greeted with the warmest and the most en thusiastic salutations of well-deserved favour. Prince LIOPOLD left the residence of the Marquis and Marchioness of SALISBURY, at Hatfield, Herts. (where his Royal Highness bad b een staying some days on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness), yesterday, and proceeded to his residence at Claremont. The French Ambassador had a long conference yes terday afternoon with the Earl of AuzaDEzl, at the Foreign Office. The Prussian Minister visited the Russian Ambassador yesterday morning, at Ashburnham House, Dover-street. Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, the Governor of New Bruns wick, transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Office. Lady MART TAYLOR 141 R town yesterday morning for Worthing, to enter on the duties of Lady in Waiting to the Princess AUGUSTA, in the room Of Miss WTI/YARD: The Hon. Mr. and Mrs HEN ZAGS LROGZ gave a Dinner party yesterday, to the Duke of DORSET, Lady GRAY, Knead lady ELISAIIRTH CoLa, Captain and Mrs. RAMSDIN &C. We understand that the Marchioness of CONYX011•1111 continues seriously in.—Brighton Gazette. It is reported that Mr. Davies is about to institute legal proceedings against the parties who so unreasonably subjected him to the late investigation. M.T. BUCKINGHAM'S lectures at the Argyll Booms, have been received with marked satisfaction, and de served to be so received. _r.. _ l i ~. -, i 1111