Star.
London, England, 1824-08-05 00:00:00

THE DISCOVERY SHIPS.

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Extract of a letter from an Officer employed in the
Expedition, dated on board the Hecla, Whale Fish Isles,
Davis Straits, July 2:—" As the transport is about to
leave us, I address a few lines to let you know how we
get on. We put in here on the 26th ult. for the purpose
of clearing the transport and sending her home again.
You would be really surprised to see us ; I never in my
life could have imagined a ship so full, and I am satis-
.fied it will take us one year to eat the ship tolerably
clear. Only fancy to yourself 44 quarters of fresh beef
hanging about the vessel in different directions. How
much more favourable everything looks this trip than
it did this time three years ; we are now in 69 degrees
Ilnorth latitude without having met the least obstruction,
and during the whole time we were out before we never
got higher than 70. In short, we were at least 18 months
before we could reach our present parallel, and we cer-
tainly have a very different prospect. Our means are
good beyond every hope,. our Captain able and willing,
and, take my word for it. we shall either do something
or lose everything.—l am now writing in our Mess, at
twelve at night, with as good daylight as you have in
England at noon. We shall, of necessity, have to pay
for this next winter. The place we ate at present laying
at is a Danish settlement; the inhabitants are composed
of Danes and Esquimaux ; the latter are in my mind,
very Inferior to our acquaintance of last voyage, their
mixture with the Danes appearing not to have improved
them. Their language and dress are much the same,
and I am not aware that they differ in any material
points. We shall leave this either to•morrow or next
day, should the wind permit us. I think in all my trips

I have never seen a more barren spot than the place we
are now laying at, the greater part of the land being
covered with snow, and such as is clear is nothing but
rock."

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1824.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 921, and went up to 921; soon
after some heavy lots were sold, which made them 921, at which
price they now remain. .
It is said that the French Rentes of Tuesday were at 98f. 35c.
and after 'Change hours at 98f. 90c.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A good deal of business was done in the Foreign Market this
morning in Mexican, but little in. other Foreign Securities.
Current Prices : New Spanish 151, Old 211 to 1, Russian 9411,
Alliance Shares 124 131, Mexican 521 1, Ohilian 77 to 1, French
Scrip 101 11, Austrian 93k, Portuguese 751, Buenos Ayres Ig pr.
Colombian Scrip 6 to 41.
RUSSIAN LOAN, NEGOCIATED BY MR. N. M.
ROTHSCHILD, IN LONDON.
The Half.yearly Dividend on the above Loaa, which becomes
due on Wednesday, the lst of September next, will be paid by
Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD on that and every succeeding day (Sundats
excepted), between the boors of Ten and Two, at his Counting-
house, No. 9. New-court. The Dividend Warrants, with a list
thereof in numerical order, must be left one day previously to
payment, for the purpose of being examined.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced 93% 9278
3 per Cent. ('.ons. 923/s VB-31, per Cent. 101%
4 per Cent Assented 101% 100% 5
4 per Cent. New 105% %
bank Long Ann!. 23—India Bonds 78 9 5 9
£l,ot►o hequer it'll, (2d.) 38 9 ; (114 d.) 38 6
1:500 Do. (2 )40 2 ; (Phd.) 38 6
£lOO and £2OO 110. (2J.) 37 42; (11,4 d.) 87 40
• •06 tor Acct. 92% A.

It appears from the German and Italian Papers re-
ceived this morning, that the v‘eather has been extremely
sultry, and that the thunder storm, which has been so
uni vet sAI, has done considerable injury on the Continent.

On the 14th ult. the thermometer had risen at Rome
to 28° Reaumur.

At Bologna the heat was excessive: oa the 16th, at
three o'clock, the thermometer of Reaumnr, in the
Observatory, was at Si. one line (102° of Fahren-
heit). This is the greatest degree of heat that has
been observed there since 1782.

The Pre:burg Gazette gives an account of numerous
accidents from lightning and fire. On the 24th of
June, a number of persons tending their cattle, in the
fields near Lutmansburg, seeing a heavy storm coming,
about twenty of them took shelter under a large pear-
tree ; the lightning struck the tree immediately after,
and several of these persons were stunned and thrown
to the ground with the shock, who soon recovered ; but
four young men, who had leant against the trunk of
the tree, were killed. The heat has been very great in
some parts of Hungary, and considerable damage has
been done by hail-storms.
This forenoon we received the Frankfort Papers to
the 29th ult. One of them contains an ordonnance of
the Grand Duchy of Baden, relative to the Clergy of
the Evangelical Church, who are charged with neg-
lecting the important doctrines of Christianity, and even
disputing them in their sermons. They are therefore
charged, in future, to teach the Gospel as it is to be de•
duced from the Bibles, and not to impeach the credibi-
lity of the miracles in the New Testament.

