Star.
London, England, 1827-10-27 00:00:00

EVILS OF CONTINENTAL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
October 23, 1527.
IT has for a long time past been the subject of con.
our,l
Ousel and painful regret amongst members of ,
more respectable residents in reflecting on the sadly
demoralizing view which our countrymen at home'
must form of the state of British society on the Conti-
nent, from the repeated accounts appearing in the pub-
lic prints of the degrading scenes of altercation and
infamy occurring among their absent compatriots.* At
Boulogne, it would certainly seem that there is to be
no end to Imes of disunion and disorder—of disgust-
ing contest and debasing quarrel—and, in almost the
whole, the greater portion decidedly of the revolting
cases that occur, originating in, or fomented by the
paltry disputes of a few wretched and almost (it is to
be rejoiced) universally reprobated gamesters.—reprobat-
ed most certainly by all the correct and respectable
portion of the English residents. Of these, it is gratifying
to feel the conviction, and to convey it to their absent
friends at home, that the number is really large--con•
tiderably, perhaps, beyond any ideas entertained on the
British side t f the Channel of the encouraging fact.
Still to any benevolent and reflecting moralist—no
friend either to " puritanical denunciation of vice," nor
•' hypocritical declaimer against the failings" of the
worthless and profligate intruders in societyit is yet a
subject, and must be une, of must serious consideration
and inquiry—Why—when it is so decidedly the inter-
est (and by them admitted to be so) of the French pro-
prietary of Boulogne, to make their town, with all its
natural agreasens at the same time a resort morally de-
sirable to the English, the active and spirited function-
min' of its local government and police, do not, when-
ever the disgusting fracas occur which so disturb the
peace and infest the comfort of the respectable residents,
exert the powers of summary jurisdiction with which
their admirable laws invest them to silence such annoy-
ances, or purge the place of their infesting causes I
Clear Boulogne but onct, and stay, of the paltry
horde uf. gamblers who have so long disturbed its quiet
—visit but with the legal severity due to it, every
frardsdent excitement to quarrel that they instigate,
and it will soon be seen that the residence of this place
will resume as high I tone of moral and individual re-
pute both for the consideration and character of its
British inhabitants as it has ever possessed, When fa-
milies of the worth and influence that used to lead as
well as adorn its society will feel that they can return
again without danger to their children, or risk of the
peace of their homes—when they can have the estab•
lishments created at their cost, and planned for their
comfnet. really condmied too to promote their enjoy.
meet without the intrusion, or at least without the cow.
tests of spirits and of characters that are now driving
them at once forth from Boulogne—and its advant-
ages. P. P.
• It Is Dot,lowever, here meant to Infer that the tamest publicity
ache ezpoeure ignite, sad its Tarim% despicable abettors, is not a
sAtutary application of she powerful use of the Plus for t 'posing
•illainy, has its invalusbk rervire iti its operation as a warning
voice to the unwary and unauspecting. to guard them from the
r*inous associates, of whoa* insidious artifices they to, might fall
'Aiie wretched victims.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1827.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The C.os sel. market has bees very heavy this neorskig, owing to
two eirenoremoces—Orst, the accounts in the French Pepin, from
Cosmendenple, bdng rather of a compki and dark description ;
astral, the Austrian Ambassador latisik received dispatches yes-
terday tram his Government, which are supposed, in the Qty, net
to be of a faventzbie nature. These 'reports have had the desired
Meet on the Cooed market. Consols, which left off yesterday at
061 (or the Account, opened this morning at 1161 barn, and sOOO
after went down to 88 ; since which, they lase again improved to
881 to 1, and 66 to 1 for Money. • •
An Express has arrived from Paris, with the Gazette de Prance
of yesterday. The French Three per Cents. had fallen 1 per cent.
?if. 95c. closing price.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols are now at MI.
PR ICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 871 1 Ditto Bands 99
5 per Ct. Coca 881 874 South Sea Stock
31 per Cent. Old Annuities 87
56 per Cent. Red. 94 31 41 931 New Ditto 871
4 per Ct. New 1021 14 £lOOO Ezcbeq. Bills Mt 63
4 per Cent. Scrip .1500 Ditto 82 63
4 per Cent. 1826, 1021 .2100 and .1200 Ditto 62 63
Ling Ann. 191 9-18 ex div. Consols for Acct. US 681 87j
FOREIHN FUNDS, TWO tICLOLK.
Brazillanßds.s pet. 611 Mex. Rauh, 5 per Ct.
Ditto 510, 611 D0.8d5.1825,6 p Ct. 5411
Colombian Hoods, 6 p Ct. Do. Acct. 544 / 1 •
Ditto 11d5,1924, 27 _ Pause. lids. sp C. 991 100
Ossish Itis. 5 p Ct. 614 Russ. 8.N.1822, 5 pC. 941
Greek Roods, 5 p et. Do. Ace. 941
D0.8d5.18n5,5p Ct. 16 Span. Biis 5 p Ct. 91 10
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK
aunt. PAID.
Brazilian 35 20
General Mining Arm. 50 5
Potosi La Pas Perim. Asa. IS 5
United Mexican 40 321

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Of 19s
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Dispatches have been rece.ved at the Foreign
Office, from Constantinople, dated the Sib instant,
and at the Admiralty, born Admiral Copal:l6l.os
dated Zante, October 11. Down to the former
pericid, no alteration had taken place in the state of
the question with respect to Greece. The SULTAN
continued to profess the greatest anxiety to avoid any
hostile result, but meanwhile avoided taking any step
which might tend to the satisfactory arrangement of
the matters at issue.

