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London, England, 1824-01-24 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1524. •
."1.,L1N FUNDS. : * •
sTact E/CCHA N C TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Cooials opened this morning at, 901 to ft for the Accourn,, and
ter i for )Toney,-aids s a Fond deal of business doing in the early
.-t of the morning. They afterwarth got up to 00i, }. Consols
re row 901 for the 4ccount.
Express reached town ibis morning ftom Paris, bringing the
Trench Fands of Thursday at 95f. 20c. Spanish 24i.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Spanish Bonds opened' at .1/1, and got up to 25i. The cause
)f.this rise is not known, but is supposed to be mere speculation.
There is a great deal doing in the Mexican Loan, which opened
at 21, and got up to 4 per cent. prem. French Scrip has also risen,
as well as the New. Austrian Loan. ,
Current Prices :—New Spanish 171, Old 291,, Colombian 631,
New Austrian s}, Chalon 76, Russian 891 I, New Prussi.m 89j,
OldDli j, Neayolitan 82 to French Scrip 61 to 7, l'ortuguese
rr, 3lexican Loan si, Poyais 31.
PRICE OF sTocscs AT ONE O'CLOCK. ,
Bank .StocklS9 %-3 per Cent. Reduced 90% 913/s
per Cent. Cons. 90 1/4 897 s 90% 1/4
.Y!! per Cents.lool/4 3/4 $
4 per Cents. Old 1021 A Vs
'er Cents. New 1057/8 10614
Bank Long, Antis. 221/2 5/4—lndia Bonds S3s.B2s.
Ezaest. ifills of £l,oco, 521. 54s.—Small 525. 555.
(.;.omols for Account 903/ 9114 90%.

In our preceding. columns we have given a circum-
stantial .narrative cf the recent evetits at Rio Janeiro,
in a letter from an intelligent merchant residing in that
city. The facts stated bear every mark of authenticity,
and are, indeed,cotroborated by intelligence ft om another i
source: the reasons and inferences ate those of the writer,'
for which we do not consider ourselves responsible. ,1
In addition to the information contained in the pry-
sate letter, we have this morning received a Brazil
Mail, bringing the Dia,io of Rio Janeiro to the 19th of
November, the file of that Journal from the 20th to
the 25th Of /hit month having previously reached us.
Ihe Papers contain. an account of the last sitting of
the. Assembly, on the 12th, in which, after some debate,
ea: decree of the EMPEROR. dissolving the Assembly,
was. read. It confirms. the accounts in the private
hair of the arrest of several of the Deputies, the illu-
mination of the ,pity, and the ride of his MAJESTY
thiough the streets., The Diana of the 14th contains the
PrOclamation of the Essezztoa given in a preceding
column. That of the following day, contains two decrees:
in th:: fit st, the Estrenon declares that he convoked the
Assembly. to save Brazil from-imminent danger, but
that the AsseMbly having perjured itself, violating the
solemn oath taken to the nation, to defend the integrity
aa.l independence of the Empire,. and theZIPEAOR'S
dynasty, he, as Exezaort and perpetual defender of
Brazil, had resolved to dissolve the Assembly, and to
call another, to deliberate on a project of a Constitution
which he will shortly present to it, &c.
In the second Decree, his MAJESTY, feeling perhaps
that he had gone too far, aays,ahat in using the .expres-
sion perjured, in the former Decree, he was far from
intending to confound the worthy Representatives of
the people with the factidn that swayed the Aisenlbly.
la a subsequent Manifesto, the -Eiarzect further ex-,
plains the necessity which compelled him to put a
stop to the mad proceedings of the restless and revolu-
tionary fiction, which had succeeded in obtaining the,
preponderance in the Assembly."
Ample as the details may.seem, they are not to us so
decisive of the real object or motives of the EMPEROR
as they appear to others. One of our contemporaries,
not proverbial for his accusations against crowned
eads, unhesitatingly asserts, that " the conduct of the,
I;>trirtor. bears unquestionably a-very treacherous com-
plexion." Nor, although we have some doubts of the
attachment of any member of the Houses of Bouneme
or BRAdANZA to Representative or Constitutional Go-
vernments, yet the conduct of the Emperor of BRAZIL
Lad, up to this period, been prudent, temperate, and con-
ciliatory. It t.ppears also, froM the letter of the Merchant
at Rio, in a preceding page, that the first symptoms-of
discontent were.manifested.loi Brazilians, who excited
hostile feelings against the European Portuguese settled
in Brazil, and teprabated the principle of employing
European Officers or soldiers in the army. These attacks
were so frequent, that some of the Officers determined
on chastising the supposed author, one DAVID Plow-
10N.1, a Brazilian apothecary. PAMPLONA petitioned
the Assembly, who referred the affair to the Committee
of Criminal Justice. The Committee very properly
directed the petitioner to prosecut at law the parties.
This decision, than •tvhich nothing could be more
prudent, did not satisfy the most violent part of the
Assembly, who insisted on a public discussion. On
the day appointed for the debate, the populace was
admitted into the body of the house, and proceeded
so far as to interrupt the proceedings.— One person
even stopped one of the Members while speaking,
::'.led him a fool, and bade him hold his tongue.
Noe/ we do think that an Assembly that could
proceed so intemperately as it did in the case of the
apothecary, and could suffer- stlCh an outrage, was very
t:Lit to legislate for any country; and it can ezcite
;itlie surprise, that the EMPIMOR dissolved it.
When the news el these proceedings first reached us,
re stated our suspicions that they rather originated in
a disimEitim on the part of the Brazilians to form a Re-
public, than in the design of the EMPEROR to brir.g the
krazils again under the yoke of Portugal, and•there is
nothing in the more explicit details which we nor; give
to make us alter our opinion.

This morning we received a file of Lisan Gazette,,
from the 31st December to the 4th inst. They are prin-
cPo7 filled v 6.11 extracts ficrn the English, Frencli,

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