Star.
London, England, 1830-02-10 00:00:00

LON DON.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
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PRICE OF STOCKS ATP OUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock Do. SO Years, Do. 241
il:per Cent. Red. 921 i India Stock, 236
S per Ct. Cons. 911 S 11 India Bonds 75 6
51 per Ct. Red. 991 4 2EIOOO Exch.Bilis 76 7
4:per Cent. 1011 1 .5500 Ditto 76 7
4 per Ct. ISM, 1051 1 .8100 and .5200 Do. 76 11
Long Ann. 19 1 11-16ths Commercial,
Do. 30 Years, 19 7-16ths India for Acct.
Do. Do. Jul.& Jan.l94 Cons. for Ace. 92 1
FOREIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK.
Brasil Bds, S pr Ce. 664 61 Ditto Ace. 541 51 1
Ditto Acet. 651 61 17 6 1 r Do.loo, 37 981
Oolom. Bds.6 per Ct.
_, hies. Bds. S per Ct.
Do. lids. 1894, Do B. 1225,6 p Ct. 141 :
Do. Ace. 211 Do. Ace' 941 4
Danish Bonds, 3 p. Ct. 741 Port. Ms. 3 p. Ct.
Do. Ace. 75 Do. Ace. SS% 7
Greek Bonds, pc. 54 Sp.
Ace. 311 Ct. 121 15
Do. R 152.5„ 5. 55 1 De.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CL4)Ck
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SHAUL ?MD. MS MAIM
Anglo Madam (be. at .15 pm) we 100 37i 611 7
Brazilian Company 20 5 2
Brasilia, , Imp. (is& X 5 pm.) 35 20 In
• Do. Nadeau! 25 10 23
Colombian (im. at JCS pm.) 52 37} s
Ural del Monte 400 400 Spe 2
United Mess (Ise. at .11 pm.) 40 19i 16i
Hibernian 60 9 it

There is a paragraph in the Times to-day, concerning
the dismissal of General KIN G from his post at
Windsor Castle, as one of the Grooms of his MR-
) &STY'S Bedchamber, because he voted against the
Address. Our contemporary says, that his Mw-
•JESTY dismisied him peremptorily the moment Al
was in postillion of the list, and saw the
Generars name among the minority 1 We do not
believe" that our' gracious SOVEREIGN is capable Of
such' an arbitrary act :on the contrary—if we bad not
pay doubt before•—the earnestness of the num to screen
the PREMIER from the odium of this dismissal, is with
us a sufficient .proof of the quarter in which it was

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k will be ponneiend,by our King's Bench report, that
Kr. AMMAN DLit • has been sentenced to a fine of
Talon indinnuxu t!ouwos, and imprisonment for own
YLA in Neirgate, for his offences sigainst the majesty]
of Government. His fine wiU be paid by subscription

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and his imprisonment we suspect will be soon remitted.
The press will soon get the better of its &arletina.

aIIMMEMP
At half-past two o'clock this day, a sudden improve-
ment took place in consols. From 911 they mounted to
92 three eighths in the course of a few minutes. This
has been ascribed to a rumour on 'Change, that measures
shall be adopted to-morrow at the Bank for discounting
at three per Cent.

We have received a file of the Gaceta de Cartagena
up to the 29th of November, but too late for notice to-
day. Large extracts will be given to-morrow.

The abandoned profligacy, and even effrontery of Mi-
nisters, was never placed in a more conspicuous point of
view, than when they attempted last night to resolve the
House of Commons into a Committee of Supply, with
only twenty-eight Members present ! are at a loss to
say whether the audacity of this attempt, or its unprin-
cipled disregard of the public interests, ought to bear
the palm as a nefarious exploit. Certain we are, at all
events, that the country never yet was so deeply indebted
to any CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, as it will
feel itself to Mr. GOULBURY, for his enormous propo-
sition of last night. For let it be remarked, that if the