The intelligence of the Armistice concluded be-
tween Admiral C( nalsotom, and the PACRA, on
the 20th ult. had not reached Constantinople on the
sth instant, but as it was expected it might arrive in
about ten days from Navatino, the probability was,
that it reached the Ottoman Government about the
f 6th or 7th inst.

The dispatches from Admiral Comma TON an-
nounce, that the Egyptian Beet, in the harbour of Na-
casino, had violated the armistice. On the 4th inst. a
portion of this Beet was intercepted by Admi. Conant°.
Tow, steering in the direction of Palms, and, as it after-
wards appeared.intendi ng to relieve tha t place. They were

subsequently joined by another division. Admiral
Conatnarrott apprised them that they were vio-
hating the armistice which had been concluded with
Isamu FACIA, The Turkish Commander re-
plied, that Ise was acting under the orders of the
Puha; and affected not to know that the proceeding
was any violation of the existing armistice. Admiral
Comm Grow fired at some of the transports to make
them spew their colours. Three or four disre
garded the summons, when they were immediately
boarded, and the remarkable circumstance transpired,

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that they were protected by Austrian papers, and a
Turkish firman, conjointly. They were, of course,
suffered to depart.
At first. Admiral CODRINGTON intimated to the
Egyptian fleet, which had left the harbour of Navarino,
that as they bad violated the armistice, they should
not be permitted either to proceed, or to return to
Navarino. This, however, was not persisted in, and, at
the date of the dispatches, they were on their return to
join the rest of the fleet.
The Russian squadron was in sight, off Zante, on the
11th, to join Admiral COD RINOTON.

We received this morning the Algenseine Zeitung to
the 21st inst. The following are the principal contents;

ST. PETERSSURGH, Ors. S.

On the 29th ult. the Emperor addressed an Ukase to the
Senate signifying, iu consideration of the distinguished
services of Gaunt Pozzo di Borgo, ♦mbassador at Paris,
it was his Majesty's pleasure that if the Count Arnold
die without lawful issue, the title of Count of the
Ras-
sian Empire shall be inherited by such member of the
family of Pozzo di Borgo as he shall appoint his heir,
and to his descendants, •_ _

His Majesty's rescript to the Governor General of this
capital, having been communicated on the 30th Sept.
to the Merchants by the Mayor of St. Petersburgh, that
body, animated by lively gratitude for this mark of
Imperial favour, and by a desire to manifest their joy
at the birth of the Grand Duke Constantine Nicelase..
vit•ch, has resolved on a further donation of 21,000
rubles to be distributed as follows, viz. Ist, 1,000
rubles to the relief of 68 families who suffered by a fire
in the district of Krolevitz. 2d, 2,000 rubles to the

Committee for providing for indigent miners at St.
Petersburgh ; 3d, 2,000 rubles to the Imperial Phi.
lanthropic society; 4th, 1,000 rubles towards the erection
of a monument to the memory of Lomonossoff ; sth,
1.5,000 rubles to the Committee formed in Finland to
relieve the sufferers by the fire at Abo.
The Russian and foreign merchants on the Exchange
have subscribed 26,1100 rubles for the latter purpose;
and a gener.4l subscription is also opened.

CRONSTADT. Om 7.

Ships arrived, 1,12 V; sailed, 1,010. —Journal of St.
Pesersbursh, Va. 8.

EGINA, Agave: Ite.

Tbc city of Athens is now but a mass of ruins: the
houses, the gardens, the beautiful country seats which
wore the delight of the iolial!itants, have Banished.--

Having been for some years repeatedly taken possession
of and lost again by the Turks and the Greeks, it was,
their fate to be equally defttstated•by both parties. The
Acropolis isstill in the same sitnatioa in which it was left
by the Greeks. The Turkish troops. amountiag to 4,000
men. are encamped in the gardens belonging to the
French Consulate, a league from Athens. The lobar
bitants of Cicha and Menidi (who, like the Acarniots
of old, are almost all charcoal burners. and still retain
the rough character which Aristophanes gives them),
supply them with provisions in abundance. Redschid
Pacha is going to Janina as Governor of that Province.
He will meet with little or no resistance, as be has ten
thousand good troops with him, and is himself well
acquainted with the mode of making war in that coun-
try. At the same time be takes the greatest care to
secure his communications with Attica from which he
draws his provisions.—Oriental Spectator, Sept. is.

