Star.
London, England, 1829-10-06 00:00:00

CITY. TwaLvs o'CLotg.

The Consol Market at present is very inactive, owing
to Government not having as yet received any official
account of the signing of the Peace between the Rus-
sians and Turks ; but the private information on the above
subject leaves it beyond a doubt that it has been signed,
and Government cannot give it before they receive the
Treaty from their Ambassador, which is generally a de-
lay of some time.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 891. for the
Account, opened this morning at 89i buyers, and at
present may be quoted 89}. a. and for the Account 89a.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE.

The Express received this morning from Paris,
does not bring any further information, in regard to
the signing of Peace, than has been previously re-
ceived.
The delay of the Official Accounts has somewhat
damped the Consol Market. Consols, which were in
the early part of the morning at 891 for the Account,
have since receded to 8911 and 89/ sellers for Novem-
ber Account, at which price they remain steady at pre-
sent, with little business transacting.
In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing except
. in Portuguese Stock, which is not so good as yesterday.
'All other Foreign Securities are at nearly the same price
as they left off.

Demerara papers to the 11 th of August, and Quebec
papers to the 3d of September, have been received at the
North and South American Coffee-house. The following
account from the Demerara paper of the 10th of August,
is almost too horrid to relate : The trial of Alexander
Ross, Joseph Conyers, and L. Minn, was finished at so
late an hour on Friday, that we can only allude to the
result ; and even now, we find it impossible to give
any thing like a current account of it. Mr. Pis-
lehaw, who is a Swede, and whose intellects do
not seem to be of the strongest try nature, was invited
to the house of Ross, on Sabbath, the 29th of May last,
where, after being well plied with spirits by the parties,
a handful of pepper was thrown in his eyes. When
thus completely blind, and smarting with excruciating
pain, they stripped him of his clothes, laid him across a
chair, and commenced flagellation with a piece of
whalebone, till his person was completely lacerated,
and in one mass of raw flesh. They then,
with a diabolical refinement of cruelty, rubbed
the lacerated parts with Cayenne pepper, which
was enough to madden the unfortunate victim ; and
when this process was done, they applied large and
powerful blisters, almost around his person, so that the
unhappylman was for days that he could'neither sit nor lie
down, and could obtain no rest but upon his knees.
This brought on him a kind of stupor and aberration of
mind, and his life was considered in great danger.
Whilst these disgusting details were adduced in evi-
dence, the conduct of the prisoners was anything but
becoming ; and the draft of their defence was to establish
an alibi But in this, although supported by the best
Counsel at the Bar, they completely failed. We believe
that the three prisoners, with their worthy witness,
MARCALLUN, are grog-shop keepers.
The Quebec papers of the 3d Sept. contain an ac-
count from Antegenish, of 11 th Aug. stating, that for
some weeks put, fires have been breaking out in
different parts of the woods, which has become alarming;
and has done much injury in several places from little
River to the Gut of Canso.
The agricultural report of Quebec states, thet the
markets have fallen, on the reports of a favourable year,
and they will probably continue low. The price of
labour will also fall ; but the price of grain will depend
on the prices in England.
Letters from the Brasil state that the late accounts
from Buenos Ayres, through Monte Viedo, mention that
a peace was concluded and the armies were disbanding.
From Montreal of the 29th of August, we learn that
George Simpson, Esq. Governor of the Hudson Bay
Company's territories, arrived at Lachine. He left the
mouth of the Colombian river, on the north-west coast of
America on the 25th of March, and reached Red River
Colony about the end of May. He reports that the crew
of the William and Ann, which was wrecked at the en-
trance of the Columbian river, were treacherously mur-
dered by the natives. They consisted of 16 Europeans
and 10 Sandwich Islanders.
Letters from Terceira state that two days after the at-:
tack made by Don MIGUEL'S squadron, which was so
gallantly and successfully resisted by the garrison, a;,
Gravesend boat had arrived from England with L 20,000
in specie, for the use of the troops.—Devortport Tel.
A communication from an Officer of the British Squa-
dron, off Temple, in the Bosphorus, dated August 28, in
The Hampshire Telegraph, states that authentic intelli-
gence had been received there of the fall of Shumla.—
Accounts in the German papers, received yesterday by
the Flanders Mail, speak also of the fall of Shumla.
Letters from St. Michael's of the 9th ult. state that
there is no blockading squadron off Terceira. The Don
John man-of-war had, however, sailed from St. Michael's
for that island.
SLEEVES.—That very preposterous deformity in a
lady's dress, which has been styled Bishop's Sleeves,
and might have been called Pudding Bags, is now
termed Imbicilles. The term is mote appropriate to
the wearer than the dress, as appears by the danger, as
well as ridiculous effect, which attends this absurdity.
To say nothing of its agreeable clippings at the tea and
dinner table, the risk of life at the toilet in the evening
and elsewhere, has lately been proved by a conflagration
which had nearly terminated the existence of a beautiful
young girl—but those—old and ugly, if there are such—
stand in the same peril, for they follow the same fashion.
These, however, we hope, may be influenced by the admo-
nition of the Parson last Sunday in the Lessons, where in
Ezekiel, amp. 13. v. 18. they were told :—" Woe to the
women that sew pillows to all armholes," or, according
to the marginal note, " elbows." These pillow-cases,
like trowsers amongst men to conceal knock-knees and
bandy-legs, were adopted to hide arms skinny, lanky,
bony, or iris-shapen. Those whom nature has blessed
with fair proportions should not submit to be so bam-
boozled by fashion.
COV ENT-GARDEN TREATILE.—The total amount of
the fund raised by loans and gifts for this Theatre to open for the
present teases, now amounts to nearly the required sum of 6,0001.
in which is included 7001. received at the King's Theatre so Fri-
day night. and a loan of 1,0001. from the Duke of Bedford. The
loans amount to about 1,2001.
Willett and Forbes, and Henry Harris, the litigant
knees of Covent•Gardeo Theatre, are all now resident at Boulogne,
to which place G. H. Robb% Isq. in the character et Mr.
Herd, is gone on a short wit is the hope of antis' a rams"
elliatios between the parties, and thereby for ever terminating a
vezadous suit, by which that roe property is tar the present
involved in a state of rain prelitable only to the herpies of the
law.

