Star.
London, England, 1822-05-15 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1822.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Within this half hour some large purchases havebecu Made
by an eminent Broker, owing to the idea that' the Bank will
be the Contractors for the Pension Loan this day, as it is eel.
dent the South Sea Company cannot raise the sum required by
Ministers. Another repot prevails, that the Bank are to have
their Charter renewed, u a bonus for the above Loan. The
monied academia on 'Change are anxiously waiting the result of
the return of the contracting parties who are gone up to bid:
for, should the Bank be the Contractors, no doubt the Funds '
will experience a rise. There is another rummer, that if the
Bank do not conned, they will lend Government the sum re-
quired Far another year. Consols are, up to this hoar, 781 for
the Account. South Sea Stock, 89.
Fauns Ftntas.—This being settling day in the Spanlak Bonds,
most of thit speculators in the above Stocks are busy settling their
amounts, 'consequently not a great deal doing in the Market.--
Letters•from Nice, of the sth inst. state, that they do not believe
a war will take place between the Russians and Turks, conse-
quently they have countermanded their orders for saltpetre,
Spanish Old, 621 1; New, 621 1 ; Colombian, 101 ; New Co.
lemblan, 86 ;Prussian, 86 ; Danish, 85 ; Neapolitan, 681.

HALF-PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Market looks well, and a good deal of business trans-
acting. Consols are 71If to I.
STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
The Market has improved within the last hour. Consols are
now 79, and for the July Account, 79j 4.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT, ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2391 A 239
3 per Cent. Reduced 78 77778
3 per Cent. Consols 785/8 7/ %
314 per Cents. 88%-4 per Cent. 941 A 5/8
5 per Cent. Navy Antis. 1023/s
Bank Long Annuities 19% Ys
Imperial 3 per Cents. 77 t/s
India Bonds 51—South Sea Stock 90 89
Excheq. Bills of 1:1,000, 3s. 2s. dis.
Do. Sm. Is. dis. 2s. pr.—Cons. for Act. 78% Y 8 %.

Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL and the CIIAN•
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER attended at the Treasury
Chambers, to receive any biddings which might be
made for paying the Army and Navy Pensions, but
ZIA a single offer was made.
Mr. BOSANQUET, the Governor of the South Sea
Company, waited on the Earl of LIVERPOOL and the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER this morning, agree-
ably to an adjourned appointment, when he stated,
that be was not authorised to make any offer for the
contract relative to the Army and Navy Pensions.—
There not being any other bidder, the Meeting broke
up immediately.

The friends of humanity will rejoice to see the suc-
cess of the Subscription now raising for the suffering
Irish. The stream of public charity is now flowing
freely to their relief, not only from the Metropolis,
but from various parts of the country, where Meet-
ings are appointed to be held, for the purposes of
aiding the general fund. At Bath a liberal subscrip-
tion has been raised. At Chester a ball has been
given for the benefit of the Charity, on which occa-
sion the Ladies kindly collected the money at the door.
Bristol and Gloucester have also entered into the
cause, and a Requisition is in the course of signature
for a Meeting at Liverpool, for the same generous
purpose. Shrewsbury and several other towns are
preparing to follow the example. The Mayor of
Portsmouth, in compliance with a Requisition nume-
rously and respectably signed, has convened a Public
Meeting in the same benevolent cause, for this day.
At Camberwell the Ladies have opened a subscrip-,
tion among themselves, their children, and their ser-
vants, which in no instance is to exceed half-a-crown,
but admits the smallest donations, and a considerable
sum has already been raised. The spirit of charity
has extended itself to British Soldiers and Sailors,
thousands of whom, Officers and men, have sub-
scribed each a day's pay. Ireland, Ireland, we are
sorry to say, seems alone insensible to the miseries
which so many of her children are now enduring.—
" Neither the LORD MAYOR of Dublin nor the Cor-
poration," says an Irish paper, " have met or sub-
scribed a tenpenny for the relief of the distress in the
south-west of Ireland. The Chamber of Commerce
of Limerick have proposed to subscribe £lOOO. with,
under the circumstances, a •ery judicious proviso.—
namely, that the Corporation of Limerick, who are
very wealthy, should subscribe the same sum. The
Corporation would not give a penny. Indeed, we
have heard of no subscription in Ireland as yet, ex-
cepting about £3OO in Galway, and L'7oo or £BOO
in Westport."

The motion respecting the appointment, to the
Swiss Cantons was, as will be seen in the Parlia-
mentary Report, postponed last night. It is con-
ceived that it may be comprised in Mr. LINNARD'S
motion on the third class of the Civil List, appointed
for to-morrow; and if the more general motion fail
of success, then will the Swiss Plenipotentiaryship
be brought forward separately.

Mr. Pzu, in his speech on Monday night, in the
House of Commons, alluding to the riots in Stafford-
shire, said the disorders could not arise from a
scarcity of labour, as the masters offered to give the
melt three shillings a day, two pints of beer, and fuel
for the families; and such, we believe, was the decla-
ration made at a meeting of the Coal and Iron-mas-
ters at Bitten. When, however, boa? sides of the
question are beard, this offer will not appear so li-

