Star.
London, England, 1822-03-20 00:00:00

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

At the first opening of thensarket this niorni. g, consols were
done at 84i, and much business was doing; since which the mar-
ket has Doc been so brisk; and up to this hour Consols are 801

to for the Account, and for Money 80111. The general opinion

a ill prevails that there will be a further rise in the Consob.—
Navy 5 per Cents. are 1041 i—have been done as high as 104 i.

FOREIGN FUNDS.

A great bustle still prevails on 'Change in the foreign market,

particularly In the Spanish Stocks, which were done yesterday as
high as 671 to 68 ; but this morning only 67 to i can be obtained,
owing to the New Columbian Loan at Paris of 6 per Cent. the
price of which on 'Change to-day is 81 to 85.
Prices—Prussian Bonds 91 (buyers); Danish 86 (buyers);
Neapolitan 71 to }—New Spanish 67i.

PRIASTAN LOAN or £5,000,000, CONTRACTED RY MR. N. M.
Rontscnum tx LoNnoN.—The Ilalf-yearly Dividend of this Loan

falling due on Monday, the Ist of April next, will be paid as
equal on that and every succeeding day, between the hours of
Ten and Two, at the Counting-house of the aforesaid, in New-
court, St. SwithL.'s-lane.

The business doing this morning is immense. Consols have
been on a gradual rise during the morning, and the purchases
have been most extensive. Consuls for the Account are now at
81. Wagers are very numerous that Consols are done at SS
before the Account day; and an expectation is general that the
Bank will discount at four per cent. the which will be taken
Into consideration at the Meeting of Directors to-morrow. This
is oze cause for the rapid rise in the Funds.

CURRENT PRICES:

ONE O'CLOCK.

3 per Cent. Consols 80V, % 3/8 3/1
5 per Cent. 104.1/2 Vs 3/8 1,4
Imperial 3 per Cents. 801/2
'lndia Bonds 555. 525. 545. pre.
Ei:chequer Bills of £l,OOO, 3s. ss. 2s. pre.
Ditto 12500, 2s. 4s. pre.
Ditto small ss. is. pre.
Comolsibr Acct. 80 5/ 811/8 Rl.

A great deal of business hal been clone within these two days
iza Columbian Bonds (the dividends on which Are payable on Fri-
day next) ; they now obtain 114. The particulars of the New
Columbian Loan are as follows:

A Loan of two millions sterling has been contracted, for the
service of the Republic of Columbia, with Mr. ZEA, late Vice-
President and now Minister Pleuipoteniary of the Republic at
Paris, who has been invested with special powers by his Govern-
ment for that purpose. The rate of interest is six per cent. per
annum, payable the Ist May and the Ist November, yearly, in
London, at the Banking-house of Messrs. Ilasctsv, Tairroti,
EVIAN, and Co. free of all expense. The first payment to be
nude the lit of November next. The payments to the Loan to
be made as follows, viz-12 per cent. on the 23d March, 30 per
cent. on the 13th June, and 40 per cent. on the I.3tb September.
On completing the last payment, Bonds will be delivered to the
holders of the receipts, with h.df-yearly dividead warrants
attached thereto.

Parties desiring to make prompt payment will be allowed a
discount of I per Cent. per Annum, and may in that case receive
the Bonds as soon as they are ready,which will be about the Ist
]day next. The existing Debentures of the Republic are received
In payment of the Loan, with the accruing interest and discount
'Rowed thereon, at the rate of interest which they bear. The
securities edged are the following revenues of the Republic,vis.
The Duties of Customs, as recently established by the Congreu ;
the Duty on all Tobacco produced ; and the revenues from the
Mines of Metal and of Salt. The Bonds are to be paid off at
par, in equal proportions, in twenty years, commencing in 1850
and ending in 1849, reserving to the Government the liberty of
paling them off earlier at par.

The French Papers of Sunday last have been re-
ceived. The following are the only articles of interest
they contain :

PARIS MARCH 17.

