Star.
London, England, 1819-02-10 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE Or STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O.CLOCK :
S per Cent. Reduced 77* 6t—Cans.mi
Cons. for Acc. 77 61-34 per Cent. 861 6 SI
4 per Cent. 951 5-5 per Cent. Navy 1054 i
India Bonds 76 78 pr.--Osuniuns IL 1 dis.
Excheq. Bills (2d.) 15 19 pr.—Bk. Lg. Ans. 20 3-16

The fill in the Stocks rester day, continued after
the hour of our quotations, down to the close of bu-
siness, when the Cur.sols left off at as low as
This morning they commenced at 7fr ; the market
appears, however, very heavy at that price; and
large sales of Stock are hourly taking place. The
Idistress for money is beyond .any thing which has
been felt for a long time. The price given by the
Commissioners was 77, and they were served gene-
rally by the Jobbers.
A• report is gener4lly eirrent on 'Change this fore-
noon, that the long talked of appointment of Mr.
I'LLL, to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in the room
of Mr. VANSITTART, will certainly take place very
Won.

A, Corn-factor of long standing and great respecta-
bility, was announced in Mark-lane this morning, to
have stopped payment for a large sum. The intelli-
gence has,thrown a general gloom over the market.

The Committee for taking into consideration the
general question of the Poor Laws, was revived last
night, on the motion of Mr. S. BOUItNE. This is a
subject of vast importance, and deserving of the
'most earnest attention. The laws as they now
stand—or at least as they are now administered, are
undermining the morals of the people, destroying
every good habit, and destroying the property of
I.the kingdom. I
The subject of the sanguinary nature of our Cri-
minal. Code, was also brought before Parliament,
iffy a speech with which Mr. WILIERMRCE prefaced
the presenting of a Petition from the Quakers,
praying the Horse to proceed to the revision of the
LBWS which impose the punishment of death.
On this occasior. Mr. WILBERFORCE deplored, with
much feeling, the loss which the House and the
country had sustained by the death of Sir SAMCEL
ROILLY, whose powerful mind had been turned to
this' subject, and whose extensive knowledge would
have greatly aided the labours of the Hone on a
matter which had also occupied the attention of Mr.
PITT. We are happy this question has been brought
forward; and. from the reception which It met with
from the Ilcuse; with some hope of ultimate triumph.
Let us remind the House, and Mr. WILBERFORCE
himself, that the necessity now felt for wiping out
many of the bloody pages of our Statute Books,
' should operate through the present and all future
Sessions as an admonition not hastily to pass new
laws appointing fresh bloody sacrifices to the Mam-
mono-Moloch Deity. Had the last and former Par-

Laments, of which many who now occupy seats were
Members, been more careful of human life than of
that of hares and partridges, the labour they hare
now to encounter would have been comparatively

light. The facility and haste with which. sangui-
nary laws have been hitherto unfeelingly hurried
through Parliament, is a disgrace to the age and
country in which we live.

The Paris Pipers of Sunday arrived this morning.
The antagonist of the late M. de SAINT MARCEL-.
LIN has, in a public notice, declared that politics had
nothing to do with the quarrel which led to this un-
fortunate affair.

The Abbe Lamas, appointed by BON APARTE to'
the Bishopric of Liege, and instituted by the POPE,
has, it is said, obtained a persiort of 60C•0 francs from
the Kings of PRUSSIA. and the NETHERLANDS, on
condition of his giving up all pretensions to the Sec.
The Abbe PRADT, named to the Archbishopric of
Malines, has also, it seems, consented to a similar
arrangement between the Court of Brussels and the
POPE, and has obtained a pension of 12,000 francs,
which is to be paid by the King of the NETHERLANDS.
The late Queen of WIRTEMBERG has bequeathed'
to the KING, her husband, a million of roubles, and
two table services, one of which, in gold, was a pre•
sent from St. Petersburgh. She has also left him the'
usufruct of two millions of roubles bequeathed to her
daughters, until the period of their majority.
The Mid; id Gazette of the 26th January, contains
a Royal Decree, by which his Majesty, FERDINAND,
declares his belief that it is Owing to the foreigners,
who have intruded themselves into his South Ame-
rican Dominions, to the part which they have taken
in the insurrection by their intrignes, their personal
services, and the warlike succours with which they
have supplied his misguided people, that tranquillity
has not been ere now re-established in the greater pan
of these Fovinces ; and his Majesty, therefore, accord-
ing to what his Council have informed him are the
lawi of nations, proclaims that '",all foreign adven-
turers,who shall be taken with arms-in their 11. ands in
his Majesty's possession beyond seas; under. the Bag of
the insurgents, or who shall have furnished them with
succours of war, shall be condemned to the punish •
ment of death, and all property which they may pos-
sess in the Spanish dominions be confiscated ; this