Star.
London, England, 1825-10-18 00:00:00

.SPAIN.

FROM THE CIURIBR FRANCAIS, OF OCTOBER 15.
MADRID, OCTOBER 3.
Though the Government, it is said, is busy in pre-
parjag reveral important Affairs, to be laid before the
Consultative Junta, we'kriow for certain that it has
therto been consulted on the following questions
The Municipalities; 2. The SeignorialJurisdictions; S.
The means of bringing our finances into a flouri,hing
condition, and of making savings, reforms, &c.
On the last point Mr. Elola proposed that the Go 7
vetnment should be advised to suspend all gratuitous
pensions, &c. The Junta app.inted a Committee, con-
sisting of Messrs. EWA, Parga, Caballero, Juana Pinilla,
and another Member, to examine the proposal. This
Committee met to-day, and pronounced the proposal to
be prematute.
The Government has desired the Junta to ask for all
the information, documents,' &c. that it may want, and'
to propose the internal regulation for its proceedings.
M. torgolia has signifild that he is at prebent con-
fined to his bed, but that, as soon as he is recovered, and
has put his affairs in order, wculd repair to Madrid,
to exercise the functions which it has been thought fit
to confide to him.

The Count d'Espagne, who has been for some time at
the Royal residence, complains much of the cool recep-
tion he meets with from the courtiers about his Majesty.
These Gentlemen doubtless bear him a grudge for
having so speedily dispatched Bessieres. The King,
however, seems to shew him great regard. As our si-
tuation becomes every day worse, the English capitalist',
on whom the Government placed some hopes of a loan,
have plainly declared that the present situation of Spar
is such as not to inspire the smallest confidence; that
the principal Proprietors are proscribed or in prison ;
that those who return from America with their fortunes
do not venture to land in the Peninsula, being terrified
by the accounts of what is passing there; lattly, that
even it the Government would give all the securities
required of it, and would bind itself in the most sol. ma
manner, they would not feel any more confidence o t
that account, since a Royal Decree, according to our
absolute system, can annul the most sacred contracts.
Our fanatics are in a rage at seeing things regarded
in this light by the very persons who, say they, lavished
their gold on the Revolutionists, and will not open their
purses for a legitimate Government like ours.
The Etoile dated Sunday, 16th October, contains
more at length than it has beforeteen published,the Act
of the Government of the lonian Islands, prescribing the
regulations under which Corfu is declared a free port
from the Ist September this year.

STO47K-JOBBING AND BANKING.

FROM THE JAURNAL DES DEBATS, OCTOBER 15.

Nothing is spoken of in the financial world but the
favour which a banker of Paris, who figured lately in
the Liberal Opposition, enjoys with our Minister of
Finance.
Mazarin used to ask " Is he lucky ?" M. Villele need
not ask such a question of a man who has given such
proofs of his capacity, in the loan of the Cones. We
must expect to see some new and wonderful project
burst forth. Already a perfected system of annuities
has been announced. In thirty-four years the debt will
be annihilated ! Meanwhile there are whispers of a sett
tain combination to ruin the unlucky Three per Cents,
Europe, once so military, has suddenly changed its
character. Soldiers hive been metamorphosed into
stockjobbers, they have sought fortune amidst the
ruinous hazards of the Steeds Exchange, carrying thither
with them the same ardour with which they pursued
her amidst the perils of war.
A single family has been sufficient to give the impulse •
to this new species of occupation which now employs
all classes. It was the renewal of the system of law.
Some fortunes are said to have been acquired, but the
ruin is incalculable.
Actuated by the same spirit, having the same inte-
rest, and .being spread over the principal parts of
Europe, this family, which is immensely rich, influences
the financial operations of every country.
These persons, possenin4 considerable talent, have
access to the Cabinets of Ministers. If there should be
occasion for it, the estafettes of Government are at their
disposal, and, while every facility is I, iven to o,eir
agents, the couriers of commercial men are subject cu
a thousand formalities at their departure, on their route,
and on their arrival. These men, already so wealthy,
are ambitious of becoming still more so, their cupidity
being insatiable. They have negociated the loans of
every Government, and, effectually to shut out competi-
tion, have been bidders upon very high terms. Little
'was gained upon each transaction, but every transaction
passed through their hands. Serious inconveniences
have been the result. In the first place, the Public
Funds were raised to a price completely fictitious; and
in the next, these gigantic operations, which, to be suc-
cessful, ought to be opened to the whole of the moaied
interest, wire confined to a single family.
Thesecosmopolite bankers, being in extensive
baying at their disposal a large amount of specie
and of stock, anJ pursuing their own interest, may
produce at any place a scarcity or an abundance of the