Star.
London, England, 1825-04-16 00:00:00

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Letter of Canntot, on the " Equitable Assurance Cons-
pany," will appear in the STAR on Monday.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 90 to 1 foe the Account, at ,
which price they remain steady, wish scarcely anything doing.
In the Foreign Market scattily a Bargain has been done, except
in a new Scheme which appeared this morning—Anglo Peruvian
Mining Company, which has been done at 2 11, surd is nost4at
$ premium.
Current Prizes: New Spanish 181, Old Spanish 231,1, Rutsiata
951 4, Mexican '7Bl 1, Austrian 981 1, Chitian 851, Colombian
New 891 90, prazil Scrip 21 prem. Mexican Scrip 1 j prem..
Danish Scrip 3 2/ discount.
PitICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK
3 per Cept. Red. ez div. 91% 5A %
3 per Cent. Cons. 92 sk 1,6
3i per Cera. Red. 99 3/4
4 per Cent. 1061/8 %
Long Ann. ex div. £2 3.16 1/4.
India Bonds 82 80 83 •
£l,OOO 1..;x:1.eq. Bills 61 58
£lOO and £2OO ditto 59 58
Cons. for Acct. 92% %
• FOREIGN FUNDS; TWO O'CLOCK. •
Austrian Bonds 5 per Ct. 981 99 Mex.Donds, 5 p Ct. 78/ /
Brazilian Bonds ss Ditto Ace. 781 3 I
Ditto Scrip, 5 per Cent. Ditto Scrip 1825, 011.4 pr
Ditto Acc. Ditto Acct. 01 pr
Ditto Scrip 1825, Neapolitan Bonds, 1824,.
Ditto Acc. . Perur. Bonds, 6 per Ct..
Buenos Ayres Bonds, Ditto Acc.
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. , Portnguese Bonds .90ii 1
Colombian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 911 Prussian Bondii 822, 5 p Ct.lool
Ditto Bonds, 1824,90 891 90- Ditto Aect. Wog'
Ditto Aect. 90 Russ.Bonds,lB22, Sp Ct. 1.4
Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct . Spanish sp. Ct. 231 1
Ditto Scrip, 21 dig Ditto Aect. 231 •••
Greek Bonds Span. 5 p. Ct C.4823;19
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Ditto Ace. Ditto ftri- Ace.
Ditto Scrip 1825‘ • French Rentes, 5 per Ct. • •
Ditto Acct. 31 4 dis ' --Exchange
BRITISH AND FaREIGN SHARES, .TWO O'CLOCK.

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MINES.
span& #A ID. •.. TR= InGS SBA ILL n,
Anglo Mexican - - 4100 -X2O- tss. 45 pm. at
Anglo Chilian - 100 - .10 •
Anglo Peruvian Mining Ass. . ki 2 e# 1 et prem.
Brazilian - - 100 - a - , -19 e 19. ,
Chilian 100 5
Colombian - 100 • - - .51k ail
Cornwall and Devonshire , . 1 I prem..
Chilian and Peruvian Company'-'
•A • • • . 104 e - •
General Mining Ass*.
.; , 10 11 10
Pasco- Peruvian - Alto
-. •- 5 •
United Mexican .40 .00
Ditto New. .40 - 5 - • . ;an. .
ASSURANCE COMPANTif
AU.Brit.Por. Fire &Life 100 - 10 -
Do. Marine 109 r . 5, -
MISCELLANEOUS. -
- • . rAsa: • erolliguihitoger-4
Atlantic and &Mc, . 82100 -•seill :it: • . . . •
Bristol Ship Canal. • - . 1 - . .
British Rock and Patent Salt 100 5- •• 7,1 iblik• •' •
Equitable Loan Bank . 50 - I -- 1/.1 ' •
Honduras Company 100 • 5 : • 7 ft
Imperial Plate Glass - 100 2 34-
London Drug Company • 50 1
Mexican Company. 100 10 14.731
• Pearl Fiskery-X254h. £ll pd. iss. £lO pm. 17e
Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 5- 12i 111 •
Patent Bricks 50 • 2 -4% 4
Peruvian • - 100 - 5 - slt
Pearl and Coral Fishery- 40 4 •9} 10i
IRio de la Plata Agticul. Com. 100 5 9} fi
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At the very time when Mr. Secretary PEEL is en.'
gaged in the praiseworthy tAsk of simplifying our laws,
and combining all the former and existing enactments,.
on any particular subject, in .one Act.nf Parliament,
we see the old errors committed in Bills-now before the
House. One of these lies before us, and is a Bill " for
further regulating the payment of ,the Salaries of bis.
Majesty's Conks in India, and the Bishop of CA LCUTTA
'and for authorising the transportation of offenders from
the Island of St. Helena!" Surely so incongruous an
association of enactments might be avoided in legislation.

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In a preceding column we have given some observe.
tions from the Bogota Constitutional, on the Tariff of
Colombia, and the vexatious manner in which the. Cu-
stoms are collected. There is no doubt that the imPort.
duties have, in many instances, been fixed too high;
and. hence smuggling; as in all such cases, has flow:
rished. The valuations too are permanent, instead of
being adjusted according to the fluctuations of the
market, and to the incessant shifting in the price of•
goods; as, for instance, cotton goods imported, and
subject by law to an ad valorem duty of 17k per cent.
are valued so high*by the Colombian officers, as to
'extract from the importer a duty of 27 or 28 per cent.
to the enormous injury of the British manufacturer, of
the merchant, and 'of the Colombian consumer himself;
whose comforts experience a corresponding dinlinution
from the superadded price. The high duties, by en-
couraging smuggling, naturally render 'the Castoms
unproductive, a circumstance the more to be regretted,
because the bulk of the Revenue in that country is .de.", •
rived from taxes on importation. BOLT VAR, when lie"
returns, will not scruple, we are sure, to profit by
the
example of the English Minister, and to recommend to
Congress a reduCtion of the commercial duties as the
most fertile source of riches to the State.

Calcutta tfaxelle xtraordinarj of'the -26th of
November, contains a dispa•Ch from 13.ig.4cFer-Geteial
Sir ARCIIIBAtD CAMFbELL, the late Commander•in•
Chief at Rangoon (but who has Since 'unfortunately pe-
rished by apoplety), giving an account of a successful
expedition under .the command of Lieut.-Col. Goo-
WIN, against Martaban, a sea-port town and fottress,
some way to the eastward 1 f Rangoon, and giving
name to the Gulf lot rued by that pact of the coast of
l'egpt. The pace appears to have keen ,well protected
by /unitary arm ks,ss ith many pieces of cannon mounted,
and a garrison of three or four thousand men. But
nothing could resist tire skill and fit livery of the English
assailants, and un'the .30th October, some of the
out-
works having been culied :. sattl',,tho Remus.

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were quickly driven trout the iovi; and thus the twO
chief ports of the Burman empire are in our possessions

We have received the French Paperi of. Wednesday,
With the Etat of Thursday. The harbamus law •
against Sacrilege has given rise to an animated dis-
cussion in the Chamber of Deputies; in which M.
ROGER COLLARD made an eloquent speech against it.
The following passage towards the conclusion is very
striking : "In breiking a long silence, 1 wish to
:mark my keen opposition to the theocratic principle
which threatens religion and society at the same time—
a principle the more odious that • the torch is not
kindled in our days, as in the dayi of barbarousness and
ignorance, by the sincere fury of an excessive zeal.—
There is noDnminick.new,and neither are we Albigenses
(marked movement in the Assembly). The Theocracy
of our time is less religious than political; it forms a
part of that system of universal re-action, by which we
are carried away ; what recommends it is, that it has a'
counter-revolutionary aspect. Undoubtedly, Gentle-
men, the Revolution was impious even to fanaticism,
even to cruelty. But let us beware, it was this crime
more especially which ruined it, and we may predict to
the cow. ter-revolution, that reprisals of cruelty, though
merely written, will bear testimony against it, and will
sully it in its turn—(strong murmurs on the right).
There are times when Penal Laws in matters of reli-
gion give' to the disposition a character of atrocity.
MONTESQUIEU has said this, and the history of latter
ages proves it. We may judge that there are other
times when these same laws are only a degrading cor-
ruption. Re member,Gentlemen, the old age of the great
King, and of the days which followed the days which
came so close on the Revolution. Consult, respecting
that sad period, the mast pious and wise contemporaries.
FENELoN wrote these very words on the 15th March,
1712, three years before the death of Louts the Four-
teenth : The present morals of the nation throw every
one into the most violent temptation to attach himself
to the strongest by all sorts of meannesses, cowardice,
blackness, and treachery.'"
On the 12th inst. the anniversary of the e return of
CNARLES X. to Paris in 1814, the POPE'S Nuncio pre-
sented, a congratulatory address to the KING, .in the
name (4 the Diplomatic Body. In returning thanks,
the Kim) saidrr,
I hope that gm will give me strength and means to govern
The people confided to me, with firmneso, justice, moderatiOn, and
fidelity ti the existing laves. • •• ' •
11 In, dfiliing those oat duties. -to itocerisfy to the happiness of
the Frentlipl shall,• at the same time,,have the firm confidence of
being to be useful NS the general biterests of all the. Powers,
and thukto manifest. to allens.:ostrumpak gratttnde the. kind-
nets they shewed to me and mine in the dales of Misfortunes.'
AeCtkit‘tts from-. Sierra Leone, of the 17th of February,
announce -the. arrival there of General TuatiEk, the,
Govetboi.and Commander on the. Western Coast of
Africa; also-several transports with troops, bound to
Cape Coast Cas,tie. • • .

