Star.
London, England, 1830-08-26 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S HAY-MARKET. Amin 26.

Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £2 ss. to £2 12s New
Ditto, £2 ss. to £3 53. Useful Old, £2 10$. to £3 10s. Fine
I 'pland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, £4 Os. to £5 04. Clover
I lay, £2 15s. to £5 51. Old ditto, £0 Os. to £0 Os. %Vbeat &raw,
£2 6s. to £2 14.. per load of 36 trusses.

FARIII9I6DON MARKET, AUGUST 26.
Priem per IL to the consumer.
Bear—Finest Roasting, 7d. Ditto Bolling, 40. Ed. Equal quantity
of each. Sid. and 6d. Rump Steaks, 90. Beef Steaks, 6d. Rump
of Beef, 60. Wa-riisa Morrow—Leg, Id. and 70 Haunch, 7d. Loin,
64d. Saddle, 6(1. and 60. Shoulder, 54d. and 6d. Neck, Sd. and Sad,
Breau, 4d. Vrat.—Leg. 60. and 7d. Fillet, Bd. and 80. Loin
Neck, 6d. and 60. Shoulder, 50. Peat, 6d. to Bed. Lama. 7d. to 80:

SMITHFIELD. Auoun 26.
cArnx AT M T:

Beasts, 695 I Sheep, 11,330 I Pip, 160 I Calves, 336
Beef
Mutton ..... 4s Od 4s 64 Lamb
Veal
Hay (per load), £2 lbs. to /4 lbs. Clover, /3 15a. to /5 10s.—.
Straw, sed Bs. to 42 12s.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL, Ave. N.
By the 4 arease.—Per stone of sib..
Beef, 2s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Mutton, ss.od. to 4s. Od. Veal, 3s. Od to
4s. 4d. Pork, Si. Od. to 4s. Od. Lamb, 3s. Bd. to 41 Bd.
ARRIV' 13 MORNING.

RD AND DUB TH
A. D.
O Prance— ..... 1
O Flanders
1 Holland 0
1 Hamburgh
O Leeward Islands 0

1 ... 0
1 Waterford 0 I
2 Guern. & Jersey— 0 I
0 Buenos Ayres—... 0
0

♦. D.
o Lisbon 0
o Jamaica 0
O Sweden... 0
O Malta ...... 0
O Brasil ... 0

Tll E EVENING STAR.

ps The mode adopted of enlarging this Paper by widening the
columns, instead of subdividing them into narrower columns, which—
to borrow a well-known couplet—
Wastes paper and spares ink,
And cheats men of their words, some think—
combined with the use of a large proportion of small but distinct type,
afford the readers of the STAR a fuller body of letter-press than any
other evening paper, without presenting a troublesome, appalling, and
heterogeneous mast, to their perusal. The object of the Proprietors
of the STAR is to produce a tasteful Journal, of all that is interesting
in Politics, Literature, and General Science; and to afford the Public
the earliest and most correct intelligence.
At a very late hour this afternoon we received by express
the Gazette de France of yesterday's date, and Paris letters
of Tuesday evening. The French Funds have experienced
a still further decline, as will be seen by the following copy
of the Cours Authentique of the 24th.-5 per cent. 100 f.
75c. 100 f. 100 f. 30c. 40c. 30c. 25c. 20c. 35c. 100 f. 25c.
3:5c. 40c. 50c. 40c. 35c. 30c.

Three per Cents. 721. 71f. 80c. 75c. 65c. 80c. 72f. 25c,
10c. 72f. 72f. sc. 20c. 25c. 40c.
Bank Actions, 1,750.

Rente de Naples, 70f. 50c. 70f. 50c.
Rentes d'Espagne, 20, 196.
Royal Spanish Loan, 50, 491
Rente Perpetuelle, 43, 44k, 45.
llaytian Loan, 400.
Exchange on London, one month, 25-45. Three
months, 25-25.
On Vienna, one month, 251 .—Three Months, 249. e•
On St. Petersburg, Three Months, 110.
The reason for the fall in the French Rentes, is ascribed
to the fact that Mr. O.—a great shareholder—has given in-
structions to his agent to sell out, to the amount of two mil-
lions in the French stocks. _

This morning despatcher received at the Colonial
Office, from Major-General Sir JAMES LYON, Governor of
Barbadoes.

