Star. — London, England, 1822-05-15 00:00:00

- ~ ..~- _ 1: THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1822. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Within this half hour some large purchases havebecu Made by an eminent Broker, owing to the idea that' the Bank will be the Contractors for the Pension Loan this day, as it is eel. dent the South Sea Company cannot raise the sum required by Ministers. Another repot prevails, that the Bank are to have their Charter renewed, u a bonus for the above Loan. The monied academia on 'Change are anxiously waiting the result of the return of the contracting parties who are gone up to bid: for, should the Bank be the Contractors, no doubt the Funds ' will experience a rise. There is another rummer, that if the Bank do not conned, they will lend Government the sum re quired Far another year. Consols are, up to this hoar, 781 for the Account. South Sea Stock, 89. Fauns Ftntas.—This being settling day in the Spanlak Bonds, most of thit speculators in the above Stocks are busy settling their amounts, 'consequently not a great deal doing in the Market.-- Letters•from Nice, of the sth inst. state, that they do not believe a war will take place between the Russians and Turks, conse quently they have countermanded their orders for saltpetre, Spanish Old, 621 1; New, 621 1 ; Colombian, 101 ; New Co. lemblan, 86 ;Prussian, 86 ; Danish, 85 ; Neapolitan, 681. HALF-PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Market looks well, and a good deal of business trans acting. Consols are 71If to I. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Market has improved within the last hour. Consols are now 79, and for the July Account, 79j 4. PRICES OF STOCKS AT, ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 239 1 A 239 3 per Cent. Reduced 78 77 7 78 3 per Cent. Consols 78 5 / 8 7 / % 314 per Cents. 88%-4 per Cent. 94 1 A 5 / 8 5 per Cent. Navy Antis. 1023/s Bank Long Annuities 19% Ys Imperial 3 per Cents. 77 t/s India Bonds 51—South Sea Stock 90 89 Excheq. Bills of 1:1,000, 3s. 2s. dis. Do. Sm. Is. dis. 2s. pr.—Cons. for Act. 78% Y 8 %. Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL and the CIIAN• CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER attended at the Treasury Chambers, to receive any biddings which might be made for paying the Army and Navy Pensions, but ZIA a single offer was made. Mr. BOSANQUET, the Governor of the South Sea Company, waited on the Earl of LIVERPOOL and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER this morning, agree ably to an adjourned appointment, when he stated, that be was not authorised to make any offer for the contract relative to the Army and Navy Pensions.— There not being any other bidder, the Meeting broke up immediately. The friends of humanity will rejoice to see the suc cess of the Subscription now raising for the suffering Irish. The stream of public charity is now flowing freely to their relief, not only from the Metropolis, but from various parts of the country, where Meet ings are appointed to be held, for the purposes of aiding the general fund. At Bath a liberal subscrip tion has been raised. At Chester a ball has been given for the benefit of the Charity, on which occa sion the Ladies kindly collected the money at the door. Bristol and Gloucester have also entered into the cause, and a Requisition is in the course of signature for a Meeting at Liverpool, for the same generous purpose. Shrewsbury and several other towns are preparing to follow the example. The Mayor of Portsmouth, in compliance with a Requisition nume rously and respectably signed, has convened a Public Meeting in the same benevolent cause, for this day. At Camberwell the Ladies have opened a subscrip-, tion among themselves, their children, and their ser vants, which in no instance is to exceed half-a-crown, but admits the smallest donations, and a considerable sum has already been raised. The spirit of charity has extended itself to British Soldiers and Sailors, thousands of whom, Officers and men, have sub scribed each a day's pay. Ireland, Ireland, we are sorry to say, seems alone insensible to the miseries which so many of her children are now enduring.— " Neither the LORD MAYOR of Dublin nor the Cor poration," says an Irish paper, " have met or sub scribed a tenpenny for the relief of the distress in the south-west of Ireland. The Chamber of Commerce of Limerick have proposed to subscribe £lOOO. with, under the circumstances, a •ery judicious proviso.