Star.
London, England, 1823-02-18 00:00:00

LONDON.

TUESDAY, rEBRUARY 18. 182$

STUCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE.
Little or no business is doing this morning in the Market.
Consols opened at 744, and, up to this hour, they ate 744, 6.—
No prices of the Funds from Paris, owing to Sunday—there is
a great dulness amongst the speculators.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
This Market is very slack. Spanish Bonds opened at :or,
but fell to 324, 4.

Current I'rices :—New Prussian 74/, Old 781 to 79, Russian
70; to 71, Spanish Scrip 331 dis. Chili= 71, New Spanish
3241 1, Old 381.t0 39, Danish 78, Colombian 501. • •
PRICES, OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 23414 234. •
3 per Cent. Reduced 7414 3/4 74
3 per Cent. Consols 731/4 % Vs
31/4 per Cts. 861/4 14-4 per Ct. Old 92% 93 92%
4 per Cents. New 931/4 92%8
. .
Bank Long Annuities 1914 3/$
lodic Bonds 30s. 28s. pre. • -
Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 12s. 13s.
. ••
Ditto Small, 12s. 14s. p 1 e.
Consols for Acit. 731/4 Vs 73 731/4.

French Papers of Saturday have come- to hand,
but have brought no intelligence of importance.
The first blow is not yet snuck, and till it is, we
shall cbininue to believe that war is uncertain. Pre-
parations for it, however, are making with great ac-
tivity, partiscularty ila,..tha. French naval arsenals.
The Brest squadron; itis said, have received orders
to put to sea. Oil Friday DM Sir•GEORGE CLERK
is to move for a vote of seamen,- and we shall then

see what naval force our own Government means to
employ. The Public are extremely anxious to learn
what lime of conduct our Ministiy will adopt; -what
they ought to do, is somewhat easier to define. If
Lord ELLENBOROUGH's assertion in the House of
Lords last night be correct, that 48 never were
the Government and People of Englan.l more una-
nimous as to the line of policy it would be their duty
to take," it is not difficult to say even what they will
do. It is useless, however, to endeavour to conjec-
ture what a few days will explain. The following is
a communication we have. just received, relative to
the question of peace or war, from authority on
whiCh we can rely :

" Letters from n; Spain, of a very late date,
.and
from persons well qualified to give an opinion,
enable us to predict that there will be no war be-
tween France and Spain.
" The Liberal Government have all the feeling and
enthusiasm necessary to repel any attack upou.their
Country ; but the sinews of war are wanting, and the
great majority of the People (there is .no concealing
the fact), are either hostile to the present order of
things, or pe:fretly indifferent. The pretensions of
both parties will be a little lowered, and the pre-1
parations for war will end in negociation." - I

Papers from Bayonne to' the 9th inst. and the Mail
from Holland to the 15th inst. arrived this morning.
The following are extracts': ' •

BAYONNE, FIUMUARY.9. '

We beve just learnt. that an orderhasteen sent by
the Political Chief. bf }litho; tp . all. thi Ports in the
BaY of. Biscay.; eriserethe Defenders' of the Faith be-
gan to rserCise-their .ivilacsitt, to remove all vessels
and iboats fit for service to the':port of Bilbon, or
to initrt them ; end thiiOider
.htt irr4ai liegun to,
.be carried into &feet. By this weeps the faiiioni ere.
deprived. even OF ihe.mgans of embarking, if iliey,
should be driven to the coast. . ISeeenti -*tat titnents:
of troops of tbe tide arid of "Militia- *ere sent from'
Bilboa on this expedition, which came even as far as
Si- Sglia4i4 . ~: ..
.... ::: .!... - ::-. my: •
1:.. The Nuncio of his Holiness intendk Co ift•ootTrom •
this-city:for Paris torirorroy,:, :
ft .
is lt Vi9ifO aetr44,l4,lliiiiigan.liade,burnt
ilyttoeirs: ; • ' . . •
I The factious in Gallicia 'were entirely defeated at
Negro, on the 24th of January.
.1 On the SlOth the soi-disant 811013, Santi Petro, of