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London, England, 1822-06-25 00:00:00

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iNIMi STAR.

LON DON.

TUESDAY, JUNE 21 1822.

STOCK EX CFI ANC F., TWELVE O'CLOCK

The business in the 314ket this morning is leery trivial, which
is supposed to be owing to the near approach of the CALIaIeaLLOR.•
Budget on Friday next, which tL Public are anxiously looking
fn.. Numbers have been disappointed, in consequence of the
French Funds not getting up, on the information of our Bank
discounting at 4 per Cent.—Consols are Biii—lieduced 801 a.

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Foarion FUNDL—The Foreign Market is very Sat this morn..
irg, and ♦ery little doing in any securities. The Spanish Stock
at Paris is 64. Current prices as follow ;
Spanish 62a ; Chilian 8011; Russian 11311 (little doles in this
Stock); Prussian 8611; Danish 87 37a ; Neapolitan 73; Colon-
bran 102; New 83e.

STOCK EXCIIANGE--011{ O'CLOCK.
There is a good deal of business doing within the last hour,
but r.ithout producing any alteration In the Prices.
The Foreign Stocks continue rather lower, without any busi-
ness doing.

The Turkey Mail has been received this morning, but the
lettcrs do tint cuntalnanytking of importance.

PRICKS OF STOCKS AT ONE ()guide..
n per Cent. Reduced 801 k %
3 pot. Cent. Consols shut.-3% per Cents. 913/4
4 per Cents. 98V8-4 per Cent. New An. 203/8 7.16
India Bonds 555. 525. pr.
likcheq. Bills of 43,000. Is. pre. par, 3s. pre.
Do. Small 3s. ss. pr.
India for Account 248—Cons. for Acct. 81 34 3/4

Mr. BROUGHAM, in the House of Commons last

night, in an r.ble speech of three hours duration, li
traced the progressive influence of the Crown which
a Resolution of that House, in 1780, declared had
increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished.
pointed out the various means by which that in-

fluence had increased, in the excess of taxation,
the-addition of Colonies, &c. and its effect not only
on the votes and conduct of Parliament, but on
society at large. He quoted the opinions of Dun-
NING (Lord Ashburton), who declared that he
knew fifty Members of Parliament who held'
•• opinions out of the House opposite to what they
supported by their votes ;—of the Speaker (Sir
FLETCIIER Nonros), who said that the influence of
the Crown had increased beyond all ideas of a Mo-
• narchy strictly limited in its nature and extent; and
of Ju,stice BLACKSTONE, who stated, that since the,
Revolution of 1681, the Crown had gained as mtrch
in influence as it had lost in prerogative. The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman concluded a most powerful
speech, amidst continued cheers, by proposing the
following Resolution That the influence now
possessed by the Crown was unnecessary to the main-
tenance of a Constitutional prerogative, was destruc-
tive of the independence of Parliament, and incon-
sistent with a well-governed State."
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY replied, by alleging
that the proposition of Mr. Baoucuesx was, in fact,
an impeachment of the Parliament, and of all those
'.:il is who had conducted the affairs of the country
for the last twenty years; and called upon the House
to consider its dignity and character, and not to enter-
mina Resolution which, he contended, was calculated

to degrade both. His Lordship concluded by moving

the previous question; and oa Mr. BROUGHAM'S
Motion being put to the vote, it was negatived by a
majority of 115—these being 101 fur the Motion,
and 216 against it.

The French Papers of Saturday have been re-
ceived. It appears that the Ultra Journalists have
gone rather too far in their hostility towards Spain,
and that the Government has felt it necessary to re-
primand that ferocious bigotry which seeks not only
to excite a civil war in Spain, but also to embroil the

tvo nations in a contest. " France," says the Mani-
tear, in a demi-official article, has no ill will to
the independence of other nations, and no fears for
its own." This declaration is certainly at variance
with the fact of strengthening the Cordon Sanotoiro
on the frontier, and the general conduct of the
}Tench Government, which has so long tolerated, if
not authorized, the grossest libels on the Spanish
Government. •

The Journal dts Debats gives some fresh particu-
lars of the arrest of General Stumm, at Saumur..—
BtRTON had for some time left his retreat near Saw
' mur, and proceeded in the direction of Bourdeaus,
hoping to find the means of embarking; but he was

induced to return to Saumur, because he had been
deluded with the hope of a movement, of which the
' object, td all appearance, was to deliver the prisoners
of ruictiers.