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bevel as Mr. Pass: mein& to dilek 71-16•itaiit
only employed four days a weektlie Irer, we
understand, is so bad that the men Oita spring-
water, and as to the fuel, which it has been asserted,
the men receive gratuitously, this *MI not apply to
the labourers in the iron mines.
We have seen an Address circulated by the Coal
and Ironstone Miners of Biiston and the neighbour-
hood, in which they express their willingness to work,
not as slaves, but servants ! It is addressed to the
Magistrates and those of the Coal and Iron-masters
who attended the meeting at Bilston, and contains
the following plain and simple statement which will
shew how very inadequately they are paid :
u It appears, according to the publications that IYe in clreula-
' lion, that your. Meeting was respectably attended by a part of
the 'Coal and ken Masters, who have declared that the Men
lare receiving from Two Shillings and Sixpence to Three Mil-
lings per day, with the advantage of three pints of pit-drink.
But instead of three pints, many of us receive but one pint,
and that worth 'no more than One Half-penny. And allowing
we have Two Shillings .and Sixpence per day in the Ironstone
Mine& as has been suggested, and there should be Five Days
per Week done (but upon an average there is not above Four
Days per Week) which will amount to Ten Shillings ; and out
of that, suppose we deduct One Shilling to buy Coal, and Three
pence which the Muters stop for Club, that, will bring it to
Right Shillings and Nine -pence: then in most places we are
obliged to pay One Shilling fur Ale when we receive it. Then
in the neat place there is about Two Shillings and Tlires-pence
for Rent, which. will bring it to Six Shillings, the nett money
sub
sist on."

A regular file of Philadelphia Papers have been
received to the 9th April.

WASHINGTON, APRIL 1.

The Senate adjourned, or rather were smoked out,
at an early hour to-day, in consequence of a strong
North-west wind that obstructed the draught of the
chimnies, arid filled the Chamber with smoke and
ashes. No wonder that thenation should be in a scold-
ing humour, when they know that millions have been
spent on a national edifice,which does not even afford
the common protection from smoke that we enjoy in
our private house,.

FROlik THE INTELLIVENCER OF APRIL 6.
Information n is stated to have been received, of the
establishment of the Mexican Province of Guatimala
into a separate Republic, by General Victoria, a dis-
tinguished revolutionary leader of New Spain.
BOSTON, APRIL 4.

The United States frigate Macedonia, went to sea
early this morning, destined, it is supposed, for the
coast of Cuba, to aid our smaller vessels of war in
the suppression of piracy in that quarter.

The French Papers of Sunday contain a variety of
accounts from Constantinople, Odessa, &c. The
Constitutionnel gives, under the head Leghorn, an
interesting letter, dated Si April, on board the Leo-
nidas, a Greek vessel, from NICOLAS A POSTOLE, its
commander, one of the Notables of the Isle of Psara,
detailing the late encounters between the Turkish and
Greek fleets in the lonian Seas. "We pursued the
enemy," says this officer (after the engagement in the
Gulph of Patras, on the 4th March) " who fled in an
extreme disorder in the direction of Zante. In this
disorder he would have been lost on the coast of that
Island, if a frigate of his Britannic Majesty had not
conducted him officiously into the port. We learned
afterwards, from the lonians of Zante, that the English
officers there used all their efforts next day to excite
the Turks to fight: but they perceived, with pain,
that the Turks were very insensible to the reproaches
of the infidels."—What a cause for Englishmen to be
engaged in, as that of aiding the Turks to crush the
rising spirit of liberty in Greece !—An article from
the SwaCian Mercury gives a number of particulars
respecting the operations and condition of the Greeks,
from some German officers who have returned to
their country. It seems there was a corps of 150
Germans at the assault of Napoli di Romania on the
16th December, under the command of a Captain
LIESCHING. Numbers of German soldiers continue
to take their departure for Greece, without regarding
any unfavourable reports spread by those who re-
turn, observing, " it is natural that men who return
should throw all the fault on the Greeks.' •
A letter from Odessa states, that up to the 13th of
April Lord STRANGFORD had received no answer to
a note which he presented to the Turkish Govern-
ment on the 30th of March, and in which he com-
plained that the Porte had not fulfilled the promise
of evacuating Moldavia and Wallachia.

The Journal de Perpignan states that 208 Spanish
Insurgents, being pursued by a Constitutional corps,
having fled across the frontier into France, were
compelled by the troops of the French Cordon to
lay down their arms. They were then placed •in a
sate of quarantine, and about 160 or 180 bad mus-
kets with which they were armed were burnt.
Letters dated the 12th April have been received
from St. Petersburgh, by which k appears the Fat-
PEROR had determined to leave that City, for Warsaw
and the army, on the 4th May. The universal feel-
ing there is for war with the Turks, and the EMPX•
aoa is only prevented from the commencement of
actual hostilities by the repeated remonstrances and
entreaties of the Holy Alliance.

The Cowan of the United States have, in confonnity whit
the recommendation of the PIPASIDINT, consummated the formal
adUNVIT=
of the independence of the existing govern-
ments of and voted a sem of money for the
minim of Ministers to represent the United States In those
countries. Aecounts from 'Washington state, that there has been
an unpleasant difference between the NUMMI and the Senate.
Colonel Raactay and Mr. Cnamew, the aridsb Commis.
Awn for senile. the boundanise sitr the Treaty of Ghent,
I Mee rrWined to this emery.


AielttPAL OF THE--onivai P1i414210
OF DEIOMARK. . , ,
DOVER, MAYI4.
The Pals REGENT Royal Yacht salled-from Pantos the
Downs on Saturday morning for Calais, to take on.
board the CROWN NUMMI of DRNMARICI &C. but re-
turned again to the Downs on Sunday evening, with-
out having bad communication with that port, in
consequence of the neap tides preventing an entrance
into the harbour, and a violent wind from the N.E.
with a very heavy sea on the coast : as the wind has
since become more moderate, the PRANCE RIM/7T
sailed again this morning.
Seven o' Clock, P.M.—The Puma RZGENT Yacht
has just hove in sight, having on board his Royal
Highness the CROWN Pautica of DRNMARK and his
sister and suite. They are expected to land here this
evening. His Excellency the Danish Ambassador
arrived on Sunday to receive them.