Star.
London, England, 1825-02-03 00:00:00

MINES.

SHARI. PAID. PAWS PIP MALL
Anglo Mexican - - /100 £lO - isa. /5 pm. - 105 110
Anglo Cbilian - - 100 -5 - -11 12
Arigna Iron and Coal - 50 -5 - 5 - 186
Bolanns - - 400 - - - 425 pre.
Brazilian - . 100 -5 - 5 - 256 46 5346 4
Chili= - - 100 - 5 - - 15
Columbian - - 100 - 5 - 5 - 36 34
General Mining Association - - -10 96 pre.
Hibernian - .. 50 -4 - . 106
Pasco Peruvian - 100 - 5 - -2017 18 pre.
Real del Monte - 400 -70 - - 1070
Rio de la Plata - 100 - 5 - - 286 27
Tlalpuxahua - - 400 -20 - 220 200 pre.
United Mexican - 40 -20 - 2 pm. - 120
Welch Iron & Coal - 25 - 5 - - 56 I pre.
Continental - - 100 - 8 -

Imperial Old
Ditto New

London Portable -

Poenin •
United General

- SO - 40 -
- 50 -2S -
- 100 • 7 -

- 50 - 22 -
- 50 - 7 -

GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.

British -
Provincial ditto

SHAM raw. FRICK Pat MAIL
.X5O -,f5 -,fB
• •••• - - 33

IRON RAILWAYS.
SHARE. TAID. ramp PE$ SHAWL
Bath and Bristol - £25 sel - £
Birmingham and Liverpool - 50 - 3 -
London and Bristol - - 1 -
London and Northern - 100 - 1 - 2 11
Bristol and Birmingham 50 - 2 -
Kentish . - I -

MISCELLANEOUS.

IMAM PAID. PIICZ PtII MARL
Australian • - £lOO - £1 - £26 27
Briti,th Iron Company - 100 -5-31 t 4 31 pre.
Canada Company - 100 -10- 27
Equitable Loan Bank - -- • 1 - 21
Gen. Strain Navigation ICO - 5 • I 1
Gas Engine Carriage - 100 - 1 -12
Great Westminster Dairy - 2 -2/
Pearl Fi,hery £25 sh. £2 pd. iss. £lO pm. 1 17 181 lfl
Yellow Receipt
Provincial Bank of Ireland . - 4i } 5 41 pre.
Gold Coast Association - 6 - 5 - 521 3 pre.
British Annuity - - 10 -
Bristol Ship Canal -
- 1 -
Inves:mrnt Bank - 50 - 1 -
Metropolitan Alderney Dairy £4 pd. -
FOREIQ N FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Austrianßonds 5 per Ct. 97 17 1 Mex. Bonds, S per Ct. 801 1 1
Brazilian Bonds Ditto Aec. 81 801 1 I
Ditto Scrip, Spry Ct. Neapolitan Scrip 21 pre.
Ditto 1825, 4* 4 i pre. Ferny. Bonds, 6 per Ct.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 911 901 Portuguese Bonds 891
Ditto Account 911 901 Pruss. Bonds 1822, 5 p.Ct. 991
Chilian Bonds, 6 pet Ct. 881 Russ. Bonds, 1822,8 p. Ct. 97/ 7
Ditto fur Ace. 88 Ditto Acc. 971
Columbian Bonds, 6 per Ct. 901 Spanish 5 p.Ct.Cons. 22
Ditto. Bonds 1824, 9190 Ditto Ace. 22
Ditto Acc. 91 1 90 1 Span. 5 p.Ct. Cons. 1823,
Greek Bonds 571 61 French Rentes, 5 p. Ct. 1031 f.
Ditto Acc. 571 6 Exchange 25f. 10c.
* I Ditto Scrip 141 pre.

MEETING OF PAE LIAM ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS DAY.

This day, Parliament was opened by Royal Corn.
mission, a slight attack of the gout having rendered ii

advisable that his MaaEsry should not open it in per•
son, although it must deprive him of one of the most
gratifying prerogatives of his high and important office;
for no person can feel more proud:of the happiness and
prosperity of the country, than the SOVEREIGN himself;
and it must be a peculiar pleasure to his MAJESTY to
congratulate his faithful Lords and Commons on the
success of those measures which have secured for our
country, peace at home—respect abroad—an increasing
commerce---a productive Revenue, and a decreased
taxation.

At half-past two, the LORD CHANCELLOR entered,
and having taken his seat, with the Archbishop of CAN.
YVBDRY, and the Earls of WESTMORLAND, HAR-
-I,OWEY, at,d SHAFTESBURY, as Lcrds Commissioners for
opening Parliament in his MAJESTY'S name, the'
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Sir THOMAS
TYWAMITT, was directed to require the attendance of
the Commons.

Lord GWTDYR, Grand Chamberlain, having, with his
usual urbanity, issued tickets, several strangers were
admitted below the bar. By two o'clock, several of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal ha 4 assembled, among
whom we noticed the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the
DROWSY, WESTMORELAND, SHAFTESBURY,
and DAL1101711110(iscount TORRINGTON, the

Bishops of LOMA, gALISSURT, EIRTER, ST. DAVID'S,
&c. Lords GAMBIER, RAVINSWORTII, &C.
In a few minutes Mr. SPEA&ER, preceded and at
tended by the Officers of the House, and.fonowed by a
considerable number of Members, appeared at the Bar.

-The Commission having been read, his Lordship, in
a clear, audible, and firm voice, delivered the following
most gracious Speech :

THE ICING'S SPEECII.

