Star.
London, England, 1825-12-08 00:00:00

TI I E EVENING STAR.

LONndN.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1825. ' •

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 831 for the Account ; but soon
sifter it was known that an Expresl had arrived from Paris, and
they were done at 841, owing to the French Rentes coming
higher, but still the Market is in a feverish gate. Consols have
been clone at 11:4, but rose spin to 8311.

Current Prices: Old Spanish 154, Russian 294, Colombian
New 621, Brazilian Scrip 14 13 din. Mexican Bonds Siz per
Cent. 614, Greek Bends 17 IL
PRICK 101? STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Rank Stock 2131%
3 ler Cent. teit. 83 821% %
S ter Cent %Conc. Shut.
41 te• Cert. 1 0 3/11 8 9 3/$ Vs lA
per Cent. Red. 89% 891%
4 per Cent. New Shut.
Long Ann. 20 10%
India Bonds 8 10 dis.
£l,OOO Errivq. Bilk 11 17 14 dii.
£5OO ditto 11 17 13 dis.
4111 and Lot) tint° 9 15 10 dis.
Advertised 2 dis.
Cllll%. tor Account 83% 841/8 831,4 84 BS7
EXCHANGFS.
lisztasitinn, Doc 2.—On London, 35. 84. 2 Us. 35. Si.
Sr. Prmasauson, Nov. 111.—On London, 10. 15-32.
VsemsA, Nov. 23.-0 o London. 3 61.9. 45.
Tannic, Nov. !..41.—0n London, 3 M. 6. 14j.
Brows, Nov. 29.-06 London, 3 111. 6.244.
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, Drammen 6.
Five per Cents. • • . 116 f. 95e.
Three per Cents. • . 651. 75c.
Renter de Naples . 781. 7.5 c.
Reacts d'Espagne,lB23 . 501.
FOREIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK.

Austrian lids S p Ct
Brazilian Bonds.

lies. Script
Neapolitan Bonds,

Do. Scrip, 5 p C. 11125, Perris. Rds, 6 p C
Ditto Acet.l3l dis Ditto Acet.
Vernon Ayres• Bonds Ditto Scrip, 1825,6 p C.
Chlibn riontise6 p Ct. 57 Portuguese Bonds
Colonihirn lido, 6 p C. Pruss. Bds. 5p C.
Ditto Acct. Do. Bowls, 1824,
Do. Iltlit 1624,81; 2% 11 2 Russ. MN, 1322, S p Ct. 89
Po. Ace. 61/ 2/ 4 stk % 2 Ditto Acct.
Danish flntuit. Span. 5 p Ct. C. 15%
Po. Marks Ditto for Ace. 15
DittoDontia.3 p Ct. 1825, 601 Ditto SIO,
Greek Bonds Spatr.S p. et. C. 1823,
Do. Ms, 1845,171 French Rentes, 5p C. 971
Ditto Aect. 18 Exchange, 251 10e
Ditto' Acct.* 5p C. French Rentes, 3p C. 671 .
Meslnorlis 5 p. Ct, 57/ 8 ifachange, 251 10c
Do. 8415,1825, 6 p Ct. 64 31 4a Guatemala Scrip, dis.
Dt. Acct. 64 3% 41 31 431 4% Ditto Acct. dis.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.

!MARL Lain.
100 SS 40 44
SO 5 18
100 5 6
100 5 2*
100 5 6*
400 400 4507
40 20 Si
40 10 15* 16
SO 13 7.

Angle Meglean 6pm.
Bilivar
Chilian
Paid Pcryvlan
Beal del' Monte
United Mexican
MIAs that
British Gas

We are, from a sense of duty to the public, frequeqtly
under the necessity of interposing in the discussions of
two of our rival cotemporaries, with a view to hold the
scales of•justice fairly between them.
Yesterday, the Times contained an article on the dis.
tresses of some eminent Banking-house in the City, the
naiM of-which no one knows ; and it proceeded to
assert, that the Bank Directors (so urgent was the claim
of the, house in ,question :for, relief) met even on the
Sunday, and teseked• to advance liberally the sum
necessary to wand• off the tuinwith which the firm was
threatened. The'ThOts' applauds this as an act of hat-
oralily (a quality; by the way, which seldom influences
commercial transact ons), declares that the securities (st

the house were over abundant, *sough not immediately
convertible into money, being, we presume, in the
nature mortgages; and then it proceeds to express
some alarm at the practice Lady adopted by the Bank
first, and more largely by town and country bankers
afterwards, of advancing so very extensively on mort-
gage, to the manifest increase and probable depreciation
of the circulating medium, as far as that consists in piper.
The New 1 imes comments on this intelligence in its

usual stain ; and- here, fn listine, we feel it necessary to
r rnonstt itte 'with bur respectable and' enlightened co.
temprirary ori'ihe practice of calling names, to which
the writers in his columns are lately so much addicted.
4. Drivercur " Blockhead," and many other such
terms of vituperation, are, after all, but so many
epithets, which savour strongly of Billingsgate.—
There is neither genius nor talent required for this style
of composition I. and besides degrading our common

craft of Journalist into a vulgar and ungentlemanlike
vocation.; wethisyk ctrarse and abusive language an in-'
fallibteiymiiitl4, of weak reasoning. But to the matter:
The 4iriter iirt A(ess ,i iliFei con. aids triumphantly,
that .ihe Beolc, in; supplying, by the issue of their own
votes,' iht demands. of private Bankers to May extent,
especially when those demands originated from a scar-
city of mo'ner created by the previous advances of those
Bankeikein mortgage, is in reality, benefiting the coun-
try. 44.1 n an these transactions the public good requires
or ly that there should be an ultimate solid security." He
calls those who assert the contrary, drivellers and block-
heads: This reminds us of the concluding sentence of
one of tiles Chapters in the reveries of Marshal SAXE :
" Ain't is, pew ; it Old, tui prase autrunent, n'tst gut
w.nr bat "

But does not the *titer perceive that this reasoning
1,1 mild justify thi '4l/4‘l atrßatik *notei;.uot to the
vilue of every
.4,4114, but to the amount
of every 1 1e , of,
,g(iotia, iu , tlr. country? Every
cask. of...ted,;herringn. Thamenstrvete and every
load' of tabbageti ie .Covilf‘t Gatden, rmisht (hale their'
floating representat9res 'batik aisles; Iu ther,e'
is a".*Otti ,4;ti
sonoifs the ears of the ,Dank— .1- •
. , 4 ;wogs° loud and.dreads . km's.)
Wfflre4peer pophetic sounds..op halal 'kw r ? vit .‘; •
&at. we may be well enured the Directori of that Etta.