Star.
London, England, 1822-05-07 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1322.
THR FUNDS.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 240 2391/4
3 per Cent. Reduced 781/4 77% %

S per Cent. C.onsoli 79 78%—5% per Cents. 8918
4 per Ct. 94% 1/4-5 per Ct. NavyAns.lo2l/4 5/8
Bank Long Annuities 19% 13-16
India Bonds 61s. 58s. prem.
Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, ls. 4s. 2s, pr.
Do. Small 2s. 7s. pr.—Cons. fur Acct. 79% 78 vs.
STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST ONE.
The• Market has remained very steady during the whole of
the morning, and Consols are 79 to i for the Account, and fur
Money 78i.
Folmar MAsitrr.—The Market was very eat this morning,
with little alteration.—Spanish, Ncw, 631 ex di•. Old ditto, 63 ;
Prussian, 86* to 861; Danish, 85* ; Neapolitan, 681 to 69 ; Co-
lumbian, New, 86; Old ditto, at par, ex div.
On the plan proposed by Ministers being made known on
'Change, the Funds fell to 78a, but recovered.again to 79j.

This day, pursuant to appointment, a Meeting took
place at the Treasury Chambers, on the subject of
the new Plan for paying off the Pensions. Upwards
of a hundred iientlemen, including the representa-
tives of the principal monied interest of the City,
;were present. At a few minutes past twelve o'clock
•
,the Gentlemen were admitted, when the Earl of
LIVERPOOL, who was.attended by the CHANCELLOR
•of the EkorteQuell, read the following Plan :
It is proposed that such parties as may be willing to enter into
a eontraq'fbr paying into the Exchequer, within lot ty-five years,
the several sums hereafter-mentioned, by four equal quarterly
instalments, aiz.
15th January, .15th July, and
13th April, 20th October,
In each year respectively.

Ist Year - £4,900,000
.24th Year - £1,830,000
2d - 4,700,000 45th . - 1,730,000
3d , - 4,540,000 26th - 1,630,000
4th - 4,410,000 27th - 1,550,000
sth - 4,290,000 23th - 1,430,000
6th - 4,110,000 29th - 1,340,000
7th - 4,000,000 30th - 1,250,000
Bth - 5,860,000 31st - 1,170,000
9th - 3,720,000 32d - 1,080,000
10th - 3,500,000 33d - 1,000,000
11th - 3,450,000 34th - ' 9°0,000
12th - 3,310,000 35th - 1160,000
15th 3,180,000 36th - 780,000
14th - 3,050,000 37th - 720,000
15th - 2,910,000 341 t h - 660;000

16th - 2,790,000 :191h - 600,000
17th 2,660,000 40th - 540,000
18th - 2,530,000 41st - 490,000
19th - 2,410,000 42d - 440,200
•„:oth - 2,290,000 43d - 390,000
Clst - 2,170,000 44th .; 350,000
22d - 2,060,000 45th - 300,000
23d - 1,950,000

—Shall receive a compensation for such payments in a fixed
amount of Annuity for forty-five years, commencing from the
10th of October, 3822, and payable half-yearly at the /3.mit of
England; or, if desired, at the South Sea House; or, with the
approbation of the Lords of the Trtasnry, at. the Office of any
Corporation or Public Company which may undertake the
contract.

A deposit of £500,000 to be lodged In thu Bank of England
in Exchequer Bills, within three days after the signature of the
contract, and which will be returned to the Contractors on the
completion of their first payment.
The Annuity to be •ested in Trustees, to be named by the
Treasury and the parties.
An allowance for management to be glinted, at the rate of
.C3CO per million, upon a capital calculated at twenty-five years
purchase of the Annuity.
The parties contracting will be required, by way of security
for the performance of the engagement, to make advances on
account of the said payments into the Exchequer, to the extent
of five millions beyond the amount of the Annuity to be re-
ceived within the same time, before any part of it shall be placod
at their disposal, except in the case of a Company possessing a
capital tested in Government securities, and not liable to other
claims, which capital will be considered as security to the extent
.f its actual value.

