Star.
London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

ONK O'CLOCK.

Within this hour, the assemblage of Brokers and Jobbers on the
Royal Eackange have increased, and a good deal has been done in
South American Securities, which has risen in price, in conse-
quence of a prevailing report that the PYILAMUS frigate had arrived
frOm Vera Cruz, with a great quantity of dollars on board from
the Mexican Government, to pay the dividends. Consols have
been entirely nf sleeted this-morning, and scarcely a bargain done
in them. Accounts received this morning state, that the corvette
Bolivar, going to the. United States, with Officers on board for the'
ships Purchased there by the Colombian Government, has heel
taken by two Spanish ftigstes. The gracious donation of his Ma-
jesty to the distressed at Macclesfield and Blackburn is the general
topic of conversation, and it is to be hoped that the Nobility and
Gentry will adopt the hint in the STAR of yesterday, and follow so
glorious an example. •
Consols are now 791 I for the Account, but little is doing.
Current Prices : Mexican 65i, Colombian 431, New Scrip •
$ prem. Peruvian 31.

FRENCH FUNDS, Pious, /Item VI.
Five per Cents. . . . 96f. SSe.
Three per Cents. . . . 65f. lSc.
Bank Stock . . 2010 f.:
Reines de Naples . . 74f. 3.5 c.
Royal Spanish Loan . . 441 f.
Waytian Loan . . . 76Sf.
Exchange on London. One Month 25f. 80e.
Three Ditto 25f. 30c.

Private letters from St. Petersburg'', which are x')
the 3th inst. are by no means sanguine as to the disputes
between. Russia and Turkey being amicably settled.—
It is said the Emperor NICHOLAS, ao longer bound,
like his predecessor, to the Holy Alliance, and weary of
negotiating with a power which for six years has evaded
the fulfilment of a former treaty, is anxious to bring
to immediate issue the question of the- evacuation
of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia,

The attentions to the Duke of WELLINeTON, during his
stay at the Court of St. Petersburgh, were of the most
marked description, and the several persons in the suite
of his Grace were honoured with paisicular notice by
the Eturanon. Count LIEVIN, the Russian Ambassador
to this Country, was still at St. Petersburgh, where he
was honoured with peculiar distinction by his Sovereign.

A private letter from Lisbon of the Sth inst. written by
2n English Gentlernan,states that the utmost confidence is
placed on the friendship of our Government in pre-
serving the tranquillity of that century, which appears
in a somewhat restless situation. The Pertuguere army
has become very relaxed in its discipline, and the people
are now very anxious for the return of Marshal BERES
PORD, who would be received with enthusiasm irr
Portugal.

German Papers to the 19th inst. reached us this fore-
noon. An article from Berlin of the 1&h inst. after
announcing the arrival of the Duke of WKLLIWGTON
there on the afternoon of that day, and that his Grace
would not make any Stay, adds, " Several couriers
from St. Prterssurgh are said 40 have brought import-
ant dispatches. There have been several conferences
between Count BERNSTORIF and the Russian Minister
Count A LOPEtle.

We are still without any authentic account of the
recent operations in Greece, the Observer of Trieste of
the 1 Ith inst. not containing any news horn the seat of
war, and the statements in the Moils of Sunday and
the Allgetneine Zeitung being unworthy of credit. They
assert, on the authority of letters from Cot fu of the 26th
of April, tha laßAutat PACHA made, on the 19th,
a.)other attempt to storm Missolonghi, which was no
more fortunate than the preceding, and that he after.
wads offered the garrison four millions cf crowns and
sone retreat, but his offers were rejected, and they
refused to listen to any terms. Four millions of crowns
is no trivial sum, and more than the army chests of the
whole belligerents,could furnish—to say nothing of the
improbability of offering such a bribe (if liitAHIM had
it) to a garrison so closely pressed as that of Misso.
longhi. The Allgenreine Zeitung after giving this
statement, adds, "A few ells must, we think, chew how
these accounts are to be reconciled with the news of

the taking of Missolonghi by IBRAHIM. which the
French papers so positively fix on the 20th March."

A Return has just been made to Parliament, which
chews the sate of British trade for the last two so
far as regards the Exports and Imports. From this
document, which is of much -importance, it appears that
the Imports of last year did not vary much from those
of ' the year preceding, the Imports in Its 24 being
to the amount of 1:40,412,300 ; and in 1825 being
131,737:609. The increase in the'Exports, however,
was very great, amounting to 121 per cent. The Ex-
rorts in 1824 amounted t01:56,234,663; and in 1825
to 1:65,225,272.

In looki lit at the respective countries with which we
here commercial intercourse, it is impossible not to be
struck with the di,proportions the Imports and Expluts
bear to each other in sorb of them. Thus the Imports
from Germany were, in 1824, only £951,460, and in
182,5, £1,505,456; • while the Exports to that country
were, in 1824, 0,828,957, and in 1823, £7,552,176.
T4e Imports from Italy in 1824 and 1825, did nor
average a milli n and a quarter each year; while the
Exports in 1824 were nearly four Millions, and in 18'23,
oonddetably clot ecird that sum.

To the Brazils, onr Exports are wore than threa
times the amount of the Idworts, and thi same remark
will apply to Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. Frew%
Colombia our I.mpokts 12st year were only £73,496,
while the Exports amountedio £425 140. With the
United States, our Exports are nearly double the amount
of the Imports, and on the whole, it w ill be seem the
balance of trade is in our favour.

