Star.
London, England, 1829-11-26 00:00:00

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•BOARD AND LODGING.—Two Gentlemen can be
J 1../ accommodated with HOARD and LODGING in a
small Family. with the advantage of the French language spoken.
Terms moderate. _ _

b... Cirds of Address apply to Mr. Payne, Corner of Gower
Place North.

PLATE GLASS on SALE in every Variety of
Sise, from the Toilette up to those of the most extended
dimensions, at H. L. COOPER'S Carving and Gilding Manufac-
tory, fe, Illsbopsgate-street Whale. Pram the late Improvements
in Casting, Plates can now be mandamsred as large as lea inches
by 80, at nearly ons-asktl of the original vane. An Elegant
Assortment of Pier, Chimney, and Toilette Frames, of new and
rich designs, constantly ready for inspection. H. L. Coons pre-
sumes few houses can meet business on better terms than himself,
the Carving, Gilding, and Silvering Branches being conducted on
the Premises. Large Glasses forwarded by Spring Vans to any
part of the Kingdom.
No. ea, Eishopsvue-street

CaILBLAINS, a HEUMATI(SiIii. PAWS& kb.
CHILBLAINS are prevented from breaking, and their
tormenting itching instantly removed, by WHITERRAD's
ESSENCE OF MUSTARD, universally esteemed for it. extra-
ordinary efficacy in Rheumatism., Palsies, Gouty Afrectivos. and
Complaints of the Stomach.
But where this entrant remedy has been unknown or neglected,
and the Chilblains have actually broke, WHITEHEAD's FA-
MILY CERATE will ease the pain, and very speedily Beal them.
This Cerate is equally efficacious for all ill.conditioned Sores, Sore
Legs, Scorbutic Eruptions, Blotches, Pimples, Ringworms, Shin-
gles, Breakings-out in the Face, Nose, Ears, and Eyelids, sore and
Inlhmed Eyes. sore Heads, and
other Scorbutic Humours.
The Eason' of MUSTARD is perhaps the most active, penetrating,
and effieaei,:us remedy in the world, curing the severest Sprains
and Bruises hi less than half the time usually taken by any other
Liniment or Embrocation ; it also heals Cuts, Punctures from sharp
Instruments, Nails, Thorns, Splinters, Ste. with incredible fact-
. Uty, without smart or pain, preventing inflammation and fester-
ing, and is equally useful in the various Accidents of Animals—
in short, it is a domestic remedy of such uncommon excellence
and utility, that no Family sensible to its own comfort should ever
be without it.
Prepared, only, and sold by R. JOHNSTON, Apothecary, 13,
Greek-street, Soho, London—the Essence and Pills at xs. 9d. each,
the Cerate at Is. lid. They are also sold at 68, Cornhill ; and by
*eery Medlcine Vender in the United Kingdom. •
er The Genuine has the name of " R. Johnson" inserted in
the Stamp.

SONG—THE PEEPING FAMILY.
Aia—" Were a' ioddin, Etc.
WHILE the Nobles of the Land all resorting to the
Strand,
The splendid grace of Fashion and of Ornament command,
That we cannot do the same grieves our daddy and our dame,
And we're a' noddin, nid, nid, noddin,
We're a' noddin, at our house at hame.
But our Johnnie comes in haste, with his Boots in brilliance grand,
That mirror-like the shadow of our grannum first embraed,
Like a tiny elf it seem'd, in wild terror While she scream%;
And we're a' screaming, scream, scream, screaming,
We're a' screaming, at our house at Lame.
The auld canker'd Carle next on the Jet his optics fled,
And saw two little devils with the Blacking intermied.
" There was only one before, now" he said," there flits one more;
And they're a' flitting, flit, flit, flitting,
They're a' flitting at out house at hame."
Then our minnie she would look, when by wit she seem'd fonds'',
Foe far beyond the threshold to her nimble heels she took,
Crying, " Sirs, there were but two, now three grimly ghaists I view,
And they're a' coming, come, come, coming,
They're a' coming to our house at lime."
Now the cat began to scold, and our surly mastiff growl'd•
When Auntie peep'd the Jet in, and of other wonders told, .
There the dog and cat both saw, then peep'd minnie, aunt, and a ;
And we're a' peeping, peep, peep, peeping,
We're a' peeping at our house at hame.
Then our Johnnie laugh% aloud, of reflecting Blacking proud,
" Your shadows in the Jet," he said, " as in a mirror crowd ;"
So now %/GUM'S matchless fame, that we brightly may proclaim
We're a' blacking, black, black, blacking,
We're a blacking at our house at !tame!
This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by