House had gone into a Committee—as the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER proposed—at that far spent hour of
the evening, we, out of doors, should have continued
utterly ignorant of the astounding fact, that only
TWENTY-EIGHT Members of the Commons —and these,
of course, all ministerial satellites—had constituted them-
selves a BODY OF SUPPLY, to vote away millions
of the public money after midnight! We say
after midnight, because the contending influences of
wine and sleep—superadded 'to the natural Bceotian
crassitude of many a voter—make midnight, for any dis-
cussions affecting the interests of a whole nation, a very
deprecable season. Yet this after all is the season, and
this the indifference, and this the numerical wisdom, by
which—for many a by-gone session—no REPRESEN TA-
TI V E of the PEOPLE concerning himself to inquire into
the matter—burden after burden has been piled upon
our bending backs.
What, then, must not be the debt of gratitude which
the country owes to Mr. GOULBURN, for his attempt to
trick it—more solito—last night, by a repetition of the
old heartless legerdemain, in the presence of one of the
people's most vigilant guardians ? Either he could not have
seen the Marquis of BLANDVORD in his place, or he must
have been disseized of his five senses, before he could have
counted on winning over that incorruptible servant of the
public, to acquiesce in his flagrant proposal. The lan-
guage used by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on this
occasion, shows how far gone he was in the conviction'
that nobody in that House cared a button for the
concerns of the people ; and that—however parties there
might split, and fight, and squabble among themselves
about the public plunder—all were at least united, as a
matter of course, on the broad common principle, that
the people were to be given over to plunder. The
Right Honourable Gentleman understood—he said—
that it was arranged between the two sides of the House,
that there should be no discussion on the question of
going into a Committee of Supply. Arranged between
the two sides of the House! Why, then, what is the
use of having two sides, if that side—calling itself Op-
position—instead of offering a barrier to ministerial en-
croachments, comes to a grossly corrupt understanding
with the Minister, whenever it is his unprincipled
caprice to impose fresh burdens upon a groaning
people ? Mr. GOULBURN evidently felt the scrape he
was in, but the SPEAKER had put the question, and the
step was irretrievable. He betook himself, therefore, to
that sort of deprecatory and half-cajoling remonstrance,
which any common pickpocket would be very apt to try
with one of PEEL'S policemen, who might have caught
him inchoante delicto : " I know that the power
is yours, and that—according to Act of Parliament—
you may deal with me as you please : you are sent here
for the prevention of crime, but I entreat you not to in-
terrupt me to-night—l shall be here, with a great many
more accomplices, on Friday night-.you had better
let me go till then"—i. e. till the Thieves are too many for
the thief-takers !

Precisely of the above description,was the expostulation
which Mr. GOULBURN addressed to the Noble LORD:
Utere sorte tutl—the wheedling, and wily deprecation of
a subjected adversary. But like )Er EAS, who beheld the
spoils of his beloved PA LL AS upon the shoulders of the
crafty suppliant, the Noble MARQUIS only beard in the
Right Honourable Gentleman the entreaties of a plunderer
of the people—the people, whom he came into that
House to defend : and when he thought of the prostrate
people plundered, he became inflexible too. It is a long,
long time, since the country has been blessed with
an advocate, uniting so much purity, ability and enrage,
with the high station of the Noble Ma Ron to. It will be
impossible for corruption to hold out against an
antagonist, at once so elevated in rank and so popular
in his assertions : for there is no class, whether of the
highest Aristocracy, or of the humblest among Ilse
people, which is not represented in his person, and
included in his advocacies. In the mean time,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has received a
lesson last night, which he will not readily forget ;
and—we should think—one calculated to make
him apprehensive lest he receive another like
it on Friday, though no doubt there will be a
strong muster of the serviles. The saucy expe-
riment of going into a Committee of Supply, when there
was positively NOT A HOUSE, in the constitutional and
legal sense, will hardly be attempted again.

MINORITY OW LORD ILANDWORD'S AMILIDDRNT.
O'CONNEL, DANIEL • -
DAWSON, ALEXANDER
HUME, JOSEPH
WOOD, JOHN
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Las;

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On the motion of Lord ELLIIIIIIOIIOI7OII is
and of Mr. Pen. in the Commons, • 13e

was last night appointed in each House, to inquire into
the affairs of the East India Company. Mr. Peet. ex-
pressed his belief that the inquiry would reflect credit on
the East India Company, and that the expectations of
the advantages to be derived from the opening of the
trade beyond its present extent, were too sanguine. The
general feeling of the House excited by the tenor of the
Right Honourable Member's speech seemed to be, that
the Ministers are friendly to the renewal of the Charter,
but we trust it will be importantly modified.
It will be in the recollection of our readers, that about
three months ago, when ministers had determined to re-
cognise the usurper of DONN • MARIA'S throne, or enter
into diplomatic relations with him, which is the same
thing, an article appeared in the Times in approbation of
the measure, and preparing the public for its being car-
ried into effect. While the doctrines of the " leading
Journal," found but too many echoes in the columns of
our contemporaries, we entered our solemn protest
against an act which could not fail to cover Eng-
land with ignominy ; an act, which, as we still contend,
would be a flagrant violation of justice, without pro-
ducing one solitary advantage. A counterpart to the
fallacious arguments then broached by the Times having
appeared this morning, we again protest against the pro-
jected recognition, as being unjust in itself, and fraught
with the most ruinous consequences to the British cha-
racter and British interests. If we are asked the motives
of our continuing so inflexible on this subject, we reply
by referring to the oft-repeated proofs contained
in the columns of the STA n during the last seven
months, that the Usurper has no claim to the
Crown, that he seized power through perjury and
treason, and that he subsequently maintained it through
persecution and bloodshed. Having given so many and
such irrefragable proofs on these points, we now repeat for
the fiftieth time, and in direct contradiction to the recent
assertion of Lord ABERDEEN, that MIGUEL is not the
choice of the Portuguese People. It is natural for
those who have done their utmost to sustain the Usur-
per, to make this and other statements which, every
body acquainted with the real state of the question knows
to be utterly unfounded. We now ask the Noble Lord
at the head of the Foreign Department, whether the un-
contradicted and incontestable fact of there being at this
moment THIRTY THOUSAND Patriots, including
nearly all the virtue, learning, and talent of Portugal,
either imprisoned and proscribed at home, or exiles in
foreign lands, does not furnish a satisfactory refutation
to the assertion in question ? With this single fact before
us, is it not a cruel mockery, to use no harsher term,
fur any man, or set of men, to proclaim that this monster,
stained as be is by every• crime, should be the choice of
the nation ?

