Star.
London, England, 1824-04-27 00:00:00

FORF.IGN FUNDS.

Little or no business doing In the Market this morning. In
'Me:lean Scrip the most has been done, but in all other Foreign
Securities, scarcely anything.
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Current Prices:—New Spanish 16, Old 17} to 4, Russian 97%
to Austrian Scrip 171, Ctillian 9.5% to Colombian 94 to %,
Colombian Scrip 4% to j, Mexican Scrip 1O to 11, Alliance Shares
16% to 17, Greek 2% to dis. Old Prussian 98% to Irish Shares
2% premium.
I ';: I EOF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 2441/4 %
S per Cent. lieouced 953/3
• per-Cent. Consols 96Y4 1/3 3/8
31/4 per Cents. 1021/4 102-4 per Cents. Old 1003/s
4 per Cents. New 108% 109
4 per Cents. Assented 102 10178
Bank Long Anns. 23 1-16 23
India Stock 29914—India Bonds 82s.
Old Annuities 951/4
Bill, (421,000) 535. 525. 555. 51s.
Small 555. 535. 52i.—Bank for Acct. 245
Consols for Acct. 96% IA•

POSTPONEMENT OF TILE DRAWING-ROOM.

We have authority to state, that the Drawing-Room
is postponed till the 13th of next month, in conse-
quence of a slight return of the gout, which would
disalale his MAJESTY at present from going through
the fatigue of numerous Presentations.

Frankfort Papers to the 20th inst. reached us this
morning. The only political article of interest they
contain, is an account of some disturbances which have
taken place in the Canton of Appenzell, called the
Rhodes Intetior, in Switzerland, on accc•,n;t of some in-
novations which the inhabitants concei% _c, have been
made on their liberties. It appears that on the Ist of
this month, while the Great Council was assembled at
Appenzell, a pretty considerable :.:tuber of country-
people proceeded to the town, with a Petition, demand.
ing admittance. They were received to the number of
41, and their Petition read. It - --jutted, in the name
of the people, that the two conve.iis should care'ully
examine the new decrees issued by the Government, the
rights of the people, the rights of the Nlagittrates, and
in short, whatever might seem advantageous to tl;e ge-
neral prosperity, and that the result cf their labour
should be laid before the sovereign people.
The Petitioners added, that if contrary to all expec-
tation this desire was refused, the Landegemeind (or
General Assembly of the People) should be immediately
convoked. The Council, after a long debate, required
that all the Articles which the Petitioners had in view
should be distinctly specified; but the latter, refer-
ring to their application, confined themselves to com-
plaining in general of the innovations which had taken
place in the administration, desiring that the various
ordonnances relative to them should be extracted from
the protocol.
The Council then appointed the sth of April for the
complainants to appear before a Special Committee and
declare their grievances: This Committee was to con-
sist of impartial men, chosen from each district of the
Canton. On the sth instant the complainants appeared,
and painted out verbally the innovations that had began