THE NEW POLICE.
TO THE ED-FTWFI 0 THE STAR.
St a—l am persuaded that, in the obeervatiow you have
made respecting the unconstitutional armed force which
the Government is now so actively engaged in organizing
—under the specious title of " a Police"—your object
has been to bring the attention of the Home Minister, as
well as of the Public, fairly to a knowledge of such abuses
as might prevent the new system from " working well,"
whilst it can only be considered in the light of an expe-
riment. I trust, therefore, that you will allow me to state
for the information of the higher authorities, that on the
evening of Sunday last, at a little before nine o'clock,
I walked from the foot of Westminster Bridge into
Piecadilly,. without encountering, or seeing, one soli-
tary constable of the new Police, either in his " con-
stable's dress," a uniform coat, or in that sort of
nondescript outside covering which your Corres-
pondent Dogberry terms a " Rap-rascal." So many
instances have been set forth in the Police Reports, of
the intoxication of the " prevention-of-crime" heroes,
that I could not help suspecting that three soldiers who
were swaggering along by Charing Cross in a state of
beastly drunkenness, were some of our newly-established
Gendarmerie, who had been allowed to exhibit them-
selves in a regular military dress, (such as it is supposed
they will be ordered to wear when the scheme is per-
fected) and in their triumph had got, as BURNS says,
".glorious." Certainly there were none of the New
Police, at hand—" Superintendent, Inspector, Serjeent,
Corporal, or Private"—to protect the peaceable and
:well-disposed part of the community from the unwar-
rantable annoyance occasioned by these " wassaillers."
I was considerably amused a few evenings since at hear-
ing some good folks discussing, as they walked along,
the merits of the new system, which one honest John
Bull declared to be only a ramification of the French
" Spying Age," a remark which was followed up by the
whispered caution of a friend, who warned him that " the
Spy-and-ears" were coming.
I am Sir, yours,
AN ENGLISHMAN.

5, 1529.