— namely, that the Corporation of Limerick, who are very wealthy, should subscribe the same sum. The Corporation would not give a penny. Indeed, we have heard of no subscription in Ireland as yet, ex cepting about £3OO in Galway, and L'7oo or £BOO in Westport." The motion respecting the appointment, to the Swiss Cantons was, as will be seen in the Parlia mentary Report, postponed last night. It is con ceived that it may be comprised in Mr. LINNARD'S motion on the third class of the Civil List, appointed for to-morrow; and if the more general motion fail of success, then will the Swiss Plenipotentiaryship be brought forward separately. Mr. Pzu, in his speech on Monday night, in the House of Commons, alluding to the riots in Stafford shire, said the disorders could not arise from a scarcity of labour, as the masters offered to give the melt t h ree shillings a day, two pints of beer, and fuel for the families; and such, we believe, was the decla ration made at a meeting of the Coal and Iron-mas ters at Bitten. When, however, boa? sides of the question are beard, this offer will not appear so li- y^, - • bevel as Mr. Pass: mein& to dilek 71 - 16•itaiit only employed four days a weektlie Irer, we understand, is so bad that the men Oita spring water, and as to the fuel, which it has been asserted, the men receive gratuitously, this *MI not apply to the labourers in the iron mines. We have seen an Address circulated by the Coal and Ironstone Miners of Biiston and the neighbour hood, in which they express their willingness to work, not as slaves, but servants ! It is addressed to the Magistrates and those of the Coal and Iron-masters who attended the meeting at Bilston, and contains the following plain and simple statement which will shew how very inadequately they are paid : u It appears, according to the publications that IYe in clreula ' lion, that your. Meeting was respectably attended by a part of the 'Coal and ken Masters, who have declared that the Men lare receiving from Two Shillings and Sixpence to Three Mil lings per day, with the advantage of three pints of pit-drink. But instead of three pints, many of us receive but one pint, and that worth 'no more than One Half-penny. And allowing we have Two Shillings .and Sixpence per day in the Ironstone Mine& as has been suggested, and there should be Five Days per Week done (but upon an average there is not above Four Days per Week) which will amount to Ten Shillings ; and out of that, suppose we deduct One Shilling to buy Coal, and Three pence which the Muters stop for Club, that, will bring it to Right Shillings and Nine -pence: then in most places we are obliged to pay One Shilling fur Ale when we receive it. Then in the neat place there is about Two Shillings and Tlires-pence for Rent, which . will bring it to Six Shillings, the nett money sub sist on." A regular file of Philadelphia Papers have been received to the 9th April. WASHINGTON, APRIL 1. The Senate adjourned, or rather were smoked out, at an early hour to-day, in consequence of a strong North-west wind that obstructed the draught of the chimnies, arid filled the Chamber with smoke and ashes. No wonder that thenation should be in a scold ing humour, when they know that millions have been spent on a national edifice,which does not even afford the common protection from smoke that we enjoy in our private house,. FROlik THE INTELLIVENCER OF APRIL 6. Information n is stated to have been received, of the establishment of the Mexican Province of Guatimala into a separate Republic, by General Victoria, a dis tinguished revolutionary leader of New Spain. BOSTON, APRIL 4. The United States frigate Macedonia, went to sea early this morning, destined, it is supposed, for the coast of Cuba, to aid our smaller vessels of war in the suppression of piracy in that quarter. The French Papers of Sunday contain a variety of accounts from Constantinople, Odessa, &c. The Constitutionnel gives, under the head Leghorn, an interesting letter, dated Si April, on board the Leo nidas, a Greek vessel, from NICOLAS A POSTOLE, its commander, one of the Notables of the Isle of Psara, detailing the late encounters between the Turkish and Greek fleets in the lonian Seas. "We pursued the enemy," says this officer (after the engagement in the Gulph of Patras, on the 4th March) " who fled in an extreme disorder in the direction of Zante. In this disorder he would have been lost on the coast of that Island, if a frigate of his Britannic Majesty had not conducted him officiously into the port. We learned afterwards, from the lonians of Zante, that the English officers there used all their efforts next day to excite the Turks to fight: but they perceived, with pain, that the Turks were very insensible to the reproaches of the infidels."