Star.
London, England, 1830-06-17 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are indebted to A. B. for his tender concern for our in-
tegrity ;--although, as he possesses, we conclude, some know-
ledge of the conduct of a daily journal, we think he should
not be " astonished" that a paragraph from another paper
might appear inadvertently in a column of varieties with-
out the acknowledgment of its origin. The present Editor
of the STAR denies having ever entertained any hostility towards
the 'Bases—and assures A. B. on the contrary, that he acquiesces
generally to the truth of his own opinions regarding that respectable
and able Paper. A. B. as censor of the daily press, must have his
hands full, and we recommend him for his own sake not to be so
jealous of furtive intentions.

ti WINDSOR CASTLE, Jtrits 17, 1830.
" The KING has slept well. His MAJESTY'S respi-
ration is considerably less embarrassed.

(Signed)

~ HENRY HALFORD.

MATTHEW J. TIERNEY."

This day despatches were received at the Colonial Of-
fice, in Downing-street, from Lieut.-General Sir EDWARD
BARNES, Governor of Ceylon.

This day the following Noblemen had an interview
with the Duke of WELLINGTON in Downing-street,
viz.—The Marquis of SALISBVRT, the Marquis of
CLEVELAND, the Earl of HARDWICII, the Earl of
WESTMORELAND, the Earl of VERVLA m, and the Earl
of BESSBOROUGH.

Letters from Paris, by Express, of Tuesday evening's
date, are this day received ; by which it would appear
that so late as the 11th June, the French fleet were at
anchor in the bay of Palma—the weather continuing very
boisterous. A great part of the scattered flotilla had not
then rejoined the ships of war.

Accounts are this day received from Naples to the
28th ult. A regiment of the Royal Guards, one of
infantry, and one of cavalry, had set out on the 27th
for Calabria, to put down a disturbance which bad broken
out in that province.
Advices from Berlin—or:7sTh inst. announce that
the Krivc had set out for the Castle of Zuchback, in
Silesia, to meet the Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA,
and that he would not return before the 18th June.—
Great expectations were entertained at Berlin that a
member of the Royal Family of Prussia would fill the
Greek throne. These accounts assert that Mr. CRAD-
DOCK, attached to the English Embassy at Paris, was
to set out in a few day, for Constantinople, and that he
was the bearer of a treaty of alliance, offensive and de-
fensive, between the Porte and England.
We have Halifax papers to the 28th ult. The spirit
of strife, occasioned by the unhappy difference between'
His Majesty's Council and the House of Assembly, con-
tinued to distract the Colony, and excited the regret of
all those who saw the injurious tendency of such a contest.
The resumption of the government, by Sir PEREGRINE
MAITLAND, which it was hoped would be speedy, was
expected would terminate this unfortunate affair. The
Barracouta Packet from England, arrived out at Halifax
on the 21st ult.

The express from France came to hand yesterday so
short a time before our paper went to press, that we had
not the opportunity to remark on the important Procla-
mation, from the King of France, which it contained.
The period, to which we might almost apply the epithet
awful, at which this proclamation is issued—its earnest-
ness, dignity, and decision—cannot, we think, but ob-
tain for it great weight in the minds of a people, who
are so much governed by what produces ardent tem-
porary impulse, as the French have proved themselves
to be, in every page of their history. The English
are not habituated to such appeals, because their sober
loyalty is fortunately not so frequently subject to
require adventitious support. By loyalty, we mean
that rational principle of fidelity in support of an exe-
cutive power, according to the institutions of the coun-
try—not that pseudo species of loyalty of which the',
French, when in the humour, occasionally afford the
most extraordinary specimens—which is never sincere,
and always degrading both to subject and monarch.
That the position taken by what we believe is the po-
pular party in France, displays the characteristic impetu-
osity of the French people, more than their sound judg-
ment, we have already had occasion, on a former day,
to observe ; and as such, for the happiness of that nation
generally, we cannot wish that party be triumphant,
although we are decidedly of opinion that on many points
they are in the right; and likewise decidedly of opinion
that the Royalist party might, with the exertion of a
prudent, and yet not disreputable policy, have avoided
coming to that hazardous exhibition of their real power,
which appears now inevitable.
The melancholy history of the French Revolution,
which, however replete with unusual events, developer

nothing quite new in the French character, to the critical
student of French general history, has certainly proved,
thit no people on the globe require so much, for their
own tranquillity, the existence of an adequately powerful
executive authority. The French are too ardent to be
sufficiently reflective—their ardour blazes, and is soon
exhausted; hence the vacillation which, from the time of
Caesar, is well known to have been their characteristic.
Perhaps the quickness of their intellectual character, is
the cause, or inseparable concomitant of this quickness
in their moral resolves. They are too prone, to use
an expression of Dr. JoriN sox's, " to grasp a sub-
ject by intuition"—and they adopt a moral result
and its consequent action, too often with the same dan-
gerous rapidity. An Englishman thus may have an ad-
vantage in his comparative ratiocinative sluggishness. He
handles an implement a long while before he comprehends
its peculiar shape and use ; but his knowledge thereby be-
comes compleat„ and his employment of it expert and,
efficient.

The French people, like every other people, have a
right to a representative Government ; but their politi-
cians should have patience to model that Government
conformably to their character ; which can only be ac-
complished by degrees. The existence of an efficient de-
cisive power somewhere none of their politicians would,
we hope, deny ; and yet it appears some of them would put
to hazard that power which exists, without seeing their
I way to any settled substitute. We sincerely hope yet
that the French Government may be successful in the
present struggle to maintain its ascendancy, as the 1
horrors of oligarchical misrule, are we fear, still probable to
to be the only alternative ; but the present French Go-
vernment should know, that the good wishes of surrounding
nations only go with them, so long as they endeavour to
cultivate the French popular esteem, by modelling their
institutions consistently with tha extension of know-
ledge, and the solid advance of the people they govern,
in moral character.

The present French Government should likewise know
that any attempt to check the course of popular educa-
cation—to legislate in matters which are proper ly in the
province only of a man's own moral sense —to introduce
the discarded superstition of a past age, and confer
undue civil authority on those who have possessed
and abused sacerdotal influence—do but expose them to
the contempt of all the improving part of Europe, and
cannot fail to bring to the ground that authority which
they should wish to maintain.

The public mind has been greatly divided on the sub-.
ject of the New Police, and we have remarked, with con-
siderable regret, that some of our contemporaries com-
menced by eliminating, the system without waiting for
the experience of facts to guide their judgment; and, in
the same spirit, have continued, up to the present
time, in viewing, through a jaundiced medium, the whole
arrangements, and invidiously seeking out individual
cases to hold up to public opprobrium.
We are by no means inclined to become the advocates
of a new measure before we have fully understood its
practical effects ; but, at the same time, we will never
condemn an object merely fur its novelty. As far as we
have hitherto been able to observe, the New Police is,
unquestionably, a very great improvement, as contra-
distinguished with the ancient mode of watch ; but, like
all new systems, being still, as it may be termed,
in its infancy, it is susceptible of much and im-
portant improvement. It cannot be denied that ma-
nifest advantages have been produced in those dis-
tricts where the New Police have been established
for any length of time; and, however prejudice may ar-
raign individual cases of misconduct, which, in so nu-
morons a body, unavoidably must occur, especially while
the parties themselves are new to their duties ; yet those
whose opinions carry weight, have been unanimous in ap-
proving the general conduct of the new police,
and distinctly avowing the great benefit they have
conferred upon the community. With all this
feeling in favour of the New Police system, we
would, however, earnestly suggest to Government
the propriety of so far altering their regulations,
as to place the several distinct bodies of the New Police
under the immediate controul of the parish officers 01'1
each district, those parish officers, nevertheless, being'
themselves subject to the supervision of the Board
of Commissioners.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Our arrivals this morning are few, and do not bring,
any information of consequence. Various reports were
afloat on the Exchange at Paris, in regard to their expe-
dition at Algiers. One, in particular, and which gained
some credit among the well-informed, was, that negoci-
ations were entered into between the Dey of Algiers and
M. Bourmont, in the Bay of Palma ; and that the land-
ing of the troops on the African coast would not take
place until the Dey had finally refused to give that satis-
faction which the Court of France required. It was also
stated that the negociations were going on under the in-
fluence of England. Should this actually be the fact, and
the expedition return to France, the present French
ministry will not be able to maintain their situations.
Consols opened this morning at the same price they
left off yesterday, 92i * for the Account, since which
they have rather receded, and have been done at 92i.—
No speculation of importance has yet taken place.
In the Foreign Market, Greek and Spanish Bonds
have a little improved.
Jamaica Papers, to the Ist of May, have been received
at the N.S.A. Coffee-house, but they are void of interest.

CITY, HALF-PAST ONE.
Console which had a firm appearance in the early part
of the morning at 92i for the account, receded to 92i,
since which they have been buyers at 92i : no business
of importance has taken place up to the present time.
In the Foreign Market, at the commencement of busi-
ness, Greek and Spanish Stocks were looking up; but
on the arrival of the Dutch steamer, which brings the
Foreign Securities in Holland, to per cent. lower, has
caused a reaction in Greek Bonds from 39 to 37.
In shares little doing. Anglo Mexican 361 to 37 ;
Bolanos 190 to 200 ; Brazil 81 to 9 ; Imperial 72 to 74 ;
National 29 to 30 ; Real del Monte 58 to 60.

South Metropolitan Gas Company of 501. per share
paid 11. per share, 21 i premium.