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were disputing about a. form of Government and the
Sovereignty of the provinces."
" How different became the aspect of these same pro.
vinees when they were united under one central Go-
vernment! General Bolivar, who, in tip midst of the'
universal shipwreck, never despaired of the safety of his
country, succeeded in uniting under his command a part
of the plains watered by the Orinoco, the Apure, aad
the Meta. After fighting for two years against the
iteterans of Morino, he passed the Andes of New
Granada, and routed the Spanish division which de-
fended it, though double in numbers. The same Bolivar
forced Morillo to follow the rstles of regular warfare,
and to make an armistice. When hostilities again com-
menced, his army conquered at Carabobo the hosts of
tie Spaniards, and put the seal to the independence of
Cvlombia. This classical name, and the union of

Quito, Cu ndinamarca, and Venezuela,which it expresses,
• are the immortal work of the Deliverer. Projected in
1813, it received in 1819 the sanction of the Congress
of Venezuela, and in 1821 that of the Congress of
Colombia, composed of legitimate representatives from
all the free provinces. The union being consolidated,
the Republic constituted, and the Deliverer chosen
President, the provinces ofQuito were freed by the force
of republican arms. New troops are organizing in the
south of Colombia, to ganisou the new departments,or
under the Deliverer have gone to combat for the liberty
and independence of America in the ancient Empire of
the Incas. Internal tranquillity, submission to the laws,
security of the most valuable rights of men, a vigorous
Government, respected in all parts of our territory, ate
the prodigious effects produced by the new constitution
of Colombia."

This picture may be a little too flattering, but it
must be correct in its principal features. It is now two
yea's and a half since the constitution of Colombia as-
sumed its present form, and since that time we have
heard of no distut bances in any part of its territory.
Mitch of this security and tranquillity must be ascribed
to the wise and able conduct of Bolivar. It is difficult
to say what precise effect his defeat in Peru would have
on the fortunes of Colombia, but it requires little re-
flection to see that the result would be very disastrous.
Appended to this report, we find a financial account of
the pay allowed to the different functionaries of the
State, Legislative as well as Executive. The Members
of the Senate, and of the Chamber of Representatives,
are paid salaries, probably that they may not receive
bribes. The allowance of each is six dollars a day.
The President enjoys a salary of 30,000 dollars a year,
and the Vice-President 18,000. The whole internal
administration of the Republic, including provincial as
well as general expenses, costs Colombia only half a
million of dollars per annum, or about 100,0001. sterling.

FRANCE.
ST. CLOUD, SEPTEMBER 20.
TMs morning, before Mass, his Majesty received the
Members of the Faculty wbo had been in attendance on
the late King, and those who had been engaged embalm-I
ing the body.
Count Villele, Baron Damas, the Duke de Dondeau-
'ilk, and the Keeper of the Seals, severally transacted
business with his Majesty.
" ORDONNANCE OF THE KING. •
" The Household Troops of the King, designated the Royal Body
Guard of Monsieur, end devoted to his service by an Ordonuanct of
April 21,1819, shall be henceforth called thy fifth Company of the
Eddy Guard.
" The details of this arrangement shall be regulated by a Special
Ordonnance.

" Giyen at the Chateau at St Cloud, this 115th September, Ine4,
in the Ifirm year of our reign. " CHARLES."

PARIS, SEPTF.MBER to.

The remains of the late King will be removed, it is
said, on Thursday next.

It is stated that the Bishop of Ilermopolis is appointed
to pronounce the funeral oration of Louis the Eighteenth,
at the solemnisation of his obsequies in the Royal Church
of Sc: •
. Some days before his death there was presented 01
Louis the Eighteenth a decree relative to various com-
mutations of punishments. He granted them all, ad-
ding, for the fist time it gives me pain to sign such
a document. The granting of pardons and favours 1
IA ould reserve w holly fin my brother ; for it is with
these that the reign of a Bourbon ought always to
commence.'
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
" Riau, Sm. Ito.