—What a cause for Englishmen to be engaged in, as that of aiding the Turks to crush the rising spirit of liberty in Greece !—An article from the SwaCian Mercury gives a number of particulars respecting the operations and condition of the Greeks, from some German officers who have returned to their country. It seems there was a corps of 150 Germans at the assault of Napoli di Romania on the 16th December, under the command of a Captain LIESCHING. Numbers of German soldiers continue to take their departure for Greece, without regarding any unfavourable reports spread by those who re turn, observing, " it is natural that men who return should throw all the fault on the Greeks.' • A letter from Odessa states, that up to the 13th of April Lord STRANGFORD had received no answer to a note which he presented to the Turkish Govern ment on the 30th of March, and in which he com plained that the Porte had not fulfilled the promise of evacuating Moldavia and Wallachia. The Journal de Perpignan states that 208 Spanish Insurgents, being pursued by a Constitutional corps, having fled across the frontier into France, were compelled by the troops of the French Cordon to lay down their arms. They were then placed •in a sate of quarantine, and about 160 or 180 bad mus kets with which they were armed were burnt. Letters dated the 12th April have been received from St. Petersburgh, by which k appears the Fat- PEROR had determined to leave that City, for Warsaw and the army, on the 4th May. The universal feel ing there is for war with the Turks, and the EMPX• aoa is only prevented from the commencement of actual hostilities by the repeated remonstrances and entreaties of the Holy Alliance. The Cowan of the United States have, in confonnity whit the recommendation of the PIPASIDINT, consummated the formal adUNVIT= of the independence of the existing govern ments of and voted a sem of money for the minim of Ministers to represent the United States In those countries. Aecounts from 'Washington state, that there has been an unpleasant difference between the NUMMI and the Senate. Colonel Raactay and Mr. Cnamew, the aridsb Commis. Awn for senile. the boundanise sitr the Treaty of Ghent, I Mee rrWined to this emery. AielttPAL OF THE--onivai P1i4 1 4210 OF DEIOMARK. . , , DOVER, MAYI4. The Pals REGENT Royal Yacht salled-from Pantos the Downs on Saturday morning for Calais, to take on . board the CROWN NUMMI of DRNMARIC I &C. but re turned again to the Downs on Sunday evening, with out having bad communication with that port, in consequence of the neap tides preventing an entrance into the harbour, and a violent wind from the N.E. with a very heavy sea on the coast : as the wind has since become more moderate, the PRANCE RIM/7T sailed again this morning. Seven o' Clock, P.M.—The Puma RZGENT Yacht has just hove in sight, having on board his Royal Highness the CROWN Pautica of DRNMARK and his sister and suite. They are expected to land here this evening. His Excellency the Danish Ambassador arrived on Sunday to receive them. . ~ ..~+ ANOTHER LETTER-SAME DATE, Eighto'Clock, P.m.--The Rob Roy steam packet has just arrived with five carriages and luggage belong ing to their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess of DENMARK, who are on board the ROYAL So• YEREIGN Yacht, and within a short distance of this ' harbour. Oa their arrival a salute of twenty-one guns will be fired from the Heights and Custom house at the same time. A Guard of Honour from the 3d Buffs, under the command of Sir Cummas SMITH, is in attendance. The greatest enthusiasm pervades the whole town, and the Pier is crowded with spectators. Yesterday the Duke of Yonx transacted military business with the KsNO. Yesterday the Duke of Yoax held a Levee, as Com mander in Chief, at his Office in the Horse Guards, which was attended by the Duke of ATtroct., the Marquis of WINCHESTER, Lord SHEFFIELD, Lord ERSKINE, General Sir JAMES