The accounts from the North in these Papers are
not of so recent a date as those received through the
medium of the Dutch Journals, nor do they add any
information of interest.

i''RENCII FUNDS, Jona 22.—Fire per Cents. opened
at Dl f. 25 c.—bighest 91 f. 50 c.—closed at 911. 45 c.

On the 30th ult. the Russian Minister of Finance
- made a Report to the Council of Superintendence
over the Affairs of Public Credit, on the state of the

Public Debt.—The debts of Russia, which the ope-
ration of the Sinking Fund embraces, are divisible
, iato three I-eads :
I, Those contracted before the institution of the Sinking
•
kJad.
2. Those which are the result of Loans contracted for the
Furpose of reducing the amount of paptr money.
5. Those which were incurred with a wield to igovile for the
io.cessitles of huitiir y branches of the Adininistration. •
It, under the first of these 11;,v4inna,

not including thit oitt acebent of Holland, amounted.'
before the year 1817, to 11,646,418 roub. metalliq.
206,038,739 assig. The Dutch debt was 50,600,000
fioriris ; and on the.lst of January, 1822, the reduc-
tion, which had taken place in this,mass of debt, by
Means of the sinking fund, amounted to about
62.000,000 roubles assig. and in twenty year• the
whole will bt redeemed by means of the sioking
fund of two per cent. on the capital of the debt, and
the sums annu.tlly brought in. The second general
class of debts, viz. those growing out of loans for the
reduction of the paper money, were contracted in
1817 and 1818 in assignats, at 6 per cent. and in
1820, in specie roubles, at 5 per cent. per annum.
The sum total of these debts, on the Ist of Jahu try,
1822, amounted to 334,840 roubles metallic, and
109,720,471 assignats. Of this, the portion which
is redeemable will be paid off likewise in 20 years,
leaving only between 11 and 12 millions of perpe-
tual debt, which belongs to some of the public
establishments.

The specie loan, negotiated by Messrs. BARING
and Hort, amounted to 40 minions; but of this, only
between 26 and '37 millions were carried to account
of the; O millions assigned to the diminution of the
paper money. Of the above loan there has, been al-
ready redeemed 701,700 roublei;- and the Govern-
ment has, or is in the act of destroying assignats,
with the proceeds of it, to the amount of nearly 47
millions of roubles, which will make altogether, of

paper extinguished, upwards of 256 millions of roubles.
The third class of debts, those contracted to pro-
vide for certain brahches of the Administration, have
amounted, during the four years specified, to 1,305,000
metallic roubles, and nearly 18,000,000 in assignats;
but the Government was under the necessity of di-
verting IS out of the 40 millions of the Hoes and
BARING loan, from its natural destination of redeem-
ing paper, to supply some pressing wants of the ser-
vice, which increases the specie debt of the public
Administration by the like sum.
The result is, that the whole debt of Russia, in all
its branches, amounted, on the Ist January, 1822, to
Holland, 48,600,000 florins; Home debt, above 53
millions specie roubles ; Assignats, above 296 mil•
lions. The annual Sinking Fund for the redemption
of which amounts to above 1,000,000 roubles specie,
and above 5,000,000 assignats ; or bears a propoitionl
to the debt of something more than Ito 50. The
English Sinking Fund, taken at 3,000,0001. (and it
has not yet been so much since the peace), is to this
debt as 1 to 270.

At a late hour this forenoon we received'a tiam-1
burgh Mail, bringing intelligence of a most dreadful
fire of a church in Norway, by which qpwards of
100 persons were burnt to death. Tho following are
the afflicting details of the event, as well as of another
distressing tire in Finland, by which a whole town
has been destroyed :

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