Star.
London, England, 1825-09-03 00:00:00

LONDON.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1895.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWEINK O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 87i for the Account, with
lade doins. They fell a little, but have recovered, and are now
again at 87i I.
In the Foreign Market everything seems to be on the mend.

'Current Prices: New Spanish 16i 17, Old Spanish 21122}, Rus-
sia': 90 91, Mexican 691 70, Austrian 94 95, Colombian New 74}
754, Brazilian Scrip 11 10} disc. Mexican Scrip 101 10.1isc.
Dunish Scrip 8i S disc. Gr.:ek Scrip 161 16 disc. Guatimala 4 31
discount:

PPUCE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Red. Shut.
3 pet, Cent. Cons. 36 78 B7 IA
3I per Cent. 951,6 96
36 per Cent. Red. Shut.
4 per Cent. New 1001,E 102 1011 A %
Long Ann. 21% 1/2 5 16 7-16
sliidia Bonds 11 12
A. 71,000 Excheq..Bills par .4 prim.
i 2500 ditto par 3 prem.
4.:100 and 1:200 ditto par 3 prem.
Cons. tor Acct. 871/2 1/4 % 14

By a telegraphic dispatch, received at Paris, from
Bayonne, on Thursday, which we bubj()in, it will be
seen that 41 rebellion has had ill luck" in Spain, and
thatAienetal BEssteatts has fallen an early victim to
his' conspitacy,,hiosself and seven of his brother Officers
having been .61ieil ifit the 25th ulf. and shot the next
day. The object of General Bissrsaas is generally
believed to haveltkbetoldethrone FirRDINA IND VI( and
raise his brother il4Tntant CARIMS,.4. that most
unenviable dittinctictox ,the absolute. Sovereignty of
Spain. It is supposed- that the veil witty who (the
I.l,enets extepted) mainly contributed to restore FERIN-
tiASO; ;have beCome so cOnvineed of his obstinacy, and
th*t there is no chance of tranquillising Spain white he
remains at:the bead of ti e Gove, nment.that tiny would,
tilercfare,•74 lark that principle of irsitimacy for wbic:t

they once so strongly contended, end, setting aside the
present Ring, change the succession to the Throne.
The experiment of a Constitutional Government, hall
this party been inclined to'sadopt it,• convinced limp
that the great body of the Spanish people were not itt&
ficient!y enlightened for such a change in their institn.
tions, while their confiscationi of a part Of the wealth'
of the Church to the use of the State, in the most pewit-
ridden country under Heaven, brought upon the Con-
stitutionalists the immeasurable and unceasing hostility
of the Clergy.
The leaders of the present party began by declaring for
pure and absolute despotism. That this, however, is their
pretext, not their ultimate object, is manifest, by their
striking in the outset at the root cf legitimate sove-
reignty,and settingasidethe lawful possessor of thethrone.
It is probable, therefore, that their real purpose was the
expulsion of the French, and this is confirmed by the im-
postance which the French Government attach to the
apprehension of gESSIIMES and his set en companions,
and by their previous movements and preparations on
the Spanish frontier.
In a country where the love of monarchy is so
strong, and the attachment to FERDINAND, notwith-
standing his misrule, is so obvious, the attempt to
change the succession was likely to augment rather
than allay the public dissentions, and until they are
allayed, and Spaniards all unite, any attempt to get
rid of the French by force, is likely to prove abortive.
Opposed as we always were to the invasion of Spain,
which we considered as unnecessary as it was unjust,
the French have certainly kept Spain in tolerable
tranquillity, until it became again disturbed by the
very party who had called in the aid of the French
troops and fought by their side. _ _

To a high-minded Spaniard, if such still remain, in a
country degraded and humiliated beyond all precedent,
the occupation of his native land by a foreign army,
must no doubt be mortifying; but we much doubt that
deposing the KING is the best way of remedying the
evil, even were it not unjust. Nor can we think that
General BEssteaes, who was merely known as an active
partisan, was likely to inspire sufficient confidence to
have rallied round him, to any great extent, any one of
the four parties into which Spain is divided. The affairs
of that country appear in so hopeless and inexplicable
a condition, in such a political chaos, that we almost
despair of seeing order arise out of it, unless some
Statesman of commagding genius, and possessing the
confidence of his countrymen, was placed at the helm of
affairs ; but, alas ! these are not the days of a XIMENES
any more than of a CHARLES V. The following is the
telegraphic dispatch announcing the fate of BESSIERES
and his enterprise

FROM Taft MONIrtUR OF THURSDAY.—OFFICIAL PART.
PARIS, AUGUST 31.
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH FROM BAYONNE,
Arrived-310t August, 1825.
" iil osittaAr. oosatAnnum AT sAymore TO its Eicss.r.ocr till
istrintrze. OP WAR.
" On the 2.5 th of August, General Count d'Espagne overtook
and arrested &Wefts and his accomplices, one league from Molina
d'Arragon.
" On the 26th Bessieres was shot, with seven of his accomplices,
whose names follow :—Bagnos, Colonel; Gotnes, Captain of
Cavalry ; I'eranton, commanding a party ; Ortega, Adjutant of
Cavalry ; Belosco, lieutenant of Cavalry ; Guisbona, ditto; Toures,
ditto.

The King is still at St. Ildefonso, where everything is tranquil,
as well as at Madrid, and on the whole road to Bayonne.
(A true Copy) " Count de KERESPERT,
" A. CHAPPE."
Cape Town Papers have beeh received, but tliey are
of an old date.

New Brunswick Papers to the 24th of July have
reached us, but they contain no news.
The suspicion gains ground that the French have
some designs on the Spanish Colonies in the West In-
dies, especially the Havannah, whether to hold them in
deposit, or as an indemnity for the expense of occupy-
ing Spain, or on some other pretext; knd the suspicion
is I iby no means quieted by the kik ;-talkel-of expedition
from Cadiz to reinforce those Colonies, in conjunction
with the strong French squadron which has so strangely
and mysteriously found itself assembled in those seas.

This forenoon we received German Papers to the
28th ult. It appears that in consequence of the re-
monstrances of the Spanish Charge d'Affaires at
Stockholm, the Swedish Government has forbid the
sale of men of war to the Colombian Government.
The following are extracts :