STUART, Major-Gene ral GORDON, Mr. ERSKINE, Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND, and Mr. HUGH CAMPBELL. There were also present Generals and other Military Officers, amounting to upwards of fifty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCe, and part of :their suite, will leave Bushy Park to-morrow, or on Friday, for Walmer Castle, where their Royal Highnesses intend to pass a few weeks preparatory to their embarkation for the Con tinent, where they intend to pass the remainder of the summer and ensuing winter. The Ball for the benefit of the Caledonian Asylum, at ALMACK'S, on Monday night, was one of the most splendid of the season: there were present 1,200 per sons, among whom were the Duke and Duchess of NORTHUMBERLAND,. the Duchess of BEAUFORT, the Foreign Princes and Ambassadors, the Marquis and Marchioness of LOTHIAN, Marchioness of LONDON DERRY—in short, all the first people in the United "Kingdom. Every Lady was attired in a rich fancy dress ; and the Gentlemen were either in the Highland garb. or were in military or naval uniforms. Monday sennight, in commemoration of the birth-day of THOMAS WM. COKE, Esq. 50 Gentlemen dined together, at the Fleece Inn, Wells, Mr. E. H. Gums was in the Chair, with Mr. Youso as Vice- President. Mr. Coxes natal day was also celebrated by a numerous party of his friends at the Crown Inn, Attleborough, and several other places in Norfolk. The -publication of the Life of Lord Byron is sus pended for a few days. The new Edition of eg The Etonian," is at length published, and excites considerable interest. The writers, whose literary reputation it has so pre-emi nently established, are— ___ Mr. W. M. Praed, Mr. W. S. Walker, the Hon. William Ashley, Mr. E. Beaks, Mr. Crichton, Mr. R. N. Coleridge, the Han. Francis Curzon, Mr. IL Durnford, Mr. Fursdon, Mr. Moultrie, Mr. Neech, Mr. W. H. Ord, Mr. T. P. Outrun, Mr. .1. I. Petit, and Mr. Trower. Yesterday Mr. MAcKENztr., a King's Messenger of the Colonial Department, arrived in Downing-street with dispatches from his MAJESTY'S Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Islands. A very numerous and respectable Meeting of the Licensed Victuallers of the Metropolis, was held yes terday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, for the purpose of peti tioning Parliament against opening the Trade, and also praying that no Publican should be deprived of his License without Trial by Jury. The meeting was very numerously and respectably attended. Mr. JACKSON having been called to the Chair, a long dis cussion took place, after which the Petition was agreed to unanimously. The latest Papers from New York give a lament able picture of the inconsistency which prevails in the United States, where the slave trade is still sanc tioned by a Government which boasts of its love of liberty. One of these papers says--" We have been told that during the festivities which marked the late National Festival in this city (New York), while our orators were thundering forth the memorable words, We hold those truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created razz and EQUAL; and while our bells were ringing the merry peals of Liberty—a poor negro was seized near the Park, by one from another State, who claimed him as a slave. He protested that he was free—but to no purpose. A cord was pro duced, and he was pinioned, and dragged away with out opposition from those around, who would doubt less instantly have joined in tarring and feathering any one who should have uttered a word against Li berty and Equality r An article from Mount Pleasant, in the State of Ohio, says—" I understand that a large number of slaves have been taken down the Ohio nver since the ice broke up. One man from Wheeling, or near it, ii is said, took down sixty. Among the number was his old nurse, the woman who nursed him in his in fancy. Now, in her old age, she is carried off to be exposed to sale in the New Orleans market I" In Maryland, a Negro woman being informed that she bad been sold to the Negro-buyers, first destroyed her child, and then herself. Such are the accounts given by the Americans themselves, of that most dia bolical of all species of commerce, the infamous traffic in human beings. _ ----~ . . THE ,ARMY. • • The Provisional Battalion, nodes the command of CA Hatx 4 =itaggarrison ditty in Portsmouth, was addressed by it s C om : °fifteen Sunday