Although the concurrent voice and example of all who
ever attained authority for superior wisdom, declare that po-
sitive and dogmatical assertion is not the evidence of wisdom ;
but, on the contrary, of shallow self conceit—and although
all who ever thought ou any department of what bag been
scholastically designated morals, or moral philosophy,
must know that diffidence should mark the declara-
tion of any opinions we may form,—yet mankind ap-
pear always prone to receive the dictation of declamatory
arrogance as wisdom, and to take for truth that only which
is most imposingly and boldly declared to be so. This arises
from► a natural indolence, or incapacity, in the majority of
men to think for themselves; they are therefore apt to adopt
the dicta of those who make themselves easiest intelligible—

those who, from ignorance or incapacity, deal not in fine
distinctions or shades of opinion ; but those who courageously
adopt a negative or affirmative, without admitting the pos-
sibility of any error in their judgment. It is to this class
of writers thit the mass of mankind humiliate their rea-
soning faculties, and become, in fact, intellectual slaves.
Some days ago we called the attention of our readers, in-
cidentally, to the quackery and tyranny of the British Press.
The dictatorial spirit which we have now described, is part
of the tyranny to which we allude, and against which
we would encourage our readers incessantly to strug-
gle. A wise man may assert firmly, as to the state of his
own convictions; or, as to what he knows by the evidence of

his senses ; but he who asserts positively what he cannot
know, should be set down uniformly as knave or fool—
or perhaps, as is sometimes the case, a compound of both.
We have made this remark—which may appear too ab-
stract or general for our columns—as a kind of text upon
which w•e mean frequently to dilate, and mean occasionally
to illustrate; for never were there more flagrant specimens of
arrogance, ignorance, and self-conceit exhibited in print,
than those which are daily exhibited in the much-boasted,
vain-glorious, public press of this country. If the tone
of our newspapers were to be taken as evidence of our
character for reflection—or what is called philosophy—low,

indeed, must that character be in the estimation of all
Europe.

We need not go far for our first illustration of quackery
and tyranny. It is well known that a letter has appeared
in the French papers, as the production of the Prince de Po-
mo); AC. When we inserted this letter in the SCAR, we
remarked that we considered it written in a subdued,
but dignified tone ; and such were our impressions
so strongly, that it astonished us to observe, the next day,
the very different view of it which was taken by the Times.
For a specimen of the calm, discriminating tone of truth,
and bland humanity, which distinguishes that Journal, on so
many occasions, we refer our readers to the extract given in
our Paper. He will there find the unfortunate untried pri-
soner, branded with " atrocious guilt"—"sheer ignorance and
fully"—as a " criminal"—" a madman"—" infatuated fool"

—" the miserable Premier." He will observe the fine
tact at discerning truth, and scrupulous kindness of nature,
illustrated by his reasoning, on a vague paragraph, in some
nameless French paper, which states that the Prince had de-
clared on the road, to the people, that he had opposed the ob-
noxious ordinances, and had signed them by compulsion. We
next have a quotation from the columns of Brother Courier,
showing equal delicacy in feeling, and tact in discerning
truth, mixed up with a little quackery. This writer, very
kind to the fallen minister, attributes all the blame of the last
unfortunate event to him ; and asserts that the Duchess
D'ANoouLzatE has represented herself, as the only wise
politician of the party, who foresaw the consequences of the
Ordonnances But we cannot find space for what on any
other subject would be designated old women's twaddle ;
but on this, really—which we consider as a degrading exhi-
bition of wanton inattention to what may be considered
the golden rules of social charity—not to prejudge on im-
perfect knowledge ; nor to aid in the production of animosity
against those who are already sufficiently afflicted.

We are astonished that individuals are found so carried
away by professional objects, as to sit coolly in their closets,
utterly ignorant of accurate facts ; and scatter the seeds of
uncharitableness, with such wanton and unsparing hands.

