Star.
London, England, 1822-02-08 00:00:00

ONE O'CLOCK.

From 12 o'clock, until this hour, a good deal of business has
been done, chiefly on account of the Public ; and the nurket is

prices :

Bank Stock 24'2 241 241%—S per Ct. Redu. 777 s 54
per Ct. Cons. 77 IA 77-31/1 per Cent. 8t3%
4 per Cent. 98 1/4 977/i
5 per Cent. Navy Anns. 106% sis
Bank Long Annuities 19 13:16
Imperial 3 per Cts. 771/B—lndia Bonds 795. 78s. pre.
Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 6s. ss. 7s. pre.
Do. small 55.95. pr.—Coos. for Acct. 773/8 1/2 1/4 1/1.
It is reported on 'Change, that the French Funds come to 91.
The Colombian Bonds are at 85.

Few persons, we are persuaded, will deny that the-
present state of Ireland demands vigorous measures
on the part of the Executive Power; and there are
few individuals in whom extensive powers could be
vested with greater security that they would not
he abused than in the , hands of the Marquis
WELLESLEY; were, therefore, the authority given
by the Insurrection Act, and by the Suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act, to be exercised under the
immediate direction of the Noble Marquis, we should
not fear that they would be directed against any but
the guilty ; but the fact is, that these Acts must be
carried into effect by the Magistrates of Ireland ; by
men who are proverbial for their iL.,,norance and seve-
rity, and who have no common feeling with the Irish
peasantry. There are several humane, able, and highly.
respectable individuals in the Magistracy of Ireland
hot of the four thousand penons who fill that of-
rice, it is notorious that there are many who ought
not to be invested with any di;cretionary power,
much lets with such power as the Insurrection Act, and
the Suspension of the Fl ibeas Corpus Act, gives them
Of the effects of the Suspension of the Habeas.
Corpus Act, we are not unacquainted in England, as
the present Ministers have often resorted to that ex-
pedient ; but; thank Gov ! to the nature of the Insur-
rection Act we are yet strangers.
This Act gives to Magistrates a right to enter into
the most retired and delicate part. of any dwelling-
house, and, if refused admittance, to force the cham-
bers even of females. By this Act any man found
out of his house between sun-set and sun-rise—any
i.erson found drinking in a public-house in the
•ame period, whether a traveller or not—any owner
or occupier of a house, absent from home within
the sure per iod—any person in whose possession
either arms or ammunition are found—all these
are liable to transportation for seven years ; and
this too without the interference of a Grand Jury
by Bill—without the Petty Jury brtheir verdict, •and
without allowing the grieved party any satisfactory
appeal. This power is given to a body of Magis-
trates, many of whom are without education, with-
out character, and without any stake in that coun-
try in which they are invested with powers greater
than *the Soveregn himself. Such power, and that
of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in
addition, Ministers propose giving to the Magis-
tracy of Ireland, without any inquiry, or we may
, add, without any statement of facts, sufficient to
justify their resorting to a measure so coercive.—
Ministers
proposed, that the new Bills should
have been passed last night ; Ireland, however, has
obtained a respite of twenty-four hours by the fur-
titer discussion being deferred to this evening, when,
no doubt, they will be can

A Dutch with Papers of the Gth instant, and
a Flanders Mail with German Papers to the 29th
ultimo, have been received.—The Kixc of the NE.•
TH ERLA NDS has issued a decree for regulating titles
of rank and nobility. An article from Berlin denies
the account in an Augsbn:g paper, of some students
having formed a band of robbers ; and says it was a
mere childish freak of three boys, of the age of twelve
or fourteen. The following are additional extracts
from these Papers :

COPENHAGEN; JANUARY 23.
During the hue storms the water in the canal of
()denser rose four feet above the usual level and
overflowed all the neighbouring district. Last year
there arrived at Riga 856 ships, of which 278 were
English, 85 Swedish, 85 Russian, 74 Dutch, Stc.

BERLIN, JANUARY 29.
Our State Gazette contains the following article :
4, A report having been spread in the Province of
Cleves, which has gained credit in the minds of per-
sons not well informed, by the dissolution of the Go-
vernment of that Province, that negociations were
carrying on between Prussia and the Netherlands for
the cession of the district of Cleves, as far as theFossa
Eugeniana, to the Kingdom of the Netherlatzds," we
' can assert, from good authority, that 'this report is
wholly unfounded.
The storm on the night of the Ist inst. has done
great damage in Prussia.
At konigsburg, the water rose 13 feet, being seve n