The National Register.
London, England, 1823-05-12 00:00:00

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at first, of the facility of a conquest, by the assist.
ancc of the population of Spin, which gives him no
rawcour. The Army of, the Faith has not increased,
as it WAS anticipated, nor have the Constitutional
troops deserted their colours. The heavy artillery
is not yet brought before St. Sebastian and Pampe-
lune. It is stated, in the Bayonne Papers, that the
troops that were at „lace have joined Ballasteros, who
has had a smart action with General Molitor, in
which the latter is reported to have been beaten._
'ate French General Koller has died of his wounds.
The French heal-quarters were to remove on the
sth instant to Miranda., It is affirmed that the
Portuguese General, 114,0, has entered Spain with
infant and 2,400 cavalry•

6,000. Itry,
The French Funds ha}•e fallen; the Five per
cents. closed on Wednesday at 87f. 44e•

THE FL"NDS, S.4TURDAY.

II ALV-PAsT Two oTtoca.
The holiday of Ascension Day, being strictly
kept in Paris, we have no quotations of the French
Funds since WednesdAy—nor, . has any express
reached town this morning.
Out market opened with Consols 79—one fluar.
ter per cent. under the closing price of yestertia y—
fell to 78g—but are now 78k.
The Hebrew party have sold largely for money—
to deliver next Tuesday. Report ascribes the con.
version of Stuck into cash, as the preicainary of a
still further conversion—into Oais,for the Fiencb '
army. 'Use efforts to bang down the Funds by this
party, have been great, but the price.of Consuls has
never been fairly under 78g, for more than half an
hour throughout the day.
Fuamorr,—..Spanish Bonds, from 3G, may now
be quoted at 3G.—The quantity of business in these
securities is considerable—but entirely, for money.
There is an evident desire to bang Spanish, as well
as. Consuls—and hence, in the intervals of actual
money bargains--liotitious sales are announced,
with a view to run the market down. The first
money buyer. fetches it up again ; and under this
specicsof action, aud.re7action, the market is in a
of constant iuctuation.,

Very unfavourable accounts were received on Fr:-
dry from the South of Ireland—the insurgents are
guilty nightly of the most criminal excesses. Out-
rages have been committed by the Whiteboys, even
within a mile of the boundaries of Cork. Houses
of the roost respectable and unoliending individuals
have been attacked, their fields turned up, and their
1 cattle wantonly and cruelly mutilated. The code
of Captain Rock is enfiirccd with the greatest bar-
barity, and the laws of the country aro violated in
the most during and audacious moaner imaginable. -
It is really, strange that, in such a state of things,
factions exist even in the capital, and that an at-
tempt should have been uncle even to overawe the
Government, by turbulent and insulting Clubbists.
The Legislature could not be better employed than
in endeavouring to tranquillize Ireland, otherwise
we. tremble for the consequences that are likely to
ensue from the present disjointed,. agitated, and
angry stale of the country.
Letters from Paris mention the arrival of intel-
luitennice Seville
Ferdinand,illeol t
and boniumit that m t
their.
first
inatiit et a new
nistrfr:tron by
step on taking Ace would be to send a. regotiatcr
to the head-quarters of the Duke d'Augouleine to
treat for au accommodation. Nothing eau in. itself
be more improbable than such an event : one set of
1 Ministers was in office. at the period referred to,
who were to give place. to.auother us soon as the
details of their administration tantlillre preparedsuid
laid before the Cortes ; and in this state of disorga-
nization in the Cabinet a third party is named, said
to be of moderate principles, who, without waiting
for a revision of the labours of their predecessors, Ml
as to determine.the policy on which they acted, are
at, once to prostrate their country at the feet of
.France. Yet, as improbable events do every day
occur, and as the account. has been, circulated both
here and in Paris from various quarters at .the ainne
time, and on respectable authority, it.has gained so
general a belief as. to induce large purchases of
stock, and a rise in every species of Government
'security. This has been more rapid, perhaps, than
n mere cenfidence in the truth of this statement
would littie effused, owing to the speculations in
the funds which have lately been entered into by
the major pars of the• speculators with the expsettos
tion of a fall. These. persons had, indeed, em-
barked so far, that their object could only have been
attained by a Centinu.ci series of disastrous events,
tending ultimately to involve this country iu the
war between France anti Spain. It is not surpris-
ing, therefore, that any prospect of a sudden peace
in that quarter, however slight the fitundatiun on
which it rested, should-excite the greatest appre-
hensions in those persons, causing them to reverse
their speculations, and to act in combination, with
those whose operations have. been conducted in the
expectation of a rise. There is, further, a great num-
ber Plirulivitluals under the influence of the mania fir
stock jobbing. who, on occasions like the present, gild
to the effect by pursuing the course of speculation that
appears to be prevalent, without knowing any thing
of its cause, or having formed any of its cause, or
having formed..any calculation on the chances of
success. These are *nil. which require to be un-
derstood, in order to quali'Y any judgment of pub-
lic events. or of the state of politics founded an the
variations in the stock list..
The Council of State of the canton of Friburg,
after-a debate of two daysalias suppressed the schools
of raulual instruction throughout the whole coition.
The votes for and against the system being . equal,
the negative vote °Elbe President decided. It was
in vain that the Council of Education bud given its
opinion in favour of this method. It is thought
that the great Council will be invoked in May ; it
will have to discuss the plan which will be laid
before it for a new system of education, the basis
of. which is to be simultaneous instruction.
Letters from Petersburgh, dated the 1 lth ult.,
state that an the precediog.day a Government offi-
cial notice was affixed on the Exchange, warning
the merchants not to carry on any commercial trans-
actions with Spain. and Portugal, and particularly
not to send any vessel thither. The same lettars
mention a curious instance of disaffection to the
Russian Autocrat among the peasantry of the go-
vernment of Witepsk, who, though recently re-
leased from bondage, ana actually vested with a
right to the produce of their own labour, have had
the ingratitude to answer this benefit by a refusal
to pay their taxes. They have even gone so far us
to insult. an imperial agent sent thither to remon-
strate with them, and have had the audacity to Ad-
dress a letter to the Empress Dowager, in which
they accuse the Emperor himself of injustice ! it
has been found necessary to despatch troops to the
province to put down the rising disaffection. We
may notice, by the way, that this appears to be the
only authentic account yet received of any move.-
mews of Russian troops.
'The establishment for warm baths at Cuxhaven
was destroyed by fire on the morning of the Ist
inst., and the proprietor, with his family, narrowly
caned with their lives.
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