Star.
London, England, 1824-12-10 00:00:00

14( NDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCH A NCH, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols ()Reuel this morning at S 4 for the Account, at which
price they remain steady, with little doing.
FOREIGN FUNDS
The most doing in the Foreign Market is in Mining and Gas
Shares.

Current Prices : New Spanish 16, Old 221 I, Russian 951 1,
Mexican 674, Colombian New 841 854, Chilian 76, French Scrip
151 14 pre. Brazilian par to 1 db. Portuguese 8841, Buenos Ayres
4 1, Brazilian 24, Alliance Shares 91 10 pre. Marine Alliance 11
pre. Greek 551 56. Colombian Mines 191 pre. Buenos Ayres ditto
51 6 pre. Gas Shares 11 to 2 pre. '

()NICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
_Bank Stock 231
per tent. Red. 94% sis
5 per Cent. Cons. shut.
3i per Cent. Red. 101 10078 1011/g
4 per Cent. New shut.
India Stock shut
1:1,000 Excheq. Bills (11,6 d.) 54 2
Cons. for Acct. 95% % 44

The French Papers of Tuesdayo and the Etoile of
Wednesday, have reached us. The French Journalists
still dispute ac to the extent of the evacuation of Spain,
though there is no doubt that a portion of the French
troops will return to France. That the principal towns
will still retain French garrisons there can be no doubt.
We think, if the French Government never before felt
the impolicy of invading Spain, it must feel it now ;
for it has not, in the slightest degree, either rendered
the Spanish Government less obstinate, or the Spanish
people more secure from outrage.
_ _

There seems now no alternative but that of either
leaving Spain to herself, or retaining military possession ;
of a country wits which Prance had no business to in-
terfere. The /:toile gives a list of the regiments which
will return to trance, but these do not appear to exceed
8,000 men; if these are all that return, the evacuation
of Spain is but nominal.
The Minister at War had published a Royal Ordon-
nance, directing that all Generals and Officers who, in
consequence of the new organization, were no longer on
active service, should go to their homes with unlimited
leave of absence. They were especially enjoined to quit
the-capital, and were not to receive their half-pay in any
other place than that of their regular abode.
It has been erroneously stated, that the Bank of Eng.
land refuses to replace the Stock withdrawn by the?'
forgeries of MT.FAUNTLICROY. The Bank only requires,
that as the produce of those forgeries was paid into the
banking-house of Messrs. MARSH, STRACEY, and Co.
the individuals whose Stock had been so transferred,
shall prove the amount, and receive a dividend upon
that proof, under the Commission of Bankruptcy
issued against Messrs. MARSH, SYRACEY, and Co.—
Upon having an assignment of this proof, the Bank
declares its readiness to replace the amount of the Stock
so sold, and pay the dividends due. Nothing can be
fairer than this on the part of the Bank, but if the whole
of the forgeries are proved under the commission, the
dividend, we suspect, will be very trivial indeed.
The following is the form of the letters, addressed to
the different parties under whose forged signatures the
different sums were procured. We suppress the names.ofl
the parties, and the sums in Stock, in the present instance,
not wishing to give them any unnecessary publicity :

New Dankßuildings, 4c6 Dec. 1824.

&a—The Governors and Director* of the Bank of England have
had under their consideration your claims on behalf of to
have replaced Navy S per Cents. which formerly stood in her
name. They find, upon inquiry, that the Stock in question was
sold and transferred by one of the partners in the late font of
Munk Straoey, and Co. and that the produce of the Stock was
paid into the funds of Messrs. Marsh, Stracey, and Ca She has,
therefore, as the Bank is advised, a right to prove the amount re-
ceived on her account, and to receive a dividend upon that proof(
under Messruldarib, Stracey, and Ca's Commission ; and we are