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London, England, 1824-04-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

ilizsßUßGli, ivg a Holiday, no Exchange noted.
Busine-ss done on London at 01, M. 36. 6.
PETEILSBURCII, APRIL V. . 0 n London, 9. ; Paris, 99.
Itirste, APRIL 19.—0 n London, 2 M. 6.19. h.
Arati.l3.—On London, 3 M. 6.43. 4.
AUSTRIAN LOAN, NlicocrATED BY MR. N. N.
ROTHSCHILD, IN LONDON.

llalf-yearly Dividend on the said Loan, falling due on Sa-
turday, the lit of May, will be paid on that and every succeeding
day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of ten and two. It is
requested that the Dividend Warrants, with a list thereof in nume-
rical order, may be left, if possible, on the t.":4tli instant, for the
purpose of being exarni;.cd.—New•court, Ist April, 1824.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 21.5-3 per ( ent. Reduced 951/1
3 per Cent. Consols 96%—:%V/2 per Cents. 102.{/4
4 per Cents. Old 1003/8-4 per Cents. New 1081/3 ii
4 ter Cents Assented 1017 d 10'21/4
Bank Long Anns. 231/s—lin:Ea Bonds 80i. 82s.
' Excl.equei (E 1,000) 50s. :513.—Scull SW. 5.15.
Consols for Acct. 961/s

This morning we receive() the Rode of Tuesday, by
Express, but it contains no news of importance, as no
paper was published on the preceding day, it contains,
though vei y briefly, an account of the proceedings in
die two Chambers oo Saturday. Tl:e Etoile contains
an article on the Spani.h Loan, and congratulates its
readers on the antelio: anon of puLlic creJit in Spain.
This is attributed to the energetic measures taken by
King FERDINA ND 10 heal Eli wound; of the revolu-
tion, and tranquilize all pal tic. The came of Spain,
taps the Editor, is the ca':se of all Europe. The ac-
counts front Vienna state, that nince de MLITLIiNICII
is to be made a Grandez of Span:.
The Emperor of AnsrniAH ill pass sonic day, at
Schoenbrunn, previous to his ticp:itture tor Bohemia,
Whither he will be accompanied by ti.e EmriaLs.„ and 4
numerous suite.

The reduction of the intei est on the futith.d debt does

Lot seem at all palatable to several membeis of the
)teach Chamber of Deputies, and it is likely to en.
counter some opposition. The hiench Paptrs of Sun-
day contain a very detaiied account of the picceedings
of the Chamber of the preceding day. The report cf
M. MASSON, on the project of law for the repayment
or conversion of the live per cent. stock, occupies the

half of their space but as it merely supports the Minis-
terial project, without proposing any change, or pto-
ducing any new reason for its adoption, it Would be
superfluous to enter into its merits or contents.—
After it ma; read, the first thing to be determined
was the time best adapted for bringing on the dis-
cussion to which it would give rise; but this ques-
tion could not be settled without affording an oc-
casion for displaying the temper of the Chamber.—
M. GIRARDIN accused the Minister of robbing the
annuitants of a child portion of their income. M. de
VILLELE replied, that the offer of 100 francs for stock
which had been bought at between 50 and 90, _could
not be called- a robbery of the stockholders. M. CAS-
SIMIR PERRIER, a Paris banker, again called fora copy
of the agreement entered into between the Minister of
Finance and the great Capitalists of Europe, to enable
the Government to execute the great operation for which
they solicited the concurrence of the Chamber. No
answer was given to this reiterated demand, which
created a considerable sensation in the Assembly. At
last the commencement of the 'discussion was fixed for
Saturday, the 2-I.li instant. The Ministerial project,
as would appear from the list of its opponents, is to be
combated by the extreme left and the extreme right.
The following Deputies have inscribed their names to
speak against it—M. de la BOURDONNAYE (leader of
the extreme right), M. de VAuBLANC (formerly Mi-
nister of the Interior), M. SANLOT BAGUENAULT
(Member for Paris), M. RICARD, Count de TIIIARD,
M. BOURDEAU, Count FERDINAND DE 41EnT11.0, Ge-
neral FOY, M. MECIIIN, M. LEVESQUE, M. CAS-
SIMIR PERRIER, M. de GIRARDIN, M. CRIGNON
D'OUZOUER, M. DUTERTRE, and M. DEVAUX. Of the
names inscribed in support of the Ministerial proposi-
tion, scarcely anything is known from the history of,
former Sessions; to repeat them, therefore, would con-
vey no information to the general reader: They are 14.
in number. M. de MARCIIANGY has again lost his
election, and been turned out of the Chamber, from his
inability to justify his qualification in the possession of
the requisite fortune.

Lisbon Papers to the nth instant reached us this
morning. They announce the arrival of the Spanish
Ambassador and his reception at the Court of Lisbon.
The recent events in Brazil evidently give uneasiness to
the House of Braganza in Europe. The following
are extracts:

LISBON, APRIL 5.
The Gazette of this date contains the new Constitu-

Lion of Brazil, to which the following observation i;
subjoined :--"" After this exposition of the principal fea-
tures of this new project of a Constitution, we will say

two words about it—that the ' °titn circumstantice' to

form it is wanting—that it is not modelled according

to the custom and manners of the nation—that it was
not granted to the people by the legitimate authority—

that it contains within itself the germ of its own de-
struction—that it is evidently an amalgam of demo-
ci acy—that it does not give the Crown a sufficient gua-
rantee in the intermediate powers to oppose the revo-

lutionary torrent which threatens it—that this woak
bears the stamp of the disorganising and oppressive fac-
tion which dictated it to the Prince Royal of the Lusi-
tanian Empire, forcing him to deviate from his more
sacred duties and to renounce his most valuable rights,
as a man and a Prince, merely to reign, and that inse •
curely and with disgrace, over a part of the Empire,
when he might one day reign over the whole.—

This Constitution, threatened at its very hi) th by the

dissent of part of the people, and by the defects which
it contains, and which presage to it the common fate
of all works executed with precipitation, a fate which
has been proved in our Continent and in Brazil itself, is
the doubly liberal work by which it is pretended to

destroy the union of the great Portuguese family : this
is the labyrinth in which a population is going to en-
tangle itself, divided as it is within itself by the jarring
elements of which it is formed. Where will the people
find the clue of Ariadne to get out of this maze ? Do
they recollect what blood, what vicissitudes the Consti-
tution, which is undergoing a continual reform, cost
England? How dearly have Spain and Portugal paid
for the effervescence which this system of innovation
introduced into those kingdoms. Have they forgotten
the (list allurements of the French revolution, in 1789,
and the horrors which succeeded ? If this took place in
a nation which had attained the highest degree of civi-
lization, what can Brazil hope, in the state of infalcy
in which it is with respect to a small part of its popula-
tion, and in the most decided state of barbarism with
respect to the African race, of which the most numerous
portion is composed ?
It is time, rather than mankind themselves, that gen-
tly orders their habits and their laws; the sudden intro-
duction of a universal reform, however good it may
' appear at first sight, never produced anything but
confusion and discontent. Experience demonstrates
this. It is not merely to pull down an ancient edifice to
' build a new one; it is to pull to pieces an edifice con-
nected with others, which must go to ruin with it, and
the ruins of which may impede the progress of the pro-
jected work. Those men who have involved themelves
in an untie:taking equally rash and hazardous, will, in
the course of times become sensible of their folly, and
the f: nit they will gather from their imprudence will
be, to find themselves, at the end, in the desperate situ-
ation which the roes describe, in the following verses:
" Audit her, numeratque dies, spitloque viarum
Netitkir vitam. Torquetur pace futura,
kec recepit sotunos et scrape cubllibus amens
Eiecutitur, pananique licit fortuidine pznz."

7.—The Most Excellent the Duke of Villa
Hermosa was admitted tu•day to au audience of his

Majesty, to present his credentials as ordimiry An.Lts-
sailor and Plenipotentiary of his Catholic Majesty.
His Excellency made on tha occasion a speech to his
Majesty, in which he stated his Master's desire to main-
tain the friendship and harmony subsisting between the
two Crowns; adding, that he would faithfully promote
his Master's intentions in this respect, and on all occa-
sions skew his own gratitude for the favour which his
Majesty had shown him so long as he had resided at

his Court.—The King replied—
" Senor Ambassador—All the most powerful reasons
of common interest, neighbourhood, and relationship,
require that my Representative at the Court of Madrid,
and the Representative of his Catholic Majesty in thi-
Court should be invested, as they have formerly been,
with the highest diplomatic character; and 1 accept the
choice which your Sovereign made of you, Senor Am-
bassador, as a demonstration of the amicable and reci-
procal sentiments which ought always to subt.i be-
tween the two Crowns."

Hamburg!' Papers to the 16th inst. reached us this
roienoon from which we make the following extracts:

BERLIN, APRIL 15.
The bulletin of the laws contains the ordonnance fur
the Provincial Assembly for the Duchy of Silesia, the
County of Glat7, and the Prussian Magistrates of Upper
Lusatia ; also that of the Provincial Assembly for the
Province of Saxony, both dated' March 27.