Star.
London, England, 1824-04-30 00:00:00

FOIIEIGN FUNDS.

Very little business has been done in the Market this morning.--
C :rent Prices : New Spanish 15/ to 16, Old 171 /, Russian 971,
Chllian 84/, hlexican Scrip 91 to In, Austrian 17/ /, French 18,
Colombian 92i, Colombian Scrip 3 pre. Alliance Shares 16/ to
172 Irish Shares 1/ /, Paladium / 1, New Prussian 99/.

-FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
ABUT/RDA/4 APRIL .27.—0 n London, 39. a. 2 M. 59. I:
PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 24.04 2431/i
I•er Cent. Reduced 95% Vs
3 per Cent. Consols 96% 1/2
Si(l per Cents..lo2l/4-1 per Cents. Old 100%
4 per Cents. New 1073/4 7/8 3/4
4 per Cents. Assented 101% 7/8.
Bank Long Anns. 23 1-16 %
India Stock 299 29814—India Bonds SOs. 81,s.
Exclieq. Bills (£1,000) 495. 52s.—Small 495. 525.
Consols for Acct. 96% 3/4.

Although we have no wish to enter into political con-
troversy, and have too kindly a feeling to our brother
Journalists, whether in town or the country, yet we
deem it necessary to advert, though briefly, to the
reply in the Glasgow courier of Tuesday, to some ob-
servations we considered it our duty to make on an ar-
ticle which appeared in that respectable Journal, •on.
the subject of Mr. SMITH, the Missionary. We cer-
tainly thought, and do still think, that it. was not in
good taste, in ignorance or in defiance of the evidence
on the trial and the pardon of his MAJESTY, to accuse
Mr. SMITH of being the principal in a rebellion for the
purpose of destroying or expelling all the whites from
the. Colony. That the Editor of the Glasgow Courier is
rtill convinced (and conscientiously no doubt) of Mr.
SMITH'S guilt we regret, since his opinion is not only so
much at variance with Christian chaiity, but with the
sentiment of the Press and the Public is general.
The GlaJgow courier says, our complaint against it
is the stating that the London .Tournals had omitted the
evicluxe on Mr. S::lTlt's trial, and given comments a‘
variance with the proven facts: but the Scotch Journal
went much further than this, and declared that the
boldest of the London Journals did not dare to impugn
" the competency -ef the tribunal, or the decision it had
cometo." It wa.; against this gratuitous assumption of
a sort of negative admission by the London Press of
Mr. SMITH'S climinaiity that we complained. We
had not at that time, nor have we now, the files
of the London Papers to refer to, but we believe,
with the exception of one, they have been universal
in not only imi.ugn;ng, but actually condemning.
the verdict, as not bottie out by the evidence ; and
should the Glasgow Courier still doubt the tact, we
will collect the evidence in proof of our assertion. We
have now before us one respectable Journal, the St.
James's C'hronicle, winch thus strongly expresses itself
on the subject:
" The Minutes of the Court-martial which sentenced Mr. &fiver,
the Nlissionary, kr k hanged by Me neck until /It should be dead, have
been printed; and we do 11Z.t tiesit,ate to say, they conatitute a re-
cord of the most monstrous persecution and. injustice to be found in
the history of civil or military law."

Such are the terms in which a temperate Journalist
treats the decision of the Demerara Com t-Mattial ; and
such, indeed, is the general opinion cf the Loudon,
and, so far a; we have seen, tile Country Journals, one

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or two excepted.
The legality of trying Mr. SMITH by a Colin
tial, has been very properly queAioned by one of our
tontemporatits, on the ground that the colony was not
Under martial law at the time the alleged offence was
committed ; we confess, however, that much as we differ
with the Court-Maatial as to the verdict, we acknow-
ledge that they were- individually highly respectable ;
we cannot, however, agree in the conclusion to which
the Editcr of the Ghtsgoze Courier o nips— that the com-
mutation of the sentence by the Royal authority, the
fountain'of metcy, stamps the " decision as upright, its
judgment just"—as monstrous an assumption as any we
have had occasion to condemn.

We now take our leave of our Northern Friend, to
whom we acknowledge ourselves indebted for the fol-
lowing, article of West India intelligens:e:

GI.Ai4:OW2 APRIL 27.

" This morning a Jamaica 'Alai' was received in Gfas,vo”... "fhe
principal news brought by it arc, the execut,:rt of one of the
rebels, the apprehen,ion of tlbeah Jack, and some import.lnt
communications with Memhers of Lk Ala.;esty's Government,
the Agent for Jamaica, and ,Mr. Gladstone, whi...11 we must reserve
till our next. Private letters, we regret to Si,y star, that the Ne-
groes were anxiously looking fer the zrriv.d of the next p..:cket
from England, which they e4'ectcdtig:.ft order to the
Governor to proclaim their freedom."

Thi; forenoon we received Dutch Paper; to the 28th
inst. They contain an account from Na,ples of one of
th-),e dreadful convulsions of nature which are so fte-
zat in that part of Europe. The following are extracts: