Star.
London, England, 1823-10-30 00:00:00

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Spanish Bonds opened this morning at 264 to 4, and were done,
at one period, at 254, j.
Current Prices :—New Spanish 194 to 20, Old 264 to Colom-
bian 524 to 4, Old Poyals 114, New Poyais 84, Russian 83.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 222 2203/4-3 per Cent. Redo. 81% 5/8
3 per Cent.Cons.B2l/8 82 $/8 1/4-31/2 per Cu. 95 1/4
4perCerts.Old9Bl/214 1,4
4. per Cenzs. New 1023/4 1,6 1,4
Bank Long Anns. 20% 11-16 5/8
India Stock 2631/4—lndia Bonds 70i. 725.
New Annuities 82
Ezch. hills (I.:1,000) 375. 38s —Small 375. 395.
Consols tot Acct. 821/4 1/8

We have received to-day the Paris Papers of Tues-
day, and private letters of the same date.
The most important article of intelligence which they
contain relates not, as might be expected, to Spain, but
to France. A postscript to the letter of our private
Correspondent is in these words:

" PARIS, OCTOBER 28, Five r.x.

" The Funds have fallen neatly two per cent. It is
said that an Ordonn.ince for dissolving the Chamber has
been signed to-day."
The Ordonnance alluded to by our Correspondent is
connected, we understand, with a project for making
the Election of the Chamber of Deputies septennial, and
reducing the age cf qualification for a Representative
from forty to thirty years. The probability of such a
change appears to have I.roduced considerable uneasi-
ness in the minds of the Parisian public ; though their
objections, we presume, must be confined to the first
part of the measure merely. If a man is not fit to be a
representative at the age of thirty, when can he be fit?
The Duke of BELLUNO, it seems, has declined accept-
ing the appointment of Ambassador to Vienna.
Count I'ozzo DI BORGO passed through .Bayonne on
to congratulate, in the
NG of SPAIN, on his

yet to have contributed but little to the restoration-of
tranquillity to Spain.

The Constitutionalists are still active, particularly in
Estremadura, and in several provinces the French are
now not acting at all. . QUESADA and VILLANIA have
been able to make no head against the followers of the
Constitution in Estremadura. The Empecinado bad
left Mundijo some time since to march on Caceres,
where he was at first opposed by musketry, but subse-
quently succeeded in entering. LANDEUA, the Political
Chief, joined him with four hundred volunteers;
and Truxillo, which was undefended, would, it was
supposed, be the next object of his attack. A dis-
patch from the Captain-General of that province af-
fects to give details of successes by LAROCIIEJAQUELIN
over the Constitutionalists; but it appears that this Ge-
neral had retired to Toledo, for the purpose of escorting
FE BINAND to Madrid ; and the last letters from Bayonne
assert that he was so pressed by the Constitutional
forces of PALENCIA and others, as to be obliged to
retreat to Toledo with heavy loss, leaving numbers
of his wounded behind him at Talavera. The ac-
tion with the French General took place near the bridge
of De Giraldo on the 29th of September, and on
the 14th of October the Empecinado was in full march
on Ti ludic), almost within a day's march of the sceneof
action. The French appear comparatively passive for a
whi:e, as if they wished the KING to feel how little can be
•lone by his followers of the Faith, to whom the Consti-
tutionalists are in every way superior. The Pilote has a
paragraph.on this speculation Some persons (this
Papa- says) look on the present conduct of the French
army in Spain, which takes no part in the events of
the war in Estremadura and Andalusia, and which
appears to abandon the Army of the Faith to its own
force, as a proof of the disapprobation signified by our
Government respecting the acts which have signalized
the beginning of FERDINAND the Seventh's administra-
tion." Carthagena and Alicant have both refused to
open their gates on the KING'S proclamation and sum-
mons, and they are places of great strength. Of the
state of Catalonia we have no precise intelligence in
these Papers; and the accounts are rather contradictory.
In one statement it is said, that to the summons, sent
by the French into Barcelona, MINA aad ROTTEN re-
plied, that before they submitted they would await the
arrival of direct orders from their sovereign. With
this answer Marshal MONCEY is said to have been dis-
satisfied, and to have issued new orders for pressing the
siege. On the other hand, it is affirmed, that the Con-
stitutionalists were unceasingly employed in augment-
ing their means of defence. The Moniteur contains the
official account of the capitulation of the Seo d'Urgel,
announced some time ago. New diplomatic agents
have been already appointed to Portugal, Prussia, and
Saxony, and the King has confirmed the appointments
made by the Regency to the Courts of France, Aus-
tria and Russia. We find that there is no mission nomi-
nated to the Court of London.
French Five per Cents. hlonday, 22d Sept. 89f. 60c.
PRIVATE LETTER.

" PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING.

" You are by this time aware that the French Ca-
binet have forwarded pressing representations to Ma-
drid, for the purpose of inducing King Ferdinand tore-
cognize, in part or whole, the Loans negociated by the
Cortes. To these representations no answer can be ex-
pected for at least a week longer; and in that interval
you will doubtless be deluged with rumours on the sub-
ject : believe none of them, however. I can assure you
that the best informed persons in this capital are per-
fectly unable to say whether the representations which
have been made by the French Government will be lis-
tened to by the Spaniards or not. The prevailing• opi-
nion in the higher circles is that they will not. At the
same time, it would not be safe to act even on that
opinion. The wisest course for any parties interested,
in the question is to wait in patient expectation for the
result of the negotiations going on at M3adrid.

