Star.
London, England, 1831-04-07 00:00:00

FOREIGN STOCKS.

571. Danl.'', 57 ; for Aeet, 571. Prussian, 1825, 96.
French .5 per et, 76f 25c ; Three per Ct, 47f 50e. Exchange, 25f 10e.

PUBLIC CI
Back cqck, 200 1991 ex div
India Stock. —. Bonds, IS 6
I,cidon Docks £59 10,
St. Catherine's. £7B 10s
City Gas, £l9O
Bank of Scotland, £167
British Linen, £350
Grand .function. .£241
Leeds. VlO5
Regent's, £lB 10$

IMPANTILS.
Trish Grand Canal, 734
Forth and Clyde, £625
TAU. & Man.Railway,.£lB6 t 0.8190
Cromford, £45
Guardian,
Albion Fire, £75
Alliance, £8 511
County, £4O
Bolanoa Mines, £lBO
Steam Navigation, die. £6 15s'

O n'ecoac.—Barometer, 29.30;
Weather. mild and dry.

r, 67. Wind S.—

EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 7.

During the PAST wtzic in novelty, variety, compre-
hensiveness, and condensation of facts, intelligence, and
amusement, the STAR may challenge a comparison with
any Paper printed, or ever printed, in this metropolis;
and the Conductors are persuaded that such is the general
impression of the Public. New orders through the news-
men from all parts of the kingdom, votes of subscribers
to news-rooms, the quotation of its early intelligence, and
its opinions in the chief Provincial Papers, its adoption
in the best Continental Reading-rooms, and the preference
shewn it in all places of popular resort in London, are
flattering and most encouraging proofs, that the unremitted
exertions of the Conductors to produce the rt RST and BEST
(!f London Evening Papers, are liberally appreciated.

°.* We beg leave to inform our Friends in Northamptonshire, that
Mr. James Ratnett, Bookseller, Northampton, has obligingly under.
taken to receive Orders, Advertisements, and Intelligence fur the STAR,
ilh rogara to that Town and Vicinity.

This day despatches were received at the Foreign Office
in Downing Street, from Lord Viscount Gnaw v ILLE, our
Ambassador at Parisi and from Sir CHARLES BAGoT, our
Ambassador at the Hague.

Our paper of this day contains more information, in
development of what has lately been occurring in the
diplomatic circles—and, we may likewise add, more infor-
mation in development of the sentiment of the leading parties
in thep.rincipal European States—than we have often had it
in our power to communicate. We particularly recommend
to our readers the careful perusal of the speeches made in
the Chamber of Deputies in Paris, and the equally interest-
ing speeches made in the National Congress of Belgium.
They will then understand, a little, the difficulties which
at present perplex the policy of the latter infant
Government ; and they will likewise, we think, perceive,
that the new French Administration are not un-
likely to be borne down by their more ardent, and perhaps
less cautious opponents.
It will be observed, that there has been a protocol in
Belgian affairs, a copy of which has not yet been made
riblic, and to which, it appears, the French Cabinet deny
having been a party.

The KING, of HOLLAND, in a communication of the
States-General, on the 2d inst. very naturally signifies his
assent to the protocols of the Five Powers; but complains
that the REGENT of Belgium has shown no disposition
to execute them, while he makes fresh armaments,
and violates the Dutch Territory. He calls the
Belgians insurgents, and their troops lawless bands; and
invokes the States to grant men and money, to assist him
in preventing the overthrow of all legitimate authority. The
Belgians complain equally of the Dutch, and of the sinis-
trous means by which the protocols were framed, by which
they are put in the wrong. In truth, this mediation
has been most unfortunate : and by deciding all one way,
has produced the very• mischief which it was proposed to
avoid. Public opinion, and their own courage and prudence,
seem to be the only security of the Belgians. The public
voice declares against the protocols, and we suspect that
if the King of Holland does not surrender the left
bank of the Scheldt, the citadel of Antwerp and Maes-
tricbt, he will not only lose them, but the whole district to
the Meuse—the natural boundary of Belgium.
The details from Poland are so far interesting, that it ap-
pears, down to the 2-/th, the Russians were in retreat, having
wholly exhausted the country. They had abandoned Rad-
Amen, and the district between the Vistula and Bug.
It nos• appears, that Macejowice is not the general
head-quarters, but only that of their left division ;
which is so reduced, that a squadron of 80 Poles was suffi-
cient to keep them in alarm. Famine and disease render it
unnecessary for the Poles to destroy them, and they have
literally shared the fate of the host of Sennacherib.
On the side of Italy, the Austrians are doing their work
first, and they will give explanations and make apologies
afterwards ! If the French advance they can never repair
the mischiefs done, and restore to life the slaughtered
patriot- of Italy, who appear to be pursued with Spanish
and Portuguese malevolence.