" The coffin, containing the body of the late King, is
st<sw laid out in state in the Throne-room of the Tuileries.
After patiently waiting some hours, and an application
of a few Atones to one of the domestics, I got admission
to see it yesterday (it not being a public day, his present
Majesty having to come and sprinkle Holy Water upon
the coffin of his Royal Brother), The v, ails of the
Palace, close to and over the grand entrance, are hung
to a considerable extent with black cloth, which is thinly
covered with gilded fleurs-de-lis and silver teals. The
hall of the Marshals, and the long suite of apartments
intervening between-it and the Throne-room, ate hung
with black, and very dimly lighted (the window-shutters
being all closed) with a few melancholy tapers; but on
entering the room where the body lies, the eyes are
dazzled with the splendour aNd magnificence of the,
scene ; all is gold and brilliancy. Amidst numberless
burning tapers is the Royal coffin, covered akb a gor-
geous pall of cloth of gold, upon which are the crown,
• sceptre, and sword. In front are two superbly-clad
Mace-bearers, and at each corner a Herald at As ms,
in their splendid and chivalrous costumes? On the left
of the coffin sat the Great Officers of the Crown in their
rich uniforms and sparkling orders, and on the left the
Royal Almoners and Ecclesiastical Attendants, who
from time to time chaunted the service for the dead, and,
whose low and mournful tones formed a strange con-
trast with the pomp anti glare and splendour of what
met the eyes.
" Next to the coffin sat Prince Talleyrand. He
looked extremely downcast, and very much exhausted,
being obliged to remain in the same position for several
hours, and amidst the hot and unwholesome air engen-
tiered by a great number of persons and an immense
number of lamps in a confined space. The Royal re-
mains are to be transferred to-morrow or the day after
to St. Denis, where they are to be kept above ground
in a chapels ardente for thirty days, when the interment
will take place. The preparatioos for the funeral cere-
monies at St. Denis are of the most costly and magni-
ficent nature. Of those silver stars, each of which are
from three to four inches long, 15,000 have been or-
dered. As they cost three livres and a half each, this
item alone amounts to 52,000 Ernes, or £2,400. Un-
less with the exception of these funeral ceremonies, and
the closing of the Theatres, Paris is just as it was before.
Everything is perfectly tranquil, and the people stem
to feel as if no change had taken place, and that all will
proceed in the same routine as hitherto."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

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STOCK EXCHANGE TWELVE O'CLOCK.

_ Owing to this being a groat holiday amongst the Jews, but very
few of them have attended this morning, and consequently little
business has been done.

Consols opened' at 9S (sellers) for the Account, at which price
they remain op to the present hour.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
In the Foreigu Market this morning there is little doing, except
in Mexican and Colombian Securities.

Current Prices :-,—New Spanish 151, Old 191 to 110, Russian
94i I, Mexican 581 to 1, Colombian Scrip 8 to 71 dis. Colombian
771, Chilian 781, Austrian 951 1. Alliance Shares 101 11, New
Prussian 971, Old 991, Portusuese 88$ 891, Brazilian k dim. par,
Buenos Ayres 21 11 dis. Greek 16 15 dis. Peruvian ef.

PNICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced shut
3 per Cent. Cons. 94% 5/8 54--Se per Cent. shut
4 per Ct. Assented shut-4 per Cent. Old shut
4 per Cent. New 1061 34 106 34
India Stock 288—India Bonds 88

£l,OOO Excheq. Bitls (2d.) 43 5; (114 d.) 41 3
1:500 Do. (2d.) 446 ; (114 d.) 42 3
£lOO and 1:200 Do. (2d.) 45 ; (I WO.) 45 7
Bank for Acct. 2381/4 239
Consols for Acct. 95 94% %.

We wait with some anxiety for intelligence from
South America, particularly Peru, where it is more
than probable a final blow has ere now been given to
the Spani.h power. An United States Paper has been
received at the New England Coffee-house, which con-
tains an article of some interest, but whether it is to be
conlidered confirmatory of the defection of OLAWITA
from the Span4h cause, or the secession of another
body of troops, seems doubtful. The following is the
paragraph to which we allude :

" By a letter dated at Trnxillo, the 13th of- May, we find an
official account of the total defeat of a large division of the Royal
army in Upper Peru. The Royalist Commander was defeated and
taken prisoner, and the troops, after the combat, went over to the
Republican standard."

It has been known for some time that there was an
intention of opening commercial negotiations between
the Netherlands and France, and it was even said that
the law on the Customs, presented to the Chamber of
Deputies in France, had been withdrawn, in conse-
quence of the first communications between the two
Governments. The Brussels Papers now announce the
departure of M. VANDERFOSIZ, Gout mar of Hainault,
for Paris, with a special mission from the Government
of the Netherlands, to negotiate a treaty of commerce.

We have received another file of United States Papers,
but they are not of a later date than those which pre-
viously reached us. The following extract from a let-
ter addressed to the Edi.or, appears in the- Charles-
ton Mercury:

a HAVANNAH, JUNE MI.
a Rice has improved, but we cannot zecommend any extensive
shipments ; some few other articles of provisions are in demand.
" A brig arrived a few days since with 401 negroes, captured on
the coast of Brazils, under the Brazilian flag, by the Spanish priva-
teer Romano, belonging to this port, and sent in here fur adjudica-
tion. It is said that two hundred died the first night of her arrival
of the yellow vomit ! Gob Mows where they were buried."

Frankfort Papers, to the 17th instant, reached us this
morning. One of them states, that so far from the
Capitan Pacha having attacked Samos, the Asiatic
troops assembled at Scala Nuova, and destined for the
expedition had mutinied, and refused to join in any ex-
pedition against the islands of the Archipelago. It will
be teen that the Emperor of RUSSIA has iscued another
vexatious Ukase against the Jews. When will this
much-injured people be flee from persecution? The
following ate extracts: