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. VMS. PARLIAMENTAiik . ROM O r LORDS, MARCH 111 Yr. Bammor and other; twat* up from the Conznemlli& Land Tag Cmiligissitmen • Names BIL.-.lteati a first them • LIM KIN. IMAM Os attain inns information, IN ems of his motion respecting the Civil List, which stood foe amt Tuesday. Ha should therefore move for a Return of the names of the British Ambassadors appointed in 1781, and of their salaries, and for a similar Return of the names mil *gawks of those filling that situation at the present petimil The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved for Returns at Mir Assent of the The per Cents. and Four per Cents. ant us de isuoliPstriary of the present year, and of the sosot of the Five per Cents. converted into Four per Casts. lea smonsulClO of the Bill passed in the course of the present Session.--Orderad. His Lomb* then moved far Returns of the Reductions made, and Indemnides granted, under the Acts passed in 1811 for the= of Sinews*, and for indemnifying their holders. The Aliens and Denizens', the Annual Indemnity, and the Army and Marine Mutiny Bills, went respectively throngliCom. minces, and were reported.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF. COM MONS. At four o'clock the &mass counted the hlembers, when, there being but twenty six present, he declared the House to be ad joirned till to-morrow. E EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1822. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. At the first opening of thensarket this niorni. g, consols were done at 84i, and much business was doing; since which the mar ket has Doc been so brisk; and up to this hour Consols are 801 to for the Account, and for Money 80111. The general opinion a ill prevails that there will be a further rise in the Consob.— Navy 5 per Cents. are 1041 i—have been done as high as 104 i. FOREIGN FUNDS. A great bustle still prevails on 'Change in the foreign market, particularly In the Spanish Stocks, which were done yesterday as high as 671 to 68 ; but this morning only 67 to i can be obtained, owing to the New Columbian Loan at Paris of 6 per Cent. the price of which on 'Change to-day is 81 to 85. Prices—Prussian Bonds 91 (buyers); Danish 86 (buyers); Neapolitan 71 to }—New Spanish 67i. PRIASTAN LOAN or £5,000,000, CONTRACTED RY MR. N. M. Rontscnum tx LoNnoN.—The Ilalf-yearly Dividend of this Loan falling due on Monday, the Ist of April next, will be paid as equal on that and every succeeding day, between the hours of Ten and Two, at the Counting-house of the aforesaid, in New court, St. SwithL.'s-lane. The business doing this morning is immense. Consols have been on a gradual rise during the morning, and the purchases have been most extensive. Consuls for the Account are now at 81. Wagers are very numerous that Consols are done at SS before the Account day; and an expectation is general that the Bank will discount at four per cent. the which will be taken Into consideration at the Meeting of Directors to-morrow. This is oze cause for the rapid rise in the Funds. CURRENT PRICES: ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Consols 80V, % 3 / 8 3 / 1 5 per Cent. 104. 1 / 2 V s 3 / 8 1 ,4 Imperial 3 per Cents. 80 1 / 2 'lndia Bonds 555. 525. 545. pre. Ei:chequer Bills of £l,OOO, 3s. ss. 2s. pre. Ditto 12500, 2s. 4s. pre. Ditto small ss. is. pre. Comolsibr Acct. 80 5 / 81 1 / 8 Rl. A great deal of business hal been clone within these two days iza Columbian Bonds (the dividends on which Are payable on Fri day next) ; they now obtain 114. The particulars of the New Columbian Loan are as follows: A Loan of two millions sterling has been contracted, for the service of the Republic of Columbia, with Mr. ZEA, late Vice- President and now Minister Pleuipoteniary of the Republic at Paris, who has been invested with special powers by his Govern ment for that purpose. The rate of interest is six per cent. per annum, payable the Ist May and the Ist November, yearly, in London, at the Banking-house of Messrs. Ilasctsv, Tairroti, EVIAN, and Co. free of all expense. The first payment to be nude the lit of November next. The payments to the Loan to be made as follows, viz-12 per cent. on the 23d March, 30 per cent. on the 13th June, and 40 per cent. on the I.3tb September. On completing the last payment, Bonds will be delivered to the holders of the receipts, with h.df-yearly dividead warrants attached thereto. Parties desiring to make prompt payment will be allowed a discount of I per Cent. per Annum, and may in that case receive the Bonds as soon as they are ready,which will be about the Ist ]day next. The existing Debentures of the Republic are received In payment of the Loan, with the accruing interest and discount 'Rowed thereon, at the rate of interest which they bear. The securities edged are