Star.
London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR,

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16-, ISM
THE FUND& y
?RICH OF STOOKS THIS DAT AT TWILVE O.CLOXIC :
3 per Cent. Reduced 7711-4 per Cent. Coss. shut
Cons. for Account, 78179—Sp per Cent. 860
4 per Cent. 94195-5 per Cent. Navy shut
India Bonds 78 pre.--Ornnium par.
Exchequer Bills 11 17 pre.

Stocks continue pretty steady.--Consols for the
Account commenced at 79{, and continued so till
twelve o'clock, when the market began to look very
heavy, and they fell to 781. The Commissioners gave
r} Reduced, and were served generally by the job-
bers.—Bets to a considerable amount were this morn-
ing made on 'Change, that the trench 5 per Cents.
would be done at 56, on or before Christmas next..-1
Private laters received from Paris this morning state,
that on Monday they were actually.done at 59 fr. but
for out own parts. we certainly do not attach any
credit to them. If this statement is true, it would
make a fall, in one day, of 4 fr. 50 c.

It is currently reported, in the best Informed cir-
cles, that Sir HUDSON Lows is appointed to succeed
General Sir &mar 13noWNRIGG in the Government
of Ceylon. Nothing certain is yet known as to his
saccessor at St. Helena. Mr. ARBUTHNOT, our
Readers are aware, left this country some time ago
for that island ; but with what object was not then
surmised.
The appointment of Lord MELVILLE, so often
talked of, to the Governor-Generalship of India, is
now considered as certain, and will take, place at no
very remote date. His Lordship will, it is confi-
dently rumoured, be succeeded in his situation as
First Lord of the Admiralty, by the Marquis of
BUCKINGHAM.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon.
—The view which they exhibit of the state of the
Funds on Saturday does not altogether correspond
with the private accounts which were circulated on
our Exchange yesterday, according to which the 5
per Cents. had rallied to 65 fr. 50 c. On Saturday
they opened at 62 fr. fell at one time as low as 60 tr.
rose afterwards to 64 fr. and finally closed at 63 fr.
50 e. The great fluctuation which this day's prices
eahicit, is symptomatic of pretty extensive operations
having been going on among the Stockholders and
monied men of Paris ; and, ending as it has done, in
raising the Stocks a shade higher than they were on
the day preceding, may be regarded as having given
rather a favourable turn to the market.

The Kit:o has had a slight attack of the gout;
but his indisposition did not prevent him from pre-
siding on Saturday at a Council of Ministers, which
lasted for five hours. The deliberations of the French
Cabinet, at Such a juncture as the present, must be
of a degree of interest and importance, paramount to
all other considerations.
His Grace the Duke of NTELLIwcrox took leave
of his MAJESTY. the Princes and Princesses of the
Royal Family, on Saturday morning ; and (as we
have already announced) was to depart next day for
London.

His Royal Highness the Duke of ANCOULEME ar
rived at the Thuilleries, from his political and mili-
tary tour through the Northern Departments, on Sa-
turday night.
The Minister of War has issued orders that the
legions of Infantry shall be raised to their full com-
plement. Those of the North, of the Lower Rhine,
and of Meurthe, are to repair to Paris, in order to re-
ceive a more regular organization ; their complement
is to be 1500 men ; and they are hereafter to serve as
a model to the other regiments of the line.
It is said that the Commission charged with the
inspection of the fortified places, and which accom-
panied the Duke of ANGOULEMZ in his tour, is of opi-
pinion that it will be necessary to replace, by new
fortresses, those which have been ceded by the treaty
of Park. This report is quoted as from the Journal
de la Belgique, with the view, we presume, of giving
a foreiga state the credit of spiriting up the French
people to a step, which it would require some want
of decency in themselves to be forward in attempting.
If ceded fortresses are to be replaced by building
new ones, of what use, it may be asked, is the cession
at all? The werst of such a project, in as far as this
country is concerned, is, that impoverished as the
French, nationally speaking, now are and will be for
years to come, they will riot stop at the mere chance
of provoking the hostility of their neighbours by
building new fortresses, but will in all probability
}lave the modesty to ask us for the very money to
build them, it being now the impolitic fashion for
Britain to waste its treasures in loans to all the other
cations of the world—no matter for what pit-pose—
of peace or of conquest—of virtue or of ambition—of
beneficence or of oppression.
A Commission, named by the new Minister of Fi-
nance, and composed of MM. Counsma, Counsellor
of State, Leonia., FEUTRIIRS, and BRIcIGNE, Mas-
ters of Requests, has been for some days occupied
with the verification of the state of the Royal Trea-
sury, and of its different funds, at the period when
his Excellency entered upon his functions.
The consecratko and coronation of the grxes, so