After the completion of such payment for security, the Annuity
will be placed at the disposal of the parties contracting, by yearly
assignments or transfers, in the following ntanccr
Upon the Sth day of January, Sth
of April, sth of July, or 10th of
October, which may neat hap-
pen, after the said sum of
£5,000,000 shall be advanced,
and upon the same quarterly day
of each of the four following
years - - - £90,600 per ant. £450,000
On the same quarterly day of each
. of the five following years - 60,000 - - 400,000
On the same quarterly day of each
of the five following years - 70,000 - . 350,000
Oa the same quarterly day of each
of the five following years - 60.000 - 300,000
Oa the same quarterly day of each

of the Ave following years - 50,000 - - mow
On the same quarterly day of each -
of the Ave following years . 40,000 - - =woo

X 1,950,000
And alter the expiration of this period, the remainder of the
Annuity, which may then continue vested in the Trustees, will
be aniseed ar transferred according to a progression to be then
settled by the Lords of the Treasury, until the amount of the
Annuity remaining shall be equal to the yearly sum to be thence-
forward paid into the &chequer.
The Lords of the Treasury to have a power to assign a larger
proportion of the Annuity to the Contractors, provided s sum
equal to the Tahoe of the eases, of the Annuity so to be assigned
shall k le4prd Is &sliest* BiUst in do has of the Trudges, ,

to give it.
Mr. PASCOE Garwrat.t. wished to know whether
the whole was to be in one contract, or that it would
be divid'ed?
The Earl of LIVERPOOL wished it to be in one con-
tract; but, if the offer was not satisfactory, the Lords
of the Treasury would have no objection to divide it.
His Lordship added, that he wished it to., be distinctly
understood that the contractors would have nothing
to do with the chances or contingencies of the lives
of the pensioners; but that the sums to be paid every
'year were to be according to the scale he bad read.
- Mr. KEMBLII inquired if the five millions deposit
was to be money ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH mum said, it might
be paid in Exchequer Bills, Stock, or any species of
Government securities, not having a lieu or claim
upon it. He added, that no part of the annuity
would be at the disposal of the Contractors, until the
whole of the deposit was paid.

Mr. ISAAC LYON GOI.D3MID wished to know, if a
larger sum in annuities for five years than £450,000
might not be obtained by a larger deposit than five
millions ?

The Earl of LIVERPOOL was of opinion that it
might; but this would be at the discretion of the
Lords of the Treasury.
After some other conversation, in which Mr,
ROTHSCHILD, Mr. KEMELR, Mr. GOLDSSIID, and
several other Gentlemen took a part,

The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that having stated
the plan, he wished to have another preliminary
Meeting, in order that Gentlemen, after duly con•
sidering it, might offer any objections, or obtain any
farther explanations they might deem necessary. If,
therefore, it was convenient, he would fix Friday
next for the second preliminary Meeting, when the
plan should be considered as finally settled; and that'
Tuesday' might be fixed for receiving the offers of
the Contractors.

On the suggestion of Mr. Rorrrscnltu, Friday
next, at eleven o'clock; v►as fixed for the second
meeting. The parties then separated.

Our Readers will perceive, by the proceedings in
the House of Commons last night, that the plan of
Government turning pawnbroker, and lending money
on grain, after being disowned by Ministers, scouted
by the Opposition, and laughed at by everybody, has
been withdrawn. What new expedient may be de-
vised
for raising the price of grain we know not ; but
these is some consolation in reflecting that no plan
for such an object is likely to be successful.

This forenoon we received a German Mail, bring-
ing Papers to the Ist instant. An article from Carls-
rhue states, that General WORONZOW bad passed
through that city, and was proceeding with all speed
to OJessa.--Vienna, April 23—Aletalliques 74 7-16;
Bank Shat es 660 9-10.

The French Papers of Saturday do not contain a
single article of intelligence of the slightest interest,
except the melancholy details of the destruction of
property by incendiaries. " Conflagrations," says the
Journal des DeLats, " continue to desolate the De-
partment of the Somme. On the 26th of April, they
broke out in the Commune of Thois, and consumed
nine houses ; and the next day, seventeen houses were
burnt down in the Commune of Daours." A large
village in the vicinity of Dreur, having been set on
fire on the Ist instant, the Magistrates and the mili-
tary firemen of that city repaired to the spot, but
scarcely had they began to assist the inhabitants when
they were informed that another village, a few miles
distant, was on fir.:. Forty houses were destroyed in
the former before the devouring element could be
subdued. In the villages of the Somme the houses
are.covered with thatch, and built close together, so
that a whole town is rapidly reduced to ashes, with-
out any possibility of stopping the ravage of the flames.
French Funds, May 4.—Five per Cents. 87f. 95c.

Yesterday, the Earl of LIVERPOOL had an audience
of the Kt w.

