Star.
London, England, 1830-03-05 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY,
PRICE OF STOCKS
Bank Stock shut
4 per Cent. Red. shut
per Ct. Cons. 921 e 14
Si per Ct. 1818, shut
Se per Ct. Red. shut
4 per Cent. 10211 31 2I
4 per Ct. 1926, shut
Long Ann. shut
Do. SO Years, shut
Do. Do. Jul& Jan. 1911
India Stock, shut

MARCH 5.
A T FOUR O'CLOCK.
I India Bonds 71

South Sea Stock 1051
5 per Gut. 1751, 141
XlOOO Bich.l3llh 76 7
eB5OO Ditto 76 7

£lOO and .Cs3o Do. 76 7
Advertised. 71
Hank for Aee. 219 i

India for Aect. 246 311 i
Cons. for Ace. 92

FOREIGN FU
Brazil 8d5..5 pr Ct. 691
Danish Bonds, 3 p. Ct. 75/
Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. 49
Do. 8.11111.5. S pCt. 461 91
Ditto Ace. 461 3 91 11
Ditto 100, 491
Bds. S per Ct.
Do. Ace. 44
Do B. 16946 p Ct. 461
BRITISH A 1•11) Ft/REIGN- SHARES, TWO O'CI.oCK
MANZ. PAID. Pet SEAM.
Anglo Mexican (it.. at .83 pm) 100 300 4o
Brazilian Company Y 0 S 101
United Ate:, (isa. at 21 pm.) 40 19i / 99

I. TWO O'CLOCK.
Do. Aec. 27} 7
Peruv. Bds.6 pr Cr. 191
Pron. Bonds, S p Ct. 1051
Do. 8d5.16311, a p Ct. 1021
Sp. Bds.s per Ct. 13 131
Do. Ace. 131 I
Sp. 8d5.1923, a per Ct. Ile 9
Do. Ace. Si

The Constitutionnel of Monday last, after alluding to
the audience which Count Roy, late Minister of Fi-
nance, had with the KING in the morning, gires the
following list of a new Ministry: M. DE MORTEMART,
foreign affairs; Dx RION T, marine; Da BELLETME,
public instruction; Roy, finance; MARTIONAc, in-
terior; VATISMENIL, seals. The minister at war is
not named.

The Marquis of LA N 8130; E presented several peti-
tions last night in the Lords, against the renewal of the
East India Company's Charter. We shall—by and bye
—take up this subject, and demonstrate in a series of
continuous articles the inexpediency and injustice of that
renewal, except under conditions which will open the
China trade to the general merchant, and admit the free
colonisation of the Company's Indian territories. Since
the appointment of the Select Committee of Inquiry into
this most important subject, we have not yet spoken our
opinions : but we must observe here en passant, that
that Committee' appears to us to be too tZtlect—
" PACKED" is the term, when it is applied to Juries
improperly and unfairly assembled—that any honest
achievements can be reasonably expected from it. When
the very CHAIRMAN of the DIR ZCTO RS is called upon
to pronounce, probably, for the extinction of his not
inconsiderable dignity—or, as a sine qud non, the abro-
gation of his prescriptive privileges, and tong-enjoyed
monopoly—it is not difficult to guess by what line of
argument Mr. ASTELL will endeavour to " lighten
the darkness" of his floundering colleagues in
Committee. But this is after the fashion of all
Reformation Committees—they are jobs, every one of
them—make-believe preliminaries to ameliorations never ,
sincerely intended, got up to bamboozle, and throw dust'
into the eyes of the public.

Sir Jonw NEWPORT, in the House of Commons,
brought forward his Motion for Irish Ecclesiastical Re-
forms. The speech of the Right Honourable BARON IT
was unobjectionably temperate, and his views of im-
provement in the established system of the Irish Church,
equally sensible and luminous : yet the nits:l-Protestant
Member for Oxford voted against bin with the precipi-
tation of a fanatic, and moved the previous question
with a great fuss of holy abhorrence I He contended that
the Irish Chirch was best fitted to reform itself--diat the
Hierarchy, and not the Parliament, was the sole competes*

corrector of hierarchal abuses—and he regarded the motion
of the Right Honourable BARONET as a scheme for the
spoliation of the Church revenues. Lord FRANCIS LE-
V ESON GONER—on the part of the Government—met the
motion of Sir JOIIN NEWPORT with a slightly modifying
amendment, and from that moment the tido of debate
flowed against Sir ROBERT 'SOLIS. Mr. MOORE—
, the Member for Dublin—ails the only person, ex-
cept Mr. TRA NT, who supported the Honourable
BARONET in his own spirit—fur Mr. MooRE said
that he conceived the business of reform in the
Irish Church was already in the best hands—
meaning those of the Irish Bishops. Mr. SPRING
RICE made a speech, most characteristically Whig, and
voted with the Member for Oxford—being himself, he
said, much interested in the conservation of Church
property in Ireland —to prevent the sacrilegious
appropriation, or pillage of it, which an acqui-
escence in the Right Honourable BARONET'S mo-
tion appeared to him to sanction. The Honourable
Member for Aberdeen indulged in some very sarcastic
pleasantries, at the expense of the church establishment
in the sister country ; such as, that it was inconsistent
with the present state of things—that it must be reversed
—reduced and brought down to the condition of the coun-
try—that at least EIGHTEEN Bishops ought to be got rid
of at once, as supernumeraries—and all the cathedrals,
except four, at the outside calculation, pulled down, and
sold for the value of the rubbish. As to the revenues at-
tached to these dilapidated edifices, he would transfer
them to the Consolidated Fund. This is radical Reform,
assuredly : and who—•in these times of augmenting na-
tional distress, when the gaze of a starving people is
beginning to settle wishfully upon large accumulations
of property alienated from them—shall affirm thnt it will
not be carried