evening, after bring mustered on t h e pan &on behalf of the melancholy ear of the poor e, a Lind ; wild* en its bring premised to tarn to wthsenhe one day's pay toward. their relief, every man cheerfully fell in with the pr o . position. This battalion is composed of the depots of several k regiments at present on ftireign Service, and consists of nearly 1000 men, whose eonduet sidee tbey, have been stationed at Ports: mouth has been very szeinpiary, and en the present occasion is • worthy of imitation by every soldier in the United Kingdom. Yesterday the remainder of the 72d Regiment, under the corn. mind of Major Cum', cohiprising the Staff, Scc. embarked from Portsmouth for Plymouth. • The last division of dm 10th Regiment elf Foot have left Mr mouth, for The last gtt rt ci the Stith Regiment are on their march front Gosport for Chatham. A division of the 111th Lancers marched into Tenni On Men. day sennight, from Dublin, on their way to aillinrobe, to rt. place the Ist Dragoon Guards. The 10th Hussars, destined for Ireland, will be succeeded a the Cavalry Barracks, Brighton, by the 9th Lauer.. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Hope Furrows, was bilged at Buenos Ayres, by strikl-1 on as anchor. She had 30 tons of salt on boatel. The William, CIAVIOILID, of Yarmouth, was wrecked near Shields, oss Friday, and it is feared all the crew are drowned. Monday, the Owen GLENDOWER, the Hon. Captain Sve.e 7l4 sailed from Portsmouth, for the Nore, in order to .Anhark th e Official Authorities who convey the Order of the Bath to tt - 4 SUM of Dioramas. DIAL, Mar 14.—Wind E.—Came down from the River 1 . t night and sailed the Alexander, Sometime, for 3l.ideas and th e Isle of France ; and Shannon, Jetty, fur Genoa. Also c.. down to day the Prince Regent, INNIS, for Madras and Calco:•:.; and Providence, Owex, fur Madeira, 'Madras, and Bengtl. Sailed the Forster, Aloaciau, for Virginia; and Prince Regent yacht, for Calais.— A fr igate is heavirg into the Dawns from tare westward, with several merchantmen, among them is surr-sed to be the Oscar, from St. Vincent's. POUTSAILOUTU, MAY 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Alma:. der, SoarLaw', from the Downs, for the Alanritius and Ceyl!:::. Sailed the London, NEWTOK, for Quebec; and 4ass4r, Goldta Grove, and Ogle Castle, for London. Ptvstourn, MAT 13. —Wind I?..N.E.—Arrived the Herr", Kna.ocx, from New South Shetland, in 98 days ; left thet-e sail of American and 14 of British vessels : also the Joseph r.r.:l Jane, Mass, from Demerara, in 65 days. FALMOUTH, MAY EL—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed the Swif:sll:e packet, for America. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. TRAI.III4 MAT 9....-The poor of this count are actually stun. ing! perishing of hunger! And, had as it is with the poor in our town, it is much worse in the country. We know many have already died of famine.—Weslern Herat!. CORN, May S.—Already hc.s starvation commenced its wet in Skibbereen ; it is not uncommon to see unhappy beings faint ing in the streets for want of food. Flocks of starving people from the surrounding country add, by their daily increase, to the wretchedness of the town.—Slatatent Reportrr. Ems, MAY 6.—lt is a melancholy reflection that those scenes of woe which are passing in daily review before our eyes, have more effect in exciting the compassion of stranecrs, totally un connected with us, than upon our absentee ptnprietors. now sets for Zs. 4d. the store, and potatoes at &!.—Care Calmar, MAY B.—The meeting for taking into considerativa the present distress of the poor in this town, took plate this day at the Tholael, the Mayor in the Chair.—The Meeting was r::- nwrously attendcd, but by no means so respectably as we ha.l expected. We select the following from aniong the Iteseia dons t—gi That the Mayor be requested to apply, in the name of the inhabitants, to all persons having property in, or comtecte4 with Galway, for their subscriptions towards the relief of the poor. That the Mayor, in conjunction with the Committee, be requested to represent to Government, the alarming state of distress that prevails at present among the poor of this town, who are in want of their daily subsistence, and to solicit their aid in carryin; into effect some useful public wurk, for the present employment of the poor of this town." Wednesday, the extensive woollen factory of 'Messrs. Raows and Davv, of Uffculm, Devon, was totally destroyed by fire•. Knoa's THEATRE.