The A,ni dt la Refigim states that the Scotch Clergy have just
pert to France one of their Bishops, to claim from the Govern-
anent the property they formerly possessed in the kingdom, and
imtorg the rest the Colleges in which the Missionaries are edu-
cated to preach the faith in Scotland.
The Royal Court of Bourdeaux has just made a decision,which
will give rise to an interpretation of the law (a very rare case)
according to the rules prescribed by the law of 16th September,
1807. One Maiiks, accused of attempting to commit a robbery
by night In a Church, was sent before the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police, by the Royal Court of Pan, on the 23d July, 1821.
This decision was founded on the circumstance that, in the pre-
sent due of our legislation, edifices consecrated to the perform..
in" of Divine Worship, cannot be assimilated to buildings ham-
bite'. or serving for habitations.
This decision was annulled 23d August, 1821, by the Court of
Cassano°, and the affair sent before the Royal Court of Toulouse,
widek, on the 15th October, 1821, came to a decision conform-
able to that of the Royal Court of Pau.
On a second appeal of the Public Oilicer,fthe Court of Cum-
, in a meeting of all the Sections, at which the Keeper of the
Presided, annulled likewise, en the 29th December, 1824
deFideu of the Royal Court of Toulouse, sad refel:v4lU

.

affair to the Royal OMR ad Daurdinuz, ee be &died Aar the
third dem
This inter Conn, stirwithanning dte. two decisions of the
Conn of Caseation de the same lade, ism sad persisted In the
Osten adopted b the Courts of Pau testy Toraiwase.
Thasabis alldr has thew rise to the esteem* we ease pro-
vided biy' the fine Ardele olds, Law of September 16, 907,which
mans, " That there is min for the interpretadon of the Law,
if the Court of Cessation annuls decisions or sentences in the
last instant 6, given in the same affair between the same parties,
and ethic's have been contested on the same grounds."
The Annuli Tookrate minions a slight disturbance among'
pan of thi!popils of the Royal College at Toulouse,
.in conse-
quence of their having bean deprived of their usual promenade
on Sunday, the 3d, for sonn fault. The net time they walked
oat, those wilts had been thus punished escaped from those who
attended theth,, noised the river, and did not return tU eight in
the evening, when the porter reused to let them in, because be
' perceived that many of them were provided with stones ; on
which they prodeeded to the front of the apartments of the Di-
rector, aid bioke his widows. The Police, howeier, which
had been haormed, soot made them come in, 4aving Ant taken
care to be saddled that they had nottingthat could endanger the
public tnn4itillity. The Alec-toe, who was in the College, read
them a severe lecture, and order was restored. Measures have
been taken to discover the most guilty, and several of them have
been sent back to their parents.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES...*

In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Pttwat* brought up the
Report of tie Committee of the Budget on the Petitions which
bad been referred to ft.

One of these Petitions, from the Proprietors of certain Salt-
works, asks a bounty of 10 francs per 100 kilogrammes, for the
salt manufactured by them, as had been promised. The Com-
mittee are of opinion that this Petition must be refused, mother
proprietors of sali-works would make the.sarne demand, which'
could not be satisfied ; the Salt Tax produces fifty millions to
the Revenue, which could not be made good. •
After some debate, the Order of the Day was put and carried ;
but the Report was ordered to be printed, and it seemed to be
understood that the subject should be discussed at a future time.
Petitions from a great malty land owners and cultivators in
the department of the Var, and others, asked for an indemnity,
or a relief from taxes, on account of the loss of their olive trees
by the frost. The Committee found that 50,000 olive trees have
perished, and with them a revenue, the tax upon which was
half a million of francs. Considering the distress to which no.
merous small cultivators were reduced, the Committee thought
it necessary to relieve them, not by excusing them from the
razes, which would confuse the whole system, but out of the
funds which are at the disposal of the Minister, and proposed
Ito refer the Petition to the Minister of rinance.
A Petition from the Knights of Malta, asking an increase of
their pensions, was referred to the Minister of the' Interior„
These Knights are only 86 in number, and most of them are at
lout 60 years of age. After hearing the Report on some of the
Petitions, the Chamber resumed the debate on the Project of
Law on the Finances.

The Court of Assize were on rriday occupied with the trial
of MM. de Beranger and Baudouin. for the publication of a pam.
phlet, entitled " Trial in the Case of Me Songs if J. 1: de Beranger;•
in which were inserted the songs for which sentence had been
passed on M. de &ranger, in the month of December last, and
which the Court had ordered to be suppressed. Atte; delibe.
rating for an hour and a half, the Jury returned a v:rdict of ac-
quirtal.—French live per Cent. March 16-89 f. 15c. S9f. .10c.
close, 89f. 25c.

