Star.
London, England, 1825-08-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

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SMART. rate. PIM!It PIR SMALL
British Rock & Patent Salt so 5 l 4
Canada Cornoanv 100 - 10 - 35
French Brandy Distillery Comp. 50 2 5
General Steam Navigation 100 5 . 83 3
London& Dieppe Steam Pack. 100 2 35
Mexican Company 100 10 9
New Cora Exchtlage - SO - 3 - 5
Provincial liii&lc of Ircland 100 5 6i i

For some weeks past, a strange question has been
agitated on the Stock Exchange and in some of the
Journal , which is this d Iy set at rest. It was affirmed
by the Times, :tni de:ied by other;, that the Mexican
Legislature had refused to ratify the Tr.ntity by which
England, the first Power on earth relation to Mexico,
had held out the hand of fell3wship to that infant Re-
public, and acknow!edged its sovcreign y. This asser-
tion is best answerei by the ratified Treaty itself, an
abstract of which we now publish, and on which the
Journal allu.'ei to makes no comment. To us it is
clear that the rumour in question was successfully
imposed on the Times as a Stock-jobbing trick, to lower
the Mexican Stock tor a time, wh:ch it did, in order to
raise it again suddenly when the Treaty should arrive,
as was daily to be expected ; the fabricators expecting
to profit by both circumstances; and we say this on
good grounds.
The third article of the existing Mexican Constitution
declares the Catholic Religion to be that of the State.
t 4 The nation protects it by just and wise laws, arid
prohibits the exercise of any other."
The actual President, General G LTA DA LUPE Vnrront
was chosen to that high station no less for his firm and
honest devotion to the Rep•nblic.rn cause, than for his
deep attachment to the Ronan Catholic Religion, by
which he is universally popular with the nation. Such
a mart must have known that, in relax'ng the Consti-
tution so far as to secure protection to the English set-
tlers in the exercise of their religion, he would have
had to encounter some opposition, from the simple pre-
judices, not fanaticism; of • a people among whom
liberal sentiments are but of yesterday's growth.--
Yet he fearlessly negotiated the Treaty securing such
protection, through his Minister here, General MICHEL•
urrt, •which sue' completed in December, and an-.
nounced to the other foreign Ministers of Europe, by
iilr. Secretary CANNING, on the Ist day of this year.

This great and deCisive act was received in Mexico,
about the b-ginning of February last, with transports
joy an i every demonstration of public exul•
tation; and early in April last, General Mica:must,
and his friends here in London, %vere in possession
'of General ViotottrA's letters of illat.ks, written in
' terms of en,husiastic approbation; and not a doubt
than existed that the treaty would be gra:cfully ac-
czoted. The Mexican Stockholders, and all those in
the Alley, who are mist intimately in cot respondence
with Mexico, could not hut be w.vore of this fact ; and
therefore we are led to conclude, that bile raising doubts
on the subject, just before the arrival of the Treaty,
and dissen,inating those doubts through the medium
of our most respectable Public Journals, is one of those
cunning manoeuvres to serve individual speculations,
anJ injure the unsuspecting proprietors, against which
ti,e press cannot be too much on its guard.

The Order in Council for carrying the Quarantine
Laws into effect, was, as we stated, published in a Supplement to the
Gettve yesterday. A mistaken rumour bad gone abroad, that
lini.ters intended to repeal these salutary laws; nothing could ba
m n:e erroneous: all fears are, however, removed, by the pul•lication
of the new regulations, which, while they remove some unnecessary
restrictions, contain precautions which ate fully adequate to guard
against contagion. The immediate admission of vessel; from the
Levant with clean bills of health, which formed the chief ground
of alarm (as it is well known how easily such bills were obtained
from Consuls abroad), and which was repeatedly allowed last year,
and at the commencement of this, can no longer be practised; such

vessels and their passengers must perform a quarantine of fifteen
days, and all their goods, wares, and merchandize, must undergo
the usual airings. Vessels with suspected or foul bills of health are
to perform one of.tbirty days, and the goods and merchandize to
go through all the airings and fumigations which have ever been
practised in such cases. Should any pestilential accident occur
among the crew, passengers, or other persons on hoard. during the
probationary airing of the goods, the whole quarantine is to re-
commence, the sick persons to be sent to the hospital ship, the
external guard to be immediately doubled, and notice to be sent
with all possible dispatch to the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Coun-
cil, that they may give such orders as they may think necessary.
Various stations are appointed round the United Kingdom,
where all vessels with clean bills of health coming from the Me.
diterranean or W.rst Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, are to per-
form Quarantine. But the more effectually to guard against the
introduction of the Plague into this country, it is ordered that any
vessel on hoard of which it should appear, shall immediately, if to
the Southward of Cape St. Vincent; repair to some Lazaretto in
the Mediterranean; and if to the Northward of that Cape, to
Milford Ihven, there to perform Quarantine.
All trading vessels from the Levant or Barbary, not having the
plague or infectious diseases on board, but without clean bills of
health, are to repair to Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, " and
nowlery the ;" and all ships of war or transports coming from the
same quarter, to the Motherbank, Portsmouth, where full quaran.
tine is to be performed. The Order also gives a list of the questions
which are to be put to vessels before they are admitted at any port,
and a detailed description of the most minute precautions which are
to be taken with respect to the most Wiling article on board before
it is cliowed to reach the store.

At a time when the plague rages in Egypt, and we have just
opened a brisk trade with the very seat of Its ravages, a strict
enforcement of all thy -laws of self-pteservation was necessary, and
we rejoice that our -Quarantine Code still preserves its efficiency.—
The publication of this Order in Council will not only appease
alarm in this country, but will materially serve our merchants
abroad, whose vessels were submitted in the ports of certain States
to various delays, on the ground that since our Quarantine Laws
had been altered, ships coming from England could not be cons!.
dcted clean.

This forenoon we received Frankfort Papers to the
sth instant. They contain, from the Hydra Gazette.
some desponding reflections on the loss of Navatino.
These Papers also explain the nature of the Loan of
the Messrs. ROTHSCHILDS to the Grand Duchy of Hesse.