Star.
London, England, 1825-12-30 00:00:00

THE

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,VENIN6 STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 50, 18'25.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 82 for the Account, and are now
82 to I. with little doing, 'seep: in the Money Market, which is
very firm. Reduced Consols are done at Bli I. •
This Is settling day in the Foreign Market, and most persons are
busy settling their Accounts. There is little doing, except in Co-
lombian.

Current Prices: Oid Spanish 124. Russian 79i. Meiiican 654
66. Colombian yew 61i I, Greek Bonds 16 IT, Exchequer iiiUi
2 discount to par.

lon ICK OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Dank Stock 214 215
3 I'm Cent. Red. 81 % 3A 'A 5%
Si per Cent. 89%
Si per Cent. Red. 8914 7/8 %
Long Ann. 19 15.16
India Bonds 3 1 prem.
Old Annuities 8114
13 ,000 Exclieq. Bills 2 disc. par.
1:500 ditto 1 disc. par.
tilli) and £2OO ditto 2 disc. 5 preen.
Cons. for Account S2l/2 1A 3A .
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Lust:lags lids .5p Ct Mex. Scrip.
I)ittn Acct. Neapolitan Bonds,
lirasilian Bowls, Peruv. lids, 6 p C.
De.5etip,5011325,151 14 15 di:. Ditto Scrip, 1325,6 p C.
Burnt.. Ayrei Iket‘lo Pot tuguese Bonds
Cliiliali Bonds, 6 p Ct. I'russ. KIN S p C.
Colombian ltd., 6 p C. Ditto Acct.
Do. lids 1821, 611 1 1 11 Do. Bonds, 1822,
Po. Ace. 611 1 I liuss.llds,lB22, 5 pCt. 79 1
Danish 'tondo, Ditto Acct.
. Du. Marks Span. Sp Ct. C. 12 111
Dittollends. 3 p Ct. 1825, 531 Ditto for Acc. 121
Ditto Acct. Ditto 510,
Greek Bowls Span. sp. Ct. C. 1823,
Do. Ed 4,1845, 161 French Rentes, 5p C.
Ditto Acct. Exchange,
Mex. Bonds sp. Ct. 60 French Rent's, 3 p C.
Ditto Acct. 5 p C. • Exchange,
Do. 8d5,1825, 6 pC. 65 654 4 Guatemala Bonds,
Du. Acct. 66 51 1 f Ditto Scrip dis.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
SHAMS. PAID.
A nglp Mexican 5 pm. 100 3S 421
An:tli; Chaim . 100 5 41
Brazilian 100 S 71
Citilian 100 5 11
Colombian . 100 • S - - IS 141 151
Pasco Peruvian 1100 .5 41
Potosi. La I'az, & Peruv. 30 S 21 1
Beal del Monte 400 400 570
Tlalpnitahua • - 400 20 70
Unite I Mexican 40 20 9.3
Ditto New 40 10 19 20
Welch Iron & Coal 25 20 141 131
Protector Fire 20 2 14
Br:t i.h Iron Company - 100 IS 16
Metropolitan Alderney Dairy 2S 4 - 51

Nations, like individuals, it would seem, are subject
to periodical visitations of folly and infatuation ; and
that England has, in the course of this and the preced-
ing sear, laboured under such a moral malady, must be
apparent to any one who takes the trouble to glance at
the List of Shares, which we have this chiy copied from
a Morning Paper, and which will be found in our last
page. Those speculations have, in the current year
only, absorbed money to the enormous amount of se-
venteen millions and a half, more than three-fourths o!
which has been sent out of the country to fatten fo-
reigners, who.can do no otherwise than laugh at us, for
the pottentout folly which has succeeded to the sober
wisdom, the sound good sense, and the manly and dig-
nified habits of just thinking, which were once in a pre-
eminent degree the attributes of Englishmen.
The want of so much capital in the ordinary demands
of a vast and increasing commerce, was glossed over
for a while by fictitious credit. But these expedients
are only, in substance, the shifts and wiles of a bank-

wh'ch speedily come to an end. The recent

hurricane in the commercial world has swept them
-from the atmosphere, like so many pestilential vapours,l
but unhappily, not without the infliction of a dread-1
tul calamity to the region over which the tempest
Alias past. The evil, however, is both a cure for the
p present. and a salutary lesson for the future. lie
must have a countenance cased in Corinthian brass,
whrl u ill propose to the people of England another fo-
reign loan or joint stock speculation. And yet, when
the country is at this moment smarting under the con.
serreences of its own extravagant infatuation,is it possible
the Public can endure, with common pati?nce, the re-
cord of the tricks and finesse by which it has been at-
tempted to render them the dupes of fore'gn adventu-
rers ? It k, however, doomed to undergo this further
In the Morning Chronicle the other day, we read a
formal diplomatic contract, proposed by an Amhas-
:i tdor from one of the new sovereign money-borrowing
11-Tublicsoto a writer in that journal, expressly stipu-
Lying, in the name and by order of his Government,
los so much bite per annum, provided the said
writer would instil into the good people of these
kingdoms, the particular sort of in chlections
which this worthy Envoy and his successors might,

fo,nl time to time, desire to propagate. It is stated,

t'c Lope truly, that the corrupt offer was in this case
-rejected: but in how many other channels may it not
Lave succeeded?. And can we wonder that the mania
which lately besets:: was so general. when its paroxysms
v etc thus fomented by the clandestine application of tie
money of foreiguct ,Fo spoison the sources of public
opinion? The money of frreigoers,did we say?—Truly
we have not even this..miserable excuse. It was our;
money, borrowed from ourselyes and applied to col.
.tupt ourselves.
• We hive received such of the Freneh Papers' of
'Tuesday and Wednesday as had not previously reached
.
us by express. C4riste. Pozzo pt,Rostuo, the Russian
•Ambassidor et the Critut Of frame,• had a pi ivatr
audience of CHA nims X. on Saturday last ; and one or
airs French Journals states that his Excellency is about