The Morning Herald pronounces that the Free Trade
and Currency Questions were the two great errors of former
Administrations; and that, had the Duke of WELLINGTON
seen through the mist in which they were enveloped, and
dispersed it, he could have added a civil laurel to his military
renown. We call the attention of the Morning Herald to
the following observations :
That " free trade,"—as it is most inaccurately termed—to
which the writer refers, is explained by the difference be-
tween prohibition and protection. If, in consequence of
prohibition, the goods of the foreigner are smuggled into
this country, all those evils which are presumed to arise
from the introduction of foreign goods from a country less
taxed than our own, are aggravated to the greatest degree,
without benefit to the revenue, or to any class of persons.
Thus, for example, whatever is received on French silks,
under the 30 per cent, ad valorem duty, is so much gain to
the revenue, without one jot more, or less, being incurred by
the English manufacturers, than was previously produced by
smuggling; and it will be found, if reference be made to the
first practical authorities in the silk-trade, that any thing
but mischief to that trade, taken as a whole, has been the
consequence of the change. The skill and energy of our
manufacturers have been excited by competition, with all the
ad:antage which might have been expected from such ex-
citement. If the printing of the Morning Herald be facili-
tated by steam machinery, to be consistent with its principles,
it must regret that a tax is not imposed on such machinery,
the use of which occasions the employment of fewer
pressmen. We have always considered one of the effects
of "Free Trade," and the application of machinery--for there
is a complete analogy between their effects—to be, the
throwing out of employment manual labour ; and we
have regretted that an opportunity was not given to
those artisans who have been so thrown out of employ, to
exercise their abilities and energies in our Colonies, where
their aid is so much wanted. We have always found
the Morning Herald the most strenuous opposer of any
real relief which would be afforded to the people by such
a facility.

With respect to the question of Currency, let the Com-
positors of the Morning Herald be asked, whether they
prefer receiving, as wages, a shilling depreciated 25 per
cent, and only of the value of ninepence, or a shilling of the
present legal value ? We have always considered, that the
moat unblushing delusion, which was ever practised on those•
who are dependent on the wages of labour for their sup Fort
has been the attempt to make them believe that they are in-
terested in the depreciation of the coin. It is the debtor
who is interested in that depreciation, and not the hard-
working labourer or mechanic, who has nothing to maintain
himself, but the wages which he receives.

We have a file of the Canton Register this morning to
the 3rd March, and they contain some important com-
mercial information. The cotton market had been sin-
gularly affected, by the sales of the Select Committee having
been, up to that date, confined to the Bengal staple,
which they disposed of at eleven tads per pecul ;
whilst they still held the whole of their Bombay and
IMadras investments, as no satisfactory offers had been
made them. Few of the Bombay Commanders have
been able to effect ask of their proportions. The Com-
manders of the Bengal ships, had disposed of their propor-
tions of the Bengal, at taels 10. 6. to 10. 8. per pecul.
There had been but little stir among the Chinese dealers ;

but some trifling transactions, at a trifling advance, had
taken place, though no improvement has taken place in con-
sequence on the foreign market. It was reported that in
consequence of an understanding between the Bombay Mer-
chants, no ship would arrive from Bombay by the eastern
route ; but this was not credited by the Chinese.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The only arrival of consequence this morning is a Lisbon
mail, by the Britomart ; sailed on the 13th August : by
which we understand that the British ships captured, and
carried into the Tagus, have been dismantled. The private
letter-writers are very cautious, and are afraid to write on
politics.
Demerara papers, to the 3d July, have been received at
the North and South American Coffee-house, but are totally
void of interest.

The French mail remains due ; consequently, we have
no Estafette letters as yet from Paris.
This being the Account day in Consols, which is supposed
to be a large Bull Account, with an extreme fluctuation
during the Account of 31 per Cents. has caused a failure in
the market this morning; but it being not of the first rate,
will not cause any heavy losses.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 91 to I, opened at
the same price ; since which they have declined to 901 i
for the Account ; and the chief business doing is in settling
their accounts.

In the Foreign Market, Spanish Bonds ar3 not so good as
yesterday, owing to the price coming I per Cent. lower from
Amsterdam.

CITY, HALF-PAST ONE.
The French mail has arrived ; but the Estafette letters
will not be delivered till after two o'clock, consequently the
contents of the above mail are not yet transpired.
It is reported that all the great Powers have acknowledged
the new French Government. _

The private letters by the Lisbon mail state that the events
at Paris, to the 29th July, were known at Lisbon. It is said
that the departure of the Britomart, two days before she was
to sail, was owing to the British Consul, who gave Don Mi-
guel's Ministers to the 11th to give a final answer, to give
up the ships and crews detained, and their not complying
was the cause of her sailing.
Consols for money, 901 1 ; for the October account, 91
to e. But little doing in the Foreign Market.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26