Star.
London, England, 1819-09-30 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1819.

THE FUNDS.
pEKE Or STOOKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Bank Stock shut
3 per Cent. Reduced shut
3 per Cent. Consols 691 ti
3i per Cent. shut-1 per Cent. shut
5 per Cent. Navy mit
Bank Long Annuities shut
India Bonds 8 pre.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 9 6 dis.
Commercial 19 dis.

Omnium pre.
Consols for Acct. 69lia.

We resume to-day our detail of the proceedings of
yesterday's Common Hall ; which will long be re-
membered for the spirit and firmness displayed by
the Independent Livery, in the maintenance of their
Privileges. On this occasion the professed preservers
of order and decorum, the pretended protectors of
the Rights of the Livery, proved to be a confedericy
for obstructing their fellow-citizens in the. exercise
of their undoubted Privileges, by indecorous interrup-
tion, and disorderly clamour. All their tactics, how-
ever, were baffled ; and their phalanxes of vocifera-
tors planted on, and immediately contiguous to the
Hustings, were, after a short struggle, compelled to
give way to the wishes of the great majority of the
Livery. Resolutions were passed on the subject of the
Manchester Tragedy; in perfect accord with the feel-
ings of every genuine lover of the British Constitu-
tion—of every individual whose bosom retains a
single spark of humanity. After marking, in appro-
priate terms, their reprobation of an attempt to trans-
form a Government of Law into a Military Despotism,
the Livery proceeded to give their pseudo-protec-
tors another signal discomfiture on the question of
the Election of a LORD MAYOR for the year ensuing.
—Disregarding the rule of rotation to which the
Junta endeavoured to restrict them, their choke, by
an immense majority, fell upon Aldermen Woo
and Tnoare.. A poll was demanded for Alderman
BRYDGES, the result of which will, we doubt not,
give a final quietus to the rota-men. After their ex-
perience of the present Mayoralty, the Livery will
be much to blame if they expose themselves to the

chance of being treated with similar indignity. In

breaking through the rule of rotation, whilst they
• vindicate one of the most important of their char.
tered privileges, they confer additional honour on the
object of their choice, and bind him more firmly
by the ties of gratitude to the protection of all their
other rights. By following a contrary course, they
would convert the Board of Aldermen into a set of
Dutch Burgomasters,

" the slow-ey'd fathers of the land
'With when dominion lurks from hand to hand,
Unown'd, undignified by public choice."

The proceedings of the Inquest at Oldham assume
every day a fresh degree of interest, from the irrefra-
gable proofs thereby elicited of the unexampled bru-
tality and savage cruelty of the Manchester blood-
spillers. llow vain the delusive hope entertained by
these men and the advocates of violence, that the
voice of blood could be stifled in England by any
artifices whatever!—or even by the thanks of Minis-
ters to the perpetrators of these foul deeds. On the
contrary, the very attempt thus to screen the guilty
has operated, as well it might, to rouse the virtuous
indignation of the country; and the cry is now uni•
versal, from one end of the kingdom to the other,
for a thorough investigation of the whole proceedings.
Is it to be endured, that, in this country, people shall
be violently put to death by wholesale ; and then
smuggled into their graves without even a Coroner's
Jury being called on to examine into the cause of
their death ? Is it to be endured, that those high au-
thorities who ought to have been the first to call for
investigation, should eagerly send forth their appro-
bation of such deeds, and prejudge the question; thus
throwing out their thanks as a mantle to cover the
men who have been the cause of so many miseries, and
exposed all our most valuable Institutions to danger
Such proceedings cannot be acquiesced in by the vir-
tuous without an effort to counteract the dreadful
evils which they threaten : and, it will be found, that
the English character is no way deteriorated in its
firmness and perseverance.

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon,
but are quite barren of intelligence. It is affirmed,
in one of them, that the Chambers will be convoked
for the 18th of October.