Star.
London, England, 1831-02-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN STOCKS.

for Acct. 5140. Chilian. 6 per Danish 3 per
ent, tor Acct. 60. Greek, Prussian, 1822, 94. Russian. 9511.
Spanish, 17;11. Spanish. 1823,14 ISI 13g. Peruvian, —. French
Reines. 5 per Ct. 93f; Exchange, 25f 30c. French Itentes, 3 per
Ct. 60( ; Exchange, 25f 10c. Irish Three per Cents, 801.

S rApixs OF URI'
( 0770 N ( Liv.)—Sea Island, 11 d
to 20t1 ; N. Orleans, bid to BJ.
Wool. ( Lon.) —Saxony prima, 33
to Ss; Austrian prima,2s to 45 ;
Segovia, S. Od to 2s 6d ; South
Down, 12 to 15 ; Blanket, 7 to 9.
Sox, thrown—Piedmont White,

271 to 451 ; yellow slack, 241 to
271 ; Modena raw, 141 to 161 ;
Bengal, 101 01 to 151; China,
134 6d to l7s.

Ftroc.:7 Riga, £52; Antwerp, £5O

to £65. - .
I ptow—Piga, £4 IN Od to X 4 15.
Bars, £6 St Od to £6 10t Od;

Swedish, £l3 to £l3 lOC
COPPIR--ZB7 to £BB Os; South

Amer. X 72 to £72 10s.
I.tan—Bars, .£l5 155 to Xl4.

Tts—Mockt, .£5 151.
Sumas—Lump. tes 3s Od
to £3 4s Od ; Powder, fine,
,23 161 to £4 6s Od ; Bengal,
£1 21 Od to A 1 4s ; Jamaica,
fine, £5 1a to £3 31.
Tosacco— Maryland, aid to 514 ;
Virginia, 5 to 6; Cuba,ls to 18.
Ots—Flor. £1 Is Od half chest;
Linseed, £2 0$ Od per ewt;
Pale Rape, £2 101.
MA MDT— Bordraux, 3s to 3s 6d.
Ilme—Jam. (14) 2s 3d to 2. 5d ;
Delll (JO a 20) 2s to 2$ 2d.
Winne, 10a 9d to Its.
Goma, 2$ 6.1 to 2s9d.
_ _

Poo.T—Good. £35 to £4O.
Simla—Good, £25 to £4O.
M•untu—l.on. P. £3O to £4O.

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received this day from Madrid, which are equally war-
like. It is mentioned that, in a late council held

by:the Ministers, it was proposed to demand a very
large 'tom of the Clergy, for the expenditure of the war es-
tablishment ; but the proposition was opposed by M. CoLz-
YAW, who maintained that the Clergy had already made sa-
crifices to the full extent of their means. An army is said
to be forming for the frontiers of Portugal.

The late sitting of Tuesday night, or Wednesday morn-
.ng, rendered, as usual, the following a lost day in.**
House of Commons. It is evidently, therefore, very bad

economy to sit after midnight ; two or three hours of drowsi-
ness are gained, and nine hours of vigorous business lost.
In their private transactions, Members would not be so un-
wise; and we think credit was due to Mr. O'CoN I; ELL in the
last Sessions, and is due to Mr. HUNT in this, for their
determination to move adjournments at twelve o'clock.
The House last evening was occupied in receiving peti-
tions—that is, in short,introductory observations by the pre-
senter—putting the document into the hands of the Clerk—
hearing him read the title—and seeing him thrust it into a
bag beneath the table.
This summary mode of disposing of petitions led Mr. H.
HUGHES, on presenting an eloquent petition from Fitzroy
Chapel, to move that it should be printed; when it
appeared that a regulation had been adopted, not to print
any more petitions against Slavery. Mr. HUGHES
then stated, that in future he would read every petition
which he• had to present; but the SPEAKER replied,

that he was sure Mr. HUGHES would not do so, when in-
forined that it was irregular. Mr. HUNT, in presenting
another petition soon after, remarked " that it was immaterial
whether it were received and taken, as the petition of the
Chairman who alone signed it, or of the meeting. The
fate of all was alike ; and whether drawn up with
care, ability, and great eloquence, and signed by ten
thousand persons, or by an obscure and illiterate in-
dividual, they, the next moment, were thrust away into
that gentleman's bag, at the table, and completely lust sight
of." Such notices of the system of receiving petitions must,
we should suppose, lead to some speedy change. To make
observations on its impropriety would be superfluous.
A conversation arose about the very extraordinary infe-
rence, drawn by the Cita wczt.Loa of the EXCHEQUER and
by Sir R. PEEL, from an invention of their own, that the
repeal of the Act of Union meant a separation of the two
countries; and, therefore, that the chances and mise-
ries of civil war were to be preferred to such
repeal. We refer to the debate ; but it strikes
us as very indiscreet to infer the necessity of a civil war,
and to hold out such threat, on the forced construction
of a measnre,which construction is by no means a necessary,
and we should say, even a probable consequence of what the
Irish now seek. In fact, most of the public resolutions

in Ireland, not only profess loyalty and allegiance, but de-
precate, in the strongest terms, the bare idea of separation,
while they demand, with equal etrengh, the repeal of the
Union, and the re-establishment of a local Parliament.—

Further, the idea of separation is wholly negatived
by their proposed alternative, that the Imperial Par-
'lament itself, should sit every third year in Dublin.

It seems, therefore, to be a most unhappy fatuity, to
be hurried into a civil war, on • presumption totally un-
warranted by the facts, and apparently invented to put both
countries in the wrong. Ireland was not separated when it had
an independent parliament, and why now? and the proposition
that if a separate parliament is not granted, the Imperial

Parliament itself should meet every third year in Dublin, '
might, if adopted, create discontent in Bond-street and Pall-
Mall, but could have no tendency to create civil war between
England and Ireland.
Mr. HUNT'S observation, that the Anti-Unionist Peti-
tioners might be tried by a PACKED JURY, was repelled.'
by Mr. NORTH, a gentleman who has, perhaps, not
served the office of Sheriff; and who, therefore, knows
nothing of the mode of striking juries generally. If Sir R.
PEEL'S Jury Bill had met this fault of our Jury Bill,
and compelled Sheriffs to summon in *root rota-
tion, it would have perfected the system ; bgt
the selection of a Jury is at present in the uncontrolled
discretion of the Sheriff, under Sheriff, or his Clerk ; and a
greater power, with greater facilities to abuse, does not exist
in our constitution. Of course we speak hypothetically ;
but no subject calls more for special enactment. Sheriffs,
&c. may be impartial or they may not—they may be in-
corrupt, or they may not—and yet on this contingency
depends all our issues of law and justice.
Mr. Humes motion to-day, relative to the extravagant
job of public printing, will be a test of the real disposition of
Ministers to save the public money. The loss to the court-
' try, by the ancient arrangements. equals the amount of
some very onerous Taxes.

We have Brussels papers this day to the 9th inst. We
observe that the refusal of the King of the FREN CH, of the
throne of Belgium for his son, was known in that city on the
Bth ; but the Deputies had written at the end of their des-
patch—" Do not be alarmed by the reports in the Journals ;
we are full of hope." The Vrais Patriote states, that Po-
land will be able to oppose a formidable force to the invaders.
We give the following extracts :
BRUSSELS.

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