Prince LEOPOLD has been detained much longer
abroad than he intended, by his attentions to his
mother during a severe illness. His Royal Highness,
when at Naples, was much indisposed; so mucks%
that he was confined to his room for several days.
The Prince is now on his, way back to England.
Petitions to Parliament are signing at Bath, praying for a Tax
on the property and income of persons residing abroad.
The Staffordshire colliers continue in a state of disturbance,
and refuse to work—in one instance of rim the military were
compelled to act, and a man named Roberts was badly wounded.
The framework•knitters of the county of Nottingham have re-
turned to their employment.

Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. ROTHSCHILD gave a mag-
nificent entertainment at their delightful seat, atStam-
ford-hill, Middlesex. An elegant marquee was erected
ea the lawn, and a band of music was in attendance.
Among the company were,
Their Highnesses Prince and Princess Esterbacy, Prince Lib-
kovritz, Count and Countess Leven, Baron and Baroness Wer-
ther, Mademoiselle Werther, Count and Countess Munster,
Count and Countess Ludolf,Viscount Chatesstbriand, Count and
Countess d'Agile, Baron Cette, Lord and Lady Maryborough,
Baron de Makzahn, Baron Lanpdorff; Baron Segue. Count
Mandelsloh, Count and Countess De Moltke, Boron Fogel, &c.
ROYAL ACADShilf..—The Exhibition was thrown
open yesterday, and admitted the largest concourse
of people ever entertained in the same space of time
since the first institution of it. It is gratifying to say
that the Exhibition is very farbefore any previous one,
boih is the number and execution of the historic'
subjects, and the importance of the portraiture.

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Coldstream Guards
place of the de.
there. which had deco
The lads regiment of Hussars wM march from Brigitte; en
the lbek beau, for Richmond.
A egnegren of the nth Lancrra will arrive at Brighton on the
Hith instant, front Canterbury.
The Pith regiment of Foot I. ordered to much on the log,
instant from Gosport fur Chathim.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, last week, the 7th Vodka?,
marched from Newcastle Barracks on their route for Chatham_
Wednesday, the Ist inst. a company of the 77th regimut
arrived in Edinburgh from Glasgow.
The 15th regiment of Hussars marched from York, to.daT,
for Hounslow.

Two companies of the 66th regiment marched from Hug 03
Monday se'nnight, under the comnund of Major Biaae--oz.
far Carlisle, the other for Tynemouth ; two other col:Eva:1;i
proceeded for Sunderland on Tuesday, which will be the 4,4
quarters of the regiment for the present; and the renla;ilitq
three companies will quit she garrison on the l Go
the arrival of the 2d (or Queen's) regiment of Foot, :1:44-
command of Colonel IloncsoF.

NAVAL IN'I'ELLIGE.VCE.

The Hon. Company's ship Princess Charlotte of Wale+,
rived at the Sand-heads, in Bengal, on the 117th of Cs•rot.,:.
crossed the Equator in 22 days in long. 171 west from en
the lath of July; in running to the northward in the tv,uo.l,
trade, her greatest log 257 miles; preceding day 241. This ,hip's
passage is the shortest on record for the season of the year.
FOLTSSIOUTIi, MAY 6.—Wind F.asterly ; light airs.—Arrirl
the Express, from Gibraltar for London (in quarantine). It
the Cossack, Newel L., for Hamburgh, which put back, and ;,-.
the Perseverance, as repotted yesterday. •
Dear., Mar 6.—Wind B.—Came down last night and sail.a,
the Chapman, MILLDAM(; for Quebec; and Jane, JA:4E..'t, :
Trieste, Sec. Arrived to-day and sailed for the River, the
M'Cimax. front Jamaica; Betsey, Swam, front Portland;
Lord Sidniouth, Muout.e, front the Mauritius.
CONSULATE OF TDE UNITED STATES or
AMERICA.

•ac Coax, Mal-
" It is with great reluctance that I am ob:iged to state, :::as
notwithstandiAg the prompt and zealous aisietanz.: given tq
persons in the salvage of part sit' the property pres.aveel front
the wreck of the American ship Alhioa, :1 have undoubted
authority for asserting, that a considerable share of the pawn:et
luggage, and of the money shipped on board that is u •
in the hands, more or less, of the country peopl., conceale
But I make this appeal (an appeal which I am sere Iva cot b:
made in vain) on behalf of the unfortunate, with a hope thita
conscientious impression of doing what is right mill induce a re-
storation of these effects; and that the Magistrates, and (;ct.
try, and Clergymen of all persuasions, in the 'neighb•nialcol
of this most lamentable shipwreck, will exercise their L)...1
vigilance and then- benevolent exertions on the occasion.
• " ./ACON NIAUX,
" Consul of the United States of Aniciizz.."

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