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and alone. the nati:ed Temple, followed by an the ..
dinals, two by. two; the Patriarchs, ArChbishrip..
Bishops, Prelates, and Penitentiaries,-all bearing lighted
tapers, and by the Princes and persons of distincti
who were present, who kissed the Sacred Gate as
entered it. His holiness having seated himself by .
altar of the Chapel of Pierre, the Knights of St. Peter
sod BE. Paul were introduced,: whom lie charged .
guard the gates of the four Basilicas, and afterwards
permitted them to kiss his foot. The sacred ceremony
concluded with the triple benediction, which the
preme Poeta bestowed on the immense multitude
crowded that vast church.

P.% ENING STAR.

e.,ON I /ON.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1925.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 94; to * for the out Account
(February), with little doing.
FOREIGN FUNDS. .

The South American Securities, which fell yesterday afternoon,
on the report of the death of Bayless in the battle, have somewhat
recovered this morning ; but the Public de mitt as yet,entack meek
credit to the four days' battles, as stateitin the Buenos 4rm GM r lir 1
l:ertenc Prier.: New Spanish 1-4/ IS, Old Wl,' Russian Mks
Mexican sn. Colombian New 95, Austrian 961, ChSlan 991, Per
91, Greek SIII, Gas 1;1 pro. Brazilian Scilildl pve.
inane.. raze. iallei zu.simr.
Alliance Assurance • £lOO - £lO 'A 91. pre.
Do. Marine, - . 100 - 5
Anglo Mexican Mines • 100 - 10
United Mexican ditto . 40 . "10
Real del Monte ditto - 400 - 70 ....
Brazilian ditto - • 100 • S 00
Colombian ditto - 100 . S 40
Rio de la Plata ditto • 100 • 5
Chilian . - 29
Buenos Ayres - - 41

11••••
140

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

Tam, Jim. 5.-41stallicses 84 13-IS. Bask hares 1158 1-3.

MIMS OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 230 A % 230 231
S per tent. Red. 941/4 %
3 per Cent. Cons. 93h 94 437/ft
Si per Cent. 10114
31, per Cent. Red. 100% 101
4 per Cent. New eediv. 106 105%
Lqng Ann. 231.16 23—India goads 100 101
£l,OOO neg. Bills (2d.) 67 8; (1 Wid.) 67 8
Con.. tor Acct. 9414 34 tis

Dispatches were received this forenoon at the Co-
lonial Office, Downing-street, from Colonel GRANT',
dated Cape Coast Castle, the Ist of October.—
They state that the Ashantees, in their retreat towards
Coomassie, had almost devastated the country ;
n consequence of which, the Fantees had suffered se-
verely, and were obliged to call for assistance from
Cape Coast Castle.

This forenoon we received Lisbon Gazettes to the
9th inst. One of them contains a sort of reverie on the

blessings the world is to reap from the Holy Alliance
It is to " unite the diverse regions of the globe in indis-
' soluble bonds," and by its agency, mutual interest is to
bind the people of the two hemispheres in fraternallove.
We do not know whether it is a prelude to Portugal
coming to an arrangement with her late Colonies, by
which their inde, endence shall be recognized, but it
looks like it. The following are extracts :.
LISBON, JANUARY S.
The Gazette contains the following Decree •

" Considering the inconveniences that result from
allowing individuals belonging to the army to moue
substitutes to perform their military service in their
stead, without any other restriction than that the sub-
stitutes shall be persons not legally liable to be taken
as recruits, and those who•offer them being thencefor-
ward, by the very act, free and exempt ; it being also
certain that many of those who are offered are vaga-

bond) who make a fraudulent traffic in this species of
speculation, to the great loss of my Royal Exchequer
and the manifest injury of the service, and I being de-
sirous of uniting, as far as possible, equity with justice,
ordain as follows:

44 Accoraing to the regulations annexed, persons
presenting substitutes are to remain responsible for them,
in case of desertion. during the first year; and is order
to insure this responsibility they must, at thi same time
that they petition for this favour. send a bail•bond, duly
drawn up by a notary, and signed by an unexcep-
tionable person residing in the place to which the
corps belongs. No application shall be received unless
accompanied by such a bond. In case the sustitute
should desert within the ) ear, notice shall be sent to the
surety, to produce within a month, either the person
for whom be is bound, or another substitute.
In spite of the efforts of the revolutionary spirit to
endeavour to repair the defeats which it has sustained
in Europe, and especially in the Peninsula, in 11123, the
whole of 1824 has passed, without its being able to
obtain the victory : on the contrary, irs hope was to•
:ally frustrated, when the death of Louis XVIII. caused
the sceptre of France to pass into the hands of his legi-
timate successor, without the slightest disorder or alter.
ation in the policy of Europe. The happy issue of this
crisis, sufficiently proves that the people and Govern-
ments of this part of the globe have advanced, with
firm and gigantic steps, to the desired goal of general
tranquillity, which was never so solidly established as
since the world has beheld that magnificent alliance of

all thellovereigns, to govern their people conformably
to the sacred precept!, of the Gospel...an alliance truly
holy in its objects, and a bulwark which cabal, rebel-
lion, and proud ambition, will find as insuperable bar-
rier to their abominable designs.
,4 With the continuance of the vigilance and predates
Odle Cabinets, taesht by bang and coastal* expo.
Awe, the new year will augment the fruits-of peace ;
dame eaten the people a double atteehtnest. to their
Mgitimuses Gomm's' ; write the divene eesifs of