the following revenues of the Republic,vis. The Duties of Customs, as recently established by the Congreu ; the Duty on all Tobacco produced ; and the revenues from the Mines of Metal and of Salt. The Bonds are to be paid off at par, in equal proportions, in twenty years, commencing in 1850 and ending in 1849, reserving to the Government the liberty of paling them off earlier at par. The French Papers of Sunday last have been re ceived. The following are the only articles of interest they contain : PARIS MARCH 17. The A,ni dt la Refigim states that the Scotch Clergy have just pert to France one of their Bishops, to claim from the Govern anent the property they formerly possessed in the kingdom, and imtorg the rest the Colleges in which the Missionaries are edu cated to preach the faith in Scotland. The Royal Court of Bourdeaux has just made a decision,which will give rise to an interpretation of the law (a very rare case) according to the rules prescribed by the law of 16th September, 1807. One Maiiks, accused of attempting to commit a robbery by night In a Church, was sent before the Tribunal of Correc tional Police, by the Royal Court of Pan, on the 23d July, 1821. This decision was founded on the circumstance that, in the pre sent due of our legislation, edifices consecrated to the perform.. in " o f Divine Worship, cannot be assimilated to buildings ham bite'. or serving for habitations. This decision was annulled 23d August, 1821, by the Court of Cassano°, and the affair sent before the Royal Court of Toulouse, w idek, on the 15th October, 1821, came to a decision conform able to that of the Royal Court of Pau. On a second appeal of the Public Oilicer,fthe Court of Cum , in a meeting of all the Sections, at which the Keeper of the Presided, annulled likewise, en the 29th December, 1824 deFideu of the Royal Court of Toulouse, sad refel:v4lU . affair to the Royal OMR ad Daurdinuz, ee be &died Aar the third dem This inter Conn, stirwithanning dte. two decisions of the Conn of Caseation de the same lade, ism sad persisted In the Osten adopted b the Courts of Pau testy Toraiwase. Thasabis alldr has thew rise to the esteem* we ease pro vided biy' the fine Ardele olds, Law of September 16, 907,which mans, " That there is min for the interpretadon of the Law, if the Court of Cessation annuls decisions or sentences in the last instant 6, given in the same affair between the same parties, and ethic's have been contested on the same grounds." The Annuli Tookrate minions a slight disturbance among ' pan of thi!popils of the Royal College at Toulouse, .in conse quence of their having bean deprived of their usual promenade on Sunday, the 3d, for sonn fault. The net time they walked oat, those wilts had been thus punished escaped from those who attended theth,, noised the river, and did not return tU eight in the evening, when the porter reused to let them in, because be ' perceived that many of them were provided with stones ; on which they prodeeded to the front of the apartments of the Di rector, aid bioke his widows. The Police, howeier, which had been haormed, soot made them come in, 4aving Ant taken care to be saddled that they had nottingthat could endanger the public tnn4itillity. The Alec-toe, who was in the College, read them a severe lecture, and order was restored. Measures have been taken to discover the most guilty, and several of them have been sent back to their parents. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES...* In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Pttwat* brought up the Report of tie Committee of the Budget on the Petitions which bad been referred to ft. One of these Petitions, from the Proprietors of certain Salt works, asks a bounty of 10 francs per 100 kilogrammes, for the salt manufactured by them, as had been promised. The Com mittee are of opinion that this Petition must be refused, mother proprietors of sali-works would make the . sarne demand, which' could not be satisfied ; the Salt Tax produces fifty millions to the Revenue, which could not be made good. • After some debate, the Order of the Day was put and carried ; but the Report was ordered to be printed, and it seemed to be understood that the subject should be discussed at a future time. Petitions from a great malty land owners and cultivators in the department of the Var, and others, asked for an indemnity, or a relief from taxes, on account of the loss of their olive trees by the frost. The Committee found that 50,000 olive trees have perished, and with them a revenue, the tax upon which was half a million of francs. Considering the distress to which no. merous small cultivators were reduced, the Committee thought it necessary to relieve them, not by excusing them from the razes, which would confuse the whole system, but out of the funds which are at the disposal of the Minister, and proposed I to refer the Petition to the Minister of rinance. A Petition from the Knights of Malta, asking an increase of their pensions, was referred to the Minister of the' Interior„ These Knights are only 86 in number, and most of them are at lout 60 years of age. After hearing the Report on some of the Petitions, the Chamber resumed the debate on the Project of Law on the Finances. The Court of Assize were on rriday occupied with the trial of MM. de Beranger and Baudouin. for the publication of a pam. phlet, entitled " Trial in the Case of Me Songs if J. 1: de Beranger;• in which were inserted the songs for which sentence had been passed on M. de &ranger, in the month of December last, and which the Court had ordered to be suppressed. Atte; delibe. rating for an hour and a half, the Jury returned a v:rdict of ac quirtal.—French live per Cent. March 16-89 f. 15c. S9f. .10c. close, 89f. 25c. Madrid Pipers of the 3th, 6th, and 7th of the pre sent month, have been received. The*rroceedings in the Cortes are highly interesting: In the Sitting of the 4th of March, Senor Secretary I'HAT stated, that the Cortes had, in the Secret Sit ting of yesterday, ordered that the following Resolu tion should be publicly read, namely, " The Deputies of the present Cortes, desiring to contribute to the alleviation of the public wants, unanimously concede, in fovour of the Nation, one.fourth part of the allowances allotted to them by the former Legislature." Senor CANGA observed, that this Resolution would manifest to the IsiAtion the spirit of economy which animated the Cortes, as they began with reforms which affected themselves. Ile then moved another Resolution, having for its object the execution of the .former. This motion was ordered to be taken into consideration and approved. ►Senor SARAVIA said—" Convinced of the state of the nati.)n, and the impossibility of its discharging its obligations, from the want of means, I take the liberty of giving up, for the public benefit, 2620 seals velon, due to me in consequence of the settlement of ac counts ordered in the preceding year." lie concluded by handing to one of the Secretaries the document which certified this debt against the State. The Pnasinssr said, that the Cortes had heard with pleasure the generous sentiments expressed by Senor Saravia, and appreciated the donation he had made to the nation. On the same day his MAJEsrY received a Deputa tion of the Cortes, with their reply to the King's opening speech. The reply commences with declar ing the wish of the Cortes to second the efforts of the King in consolidating the liberty and happiness of the Spanish people. 'They lament the dissentions that have occurred in the country, and declare that they will study to remove the multiplied and powerful obstacles which have hitherto withheld from the na tion the enjoyment of the advantages which the Con stitution ought to afford, and will endeavour to suc ceed by acting in accordance with the public opinion, without which there can be neither confidence, nor security, nor power. In the ordinary sitting of March sth, after some preliminary business, the President announced that the Secretary of the Treasury was prepared to read the accounts of his Ministry. The SUMMARY of the TRIASURY said, that the shortness of the time during which he had enjoyed office, did not permit him to enter particularly into the contents of the statement ; and, as men were not obliged to think all in the same way, he represented that he was not answerable for the opinions contained in the said statement. Some remarks hair% been made by Senors Gal ;. km% Calderon, Ca Sam, as to the responsibility of *. Secretary for the accounts be presented, use SmarrAar of the TadasuaT the statement was drawn by different Ste Mafia 1010 bad preceded hinsi and _consequently Was conibms able to * their ideas and opinions. Ile added, that ob servations were made on various points, and that some restrictions were proposed, for the whole of which he was not responsible, and could not be re seonsible; but so far as the facts were at issue, be believed them to be correct, and that in the office of the Treasury there existed the documents to which they referred. After some discussion, it was put to the vote, , ther the paper should be read or not? which was car. tied in the affirmative. The Ssc MITA ay Of the TREA WRY therefore mounted the tribune, and read the said memorial. It appeared from it, that the estimate of State expenses for the ensuing year amounted to 861,591,61.5 teals. To cover the charge, the Ways and Means are: Land Tax - - - Tax on the Clergy - - Deduction front Tithes - Duty on Rouses - Patents - Duties on Consumption (of Excise) - .......--- Tobacco - - - - ....—,—.— S a k -s--- Customs - - - - s.-- Registration - .. - Reale. - 150,000,000 . 20,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 Writing Paper - Ba - - lottery - 12,000,000 - 100,000,000 - 85,000,000 - 29.000,000 - 60,000,000 - 30,000,000 - - 10,000,000 - . 111,000A00 • . 10,000,000 Post Moe - - - . 10,000,000 Whit various other items, which make up the sum of 664,162,913 This being deducted from the expenditure of . 861,591,645 Leaves a deficit of - - - • - 197,828,732 Notwithstanding the apparent magnitude of this sum, it wis stated in the Memorial, that perhaps the Revenue would be sufficient to cover all the charges after the retrenchments that might be made, and which the Government would propose to the Cortes. A discus ion ensued, in which several Members participated ; the general feeling was that the state of the finances was the first subject to which they ought to turn their attention, and that they ought to devote themselves with all their zeal to rescue the nation from the debt in which it was involved. This forenoon we received Ifamburgh Papers to the 13th inst. The Emperor of Russht has issued an Ukase for the better government of Siberia. The fol. lowing are extracts from these Papers : tioat in a a Seslt Preall fee deFistos ..:~ HAMDURGH. MARCH 14. For this week past we have had the most disagree- , able weather imaginable; nothing but rain, drifting snow, hail, and high winds. There never, perhaps, was a winter in which Hamburgh was more visited with inundations than the present. The inhabitants of some cellars have already been expelled twenty three times, by the water pouring in on them; but, since yesterday morning, it has been necessary to an nounce by the firing of cannon (as usual on such oc casions), three successive very high tides, because the storm, which had not abated during the whole time, prevented the Elbe from taking its usual course.— Though the lower pans of the city are much inun dated, the flood has not this time reached the height which it attained in some preceding years. RICA, FEBRUARY 22. One of the most remarkable places near Riga is the port of Kunda, in Esthonia, which was made a few years ago. A more important enterprise is the Alex ander Canal, which is intended to unite the Peipus, that vast lake of the North, with the gulf Panau. Six millions of roubles are assigned for this work, which will be completed in a few years. Peter the Great conquered an enemy's fleet in the Peipus lake; but his great grandson will obtain a more valuable con quest, by opening to navigation the Peipus lake, which receives into its bosom ninety small and large river , , and thus giving to provinces remote from the sea the blessings of a free commerce. When the Alexander Canal is finished, Dorpat will likewise be come important as a commercial town. HANOVER, MARCH 10. The second Number of the Journals of the As sembly of the States, which is published officially, con tains the following passage : •4 It was resolved, in the First Chamber, to reply as follows to the liescript of the Ministry, respecting the new Military Law The States observe with *egret, that the Ministry, by omitting the words, with their approbation, design to dispute their right, founded on the Constitution, namely, that their ap probation is necessary to all new laws, affecting the country in general. This principle is the grand foundation of the dignity and the utility of the States. In the present case, the assertion of the Ministry was the more unexpected to the States, because the law in question pronounces a new and general per. sonal obligation of the subjects; and therefore, as it affects not only the property but the person of the subject, requires the sanction of the States in a much higher degree than any law relative to a tax. The States therefore feel themselves bound to urge the Ministry to retract an assertion so prejudicial to their constitutional rights, and to express their reliance on the just and paternal sentiments of his Majesty, that in future no new general law of the kingdom will be promulgated without their express consent.'" COPENHAGEN. MARCH S. His MAIIRy. who has been indisposed, has happily recovered sooner than was expected, and seas ye:two day able to leave his room. • HAMBURGII, MARCH is. dor city and the learned world have suf&red irreparable loss by the death of the celebrated Mr, Nernnich, whose lexicographical labours are know n throughout Europe. He died ea the Sth instant, in the 59th year of his age. Exchange on London, 96. x•-56. 7. Petersburgb, Feb. 22.—Exchange on London, 91. New York Papers arrived this morn►ng to the 2Sd February, and Virginia to the 19th. 'atom ?fl VIZOISIA PAPERS OP Y!8.18. WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 12. We have received, from an authentic source, an official copy of the Edict of the Emperor of Russia, establishing boundaries for Navigation along the coast of the Aleutian L lands. ABSTitACT. Sect. 1. The pursuits of commerce, whaling, and fishery, and of all other industry, en all the islands, ports, and gulfs, including the whole of the North-west coast of America, beginning f; am Behring's Straits to the 51st degree of Norsh lat. also from the Aleutian Islands to the Eastern coast or Siberia, as well at along the EUrile Islands from Behring's Straits to the South Cape cf the Island of Mop, viz. to the 45th degree, 50 min. Northern lac. Is exclusively granted to Russian subjects. 2. It Is therefore prohibited to all foreign vessels not only to land on the Coast and Islands belonging to Russia, as anted above, but also to approach them wiihin less than a hundred Italian miles. One regulation, interesting to traders, but not con tained in the above Edict, has come to our know ledge, that the Edict is to take effect, as to ves s el; of the United States which leave the ports of the United States, after the Ist day of July next, and as to vessels which leave the ports of Europe after the first day of next month. By documents transmitted by the President to Con gress, it appears that the American and British Coin missioners, appointed under the sth Article of the Treaty of Ghent to ascertain the boundary line, having, in October last, differed on the principal points, ad journed to meet on the first Monday of April next. The documents and reports are very voluminous, and they will not be ready to be forwarded to the Government by the Commissioners till March. PARLIAMENT OF LOWER CANADA. The Legislative Council have sent an answer to the Message of the Assembly relating to the Hon. John Richardson. The Council state, that they are willing to inquire into the subject matter of the said Message and do right therein, after the Legisla tive Council shall have received reparation from the Assembly for the actual breach of privilege commit. ted by their Address to the Governor praying the removal of the Hon. John Richardson. On the 7th inst. a Bill to provide for the better ir• spection of pot and pearl ashes, passed the Assembl ; also a Bill to continue, for a limited time, the Act to regulate the trade with the United States, by land cr inland navigation. While the British Ministers are contending for every useless office and sinecure, with as much pertinacity as if the safety of the State depended on their pre servation; and while a British Parliament is in tco many instances supporting the Ministers, the C.,rtes of Spain are setting a noble example of patriotism and self-denial. In the Sitting of this Assembly cn the 4th instant, it was proposed and adopted, th3t the Members should relinquish one-fourth of their a:- lowances ; and this was followed by one of the Deputes voluntarily relinquishing a debt due to him from the State. Here, as one of the Members observed, Re form was beginning at the right place, namely, among themselves; and yet the public burdens, the public debt, and the public distress in Spain, are mere no things compared with this country. We particularly recommend this conduct of the Spanish Cortes to the British Ministry, and the Members of both Houses of Parliament, and say unto them, " Go and do ye likewise." Yesterday, the Duke of YORE held a Levee, as Commander-in-Chief, at his Office in the Horse- Guards, which was attended by between thirty and forty Officers. His Grace the Duke of None°Le has left the Castle of Arundel for St. James's-square. Friday, in Dominick -street, Dublin, the Duchess of LIINSTER was delivered of a daughter. This morning, the Hon. CHARLR3 PERCY, son of the Earl of BEVERLRY, was married to Miss GREAT. lUD, the rich heiress. The marriage took place at Mary-la-Bonne Church. A great number of the friends if the young parties attended the ceremony ; after which the happy couple set off for Guy Cliff, in Warwickshire, where they are to spend the honer moon. The bride is in her 18th year. The Freeman's Journal of Monday states that 6,000 Police are to be raised immediately. The names of the ruffians who committed the outrage on the women of the Rise Brigade, who have been appre hended, are Pierce Nagle, Timothy Connor, and Pa trick Foley. They have all been fully identified. A Kerry Paper states that " a number of persons residing in the mountainous district between this ba rony and that of Clanmaurice were visited by insur gents, and sworn to repair an old road, long since suf f ered to go to ruin, running through the moun tains of Glashoreegh, and in the direction of the county of Limerick. This task was I for the avowed purpose of facilitating the ma rch o f Rock's army ; and several hundreds of persons have obeyed the mandate, and are working on the road:' The planet Mars, at this time, retrogrades so ra pidly, that its change of place maybe evidently no • deed every tweaty-four hours. Y