Star.
London, England, 1831-02-11 00:00:00

'IS H COMMERCE.

CATI—(92g.; £9 to XIS.
HlDES—Butts, 204 to 234; Buenos

Ayres (A.) 9d to Wed.
Corrns--Jam. middling, £2 141
to .85 Os; Dem. and Berbi:e,
ZS es to £4 2t; Moat, £3 5s
to £6 101.

Tr.a.-13ohea, Is 11d to 2. Od ;
Congo*, mid. 2s 2d to 2s 94 ;
Hymn, mid. 41 3cl to 41 6d.
Burrs's—Co:lt, £4 14s to £4l6s;

Dutch, £4 los.
Cause—Cheshire, old, £5 101 to
£3 161 • S.Glester.£2 to £4l es.
TALLowll.ussla yel. £2 Si 6d ;
White, £2 Ts 3d.

Rice—dateline 14. 04 to 191;
Bengal, 13s 61 to 17$ 6d.
Sooaa—.2Ss lid per cwt.
SNITS nu.° Pia 11.—Beef, 4s Od
to 41 61t Mutton, 4s 24 to
41 8d; Veal, 5.04 to 5s 8d;
Pork, 4s 24 to Ss Od.
MAZZ-LA NI, FEL 1 I .—Wheat,
66. to 84. ; Batley, 42s to 501;
Oats, 22s to 345. _

GILEICTTS AIMAGI, Fn. 4.
Wheat,7ls Ild • Barley. 4116 d ;
Oats, 25s Od; Beans, 39s Od.
Bonuos BlAsin, Fn. 7.—Kent.
ids, AV Is to Xl4 Os; Farina=
atl4 Os to sellt Os. _

COAL EXCHANOZ, Fss.ll.—Bea
Wan's nod, 351 6d to 36. 6d;
other sorts. 27s 6d to 54s 6d.
HAT MARXIST, FOIL
11.— Hay, £2 IS. to £4 ss.
Straw, £1 141 to £1 l2s.

(hie o'CLoce.—Therm. 42; Birom. 33. Wind
Weitber, mild.

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'['li E EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11.

•„6 The Proprietors of THZ STAR, with a view to con-
tribute their mite inaid of the various great questions now
pending, make a tender of their columns to insert Resolu-
tions of Public Meetings at HALF THEIR USUAL MODE-
RATE RATE OF CHARGE, and as THE STAR is in establish-
ed circulation throughout the United Kingdom, the advan-
tages of such reciprocal communications between public
bodies must be obvious. The copy of such resolutions may
either be sent per post, or through the Printers of local
Newspapers.—ln the Panorama, since its commencemet
on January 1, will be found the best, and often the only
account of the proceedings of such Meetings, which has
appeared in any London Paper.

By private letters received this day front Bordeaux, the
wattke preparations of the Scanish Government are posi-
tively asserted, in confirmation of what we stated from the
French papers yesterday, and in contradiction of what will
be found in our Foreign intelligence of to-day. If we be-
lieve these letters the Dutchess de Baser is to be in Madrid
in May as Regent for King HENAN' the FIFTH of France!
The letters front Ghent, and its vicinity, represent the
country in that quarter still very disturbed.

This is certainly an age when the nil adntirari of Ho- '
RACE becomes every passing day more evidently a maxim
of wisdom. Some days ago, the people of the British em-
pire were surprised—if any thing now can surprise—by read-
ing resolutions declaring the absolute necessity of immediate
Reform, moved, seconded, and unanimously passed, by that

class of the metropolitan merchants and bankers—some of
them individually the same—who were formerly distin-
guished as the d' Lives and Fortune Men" of the PITT and
Anti-Reform times. We have now to direct the attention of
out Readers to another event, equally unexpected, and squally
to be wondered at, if the age, as we have before said, has
not relinquished entirely the folly of wondering. In the
Times newspaper of yesterday, there appeared an advertise-
ment of " a numerous and respectable Meeting of the FREE
BLACK and COLOURID POPULATION of KINGSTON,
JA-
MAICA ;" which took place there, on the 22d Nov. 1830,
passing a series of resolutions in opposition' to " Gagging
Bills," " Restrictions on the Freedom of Discussion," and
"the Freedom of the Press ;"—maintaining, as a principle of
the Constitution, that" taxation and representation should be
inseparable ; and that the exaction of the former, without
admissibility to the latter, is oppressive;"—maintaining that
the grand and fundamental principle of British jurisprudence
recognizes " the people" as " the only true and legitimate
source of power ;" and that obedience cannot be constitu-
tionally exacted of those to whom representation is denied.
We refer our Readers to a copy of the entire resolutions,
which we have thought proper .to give in the first page of
this day's STA R.
It is pleasing to reflect, that but a very few years
ago, the black and coloured populations of Jamaica
dared not to have issued such resolutions ; and
we believe we may safely say, could not have understood
their civil rights so admirably, as to have composed them.
Here, then, we conceive, is a signal proof, that our Colonial

Government has improved ; and we conceive, likewise, a signal
proof that knowledge has been in the interval dissimi-
sated even in Kingston, Jamaica t We would ask by
whom ?—by the stigmatized Missionaries ; and we would
farther ask, by whose exertions have those with a black face
been emboldened thus to speak the truth to those with
white faces ? flow have they obtained this independent
feeling? By the exertions of a WlLazazonca and a
CLeassoar. We need not advise those concerned to recol-
lect, that these resoletioas may sot only be ooniidered a
proof that knowledge has 'ben obtained whore it was long