to be introduced in 1811.. The Committee adjontning
its decision, ordered, at the same time, that the new in-
stitutions should be printed, and distributed among the
peoples So stands the affair at present.
The French Papers of Sunday have reached us. The
Journal des Debt* alludes to the rumoured meeting
of the Russian EMPEROR and FREDERICKAVILLIA M of
Prussia, at Prague, on the subject of the situation of the
East of Europe. It does not deny that such an inter-
view is arranged, though it seeks to throw doubts upon
it, and says, that far from being divided, the Powers of
the Continent are at this moment in perfect accord, and
in a spirit of peace and conciliation respecting the
affairs of the East,
The Chamber of Deputies met on Saturday, and their
proceedings derive whatever interest belongs to them
from the new project for reducing the five per cents. which
then came under discussion. M. LABOURDONNAYE made
a speech of same length in condemnation of the measure.
He began by objecting that the new plan would create
so much more capital, and would so sensibly retard
and embarrass the operations of the sinking fund,
He then alleged that the law would be injurious to the
agricultural interest: the fundholders, having suffered so
much from the diminution of their incomes, would' fear
to reduce them further by investments at a higher rate
of purchase in land. He finally quoted the words.of M.
CORVETTO in 1817, who, in presenting the plan rat
Loan, declared the Government to pledge itself to the
payment of a perpetual annuity to the fundholders.—
" The capital," said he, " will never be redeemed." After
some intermediate speakers, the Minister of Finance rose
to explain the motives and probable consequences of the
project. From the great rise of the funds, they had got
into the hands of speculators, and became exposed to ha-
zardous fluctuations. The Government, for the sake of
the fundholdcrs themselves, proposed a plan embracing a
twofold object, Ist, to reduce the public debt ; and 2d, to
substitute for a stock which could rise no higher, one sus-
-eptible of a considerable rise, and not liable to the risk of
any redemption but that to be effected by the Sinking
Fund. A four per cent. stock would not yield such advan-
tages ; no one could in that case have beets found to
engage for the redemption of the existing fives. ASi
per cent..scheme had been equally unsuccessful. To
effect any bargain, it was necessary to have the power
of redeeming ; to be able to redeem, it was necessary
to issue at once a stock which it would be possible to
s•gotiate at such a price as would produce the means
of redemption. The Treasury has the means of ac-
complishing the conversion of the fives into threes at
75, for such fundholders as may prefer that change to
the repayment; and threes have been selected by Go-
vernment, in order that they may not get into the
hands of the great monied companies until after the
fundholders have refused them. As a concession to the
companies thus restricted, and to provide sufficient
means for the redemption of the fives, the Government
has postponed, to the Ist of January, 1826, the actual
relief to arise from a reduction of the interest. The
Minister then proceeded to combat the objections urged
against the project; and after a speech which lasted an
hour, the discussion was adjourned.
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Last night Mr. and grs. Luau NGTOti returned to town
front Lord HADRIeS seat in Kent. Mr. LUSIIINCTON. S health is
greatly improved by his country excursion.
ST. JAMEs'S LACE.--The repairs of this Palace are
complete, and yesterday the painters gave the finishing coat to the
exterior gates ; so that everything wilt be in the most perfect state
of splendour and convenience for his MAJESTY'S Drawing Room on
Thursday, the 13th of May next. The additional staircases and
entrances are of the most tasteful and useful description ; and the
decorations of the rooms are dazzlingly splendid. 'There is an im-
mense quantity of burnished gold, and the pannels are covered with
crimson silk ; the chandeliers are of immense size and richi,esc, and
the general effect is, perhaps, unprecedentedly grand and iropuoing.
Various rumours are afloat as to the person likely to
be elevated to the Bench in consequence of the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Dr. BEADON. It being what is generally called
the " Oxford turn," Dr. LLOYD, Regius Professor of Divinity in
that University, is generally calculated on for the new Bishop.—
Dr. LAW, Bishop of Chester, and brother to the late Lord Er,-
LINIOROUGH, will, it is confidently stated, be translated to the va-
luable see of Bath and Wells.
The I toile remarks, that there is not at present a sin-
gle Ecclesiastic in the French Chamber of Deputies.—
They are not excluded by law ; but the fact is that the
Revenues of the Church do not give them influence
enough to secure a single seat.
Letters received from the Island of Santa Maura state
that on the 21st of February a violent shock of an earth-
quake was felt there about eight o'clock in the evening.
It produced the greatest consternation in the minds of
the people. Several buildings were much injured, and
the bridge which joins Fort Alexander to the City was
broken down. No lives are said to have been lost, but
two females were severely wounded.
Letters have been received from Gibraltar, dated the
sth instant. No intelligence had been received from
Algiers. The British men of war continued to convoy
merchantmen bound up the Mediterranean. The Bran-
ston, of London, has arrived at Gibraltar, from Trini-
dad; she had been plundered, off Porto Rico, by an
Independent privateer.
Letters from Hayti mention that a person had been
tei,t from thence in February, to treat with France for
the independence of that country. A Committee had
been instituted, with M. LARNE at their head, to regu-
late the amount of Indemnity, and the Treaty of Com-
merce, which France may propose to Hayti, previously
to the recognition of the independence of the Island.
A letter from Vienna, of the Bth of April, says,—
" We hear that a very active correspondence is carrying
on between Lord STRANOFORD and Sir HENRY WEL•
LESLEY, the English Ambassador at our Court, and that
the latter has received instructions to arrange with
Prince METTERNICH the diplomatic measures to be
taken unanimously for the purpose of putting a speedy
end to the negotiations carrying on with the Porte.
A letter from Penzance, dated April 21, says—" The
Nimble cutter, Lieut. GOLDSMITH, has arrived, for
Castle Trereen, St. Levan, with the apparatus, and an
addition to the crew, to endeavour to replace the Logging
Rock—Ewhich we lately mentioned to have been wan-
tonly thrown down)—an undertaking in which, it is
expected, they are unfortunately not likely to succeed,
although they have the most sincere wishes of all the
ucighboui ing villagers, and, in fact, all the country
round, for their success."

THE ARMY.
The 97th Regiment of soot is ordered to Quebec; to relieve the
76th, ordered to Ireland.
Friday, two companies of the 94th Regiment marched from
Edinburgh for Greenock to embark for Gibraltar. The men have
not yet received their full clothing and accoutrements, but the drills
have been very strict, which hare greatly improved their appear-
ance. They were accompanied a short way by Sir THOS. BRADFORD,
Lord It. KZRR, and several other Military Officers of distinction.
The Ist Battalion of the Ist Royals, commanded by Colonel
lirLaou, havearrived from Clonmel in Limerick, to do duty. The
Garrison is to be composed of the Head-quarters of the Ist Royals,
Colonel :111Leon; 39th, Colonel &roar ; and 2d Rifle Brigade,
Lieutenant-Colonel BROWNS; a Squadron of the 12th Lancers, Ma-
jor BAR7ON, and a Brigade of Horse Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel
THORNHILL. The Royals are to be replaced at Cionmel by the 58th
Regiment, from Ferenoy. The Ist Royals are faced with blue, and
gold lace : they bear on their colours and appointments, as emblems
of their exploits, the words " Egmont-op-Zee, St. Lucie, Egypt,
Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nive, Niagara, Water-
loo, Nagpore, and Maheidpoor.
Saturday the Bth Anniversary Dinner of the Yeomanry of the
United Kingdom took place at Willis's Rooms, Sir THOMAS
Tva-
roN in the Chair; a numerous meeting of Noblemen, Membrr- of
Parliament, and Gentlemen commanding Corps of Yeomanry, Were
present; Lords GRAN7IIAM, CLONLIEL, EASTNOR., Sir J. 11074E5--
WOOD, EDWARD WILTON, FREDRRICK FAIVICIS : C lone. AlacQuerx,
HORNER, &c. This loyal meeting went off with the gre :tv;t pos-
sible harmony and eclat ; various toasts were drank an c< .gs sung.
The Band of that old and respectable Regiment, the Surrey Yeo-
manry, attended in full uniform, and were cornp'.inlented by the
Officers present upon their soldierlike appearance and very excel-
lent performance.