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50, STRAND, London;
And sold in every Town in the Kingdom.
LIQUID In Bottles, 6d. 10d. 12d. and 18d. each.
ALu PASTE BLACKIN, in Pots, 6d. 12d. and 18d. each.
t Be Particular to inquire for
ROB?. W A It It E N 'S, 30, STRAND.
Al I. OMBRA ARC COUNTBRIMIT.

ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE

PUBLIC FUNDS.

From the Berlin State Gazette.

The tendency to a rise, which the public funds almost
every where exhibit, opens to the observer of financial phenomena
the prospect of various new and interesting results. Having for
the most part originated In the war, or in the protracted distress
which followed it, those funds were long a rich source of profit to
annuitant+ and stock-jobbers. This source, however, most neces-
satily gradually diminish, in proportion as the system of general
peace, only slightly interrupted as it has been by the interposition
of unfavourable events, encourages the rise of the funds; and the
necessity which formerly compelled the borrower to submit to the
hard conditions imposed by the lender, is now transferred to the
latter, who finds it convenient to put up with a considerable reduc-
tion of the rate of interest, in order to avert a threa-ened repay-
ment of his capital.
The public securities have, solely by their own operation, pro-
duced this favourable change, which has not only been already
turned to advantage by several provinces of Prussia, and particu-
larly by the city of Berlin, but the impending influence of which is
indicated by the money transactions of some of the greatest Euro-
pean States, since the immense masses of capital represented by the
Government paper of different countries can find no opportunity
for investment, except that of being laid out at interest.
On this circumstance, and not on any substantial resource.,
which do not sufficiently exist, depends the power which, in mo-
dern systems of finance, eitabks the debtor, step by step, to obtain
an advantage over the creditor ; and so strong has been the tee-
dency of public securities in this direction,' that the first bOld pro-
ject for a reduction of interest on a grest scale, formed at a time
when the current price did nut lead to such a measure by a natural
course, showed the possibility of the execution by its immediate
operation. Villele'e celebrated plan for the converdon of the French
Five per Cent. Rentes into Three per Cents, afforded, however,
only a distant prospect of rapidly raising the course of the funds to
the height which the plan required. Indeed, the scheme was toe'
rashly .brought Onward, even upon a perfect certainty of its practi-
cability, to promote a sufficient advantage to the State. By the
conversion of the Five per Cent. Ernie. into Three per Cents,
the holders were to he indemnified by an augmentation of
eapital to the extent of Thirty-three and a Half per cent.
Thus the State was to gain One Per cent annuity on the in-
terest, but even this advantage was nearly wholly counterbalanced
by the egtratirdmary magnitude of the French sinking fund, which
was then in a situation to extinguish the reducible national debt of
France in !worry-one years, at par. A large sinking fund not only
diminishes the advantage obtained by a reduction of interest, by
limiting the period of its Operation, but also causes a rise of price,
which has In a certain de, ee an unfavourable cbunteraetfou. Now
calculation proves that 'twenty year,' saving of interest at Otte Per
Cent. would he a trifle absorbed by the sinking-fund. if during
the same dine it were, instead of operating no the Five'Per Cents.
at par, to-he applied to the redemption of the Three Per Cents. at'
the avetage price of Eighty-ieven and a Half Per Calif.
The optional conversion, afterwards arranged with t of
the Chambers was better adapted to this object, as cdV:nwas