Let it not be supposed from what we have said above,
that we are advocates for the capsize of our sacred insti-
tutions—nothing is more foreign from us—but we
would impress upon all minds capable to reflect and
combine, to what an inevitable result the present sys-
tem of unwieldy church aggrandisement tends, if
the alternative be not immediately adopted by that
establishment, of large and spontaneous self-dispos-

session. We do not confine these latter remarks to the
Church of Ireland—we are speaking of the whole
hierarchy now : and we cannot prove more sincerely our
attachment and predilections for that learned body, than
to remind it that a long-suffering people must at last
lose patience—and that then, the work of distribution
will be of necessity both unceremonious and summary.

It is universally asserted, that Mr. BRANSTON has
little, or no chance, against Mr. LONG WELLESLEY,
in the impending contest for Essex : indeed, reports have
reached us, that that Gentleman has either already re-
tired, or determined to retire. The race, then, will be
between Colonel CONYERS and Mr. 'WELLESLEY—both
candidates on popular principles—with this difference,
however, that Colonel Cox YERS has not yet specifically
declared AU opinions, and Mr. WELLESLEY leas: the
advantage, therefore, and the popularity, are still incon-
testably with the latter candidate.

We rejoice to perceive by the Court Circular, that
the Duke of CLARENCE is again sufficiently established
in his health, to mingle once more in our public amuse-
ments. His Royal Highness was attracted to Covent
Garden last night, to see Miss FANNY Kam BLE in her
new character of Mrs. Beverky, in the Gamester. It
gives us unfeigned satisfaction, to see the Heir Presump-
tive of the Throne again among us, after the many mis-

representations and falsehoods of which his indisposition
has been the ground-work. The popular principles of
his Royal Highness, and his known aversion to a
Military Cabinet, have been the main cause of these
sedulous propagations: but the Illustrious DUKE may
rest assured—notwithstanding these—that he has lost
no ground in the attachment of a sympathising country.

CITY. TWELVE o'CLocir.
MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING.

a. D. I A. n.
1 Dublin.. ... .... 0 • France . 1
I
1 Waterford ..... 0 • Flanders 0
O Gown. & Jetory 0 1 Holland . 0
O Leeward Islands 0 1 Hansburgh 0

A. D.
1 1.14,00 .., 0
o Jamaica 0
O Swedes 0
O Danko . 0

Consols which left of yesterday at 94 $ for the Account, opened
this morning at 925, and for Money 92$ $, at which price they are
at present, with little business doing as yet.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet, prices are much the
same as yesterday.
We have received by extraordinary conveyance accounts from
Visage ss the 26th February. There was a great rise in the Ism%
set pesaseed by Stock-jobbing, but by the abundance of New le
Aso capital. Good bills are not to be had at two per cent. dies.
Easy the (bur per cents. 97$ for Mosey, and far a short time ftile
Wei and a half per cents. Metalliques, which were 54, rose to 00$
fbr Money, which is la competition live per cent. to 120, but the
two and a half cannot be reduced, therefore they command so high
a pries, it is expected that she four pet cents. will shortly be above
par, and it is generally believed that the five per cents. Metalliques
will be paid of.

HALF-PAST ONE.

Since the early part of the morning the Cowl market appears to
be in a floundering state—that is, there is no stability in it. Con.
sols have been fluctuating from 921 f to 92f for the account, sad
en at present 921 f, and 9Q to for money.
It is rumoured that Ministers intend giving 112 Consols for 100
of Four pa Cents. This gives a bonus to the public of about Se
per cent. but at present this is only report.
Letters have been received from Oporto of the 19th February :
they are rather mysterious in their observations, stating that alb
not tranquil in the interior.
In the Foreign Market, Greek and Spanish Stocks are the chief
operations at present, which have improved.

The Duke of Cumberland went from Kew, on Mon-
day, to visit the King, at Windsor.
The French Ambassador had an interview yesterday
with the Earl of Aberdeen, at the Foreign Office.
The Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of
England attended on Wednesday at the Treasury, and
had a conference with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Despatches were seat off yesterday evening, from the
Colonial Office, for the Hon. General Ponsonby, the
Lieut.-Governor of Malta; and also for Sir Fred. Adam,
the Lod High Commissioner of tbelonien Islands.
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