Private letters from Hermanstadt, in the Frankfort
Papers, dated the Bth of July, and from Cronstadt, of
the 10th, assure us that the Hospodar of Wallachia re-
ceived from Constantinople, en the sth, the firman of
the SULTAN for the evacuation of that province. In
consequence of this news, some of the Boyars who had
quitted their country are about to return to it; and pre.
parations are making in the Office of the Russian Con-
sul in Wallachia, to remove from Hermanstadt to Bu-
charest. We need not state that the evacuation of the
Principalities has been frequently reported before.

The CAMSLION frigate, which has arrived from Vera
Cruz and the Havannab, brings letters from Mexico of
the 4th of June. They state that all was quiet there;
another arrest bad taken place of some of Imastox's
party, and a French Commissioner had arrived there.

The Editor of a respectable Morning Paper, in
noticing the account in a Dublin Journal of an Irish
Priest having pulled a man's tongue out, instead of the
Devil, for which he was poking in the man's throat,
says, if any person 41 can produce a spoon, silver,
pewter, or horn, that will cut through a beef-steak, he
may then draw upon our credulity, with some hope that
we may honour his draft." As for a silver spoon in an
Irish cabin, we suspect that is out of the question, nor
do we mean to say that the tongue could be cut out►
except under peculiar circumstances, which may not
have been stated to be done with any spoon; though there
are iron ones, one end of which we certainly would not
trust in our mouth, if a Roman Catholic Priest had hold
of the other.

Whether this case of fanatical atrocity may or may
not be true, it is certain that neither the Roman Catholic
Clergy of Ireland, nor their flocks, are getting more
enlightened. The case of the Priest CA tutoLt, who killed
the child under the pretence of casting out a devil, is
a proof of this. For, admitting the exorcist to be in-
sane, can the same excuse be made for his sister, who
it appears attended, or for the wretched mother, who
calmly looked on while her child was murdered ? Or
will it be said that the people who had assembled to see
the miracle,-and who asked the father if he was mad,
when he attempted to rescue his child—will it be said

that they were insane ? We suspect not, unless it h.
contended that bigotry is insanity.

Another Morning Paper, in alluding to this subject,
has the following observations,in which we fully coincide:
" It is of no use to express a wish that the Church
of Rome would renounce the casting out devil,,
which can only be productive of the most mis.
chievous results, because that Church does not, like
the Protestant Churches,-, accommodate its doctrines
to times and seasons.
...With respect to the ordi-
nary run of miracles, they do little harm. If any one
recovers, supernaturally, a leg or an arm, or escapes
through the intercession of Prince Hostem.onx, from
the jaws of death, we do not see how any other persc.n
can object to this. It is otherwise, however, wile,.
persons are deprived of life, or severely injured, by
attempts to drive the devil out of them ! Against th;s
branch of the miraculous powers of the Church ef
Rome, some precautions ought undoubtedly to be taken.
" The English Legislature, in the analogous ca:e
of witchcraft, fell on a means of putting an end to a
dreadful evil, without interfering with religious be-
lief. At the time the Act of 1730 passed, the beiief
in the existence of witchcraft was nearly universal;
and it was only by a side-wind that the Members durst
attack a tenet which is now only believed in a few
remote corners of the island. Cannot, in like manner,
ache pretence of] casting out devils be made penal?
This would leave the doctrine untouched, and would
preserve the lives of the people. To prevent per-
sons from committing murder can hardly be deemed
religious persecution. FRRDERICK, of Prussia, in the
case of the devout soldier, who was supposed to
have robbed an image of the VIRGIN of its orna-
ments, but who pretended that the VIRGIN had
made him a present of them, on finding that presents
of this kind could be made, got rid of future difficulty
by threatening with punishment all who should accept
them. From the accommodating spirit of Protestantism,
it is seldom necessary to grapple with inconvenient te-
nets : and in that respect we have certainly a great ad.
vantage over the Catholics."

COURT OF CHANCERY-TiS DAY.
ADVENTURES OP A 216,000 BILL

BOWYER AND CO. V. CUNDIVE AND OTURRi.

This cause, which excited considerable interest, and
which has occupied the attention not only of the Vice-
Chancellor, but of his Lordship also, was again brought
before the Court yesterday and to-day, on a motion
praying to discharge the order of the Vice-Chancellor,
of the 25th of May last, by which the said bill of ex-
change was ordered to be returned into Court. The
short facts of the case were—that a young Gentleman,
resident at Paris, had been induced to give a bill of ex-
change on his just coming of age; that bill reached,
this country, and eventually was placed in the hands of
the firm of Messrs. Eccles, for the purpose of sending it
to Paris for presentation. On arriving at Paris, how.
ever, it was found that it did not bear the proper stamp,
and the drench Government claimed no less a duty
than 1,4001. on it, and refused to return it until that
was paid. Messrs. Eccles having become Bankrupts,
the defendants were appointed their Assignees, and the
assets arising under the Commission not being sufficient
to pay the 1,4001. they now applied to rescind the order
directing the return of the bill.
After much argument, the Lotto CHANCELLOR said,
the parties bad undertaken to return it, and were bound
to fulfil their engagement. If the bill, however, were
again brought into Court, the Court would take care it
did not go out again, without the parties being heard
as to their claim for the payment of the French duty,
is obtaining the return of the bill.