Star.
London, England, 1818-12-05 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

•SATURDAy, DECEMBER 5, 1815.
THE FUNDS.

Tatce or STOCKS TlifS DAT AT rvm.va creLosit
S per Cent. Reduced 788-41 per Cent. Cons. shut
Cons. for Account, 8011—Si per Cent. 88.1-i
4 per Cent. 960-5 per Cent. Navy shut
India Bonds 84 86 pre.--Oranium 1 prem.
Exchequer Bills 19 20 pre.

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A considerable advance again took place in the
Funds this morning. ' Consols for the Account were
done at 80i, and a further rise is considered inevita-
ble, from an immense number of powers for purcha•
sing'Stock being received from the country. Consols
. having shut at 80, bets to a large amount were de-
cided. At the commencement of the Account large
odds were laid that they would not close at that price
but the scarcity of Stock, and the caution observed
in discounting foreign bills is assigned as the reason
for the advance.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore-
toon.—The Ambassadors, Ministers, and Charges.
d'Affaires of Foreign Powers to the Court of France,
had the honour, on Tuesday, of being presented to
the King. The English Ambassador was nor present,
in consequence, it is said, of its being the day (the
eve) of the funeral of the Queen of England ; on
which account all the English now in Paris are in
deep mourning.

The Minister of Finance has issued a notice to
the holders of shares in the loan of 1818 for fourteen
trillions six hundred thousand francs,• that the pay-
ment of the last instalment of that loan falls to be
made on the 7th, Bth, and 9th instant.

The Moniteur, in publishing the extract from the
Protocol of the Conferences at Aix-la-Chapelle, re-
specting the payMent of the contributions; which we
gave in the STAR of Saturday last, takes occasion to
remark, that the modifications which have been
agreed to by the Allied Powers, are all to the ad-
vantage of France ; that their object is wholly of a
precautionary nature, in order to maintain the credit
of the public funds, and that the facilities which have
'been grantrd will not occasion any increase of charge
upon the Royal treasury, since the additional interest
to be paid for the extension of the periods of pay-
ment, falls to be borne by the Banking-houses who,
had previously undertaken the Equidation.

In an article under the head of Cologne, we meet
with some interesting particulars respecting the ter-
ritorial projects of Prussia. It is said that, in the
Ministerial conference of 30th October last, the bases
of a Convention of Exchange and Mutual Cession
were discussed between Prussia and the Kingdom of
the Netherlands ; but that the execution of this Con-
vention, or rather the application of the principles
acted upon, has met with such serious obstacles, that
the issue of the affair is extremely uncertain. Prus-
sia, it seems, is very desirous that the limits of her
Monarchy should be extended as far•as the banks of
the Meuse, being willing at the same time to indern-
rify the Netherlands by a cession of territory on some
other point ; and to such an arrangement Austria and
Russia are represented as being avowedly favourable.
The Government of the Netherlands, hdwevcr, has

refined its consent ; and the project may therefore,
we presume, be considered. as at an end. Another
scheme, which the Prussian Cabinet is said to have
equally at heart, has for its object to establish a di-
rect communication between the ancient Provinces
of Prussia on the Elbe and her new acquisitions on
the Rhine, in Westphalia. Such an union is only to
be effected by the acquisition of some intervening ter-
ritory, which belongs to the Elector of IlEsse and
Duke of NASSAU ; but among many formidable obsta-
cles which are opposed to this project, not including the
of the inhabitants of these coveted territories, which
appears to be a matter altogether left out of view in
this royal patchwork, we find it is observed, that
England would not consent to the trany'erenee. The
reason given is, that England would be thus exposed
to the hazard of losing that free road which she en-
joys for her merchandize from Ilamburgh and Bre-
men by Hanover and Cassel, throughout all the
North of Germany. The English merchandize would
it•. the case of the transference of the territories in'
question to Prussia, be subjected to the system and
the Tariff of the Prussian Customs. In other words,
Prussia, a great and jealous Power, might presume
to impose restraints on English trade, which are not
experienced and not to be feared from such petty
States as Hesse Cassel and Nassau. The force of this
reasoning is, we think, not to be disputed ; and we
feel pleasure in thinking, be the cause what it may,
that it is the interest of England to prevent any body
of people from being transferred to the dominion of
a Sovereign who persists in withholding from his own
hereditary dominions that free representative consti-
tution, which, at a juncture of imminent peril, he
solemnly stipulated to concede to them.

A letter from Tunis, of the Ist of November, con-
tains the following passage :--" The plague having
commenced its annual ravages, trade is paralyzed.
From two to three hundred persons die daily, but as 11
yet htahometans are the only victims ; the Christians
a,: well as the Jews, preserve them:elves by means of

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