" My Lords end Gentlemen,

" We are commanded by his MAJESTY to express to
you the gratification which his MAJESTY de:lye; from
the continuance and progressive increase of that public
prosperity upon which his MAJESTY congratulated you
at the opening of the last Session of Parliament.
" There never was a period in the history of this
country, when all the great Interests of the Nation
were, at the same time, in so thriving a condition, or
when a feeling of content and satisfaction was more
widely diffused through all classes of the British People.
" It is no small addition to the gratification of his
MAJESTY, that Leland is participating in the general
prosperity.

The outrages, for the suppression of which extra-
ordinary Powers were confided to his MAJBSTY, have
so far ceased, as to warrant the suspension of the
exercise of those powers in most of the districts hereto•
fore disturbed.

" Industry and Commercial Enterprise are extending
themselves in that part of the United Kingdom.
" It is, therefore, the more to be regretted, that asso.
ciations should exist in Ireland, which have adopted
proceedings irrecnncileable with the spirit of the Consti-
tution, and calculated, by exciting alarm, and by exes-
perating animosities, to endanger the peace of society,
and to retard the course of national improvement. •
" His MAJESTY relies upon your wisdom to consider,
without delay, the means of applying a remedy to

this evil.
4, His MAJESTY further recommends the renewal of
the inquiries instituted last Session into the state of

Ireland.
" His MAJESTY has seen with regret the interrup-

tion of the tranquillity in India, by the unprovoked
aggression and extravagant pretensions of the Burmese
Government, which rendered hostile operations against
that State unavoidable.
It is, however, satisfactory to find that none of the
other Native Powers have manifested any unfriendly
disposition, and that the bravery and good conduct dis-
played by the forces already employed against the
enemy, afford the most favourable prospect of a suc-
cessful termination of the contest.

" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
" His MAJESTY has directed us to inform yau, that
the Estimates of the year will be forthwith laid be-
fore you.

dt The state of India, and circumstances connected
with other parts of his MAJESTY'S Foreign PosLessions,
will render some Augmentation of his Military Esta-
blishments indispensable.
" His MAJESTY has, however, the sincere gratifica-
tion of believing, that notwithstanding the increase of
expense, arising out of this augmentation, sue* is the
flourishing condition and progressive improvement of
the Revenue, that it will still be in your power, with-
out affecting Public Credit, to give additional facilities
to the national industry, and to make a further reduc-
tion in the bur thens of his people.

" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" His MAJESTY commands me to inform you, that
his MAJESTY continues to receive from his Allies,and ge.
nerally from all Princes and States, assurances of their
unabated desire to maintain and cultivate the relations
of Peace with his MasEs.ri, and with each oter, and
that it is his MAJESTY'S constant endeavour to.preserve
the general tranquillity.
" The negotiations which have been so long carried
on, through his Majesty's Ambassador at Constantino-
ple, between the Emperor of RUSSIA and the Qttoman
Porte, have been brought to an amicable issue.
di His MAJESTY has directed to be laid before you
Copies of arrangements which have been entered into
with the Kingdoms of Denmark and Hanover, for
improving the commercial intercourse between those
States and the United Kingdom.
" A Treaty, having fur its object the more. effectual
suppression of the Slave Trade, has been concluded be-
tween his MAJESTY and the King of SWEDEN ; a copy
of which treaty, as soon as the ratifications thereof shall
have been exchanged, has been directed to be laid be,
fore you.

•" Some difficulties have atisen with revect to the
ratification of the Treaty for the same object, which v►:aa
negociated between his MAJESTY and the United States,

of America.

These difficulties, however, his M A.TINTIf trusts,
will not finally impede the conclusion of so beneficial

an arrangement.

" In conformity with the declarations which have
been repeatedly made by his MAMMY, liiS MAJESTY
has taken.measures for confirming, by Treaties, the
commercial relations already subsisting between this
Kingdom and those countries of America which appear
to have established their separation from Spain.
" So soon as those Treaties shall be completed, his
MAJESTY will direct Copies of them to be laid before
you.

46 His MAJESTY commands us not to conclude with.'
out cougratulatiag you upon the continued• improve.
merit in the state of the Agricultural Interest, the solid
foundation of our national prosperity; nor without in-
forming you that evident advantage has been derived
from the relief which you have recently given to com-
merce by the removal of inconvenient restrictions.
64 His MAJESTY recommends to you to persevere (as
circumstances may allow) in the removal of similar
restrictions ; and his MAlllllllf directs us to as-
sure you, that you may rely upon his: MAJZSTY's
cordial cooperation in fostering and extending that
commerce which whilst it is,under the blessing of Pao-
VIDENCE, a main source of strength and power to this
Country, contributes in no less a degree to the happi-
ness and civilization of mankind."

Letters are in town from Carthagena, of the 17th
December, but they do not contain any new s,

it is rumoured, for the thirtieth time, in the City, on
the authority of letters from Jamaica, of the 25th ult,
that a French fleet was seen off St. Domingo. The re-
port, of course, is not credited.

Jamaica Papers to the 28th December have reached
us. 'I he following are extracts :
FROM THE JAMAICA ROYAL GAZETTE, DECEMBER 25.

Extract of a letter from Panama, dated the 2d inst.—
We have not had a word of news from Peru since I
last wrote to you. lam persuaded that all operations
have been suspended in that quarter, on account of the
rainy season, which sets in in that country about the
month of October.

“The arrival of the Asia, Spanish 64, at Callao, caused,
I believe, the blockade of that port to be raised, but it
would appear that she does not intend to do any further
mischief to the cause of Independence. The expedition
that sailed from this on the 20th October, with 4500
effective men, well clothed and armed, must ere this
have reached Truxillo, on the coast of Peru, where they
were to have disembarked, will enable Bolivar to decide
the fate of Peru.”

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