Deeming it quite unnecessary to repeat the numerous
facts and arguments which we have so often put forth
on this most painful subject, it is, however, impossible
to pass over that doctrine of our contemporary, which,
while it acknowledges the crimes and oppressions of the
despot, concludes by saying, as he did on the former oc-
casion, " The British Government must shortly renew►
its diplomatic relations with him." The phrase by
which this sentence is previously qualified, also deserves
notice. "If there be no prospect of seeing so pestilent
a ruler dismissed by the discontents of his subjects, or
overthrown by the forces of his brother." Now we will
ask the writer, whether he is not aware that there is a
prospect of hurling the usurper from the power he has
so much abused ? Having put this question, does he not
well know how the recognition at such a mo-
ment would operate on the efforts of the Emperor ?
Knowing this, upon what principle would Ministers be
justified in renewing our relations with Mta a EL, until it
be seen whether he be really the choice of the people,
and that the patriots are resisted by them ?—it being our
own firm conviction, that a much smaller force than the
QUEEN has actually at her disposal, would be sufficient
to deliver Portugal. Whatever, therefore, may be the
future intentions of Ministers, we call on them, in the
name of an oppressed and suffering people, to suspend
the recognition. As we have already said, this act,
which would at any time it an indelible disgrace to
us, could not fail, if carried into effect now, to prove to
the whole world, beyond a shadow of doubt, that secret
connection and sympathy which is said to prevail be-
tween the NoaLE DUKE and the tyrant.

We are rejoiced to perceive that Lord PALMERSTON
has given notice of a motion on the subject of Portugal
for the 18th, and we anticipate the happiest results from
the Noble Lord's efforts on that day. Although be is already
master of the whole case, we strongly recommend both
his Lordship and all those who are desirous of adding to
their stock of information, with regard tOthe Portuguese
question, attentively to read the two Pamphlets which we
have just noticed—namely " Papers Relative to the Af-
fairs of Portugal," and the " Historical Illustrations."
We conclude by calling the attention of Lord Asso-
nant and the public, to the fact of the export of Port
wine from Portugal having decreased ONE THIRD during
the last year. So much for the prosperity attendant on
usurpation 1
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The following paragraph has appeared in a Morning
Paper. We give it without guaranteeing its authenticity:
" We have received New York papers to the 17th ult.
They contain accounts from Vera Cruz to the 21st of
December. General BUSTAMMITZ, the Vice-President
of Mexico, who commanded the army of reserve at
Xalapa, had revolted against the Government, and was
marching on the capital 'with his troops. He had
declared the existing Government null, but acknow-
ledged submission to Guesser», the President, so far
uhe consented to his plans. GUERRIRO bad been
appointed. Canepander-hi-Chief of the army, and had set
out fro* Mugu te meet BUSTAMMITR. SANTA Au If A ,
whi was *it Vera Crus, had marched, with the troops
imdsrlds command, to assist the Predated to put down
di, !eel, who would thus be placed between two ken
Iles gesseal opinion is. that BE/STAB/MDT& would bot
easily sulgosa, and trawrinity Itetor:d.-

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CITY, TwiLvE O'CLoCt.
WAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING.
a. D.l a. D. II. a
Wl 1 D0n......... 0 0 France
1 Waterford-- 0I 0 Flanders
& 0 Gnern.Jersey 0 1 Holland 0 0 Sweden 5
0 Leeward Ltand. 0 0 Hamburgh .... 2 0 Brasil

The Coned Market to the present time continues steady. Con.
sole which left off yesterday at elf j for the Account opened at
el j, st which price they remain alternately buyers and sellers.—
The public attention this morning is greatly engrossed by the ex.
planation and refutation in certain Morning Journals, in regard to
the late melancholy event of Lord Graves, and the public learn
with much satisfacdon, that the scandalous insinuations against a
person of high rank is without the least foundation.—ln the Fo-
reign Market little or nothing is doing as yet. Most of the prices
are nominal.

The Isabella: fripte is arrived front Rio Janeiro, but not.of so
late a date u the last Brazil packet.

Calcutta Papers to the 20th of Sept. have been received at the
North and South American Coirec-house.

CALCUTTA MCI CURTEST Of TUE 17TH UPT.

Cortex—The market my quiet.
GRAIN—The market continues to have a very heavy appearance.
Sat TIPITSITIte market is getting very bare of this, and parcels
going off as they arrive.

Sucon—Condnues in active demand.
Sns—The market has been very dull during the past week, and
with a tendency to a decline.

Eimors Goons—Geoeru
peanut of improvement.