Madrid Pipers of the 3th, 6th, and 7th of the pre-
sent month, have been received. The*rroceedings in
the Cortes are highly interesting:
In the Sitting of the 4th of March, Senor Secretary
I'HAT stated, that the Cortes had, in the Secret Sit-
ting of yesterday, ordered that the following Resolu-
tion should be publicly read, namely,

" The Deputies of the present Cortes, desiring to contribute
to the alleviation of the public wants, unanimously concede, in
fovour of the Nation, one.fourth part of the allowances allotted
to them by the former Legislature."
Senor CANGA observed, that this Resolution would
manifest to the IsiAtion the spirit of economy which
animated the Cortes, as they began with reforms
which affected themselves. Ile then moved another
Resolution, having for its object the execution of the
.former. This motion was ordered to be taken into
consideration and approved.

►Senor SARAVIA said—" Convinced of the state of
the nati.)n, and the impossibility of its discharging its
obligations, from the want of means, I take the liberty
of giving up, for the public benefit, 2620 seals velon,
due to me in consequence of the settlement of ac-
counts ordered in the preceding year." lie concluded
by handing to one of the Secretaries the document
which certified this debt against the State.

The Pnasinssr said, that the Cortes had heard
with pleasure the generous sentiments expressed by
Senor Saravia, and appreciated the donation he had
made to the nation.

On the same day his MAJEsrY received a Deputa-
tion of the Cortes, with their reply to the King's
opening speech. The reply commences with declar-
ing the wish of the Cortes to second the efforts of the
King in consolidating the liberty and happiness of
the Spanish people. 'They lament the dissentions that
have occurred in the country, and declare that they
will study to remove the multiplied and powerful
obstacles which have hitherto withheld from the na-
tion the enjoyment of the advantages which the Con-
stitution ought to afford, and will endeavour to suc-
ceed by acting in accordance with the public opinion,
without which there can be neither confidence, nor
security, nor power.
In the ordinary sitting of March sth, after some
preliminary business, the President announced that
the Secretary of the Treasury was prepared to read
the accounts of his Ministry.
The SUMMARY of the TRIASURY said, that the
shortness of the time during which he had enjoyed
office, did not permit him to enter particularly into
the contents of the statement ; and, as men were not
obliged to think all in the same way, he represented
that he was not answerable for the opinions contained
in the said statement.

Some remarks hair% been made by Senors Gal-
;.


km% Calderon, Ca Sam, as to the responsibility of
*. Secretary for the accounts be presented,
use SmarrAar of the TadasuaT
the statement was drawn by different Ste Mafia 1010
bad preceded hinsi and
_consequently Was conibms-
able to *their ideas and opinions. Ile added, that ob-
servations were made on various points, and that
some restrictions were proposed, for the whole of
which he was not responsible, and could not be re-
seonsible; but so far as the facts were at issue, be
believed them to be correct, and that in the office of
the Treasury there existed the documents to which
they referred.
After some discussion, it was put to the vote, ,
ther the paper should be read or not? which was car.
tied in the affirmative.
The Ssc MITA ay Of the TREA WRY therefore mounted
the tribune, and read the said memorial. It appeared
from it, that the estimate of State expenses for the
ensuing year amounted to 861,591,61.5 teals. To
cover the charge, the Ways and Means are:

Land Tax - - -
Tax on the Clergy - -

Deduction front Tithes -

Duty on Rouses -

Patents -

Duties on Consumption (of Excise) -
.......--- Tobacco - - - -
....—,—.— Sak
-s--- Customs - - - -
s.-- Registration - .. -

Reale.
- 150,000,000
. 20,000,000

10,000,000

10,000,000

Writing Paper -
Ba - -
lottery -

12,000,000

- 100,000,000
- 85,000,000
- 29.000,000
- 60,000,000
- 30,000,000

- - 10,000,000
- . 111,000A00
• . 10,000,000

Post Moe - - - . 10,000,000
Whit various other items, which make up the sum of 664,162,913
This being deducted from the expenditure of . 861,591,645
Leaves a deficit of - - - • - 197,828,732

Notwithstanding the apparent magnitude of this
sum, it wis stated in the Memorial, that perhaps the
Revenue would be sufficient to cover all the charges
after the retrenchments that might be made, and
which the Government would propose to the Cortes.
A discus ion ensued, in which several Members
participated ; the general feeling was that the state of
the finances was the first subject to which they ought
to turn their attention, and that they ought to devote
themselves with all their zeal to rescue the nation
from the debt in which it was involved.

This forenoon we received Ifamburgh Papers to the
13th inst. The Emperor of Russht has issued an
Ukase for the better government of Siberia. The fol.
lowing are extracts from these Papers :

tioat in a a
Seslt Preall
fee deFistos