The Provincial Papers teem with announcements of pa-
triotic Candidates for the nest Election, with propositions
made by electors, and with meetings to facilitate returns.
A sweeping change will be the result, either of a dissolution,
or of a reformed Parliament. The old hacks, the bill-com-
mittee jobbers, the either-side lawyers, the lisping scions of
the Aristocracy, the old ministerial majority-men, the Lord
HEN R Y s and the Lord GEORGE., are all on the black-lists;
and their places will be taken by respectable neighbours
among the squirearchy, extensive manufacturers, opulent
merchants, and other men eminent for their good intelli-
gence. We could state one hundred instances, in all parts
of the kingdom ; and it certainly will in this sense be a
revolution, in which the servile. and blockheads will,
by a happy turn of the state wheel, be placed under-
most; and the public spirit and best intelligence

of the nation be placed, where they ought to be, in the apex.'
There is a contest for particular men, and it will be found
that persons distinguished for talents will be more likely to
be chosen for half-a-dozen places, than be forced to rely on
their obsequiousness to some Borough Patron. Sir THOMAS
DENMAN, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. JEFFREY, ►Sir
HENRY PARNELL, Mr. Matz, and some others, are,
named for two or three places each, and subscriptions have
been set on foot to assure their returns. In Ireland the same
feelinglprevails, and in Scotland the Baillies, Heritors, &c.
are losing their senses, amid the din of names destined to
supersede the place-giving patrons of their sons and
nephews.

Lord GRANTHAM publishes a denial of any intercourse
with Colonel Goan()); about a Peerage. Colonel GORDON
disclaims being a party to the sale of any Seat. Mr. FHA..
SER contradicts the second statement on the Caledonian
Mercury, which he ascribes to Mr. GORDON, Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Aberdeen Militia; and Mr. FRASER
corroborates some of his statements, by a letter from
R. WETLAND, Esq. of Woodeaton, who appears as
the friend of Lady JOHNSTONE. We hope the Editor
of the Caledonian Mercury, in his next and subse-
quent publications, will throw further light on the subject ;
and in the mean time, we shall be glad to receive informa-
tion from other parties. The STAR having taken the lead
in this exposition, will not remit its attention,

CITY, ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols which left off yesterday at 78j; for the account,
opened at 74-79, and went up to 791 to I ; at which price
theya re at present.

In the Foreign Funds little or nothing doing.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
_. _ _

The Funds are not so good as in the early part of the day,
when they were done at 79i 1, since which they have re-
ceded to 79} for the Account. This re-action is attiibuted
to the numerous calls operating on the market, as well as a
scarcity of money stock. The Bears have been terribly
floundering, and will pay dear for their timidity.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing.

We have letters from Antwerp to the 6th April, which
state, that all was tranquil since the horrible night of the
31st March; and that the greatest precautions have been
taken to prevent any future cause of alarm ; but the letter
adds, that their political situation is becoming very critical.

FOREIGN INrELLIGENCE.-I.XCLUSIVE.

FOR THE STAL

TO THE EDITOR.

PARIS, Aram IL

Sza,—As was to be expected from the disposition of the
French people, the dismissal of Odilon Barrot and General
Lamarque has had the effect of adding fuel to the flame, and
redoubled the efforts of the friends of the National Associa-
tions. The subscribers have increased wonderfully for these
last two days in Paris ; and from all the accounts which
arrive, the circulars of the Ministers, and the dismissals,
have redoubled the real in the Provinces. If the Mi-
nisters follow up their first steps, which they must do
to be consistent, they may dismiss one half of the
functionaries ; and will then find it difficult to replace
them, without fixing upon the subscribers to the Associa-
tions. Already the people in Paris have begun to
show their opinions upon the late proceeding, by
calling meetings to promote a subscription, in order to pre-
sent medals to those who have been dismissed from the ser-
vice of the Government, for their patriotic principles.—
This determined spirit of opposition, which prevails so
strongly on this side the water, renders the government of
the French nation no easy task ; and I consider that a
" dead set" will now be made at the Ministry, which will
end in their overthrow. The places of substitutes to the
King's Attorney, vacant by the dismissal of Messrs.
Stounn, Labreton, and Lanjuinais, have been offered to
Messieurs Zangiacourie and Lascoul, Judges at the Tribunal
of Premier Instance, who have refused to accept them.
This is another subject of triumph to the Associations.—
General Semele has also, it is said, received his dismissal.

The Chamber of Deputies was in complete uproar yester-
day ; all the Members were forming in groups, and discus-
sing matters in the greatest agitation, without any regard to
the President, so that at last the sitting was suspended.
The Electoral Law has come back from the Chamber of
Peers, with so many alterations and the Chamber of Deputies
is so determined not to admit them, that it is difficult to
form an opinion how it will be arranged. The speech of
General Lamarque made a great sensation in the Chamber
yesterday. It is not possible to give you even an outline of
it in a letter: so I must refer you to the journals. He stated
that France had lost her station in the rank of nations ; that
her conduct had alienated all her friends from her ; that
now, from the frozen pole to the pillars of Hercules, there
was not a Government but was hostile to her ; and that the
Ministry still pushed forward in the same blind career, which
must end in some dreadful calamity to the nation.

The information in the Courrier Francais of this day,
corroborates what I told ten days ago—that the intervention
of Austria would not be tolerated beyond Parma. The
answer from the Cabinet of Vienna is expected to arrive at
Paris on the 10th or 12th of this month. It is most
anxiously looked for, as it will at once decide the question
of peace or war. The Count de Saint-Leu is said to have
died from the fatigue he has undergone, in the cause of the
insurgents ; some even assert that he has been poisoned.
He is said to be much regretted ; but still no positive ac-
counts have arrived of his death. The funds yesterday were
looking up : it is solely attributed to financial operations.
Yours, J. L.