Star.
London, England, 1825-02-25 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1825.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

This being settling day, most persons are busy in settling their
accounts I the fluctuation during the Account has not been more
than one per cent. Consols opened at 94 to e, for next time 941.

• • This forenoon we iectived •Piethnortiese Unietles to
the 15th inst. One of them contains a circular from
the new Kiiig of NAPLES, abolishing the• degrading
custom of manacling young recruits while conveying
them to the several depots. A circular from the Minis-
ter of Ecclesiastical Affairs enjoins the Bishops who
have long resided in N.tples on account of their health,
to return as soon as possible to their Sees, and to have
his MAJESTY assured, by the end of March, that they
have returned to their residences.

The following is the Circular to which we have al•
luded ; it is addressed to the Intendants of the Provinces:
" Sta—His Majesty has learned with great regret,
that those who are called out by lot to serve under his
Royal Banners though they voluntarily present them-
selves in obedience to the call, are conveyed to the
Depots bound like malefactors.

" His Majesty 'considers that such treatment, besides
that it is improper in the case of persons who have
spontaneously presented themselves, is also ili•suited to
those who are to follow the honourable career of arms,
since it in a manner degrades, at the very outset, him
who is destined to so noble a profession.
" His Majesty therefore orders, that in future none
but refractory recruits shall be bound ; and it is farther
determined, that the penalty of two years' additional
service for such shall be increased to double the usual
time of set vice.
'' Naples, Feb. 2, 182.5.

" Marquis ANATI."

Gelman Papers to the 19,11 inst. reached us this fore-
noon. The following is an extract:

111EININGEN, FEBRUARY 12.

On occasion of the death of his Serene Highness
Frederick 'IV. Doke of Saxe Gotha and Altenburg, the
following has been published here:
" We, Bernard Erich Freund, &c. make known by
these presents—
"lt is solely to conform to circumstances, and to pre-
_
vent the consequences of partial occupations, and to
avoid whatever might trouble the actual tranquillity of
the States of the German Confeder.itior, that-we have
regulated by the letters patent for taking posseisior,
issued to-day, that the Duchy of Gotha and Altenburg
should continue to be governed by the Authorities now
existing under our Sovereignty, and that of the other
two collateral Soirereigns of the lime of Saxe Gotha,
without any change in the form of Government.
" But we declare at the same time-Ist. That this ad-
ministration is not to be regarded as a legal and per-
manent state, but merely as a regulation, ad interim,
inevitably resulting from the above-mentioned reasons.
2d. That this interim must by no means prejudice our
exclusive right to the succession. 3d. That during
the interim, we shall not levy any part whatever of the
revenues of the Duchy of Saxe Gotha Altenburg, which
shall be expended only in that State, and applied to
its Government. 4th. That we expect the same con-
duct from the Dukes cf Saxe Hildburghausin and Saxe
Coburg Saalficld, and that we protest, in the most
solemn manner, against opposite measures, and against
everything that should imply a partition of the Duchy,
and might be agreed to on that supposition.
• a BERNARD ERICH FREUND.
"4 Meiningen, at Elisabethenburg, Itth Feb. 1825."

The Dutch Papers to the '23d instant, which reached
us this forenoon, ale chiefly filled with further parti-
culars of The inundations and details of the liberal
subscriptions flowing in from all quarters for the relief
of the distressed. The QUEEN of the Netherlands has
placed the sum of 10,000 florins, and his Royal Highness
the Princeof ORANGE, together with his Consort,the sum
of 30,000 florins, at the disposal of the principal Cow
mittee appointed by the resolution of 17th of Feb.
for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations. The
KING has ordered that of the general collection for the
relief of the sufferers, SO per Cent. shall be immediately
paid into the hands of the Governors of those provinces
which have suffered the most, in order to provide lodg-
ling and food for the inhabitants, and their cattle, &c.
to be employed in the purchase of cattle and other ne-
cessaries, for those whe have no means of subsistence,
and as far as possible for the support of those who are
not wholly destitute of resources, but yet require some
assistance.

FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.

Austrian Bonds 5 per Ct. 971 8
Brazilian Bonds 89
Ditto Scrip, 5 per Ct. 16 i pre.
Ditto 1825
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 92*
Ditto Ace. 92
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 891
Ditto Acc.

Mex. Bonds, 5 per Ct. 803 j
Ditto Scrip 53 6 j 6 pm.
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct.
Peruv.Bonds, 6 per Ct. 6511
Ditto Acc.
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto A cc. 901 j
Press. Bonds 1812, 5 p. Ct.

Columbian floods, 6 per Ct. 921 1 Russ.Boods, t 822;5 p Ct. 97# 1
Ditto for Ace.. Spanish .5 p. Ct. Cons. 231 # 4 51
Ditto. Bonds 1824, 91 1 Ditto for Aec. 231 / 1 4
Ditto Ace. 91 f Span. 5 p.Ct C. 1833,181 191
Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. Ditto Ace. 19i
G•eek Bonds 574 s 1 French Rentes,s per Ct. 105 f.
D tto Scrip 1/ 1 pm. &change 25f. 10c.
BRITISH AND FJREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.

SHARI. PAID. PLICZ na was
AL Brit. For. Fire & Life £lOO - APIO lelol
DO: Marine . 100 - 5 - $1 I
lIINKS.

MARL PAID. !MCI Pt& WA ILL
Anglo Mexican - - £lOO -115- iss. 115 pm.X1224 127;1221
Anglo Cbilian - - 100 - 5 - -17 i 161
Arigna Iron and Coal - 50 5 - 17 -
Bohnos - 5 10 pre
Brazilian - - 100 - 5 - 5 - 251 26
Chilian - - 100 - 5 - -23
Colombian - - 100 - 5 - S -38 40

- 16
. 45k 458 44
• 51 e
. 250
2 pm. - 145 150
• 326
- 7is

General Alining Association
Hibernian - - 50 - 4 -
Pasco Peruvian - 100 - 5 -
Rio de la Plata - 100 - 5 -11alintiabus - - 400 -20 -
United Mexican - 40 - t'D -
Ditto New - 40 - -
Welch Iron & Coal - 25 - 5 -
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.

SMARR PAW. PRICE rot mum
Continental - 100 - -
IRON RAILWAYS.
London and Birmingham - 50 - 1 - 1 01
London and Northam - 100 - I - 14 j