Letters e; been 'received from Carthagena. to
the 15th of-Fehrucy, and. from La Guayra to the 3d
March,,,, They elate i#loively to commetcial affairs.
Colonel CASIPSELL had.not arsive.l at Caraccas on the
2d of ;Marc); ha intelligence bad been. received there
of his having reached Barbadoes. One letter states that
the SPiriish forces which had inrrendered in Peru were
to embark on board the Asia and the other ships of war
from S Ain, which were bound by the terms of the
capitulatioa to. abstain from all hostilities, and to return
directl6 Europe ; so that," the letter states, " this
long-talked•ot Spanish squadron, .instead of being of
the least assi,tapce to the Ruyal cause, has just arrived
in time to carry back the wreck of the Royal forces."

A Memorial has been presented to the Mexican Con-
gress by the Secretary of State, Senor ALAMAN. It ,
breathes a feeling co friendship towards this country
which is gratifying, and skews a liberality which, we
regret to say, did not mark the message. of the Vice-
President of Colombia. In the latter document, General '
SANTANDER certainly did not do justice to the conduct
of the British Government towards the new Republic,
and shewt,cl a littleness of mind, in qu'bbling with our
sending Commissioners to the Provinces of Colombia,
instead of to the Republic of Colombia. The difficulties
too that were raised by the Colombian authorities to
the Official reception of the British Commissioners and
Consuls were avoided in Mexico. " The diplomatic •
agents of the British Government," the Memorial states,
" have be,n. received and treated in the manner re-
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quired by the consideration due to a nation, the first
of those of Europe that has opened frank relations of
friendship and good understanding with the Republic."
Another pan, to which great interest is attached, is that
'relating to the mines. •
The Mexican Minister considers the mines as the foun-
tain of the true riches of his nation, and congratulates
the Congresi on the formation of the foreign associations
for working them. He announces that the application
of the stearnuengine his proved decidedly its preferable-
ness to all the former modes of operation, where the
abundance of fuel will permit the establizhaent of this
powerful. machine. " A general impulse has," coati
trues the Minister, " been given to the mines. Hope re-
v ives,and after so many years of paralyzation and decline,
we again see a new new epoch of prosperity approach."
The temper displayed by the Mexican Government, in
speaking of its worst enemies, redounds much to its
credit ; and tile exposition of the state of the Republic
is without disguise, and without reserve. Indeed, the
tenor of the whole document is calculated to give us a
high ()pillion of the prudence, foresight, and integrity,
of the Mexican Government.

Yes•rrdsy, a Dinner vas given :it the Clarendon
hotel, to Cokmel .fuosprthi, by all the Field Officers now in town
ss•ho hat served under Ids conantand in the 85th Regiment. A
number of Admirals, Generals, and other Officers of distinction
tricots of Colonel Tomorrow, were present on the occasion.

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. - THE. KING .
WINDSOR, afternoon, at two o'clock,
his MAJESTY left the Royal Lodge in his pony phae-
ton, accompanied by the Marquis CoNyNottAm. and
proceeded through the new plantations to Virgivia WA-
ter; and, after making a short stay, returned by Bkhoos-
gate, and through the Little Park for Windsor Castle,
where his MAJESTY was met by Mr. J. WvATTVILEE,
and conducted by him to view the various impiove
ments. After making a stay of nearly two hours, the
KING returned up the Long IValk to the Royal Lodge.
APRIL 19.

BO ULOUIVE-Sria=li,

As szveral workmen were yesterday engaged in pulling
down an old building in the Rue des Minimes, whist
others were occupied in excavating the ground under-
neath, for the purpose of forming vaults, the whole mass,
which had long been in a very ruinous state, fell to the
ground with a tremendous crash. Three of the unkr-
tunate men, and the Lady who was the owner of thr,
house, (then superintending the excavation) were )(tiled
on the spot. Several others are very much hurt : a horse
was also destroyed. A collection will doubtless be made•
for the families of the unhappy sufferers, when another
opportunity will be afforded our com-patriots of evincing
that liberality which has ever been a principal charac-
teristic of our nation.

The town, since the termination of Lent, has cornd
menced its usual gay routine of balls, concerts, and other
public and ptivate amusements. Small coteries, those
intolerable nuisances of sociay, have long en ugh hditi
their reign. The Lower Town Amateur Drainatists re,-
open their private Theatre to-morrow, Kith a represen-
tation of Douglas. The High Town Amateur Company
appear to have relinquished private theatrical., and
amusements more congenial to the season have emit ely
effaced their mania for the stage.
The English visibly and daily increase, although the
town, (if I dare insinuate it) already contains a very large
quantity of highly respectable families, many of rank and
title. But the rents of houses are augmenting widt the
visitors. Three years ago, 250 fr. (rel 0) wa= considered
a very high rent ; and this summer, n(, conifortahe
houses will be had from 350 to 500 Irs. (£2O). This is
attributed to a compact the Commissionaires of the lons
have made. These Gentlemen. have been busying them-
selves in buying up every lease they can lay hands on,
nor will they re-let th'em under a most exorbitant price.