. _
The same Journal gives the following particulars
from Smyrna itself :
Hassan Pacha has sent for the Chiefs of the Greek

community, and declared to them that he was informed
of the alarming reports that were in circulation in the
city—namely, that the tranquillity of the city was in
danger, for which reason several merchants had closed
their magazines. He then represented to them how
unfounded this statement was, and repeatedly assured
them that he would answer for the:preserration of tran-
quillity. and would not suffer the slightest offence to
either a Frank or a Greek, , All, the inhaleitants of this
ctty might therefore follow their business without any
apprehensions, and fully depend on his protection. Per-
fect confidence is now restored.

The Oriental Spectator also states, in an account from
Alexandrit, that the Viceroy in rejecting the proposals
of Major Craddock, formally declared. that whatever
might be the result of the negociations between the Or•
roman Porte and the three Powers, the Europeans in
Egypt should not suffer any ill effects from it, but might
remain there without any apprehensions, and depend on
his continued protection of their interests. The mane
factories established in the environs of Cairo are in such
a distressed state, that the Viceroy bas ordered several
of them to be shut up, and all of them to be successively
given up, because they produce loss inittead of viz.--
This is especially the case with the cloth manufactories.
Trade does not suffer so much by the present uncertainty
of the political relations, as by the Gretkpiracies, which
always delay the sailing of the ships.

Charleston Papers to the 2Sd September have been
received at the North and South American Coffee
House : they do not contain any news.
Montreal and Quebec Papers to a late date have also
been received through the same channel ; the formes
mentions the arrival of Earl DALHOUSIE in that City,
from his tour in Canada. The latter says, under the
date of the 20th September," We are sorry to perceive
that several vessels, long employed in the trade between
this place and Liverpool, have found the freights so low,
that they have been obliged to accept of charters to
other parts of the world."

It is ever the practice of ignorance to quarrel with
improvement and simply, we suppose, because it en-
croaches on the domains of the former. Few improve-
ments have been more obviously of a beneficial tendency
than the Act recently brought in against Cruelty to
Animals, and very few have met with such perverse,
determined, and wilful opposition.
The real utility of this measure has never been more
clearly proved than it at present is, by the desire of le-
gislative enactments of a similar nature exist-seed and
felt by many of the leading Agriculteuitts and other
persons of FRANCS. We know of no to more sure,
nor proof more certain, of the advantage and sterling
worth of any improvement, or new measure, than its
adoption or approval' by foreigners: they cannotlie
swayed by feelings of interest, or by the bias of party;
and that which passes successfully the ordeal of their
approbation is GOOD.
We fear pride will make great opposition to the suc-
cess of this scheme in France. France is very jealous
of following in the wake of Eagland—even to her own
advantage: however, she has but two things to choose
between—to follow, or shame. There is great, very
great, need of reform in the treatment of animals, and
the regulation of general humanity, in France. The
Combats d'Animax, instituted at Paris by some of oar I
Gentlemen of the Psncy, is alone a disgrace to a civi-
lized and Christian country. We have no doubt that
some of the profligate set, even there, will oppose these
measures,with the regular and only argument which such
folks always urge against the efforts of honest men—we
mean that very ingenious, sensible mode of setting op at
silly yell against. what they call, "Fanatic/oar Yes,
" Fanaticism—one man goes mad, another ruins him-
self; and a third blows out his brains—all through their
losses at cards; and some one no sooner ventures to
say how dreadful a vice is gambling. than a whole host
of gamesters arise: the leading one gives the word, the
minor dogs of the pack re-echo to the well-known
sound, and the dinning, senseless, noisy cry of " Fanati-
cism" drowns at once argument, reason, and morality.
" Fanaticism !"—very clever indeed !

It is pretty well decided that the present Bishop of '
Soma and MAN will accede to the vacant see of,
Rochester,

Lieutenant Colonel Sir T. Non. HILL, K.C.B. and
Lady HILL, landed at Quebec, on the lath of Sepaimber, hoist the
ship Hayden:
The Duke of CLURIICS set out yesterday nsorniog.
at five o'clock. for Porfsisootk, for the purpose of promatits to the
dieisloo of Royal )(Mines, stationed at that poet, the new Wotan,
which his biamart km graciously assigned to that corps, heaths
upon them the figure of the es commementive of its ho-
nourable service in every part of the world. The Dake tiw etr
barks for Plymouth, to perform a similar gratifying duty to the
Plymouth division of the some eerp. His Anal Highness will be
attended by Vice-Admiral Sir G. Mammas, holds the honour-
able rank of Major. General of the Royal Ilithaos.
Mr. LAMM entertained a distinguished party, at his
residence in the Phalli: Park. Debit°, on Saturday last, assistbs
of the following Gentlemen--Imrd Lansford, Archhabok _0(
Dublin, Master of the Rolls, Attontry-Omond, Mr. Moons. sax.
Sergeant Blackburn, Kr. Cans, Rev. S. Ik. Grstate
Gregory, It,. bold, and Mr.