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The French Papers of Saturday and Sunday- contain
the conclusion of the trial of the Abbe de MINNAIB,
and a'copy of the sentence, which does much honour to
the Comr Royale. will be found in another column. It
will be seen by the latter, that this fanatic priest, not-
withstanding the supposed support of the Royal Family,
and of a great body of French courtiers, has been con-'
demned to a fine, and has had, as a consequence, hi►
work seized and suppressed.

If the Roman Catholic Religion does not gain ground,
it is not owing to any want of exertions on the part of
its professors, for they certainly were never more active
than they are at present. In this country, while the
Priests are making every effort to gain proselytes, raise
new colleges, and extend their sway, the Laity are
equally intent on obtaining poli!ical power. Th France,
bigotry and intolerance are in the ascendant ; the
Jesuits are rapidly regaining their influence, notwith-
'standing the checks they sometimes receive from the,
press and the tribunals of that country. In Spain, ti e
Clergy trample as much on the neck of the SOMILIGN
as ever the Pura did literally, when all Eutope acknow-
ledged his supremacy; and in Rome, the yre.ent Sova.
Lucia Potartsr is determined to be every inch a Pope,
and to maintain all the authority which. the Catholic
world acknowledges the bead of that Church to possess.
We have been led to these remarks, from set ing in
the Allgemeine Zeileng received this morning, a pom-
pous and insidious article on the way in which the
Easter holidays have been kept at Rome. It is at fes.
tivals such as these, that the Roman Catholic Chntch,
by the splendour of its ceremonies, hopes to increase
its votaries. It appears that there have been a/Nig
visitors than usual at Rome during the Passion Week ;
and this is attributed partly to the cessation of all public
amusements at Naples while the mummery of the ju.
bike is going on, and " partly to the interest which
the numerous religious ceremonies which take place in
Rome during Passion Week excites in foreigners of all
religious parties."

Curiosity no doubt enters largely into the compo.
sition of human nature, and we do not doubt that
many English travellers, who rarely entered a church
at home, might be tempted to go to the Sixtine
chapel, or St. Peter's, at Rome, where, we are assured,
they flocked in great numbers on Palm 'Sunday and
Ash Wednesday; we trust, however, that no Protes•
tant was so recreant to his faith as this Papal narrative
asserts, when, in giving an account of the POPS dis-
tributing palms, it is stated that ig numerous Protes-
tants were among the persons who approached the
Papal throne to receive "them:' If this were really
the case the Court Newsman of the Vatican, who re•
ports the proceedings, may well ask, 41 Is thisa momen-
tary impulse or the result of a previous determination 7
English travellers have often been reproached. with
forgetting their country when abroad, and if this account
be true, they appear to have forgotten their teligion
also—we say English travellers, for it is notorious that
our countrymen and countrywomen are almost the only
Protestants in Rome. It appears that in the whole of
these ceremonies the Poem has displayed a degree of
'health and vigour which must disappoint those Card,-
oats who, during his late indisposition, were waiting
for bis shoes. This will be seen by the following extract
from the article on which we have commented :

a The Pope has gone through the extremely fatiguing
duties of the whole week with a degree of energy which
astonished every body. If we consider that the reading
of the Mass on Easter Sunday (to speak of that only),
with the benediction that follows it, is an act which re-
quires great exertions of the lungs, both in • speaking
and singing, for three full hours—that the pontifical
robes are of cumbrous weight—and, above all, that the
whole must be performed fasting from midnight, a
person who is acquainted with the history of the Pope's
illness might be tempted to see in it the effects of
Divine influence. He sang the Deus Vol.iscuns, in St.
Peter's Church, with such a loud and powerful •oice
that it was plainly heard in every p.trt of that immense
edifice: the same may be said of the Benediction, deli-
♦ered from the balcony, which was perfectly intelligi-
ble to persons standing on the second great landing of
the steps of the Church."

WPDSOR, APRIL 21. Yesterday afterra,n his
Abarszr nude another visit to the Castle, accompanied by Sir
CHARLI3 Loma, in his poney phaeton. His Mazzavv continued
his airing in the Great Park until half-past Biz o'clock.—The bells
of St. George's Chapel and the Parish Church have both been
tinging again this day, and the usual salute Was fired In the Bash.-
hns' Acre.

De parches were sent of on Friday night for the
Duke of WILLIAMSON to meet hi, Grace at Brussels.. .

Yesterday atternorp., at three o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign Office, summonses for which were
issued on Saturday. The Council was attended by the Loan
CitAxcit.coa, the Eat! of lavuoroot, the Earl of HARKOWIIIT, the
Earl of WesisroacLams,Viscourst MgLYILLII, Mr. HUIIIICISSON,_ Ur.
Secretary PILL, Mr. Secretary CAVNING, Earl Ilaemossr. the Craw-
cat.Loa of the Excunaoca, Mr. Wrote, and Lord llaiLar. The

Cabinet continued sitting till near half-past four o'clock, when the
Ministers separated.
Prince Pt GNATELt.I, Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires at
the Cunit of Copenhagen, is going to marry the widow of the Coun-
cilor of State, Gam's+, partner in the house of Mama° and Sow.•
It has been erroneously stated In the Papers, that the
late Bishop of Du imam died wofth upoi ards of a million sterling ;
but we arc enabled to state, from undoubted authority, that the'
will of his Lordship ha, been proved under ht),000/.
Mr. JOIIN SINGLLTRRRY. of Putlgage C aunty,
Ohio, has recently been initicted in GOO dollar, damages, for a slan-
der uttered by his loving spouse. Your ft liuw t ha had much better
remained Mr..titr.:le Tinter all his life, tligh to takes Lary meet
who will talk away his hard earning thus.