Star.
London, England, 1825-12-05 00:00:00

MI LITARY.PROMOTION3.

\VAR-OFFICE, DEC. 2, 18'25.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet James Riche. -1-4 in
Flay to' be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harvey, promoted ;
George Augustus Frederick lleatlicute, Get:t. to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Hay.
Gth Re3inient of Dragoons—Troop Serjrant-111ijor George Dicks,:a
toile Quartermaster, vice Kerr, deceased.
19th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Alexander Gordon Monthertd to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Berkeley, promoted ; Cei.r;:e
Williamson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice .Monrht.u.l.
Sith Ditto--To be Lioutenatits—Lieutenant ries F. Sm.,: ~
front the 48th Foot, vice Small, promoted ; Lieutenant .Itmilt-:i
John Pounden, from half-pay of the 4.2 d Foot, vice Smart, ap.
pointed to the 52d Foot.

26th Ditto—Lieutenunt Angus Macdonald, from half.)
92d Foot. to be Lieutenant, vice George Sinclair, who
34th Ditto—Lieutenant Hon. George Upton. from the
to be. Lieutenant, vice Charles I. Tutting, who exchanges,
ceiving the dill‘rence.
39th Ditto--Rospita.- Assistant Robert Martin Davies, -
be Assistant Surgeon.
46th Ditto—To be Lieutenants--Lieutenant George
from thenlipitpay, vice Madigan, appointed Quartermaster ;
.ign Era lugram. by purchase, vice Henry Stuart, Fremont
: o be Eosigo, by purchase—Joseph Davies, G.nt. v.ce 1u

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LONDON.

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- MONDAY, DECEMBER S. 1825.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The letter of " A Man 44 Kent," on the Corn Laws, will ap-
pear in the STAR of to-morrow.

STOCK EXCMANOR, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 841 for the Account; and soon
after were done at S4j, at which price they keep steady, but little
doing as yet.

In the Foreign Market little ii doing.

Current Prices: Old Spanish 15 t, Colombian New 6.1 i 64,
Mexican Bonds Six per Cent. 6.11 }, Greek Bonds IS 19, Gua.
tensala 12 discount.

PfIICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2161 A 217
3 ver Cent. hid. 83 82% 83141 82%
3 per Cent. Cons. Shut.
3i per Cent. Red. 9014 9014
4 per Cent. New Shut.
Ling Ann. 20 1-16 19 15-16 20 1-16
India Bonds 2 5 dis.
Ll.OOO Exel•eq. Bills 9 8 10 9 dis.
L5OO ditto 3 8 dis
Advertised 1 dis.
Vans. for Account 5414 81.1/4 I/8 1/4
TRENCH FUNDS. PAUS, DF.CI3IIIILft 3.
Five per Cents. • . 96f. 95f. 50c.
Three per Cents. • 631. 50e. G4l. 63f. 90e.
After 'Change . 641 90e.
Ilentcs de Naples . 781. 90e. .
Iteutesd'Espague,lB23 . 481 f.
FOREIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK.
A cstriy. lids S p Cr. 111 ex. Scrip.
13razilianollt;nds, 70 Neapolitan Bonds,
Do. Sctip.s pC. t 82.5, 13 dis Pertly. 13ds, 6pC. 48
Ditto Acet.l2l edit. Ditto Acct.
Minos Ayres Bonds 77 Ditto Scrip, 1825,4 p C.
Chiffon Bonds, 6 p Ct. Pot tuguese Bonds 801
GpC. Pruss. 11.14.5 p C.
Ditto Acct. 62 1)o. Bonds, 18%2,
Lo.lids 1824.631 1 4 31 Ru55.11.15,1822.:i p C.
Co. Ace 64 31 / 1 4 5i I 1 Ditto A.:tn. VO
Dankli Bond+, 1014 span. I, t.t.e. 15/ 15
Do. Marks Ditto for Acc. 151 1
Ditto Bonds. 3 p Ct. 1825,611 2 Ditto
Greek Bon& Span.s p. Ct. C. 1825,
Do.lkls, 1825.18 French Reines, 5 p C.
Ditto Acct. 5 p C. French Rentes,3p C.
bles. Bonds 5 p. Ct. 60 Exchange.
Ditto Acct. 61 Guatemala Scrip, 12 Ills.
Do. 8i15,1825, 6 p Ct.6si 16 S. 1 Ditto Acct. dis.
no Ace. 65/ 13 61 51 11 raussian Inscript. 6 p Ct.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
SHAWL • PAID.
108 35 45
100 5
100 5 7 61
50 5 21
40 20
40 10 181
100 £5 151 16
ICO 10 5 1

Al'ilo 'Mexican spm.
Chaim: and remain
Pasco Peruvian,
Potosi, La Paz, do Peruv.
United Mexican
Ditto New
British Iron Company
Mexican Company

Them is, in the whole range of political speculation,
ccarecly a single topic on which we venture with so
much reluctance as the removal of commercial restric-
thns (including, as a matter of course, the existing Corn
Loa s)—and this not from any doubt that such removal
is salutary, say,indispensably necessary to the common-
weal, and to the very existence of our Vast and increas-
ing population ; but from a sincere conviction that the
measures for thus benefiting the Empire at large cannot
be carried into effect without temporary inconvenience
to some of 'the most important interests in the State.
Those who are the immediate sufferers by any measure
of national policy, have, therefore, not only an un- j

libubted right to have their objections I eard and tp-1
predated to the full extent of their value; but their
,prejudices are even entitled to respectful attention, and
ate to be combated only by sober and conciliatory rea-
soning. If this be so with any particular branch of trade,
much more is it applicable in reference to the landed
interest of the country ;--nut merely because they, in
fact,possess the meansof carr v ingor successfullyopposing
any legislative measure, but because they are in no
slight degree the hope and stay of the Throne itself, and
the beit support of the moat valuable privileges of their
fellow-subjeets. The power which they thus possess.
however, is a sacred trust, which is held, and ought to
be exercised, for the good of the whole people, not for
the interests of a particular class, least of all for the
peculiar advantage of the Legislators themselves; and
the possibility that an unreasonable opposition to whole-
s nne regulations may subjrct them to this reproach, is,
we are well assured, the strongest argument that Can
be us ged,to induce our high miodedNobility and landed
Gentry tolisten patiently to the true merits of the question.
1 hey will remember that they have often sat in
judgment on matters of vital importance to the Colonial
and Trading Interests; the time is not far distant, wh-n
they will be called on to decide,witk equ..l
on affairs of far mote importance, affecting for a season
their own immediate concerns.

One axiom in national policy is self-ev:dent ; that
whatever is calculated for the benefit of the people at
large, must, eventually, benefit each particular portion
of them. And, most certainly, no class of the com-
munity is likely to (Prive,in the end, greater advantages
from a change in the Corn Laws than the original
children of the soil themselves—the ancient proprietors
r.•f our highly-favoured country.
All our foreign, and much of our domestic trade
was begotten and nursed by monopoly ; and every
step towards its liberation was at the expense of some
individual and temporary sacrifices. Now the landed
interest is well aware, that the prohibition of a free
trade in corn, is in principle, in spirit, and in fact, a
monopoly of a particular, and by far the most important
branch of manufacture, which gives the monopolists
of every other, a pretext for maintaining theirs. Thus
the silk weavers of Coventry, in their advertisement in
the Journals of this morning, declare that they are
unable to compete with the foregoer in our own
market, though the latter endures an assessment of SO
per cent. beyond them, because of the high prices of
the necessaries of life at home.

Tire fertile lands of England are incapable it ap•
pears, of producing food for the present extended pO.
potation, without adding to therm inferior land, which
must he tilled at s great expense. Thia land can afford
no rent, fur the returns are only equal to replace
the labour and capital expended in its cul'ivation.—
If it must pay rent, then bread must sell at a higher
price than necessary, becAuse the same labour of the
artisan would procure more corn from a foreign land.
He is compelled, therefore, to submit to privation, solely
to benefit the landholder in appearance, not in reality,
for be makes that very landholder pay him 3 higher
price for his labour than would otherwise have been

requisite.

The land owner urges the magnitu 'e of our pre-ent
scale of taxation as a bar to the posaibility of a :educ-
tion of rent. But there is no invincible necessity for
continuing the taxation so heavily on the shoul
ders of the agricultural classes. If foreign corn
were admitted freely, at a known and simple rate of
fiscal duty, the produce of the new taxation would go
far to relieve the landowner of his most onerous char-
ges. This, and the reduced ptices of other commodities,
by enabling hi m,at a much less income to support the dig-
nity of himself and his family, with far more splendour
than at present, would in reality bent fit the great bulk
of the Landed Interest. We arc aware that those who
had expended much capital on unprofitable land would
be sufferers. But we really do not know how any great
measure of national policy is ever to be carried, if the
interests of all a9d each one of the community is to he
concilia-ed. Compensation, however, may not be alto-
gether impossib'e.

The French Papers of Ft iday an Saturday, with the
Etoik of yesterday, have reache.l us, the latter by ex-
press. The E.toilc contlins the adjourned proceedings
in the Ci,ur Royale on Saturday, against the Conttitu
tionnd. M. Dl; Bane, the Advocate-General, replied to
the defence by M. Dorm, who, he said, had mistated
the facts, which rendered it necessary he should go over
them agair.. In the course of his speech, alluding to
the observation of M. Minx, that lithographic prints
of a superstitious or blasphemous nature had been sold
inFrance,thekrrousuv-G ANIMA L. stated that he ordered
them to be filed, with a view of prosecuting the authors.
M. Motu was heard in reply, and the Court was in de-
liberation when the Agate went to press.

The Etoile contradicts the report of disturbances
having broken out at P.rt-au•Prince on authority, and
states that the only circumstance of any importance re-
laterl in the last accounts from St. Domingo, is, that
the President BOYER had lost one of his sons, aged 21
years, and that he has, in consequence of his extreme
grief, quitted Port-au-Prince for a short time, to reside
in the country.

The Constitutianwel states the subscription for the
family of General Fos to amount to 209,273 francs ;
and the Lloik says, among the subscriptions, Messrs.
ROTUSCHILD gate 10,000 francs ; BASTERECHE, 3,000
francs ; Duo a, 2,000 francs; Daxtradena, 2,000 fs.
ODIZR, 2,000 francs; and Mr. BKAUMONT, a Member
of the English Parliamen., gave 2,000 francs.

The extraordinary courier charged with the ratifi-
cation of the treaty with Brazil, by the King of
PORTUGAL, passed through Bayonne on the 26th ult.
on his way to Paris, from Lisbon.

The D. gik states that the reports of the departure and
destination of the Turco-Egyptian fleet are very con-
tradictory ; and that, notwithstanding the siege, the
Gault* of Missologhi coptinoes to be published. The
Number uf the 22d of September contains a detailed
account of the terrible effect produced by the explosion
of a mine the preceding day, which blew up a Turkish
Corps and a battery of large cannon.
Some disturbances are said to have broken out among
the students of the University of Tubingen, who are
said to be part of a Society which declares infamous all
Students who do not join diem.

This forenoon we received the Austrian Observer oft
the 23d ult. It contains some intelligence from Greece,l
where a new conscription has been ordered of one man
in every hundred persons throughout the country.--1
This Paper is silent on the subject of the Turco-Egyp-1
don fleet, which an article from Vienna, the French
Papers, states had arrived off Candia. The Capitan
Pacha is said to'have employed much eloquence, and
many pressing entreaties, to induce the Egyptian Vice-
roy to come on board his ship, and to accompany him
to a certain distance; but the cautious Meriester
wisely declined this invitation. lie superintended the
enibar lotion of his troops, but would not con ent to
venture on hoard a Turkish ship, suspecting that if he
did, he might find himself compelled to make the
voyage to Constantinople against his will. We are not
surprised at the cautious conduct of the Viceroy, since,
if we mistake not, it was the same Capitan Pacha who,
a few yeats ago, was sent to demand the Viceroy's
head, which the latter declined giving him.
According to an article from Genoa. in the qloti.
dienne, COLOCOTRONI had proposed to IBRAHIM PACIIA
a plan for pacifying Greece. It was to divide that
country into four Provinces or Principalities, each of
which should have a Greek Ilospodar, nominated by
the SULTAN, to wh.ni an annual tribute should be
paid. This plan was transmitted to Constantinople by
IBRAHIM, by whom it WAS generally approved, but it'
was not expected that d;e Members of the Divan would
suffer the idea of treating with " the rebels," to be for
one moment entertained. The following extracts are
from the Austrian Observer :
VIENNA, NOVIISIIIER 22.

The Hydra Journal (The Friend ofthe Laws) has air.
peared again, after four weeks interruption (from 29,b
August to 30. h September). The Editor states the
illness of the first and second printers to be the cause of,
this suspension, but it was confidently affirmed that it
was ow;ng to causes of a very different nature.
Thetwo Numbers. that we have received are of the
SOth September and 7th October (that of the Sd of
October, No. 146, is missing). No. 145 contains an
Ordonnanee, dated Napoli, August 15, against emigra-
tion. Oaly persons abovi' GO years of age, women, and
youths under 16, are allowed to emigrate on the ap-
Fproach of danger, and then not without the permission

airt the local authorities. This Ordotinance is founded
on a law passed in Is2‘2, by which the pea sons who vio-
late it, are declare] infanir us, and lose tl.eir civil rights.
No. 14.7, of 7th October, contains the following law,
issued the 29,..1 Septeml,ei, for the i.ttroJuction of the
Contt-if tion