Star.
London, England, 1830-12-23 00:00:00

PRICI OR BTOcKS
)1o& Stock, 196 be
3 pee Coat. Red. 611
3 per CI. Cons. Ant
31 pt Ct. 1619. 891
per Ct. Red. 1191 901 90
:le per Cent; New. shin
rrt et. 1826, 981 4
ne Ann. 17 1.16 17
. Ann. 30:Yra,April Oet. 16 15-161
Da. 30 Yrs, do. July & Jan. 17

T FOUR O'CLOCK.
India Stock,
India Rand• 8 9
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities 81 801
.11000 Rich. Btu. 18 18
.8500 Ditto
.8100 and #9OO Do.
Ativerciaed
Rank for Acct. 1881
(74.1,.. Inc Ace. 82

YAM
20
15

BRITISH A Dl. • I 1.16 N sit I RS, lA% o (*LOCK.
ma MAR!
36
25
20
100

BrasiNasimp. (i 0.4 .t 6 pm.)

Ditto National
Cents
Swath

44

FOR N N
!train Mk A p►
Aeet. 66
Colons. Ma. 6 per Ct.
Do. Mts. 1824, 171
. t. 3 er t. 661

TWO O'CLOCK.
De. Acer. 581
nue,. mi.. ISM, 5 per rt. 881
Ditto Aect.
Fr. Itts, 6 p Ct. 89f.
Rzehange.2U. :We.

NPWGATP. AND LEADENHALL RT3, Dee. :13.
This being the wholesale market-day previous to Christnout, there
was a full supply of meat at market. which was in good demand. Some
line Beef fetched 4s per atone; there wits al.o an abundant supply of
l'arkiee, which were selling from 69 6d to 2fis each, and tiee,e from ns
w 12a each.

By the Carease.—Per stone of efts.
Beef, !slid to 4s. Od. Mutton, its 10(1 to Ss Stl. Veal, 54 4d to 40
Sd. Pork Ss 24 to 4. 4d.

11! I 14,17 EN 1 Nfii STA IL

lON I)ON.

THURSDAY. DECEMBER 23.

There is a rumour of a telegraphic despatch having
been received at half-past two o'clock this day, announcing
that the verdict of the House of Peers in Paris had been
passed at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening ; and that POLION AC
and PEI, RON If ET are to be imprisoned for life.

This day despatches were receircti at the Foreign Office,
from his Excellency Lord STUART DU ROTIISA T. our Am-
bassador at Paris; and from Sir CH•RLES BAGOT, OUT
Ambassador at the Hague.

This day also despatches were received at the Colonial
Office, from General Lord AYLMER, the Governor of Lower
Canada.

W. have just received the Constitutionnel and Le Temps
of Tuesday, from which we glean the following facts. The
Warsaw papers of the 10th Dec. state that Gen. RODOCK,
Commander of the sth corps of the Prussian army, issued at
Posen, on the 4th of December, a proclamation, ordering all
the taverns and coffee-houses in that place to dose at nine
o'clock at night. The same paper states the number of the
patriot Polish forces ender arms to be 286,000 men—and a
reserve of 46,000 men, making together an effective army,
if all called out, of 332,000 men.

The Constitutionnel quotes a letter from Madrid, which
says that the Spanish Government are about to raise a forced
loan of forty-six millions of reels, which loan is to be ne-
gotiated in England, or Russia, at 6 per cent.
Demerara Papers Papers to the bth November have been received
this day. Their contents are not of much public interest.

We regret to state that the letters from Manchester this
morning, of Tuesday night's date, mention that great alarm
prevailed there, at the state of the neighbourhood. It was
expected that the spinners who had turned out at Ashton
would have visited Manchester ; but np to the above date
they had not done so. A general belief was current, how-
ever, that there would, on the 27th, be a general turn-out
of the trades throughout the kingdom ; and this has caused
great anxiety at Manchester, very serious consequences
being anticipated.

We have frequently given it as our opinion, that however
necessary a diminution of the national extravagancies, and a
reduction of taxation may be, to remove the predominating
want of confidence in Government, that the mere accom-
plishment of those objects would not remedy the distress of
the labouring classes in this kingdom. We believe that all state-
physicians who attribute the present evils to any owe cause,
or imagine that they can be cured by any owe grand specific,
are erroneous in their views. The causes have been mani-

fold ; and manifold must be the means of remedy adopted.
We afforded our Readers a sketch of Mr.W. Hoavow's
first lecture, before the Mechanics' Institute ; and we
had the pleasure of hearing a second lecture, to a larger
tad more distinguished audience, yesterday evening,
an account of which we shall endeavour to insert to-
morrow. His arguments on both evenings were cogent and
decided against the opinion,that any practicable reduction of
expenditure or taxation, would afford relief to the labouring
classes. He maintains this to be a point logically demonstrable.
There are, however, not wanting writers of intelligence, who
maintain that taxation is the principal cause of the existing
distress, among the lower orders; and that adequate reduc-
tion in taxation would go far to prove a remedy.
We have just perused a pamphlet, entitled " Thoughts on
the Caulk!. and Cure of the present Distress, with a Plan
of Parliamentary Reform," by Mr. BARIUM BISAITAIONT,
which, we think, places in a very perspicuous light, the in-
!tme which taxation may have, in producing the existing
distress. We are anxious to place before our Readers all sides
of a question, and shall attempt an analysis of what appears to
be the mobt interesting part of his statements and reasoning,
in the STA a of to-morrow. We had intended to have done
so this day, but the late arrival of the French Estafette, has
rendered it impossible.

There was no meeting of the House of Commons lut
night; but in the House of Lords—short although the
sitting was-- two subjects of interest were mooted ; first, a
refutation of unfounded calumnies cut upon the Lord CH Aw-
caLLoa , with respect to his Lordship's decisions on Scottish
and Irish appeals ; and second, the consideration of the state
of the country, by Lord Fs *moss', and the reply of Lord
Clad. Lord FAIL*aAY regretted, that the Noble Earl at
the head of his MAJISTeII Ciorensment, should have CM-
seated to an adjournment for so many weeks ; and ho hoped
sincerely that the interval would be taken advantage of, by
She various meatitont of Administration, to ponder over,
sod to mature such pleas as the eseetry required for its