" There is an uneasy feeling among the political spe-
culators here at present; The King's health affords the
occasion" for it. His Majesty is certainly better than he
has been, but at one moment last week he was seri-
ously ill. From one cause or other, a dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies is considered to be not distant ;
and timid politicians dread a general election, as likely
to produce commotions throughout the country. Ido
not think so. Efforts will be made (rather injudiciously
I think) to exclude all the Liberals from the Chamber.l
It would be wiser to suffer the re-admission of most of
them, in order to prove their nullity. One or two of
the most obnoxious ought certainly to be excluded;
such, for instance, as Manuel, who had the audacity to
insult the whole Chamber by his famous expression of
repugnance,' and who moved the succession of young
Bonaparte to the throne after the battle of Waterloo.
But, with a few such exceptions, the Cole gauche ought
to remain as they are.

" However, as to commotions at the next election, they
are not at all to be apprehended on the part of the Li-
berals. My fear is rather that the high Royalists
may revenge themselves on M. de Villele, for the ex-
pulsion of the Duke de Bellunoa from the Cabinet—a
measure apparently as ill-judged as the Andujar Decree,
and probably proceeding from the same influence.
de Villele, however, is a ,man of great good sense ; and
when he makes a false step (which the most sensible
men sometimes do) he generally hastens to recover it.
He knows how to bend before a storm (witness his ac-
quiescence in the Spanish War I), and thus regains his
footing whenever he may seem to have lost it. I should
not be surprised to see the Duke de Belluno again in the
Cabinet very shortly. The attachment of the great
body of Royalists to him does them much credit, as it
is founded solely on his loyalty and distinguished ser-
vices to the cause."

A Mail from Lisbon has arrived to-day with Papers
and Letters to the 21st instant. The following are
extracts:

LISBON, OCTOBER tz.

On Saturday, the 11th, the Ambassador of his Most
Christian Majesty gave a splendid entertainment at his
hotel, in honour of the happy deliverance of the King
of Spain and his august family, which his Royal High-
ness Don Miguel honoured with his ptesence, as well as
the foreign Ministers, all the Court, and many other
persons of distinction.
Oc CORER 11.—The Gazette contains, among the offi-
cial documents—

1. A resolution of his Majesty authorising the Conde
de Povoa, Minister of Finance, to contract a lot to the
amount of overfly millions of crusadoes. This piece
is dated 25th September.

2. A decree, which premising that the disorganizing
faction %% hich has made itself master of the Government
of the Kingdom for the space of three years, has ruined
the finances, states it to be absolutely necessary that
some measures for the increase of the Public Revenue
be adopted, and proceeds as follows:
" I have thought fit to determine, with the advice of
my Council of State, and of other skilful persons, full of
zeal for my Royal service and interested in the general
goad of the nation, that till the Custom-house duties in
these kingdoms shall be regulated on a fixed plan, which
is now under consideration, the import duties on certain
merchandize shall be re-established or augmented in the
manner following :
"Those colonial goods which hitherto paid only the
duty called Direito pnra Fragatas shall pay 30 per
cent. of their value, like others of the same origin.—
Rice of Brazil, or of the Portuguese and African Pro-
vinces, shall pay 30 per cent. calculated on the value
of 3600 rees per quintal; that from any foreign co-
lony or country shall pay, besides this duty, 1,200
rees per quintal ; but it shall only be admitted in the
case in which the Resolution of the twenty-fifth of
August, 1816, permits its importation, derogating
from the Alvara of the twenty-fourth of July, 1801.
—White Sugar shall pay, per arroba, 960 rees, Musco-
vades 480 rees, Coffee 1600 rees ; and the laws which
favour exclusively the commerce of Brazil, shall remain
in full vigour, as shall likewise the laws that favour the
Portuguese commerce of Asia ; and the Rice of that
country shall pay the same duty as that of Brazil. Fo-
reign Pork, fresh or salted, 40 per cent, on the current
prices. (The following are the duties upon Tea (Cha) of
the denomination stated, Cha perola, Atjofar, Chalon,
480 Tees ; Gigot: and [Tains 360 Tees, and every other
sort 240 rees per pound). The difference between the
duties in the Casa da India and the great Custom House
is abolished for those goods which are rated in both,
and the value in the former shall be regulated by the
latter. The additional produce of those increased or
re-established duties shall be placed to separate account
in the Royal treasury, and serve to pay the interest
and redeem the principal of the loan, which has already
been contracted on very advantageous terms:'

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the 20th, on his way to Madrid, to congratulate, in the
name of his SOVEREIGN, the KING of SPAIN, on " his
happy deliverance."
1; Our Ambassador, Sir WILLIAM A.Coußr, is stated
to have been among those w,ho offered their felicitations
ILO FERDINAND, at a Grand Court-day held at Seville
I ) on the 14th.
The emancipation of the KING, however, appears as
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