Star.
London, England, 1825-01-27 00:00:00

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In the wily of apolitical study: Frenchmen may re
mark, that the most important affairs are decided in
England, while the• Loudon Journals regularly an-
nounce, that the Ministers are gone into the country, to
the watering-places, or to patties of pleasure of long
duration. In considering our system of administration,
we might be led to suppose that Ministers are like arti-
ficers—that they work only with their arms, and on the
spot where they are placed. It is not thus in England ;
there they work sith the profound knowledge which
prevails, with the mind, and with reflection; and these
can be transported anywhere. There is nothing more
Calculated to enervate the moral faculties, than the
supposed necessity of constantly affixing signatures, of
distracting attention by giving trivial audiences, which
are incessantly repeated, of passing continually from
the details of one affair to those of another wholly dif-
ferent. It would be impossible to find an able man'
',
in England who could and would discharge the office
of a Minister in the way it is discharged in France.—
Mediocrity may easily conceal itself behind that mass
of papers created by the concentration of affairs, but
talent would find in them its tomb; and the custom of
England having proved that talent is more necessary
to the prosperity of States than signing-machines, the
Government and the general Administration take espe-
cial charge of those matters only which the citizens
cannot execute for themselves. It is thus that the na-
tion husbands a strength which it imparts, when there
is occasion, to those who govern it well, and which it
withholds from others.
But, in justifying the impartiality of those who con-
sider Mr. CANNING as one of the greatest Ministers of
England, our principal object has been, to skew to
those who do not seem to be aware of the fact, that the
France of 18'25 has no resemblance to the France of

1788. At the latter period we could not have reckoned'
as many Frenchmen who merely knew the names of
the Ministers at Versailles, as we could now reckon
those who underszand perfectly well the men, the pub-
lic interests, the policy, and the r.dministration, of the
States of the Old and the New World.

IZOY.IL 111 UERNIAN GENERAL RAIL-ROAD

COMPANY.

A. PROSPECTUS of this COMPANY, intended to
combine great National and Political Benefits with the full
advantages of Cons mercial Enterprize,will be published in a few days.
Such Prospectus will be best authenticated by the Extracts
it will comprise, from Letters received from many distinguished
Noblemen and Gentlemen, large landed Proprietors in Ireland,
expressive of their opinions in favour of the Plan, and of their
zealous desire to co-operate in it.

Many eminent Capitalists, Merchants, and Bankers of this Me_
tropolis, have been also consulted on the occasion, and active mea-
sures pursuing, under a Committee of their nomination, in maturing
and giving fukl effect to the measure, with a view to constitute an
extensive Company, on the solid basis of public and individual good,
by the combination of the Proprietors of the Soil with the great
Mercantile Interests of both Kingdoms.

. -
Any precipitate or partial measure, elicited by a knowledge of,
and in anticipation of this noble object, can have no other effect
than to stimulate the parties promoting the present Plan to in-
creased exertion in bringing it to completion.

Applications for Prospectuses, and further particulars, may be made
to )li.nrs. Ravi... a +.l Co. Banker, Clement's lane ; Messrs. Fresh-
Atli', Kays, and Solicitors, New Rank-buildings; and
to Wm. Tooke, Esq. Solicitor, Gray's-Inn.

THE EVENING STAR

14.0NDON.

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TUURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1825. 1
.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols appear rather heavy, and opened at 1031 i for the Ac-
count, with scarcely anything doing.

F.WF.IGN FUNDS. .
The same dullness exists in the Foreign Market ; scarcely a bar-
gain has been done.

Current Prices: New Spanish 15, Old 211 e, Russian 961.
Mexican 801 Colombian New 89} 901, Chilian QS, French Scrip
141 15 pre. Austrian 961 97, Portuguese 891, Brazilian Scrip 15.1
pre. New do. 21 pre. Gas 11 9 pre.

SHArtF..

PAID.
seW

?RIC/ TO-DAT.
£ Se

Alliance Assurance - £lOO
1)o• Marine - 160
Anglo Mexican Mines • 100
United Mexican ditto - 40
Real del Monte ditto 400
Brazilian ditto - 100
Colon t:.)1.111 Jitto 100
Rio de la Plata ditto 100
Buenos Ayrrs ditto -
Peruvian ditto
Milian ditto
Anglo Chiliso

95 105

13 14 pre.
32 33

25 27

71 pre.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
Ihatavoon, J.P. 21.—0 n London, 56. 51. 2 Us. 56.0#.
Sr. Paramount, JAN. 7.—On London, 9 27-32. Pun, 101.
Lursic, JAN. 17.—0 n London, 5 M. 6. 15j.
Boast', JAN. 18.—On London, 3 M. 6. 24.
Dzsatso, JAN. 20.—0 n London, £lOO 2 M. 592 to 591.

PN ICE OP STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 232% 231%
S per Cent. Bed. 94%
-3 per Cent. Cons. 933/4 3/4 3/8
Si per Cent. Red. 100% 1011/8 100% -
4 per Cent. New 10534 106 105%
Long Ann. 23 3-16—India Bonds 99 100
New Annuities 9534
3 per Cent. 1751.933/4 •
£l,OOO Excheq. Bills (1%d.) 63 4
£5OO ditto (1 WO.) 64
£lOO and £2OO ditto (1 lifid.) 65
Cens. for Acct. 937/E %

Frankfort Papers to the 20th ult. reached us this
forenoon. The following are extracts

SWITZERLAND, JANUARY 14.

It appears that fresh applications cannot change the
determination of the Cantons who have refused to take
.part in the capitulation for the Neapolitan service.
Being scarcely able to maintain at the full complement
their corps in the service of France and the Netherlands,
they think they sisould.riA .the violation of tlfeir ex-
isting engagements by contracting new ones. This, at
least, is the explanation given by the Government of the
Canton of Zurich, in reply to .the new circnlar of the
Federal Directory,
VIENNA, YANUARY so.
h. nomination of. his 'Serene- Highness Prince Alex-
, *ander Voh Hohenlohebto the dignity of Canon, at Gros-
, wardein, in Hungary, With a revenue suitable to this
-elevated ecclesiastical dignity, is in many respects a