—The last new Opera was again performed last night with great applause, and the Ballet of Cesulrillon closed the entertainment with eclat. There was a most splendid audience. COVENT-GARDEN.—The new Play of the Lour of %fella went off last night with increased effect and eclat. The Princess AUGUSTA honoured the Theatre with her presence. Her Royal highness occupied the King's box. ECCLESIASTICAL Purnsnurwr.—Sunday last the church-yard and streets leading to Bethnal-green church were crowded•by thousands of spectators to witness the ceremony of a young wo man, named Sarah Green, doing penance, by order of the Sur rogate of the Ecclesiastical Court, by standing in a white sheet in the chancel of the church, for calling her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ann Johnson, wife of Mr. \Vm. Johnson, of the above parish, " w—e !" However, the ceremony of standing in the sheet was dispensed with, to the disappointment of the multitude; hut the female, who was a very fine young woman, attired in a wh:te dress, repeated the following recantation in the Vestry, in the presence of the Rector, Churchwardens, the person calumniated, and five or six of her relations :—" I, Sarah Green, wife of James Green, have uttered and spoken several scandalous and opprobrious words, against Ann Johnson, wife of Wm. Johnson, of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, to the great offence of Almighty Goa, the scandal of the Christian religion, and the injury and reproach of my neighbour's credit. by calling her W—e.' I do, therefore, before Goo and you, humbly confess and acknow ledge such offence, and am heartily sorry for the same, and do ask her forgiveness, and promise hereafter never to offend her in the like manner. Goa assisting me." The female appeared very much affected; and after the form was gone through was led out of the church by the beadles, who conducted her safely through the mob, and she was conveyed home in a coach. BOXERS. The Boxing Match, for 100 guineas a-side, between Cue; er, the gypsey, and Sharpe, a Woolwich man, was to have tact place yesterday at Haddington, near Bromley, in Kent, be.: Magisterial interference prevented it ; and after a circuitous route of many miles a ring was formed at Wimbledon Common, but they were driven from thence also. At Putney Heath, the motley groupe re assembled, and there the fight would have taken place, but Sharpe did not make his appearance, to the disappointment of thousands. The Commander-in-Chief dis patched a messenger after him, and he reported, on his return, that Sharpe refused to come. Afarthall (the Young Gas) and Burk, also a Woolwich man, were also to have had a mill, but Burke was not to be seen. The Fancy were now all at fault, and at a quarter past five o'clock the Gypsey and Marshall, with their backers, left the ground. Ward (the Black Dia mond) threw up his hat in the ring, aad offered to fight any man on the ground; but the amateurs were now disgusted, and no purse could be made up, after they bad been so shamefully treated in driving about upwards of forty miles. ----_ Coax Ezczawos Maas - naps, May 15.—Having bat few buyers at market this morning very little business was done, yet prime Wheat supports Monday's quotation, but the inferior de scriptions remain on hand. The Barley trade continues very heavy, and particularly for the malting qualities. which are row scarcely worth more than the ordinary samples for grindirg• Fine fresh Oats fully maintain Monday's prices, haying but fiw of that sort at market. In Beans and Peas no alteration. DIED. Oa the 19th of November, on his journey to Bangalore, ther he was proceeding for the benefit of his health, Sir Samuel Toiler, Knight. Advocate-General of Madras. At Dublin, the Right Hon. and Right Reverend Dr. Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath. His Lordship was origin ally educated for the functions of a Raman Catholic Priest, but having recommended himself to the notice of ch. late Duke of Portland, be abjured the Ramos' Catholic faith, became a Pro testant Clergyman, and was, in 1799, promoted to the See of Meath, one of the most valuable in Ireland, in point of income. The Minister has now three mitres at his disposals LONDON: Ptiined and published by Lana liiws, ri,:keto place, Temple-Dar. ~4 ~ t' ~{ ; '. ~i