Star.
London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 2373/4-3 per Cent. Redu. 91178 921/8 1/4
S per Ct. Cons. 917/8 3/81/8 1/4-31h per Ct. 1001/2 sh
4 per Cts. Old 1021/2 5/8-4 per Cts. New 106% 1/2 %
Bank Long Ans. 22 9-16 7-16—India Bonds 755. 72'.
Exchequer Bills (1:1,000) 40i. 55s.—Small 40s. 355.
Consols tor Account 911/4 1/,.

The appointment of the Marquis of HASTINGS to the
Governorship of Malta, to which is added the Com-
mand in Chief of the Forces in the Mediterranean ; and
Of Sir FREDERICK ADAM, to be Lord high Com-
missioner in the lonian Islands, will appear in the
Gazette of to-morrow evening.
An Express from Paris has brought us, this forenoon,
the Moniteur and Galignani's Messenger of Wednesday.
The official part of the Moniteur mentions that the
Minister of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, had had a private
audience of the KING on Tuesday, to announce the
birth of a Prince, son of the GRAND DUKE. His
Maai•:,ry held a public Levee on the same day, and
afterwards transacted business with M. VILLELE, the
President of Council. The article in the Journal
des Debuts, correcting the statement of the Etoile, as
to ceitain portions of the public revenue of Spain
having been mortgaged to pay the debt owing to
Fiance, is copied in the Moniteur; and may therefore
be considered as having received official sanction.
Galignani's Messenger quotes the following article
from the Journal de Toulouse (the native town of the
Minister of Finance); it is by no means destitute of
probability :
" We learn from Paris, that the reduction of the in_
terest of the Public Debt, from five to tour per cent,
is more talked of than ever. It is said, that the French
Gore, nment will raise a Foreign Loan, at the rate of
three per cent. the produce of which will serve to pay
off such creditors of the State as prefer to receive
their capital. It is calculated, that by this opera-
oon :he Government will reduce the National Debt
.A) u,iiiious per annum, and that this plan will
have the advantage of augmenting the value of
pr ,perry, by the abundance of cash which will be
in circulation. It is likewise rumoured that a Great
Book will be opened for indemnities to be granted to
emigrants. According to the new plan, there will be
made upon the interest a drawback which will serve
fundholders in the place of a land-tar, and be equally
effectual in investing them with the electoral franchise."
A clerk in die War-Office has been taken into cus

tody, upon a charge of having obtained the sigrature of
the Minister, to enable persons to procure patents of
Members for the Legion of Honour.
French five per cents, 97 fr. '2O c.

Hobait nten Gazettes of the Ist September have been
received at the New England Coffee-house this morn-
ing. They mention the arrival, ['tom England, of the
ship Commodore Hayes, Captain MONChIEF, with 216
male convicts. She had on board the bead-quarters
and Staff of the 3d Regiment of Infantry (or Buffs).—
There had been a General Meeting at Hobart Town of
the merchants, landholders, and respectable inhabitants,
when an abstract of a regulation for the Bank was agreed
to, and a large portion of the shales subscribed for.
The Chairman of the Meeting, with a deputation of
twelve Gentlemen, had afterwards an interview with
the Lieutenant-Governor, for the purpose of tequesting
him to obtain a charter from his Ex cellency the Gover-
nor-in-Chief, which his Honour promised immediately
to solicit.

We received this morning the remaining Paris Papers
of Tuesday.
The Journal des Dcbats admits that the Spanish Go-
vernment has acknowledged itself indebted in the sum
of thirty-four millions of francs to France, but declares
that it has assigned no funds, and made no provij.,n
whatever for the payment of that debt. " When all the
details of our interference in the affairs of Spain S11:111
be known," adds that Journal, " and the Convention tor
the residence of our troops shall have been signed and
laid before the Public, it will be seen by what principles
of generosity France has been guided in that memorable
enterprize."
Great exertions, it appears, are making in the pro-
vinces of Spain to organise the Ktkro's Guard: enlist-
ments wete taking place at Madrid, and in the capitals
of the provinces, for the purpose. Constant tumults
(as the French Papers call them), it appears, yet take
place, and tranquillity throughout wretched Spain is
far from being established. A slight tumult took
place at Villacagnas, but was put down by the firmness
of the Alcalde. On the 20th of January the Liberals
of Penasanda de Bracamonte acted also in a menacing
manner, to which the people replied : a battalion
of Royal Volunteers left Madrid to restore submission•
The two Castiles are the great seat of insurrection:
these provinces, says the Moniteur, were nearer to the
focus of the revolution ; it was in them " the revolution
had at one time assembled its most faithful satellites,
and they have left fatal Daces of their power." The
KING is stated, in accounts of the 26th ult. to be so se-
riously indisposed as to be confined to his chamber.—
The nature of his illness is not mentioned, but an as-
surance is given that the other members of his family
enjoyed perfect health.