Star.
London, England, 1819-05-21 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1819.-
THE FUND 6.
?MCI Of 11ToCK5 TWA DAT AT ODE *LOCK :
Bank Stock 2361 237 235
3 per Cent. Reduced 74%.
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S per Cent. Consols 711 70i •
31 2er Cent. 7811-4 per Cent. 89 87f
5 per Cent. Navy 10410
Bank Long Annuities 18 7-16 546
Imperial S per Cent. Anns. 68}
India Bonds 28 29 26 pre,
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 5 4 7 5 premium
Bank for Acct. 237'235
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Consols for Acct. 71i1 701.

The proposal to equalize. the Dutra* Coals was
last night thrown out of. ►he Commons by' a large
majority. Indeed, from the manner in which this
measure, from first to last, .has been prosecuted, (to
say nothing of the period in which it was nixed')
nothing else could, in out. Opinion, have been expected.
In the course of the discussionos this subject, ano-
ther important point came ca,suallyhekore the House.
The CHANCELLOR of the Exclueausa, is► expressing
his surprise that Gentlemen should pees inch *a
abandonment of revenue in the present circumstances
of the country, remarked, that " in a *w days he
would have to call upon them to consider, not what
taxes should be taken off, but how they could best
minister to the wants of the country." In plain
terms, new taxes will soon be proposed, to meet the
interest of the New Loan for which we are all no*
looking ; and the inference 'seems unavoidably to be,
that no part will be taken from the Sinking Fund.
Another circumstance, which cannot be very pleas-
ing to one of our contemporaries* was also elicited by
a question rather out of the common usage, being put
to the CuAscaLLoa of the Eadistauta. by Mr. CAL-
LAGHAN, the Member for Dundalk. lie asked the
Minister for an explanation of a paragraph in last
night's Courier, stating, that the repayment of the
£10.000,000 required by the Bank, was to take place
before February, 1820? and he pressed for an answer
on the supposed or assumed cordiality between the.
Ministers and the Courier. That fook, and the family
of thi tvreag-heads generally, swallowing the arro-
gance of this self-created "ministerial organ," should
allow themselves to be abused with the coinage of
this mint of fabrication--this advocate of paper cur-

reng of the description now in our eye, is not sur-
prising ; but, tbat,any Member of Parliament should
allow his understanding to be so far abused, as to
put a Question, os •a tuujeet, to the GRAN.
CiLLOR of the EXCiISQUIRD must appear wonderful;
unless we suppose, which is by no means unlikely,
that be merely sought far an opportunity to dis-
abuse the public, by an open exposure of the un-
grounded assumptions of this soi-disant organ of
arduous If this be what the Honourable Mem-
ber had in view, the answer of the Minister was to
the purpose sought :•••••44 I ani very sorry that my
" Honourable Friend should have been betrayed into
" this unpleasant situation, in consequence of any
" communication he may have had with me. I hope
" he never will again consider any thing that may.,
" appear in that Newspaper as Official. I have seen
" much in that Paper of which I entirely disapproves
—What ! in the Courier? In the " Minista's timi-
d/friar Paper ?"—Let the Courier contradict the
CHANcet.Lott of the Exonaututst! Let it insist on
its high pretensions. The Public now know their
true value.

A thitd Report from the Select Committee of the
House of Commons on Finance, has just been issued.
It relates exclusively to the Navy ; and is more re-
markable for the scantiness and niggardliness of its
suggestions on this branch of our public service than
for any useful information or profound views of im-
provement. _ _

The total Estimates of the current year are less than
those of the last year by the sum of 040,018. 4s. Bd.
In the Estimate for the Admiralty, there is an ex-
cess, compared with last year, of £3,676,' which is
owing, we are told, to the expeasesineutted by the
late Expedition to the North Polo.

In speaking of the Royal Naval College at Ports.'
mouth, the Consmatee seer some observations on the
mode of educating the superior Shipwright's Appere-
tices. It appears desirable, they state, that no greater
number of this class of prams should be educated
at the public expense than is likely to be absolutely
required for the naval service of Orem Britain ; and,
in order to do away the facilitrof entering into fo-
reign service, which stises from their being instructed
in the French language, the Committee suggest, that
in future none of the said superior Shipwright's Ap-
prentices shall be taught French l
A passage follows this, extremely comprmsentary
to Mr. Sunless, for the improvements he has intro-
duced into Naval Architecture. The services, they
stags, which he has rendered, w although they have
nothing of that brilliaacy whiCh forcibly attracts pub-
lic admiration, will cootiase to confer eluting benefit
on the British nation, long after that period Irina the
betieficial victories, however splendid, shall bare pas.
aid *vitt:*
Oaths object of Foreign Dock Yards, the Can-

since can say nothing. Whether any farther redac-
tions Ain be made in these namerons Establishinests
depends, they say, " upon circumstances conlol4o
with the political state of the country, o( which the
Committee can have no cognizance." Why they
cannot, they go not say.
The-Victualling Office continuing- to 4, wear an
appearance, differing from that of all departments,
arising from the number of extra Clerks employed in
4,7 the Committee thought it right to enter into a
detailed examination of the reasons for this differences
The result has been that the Committee are satisfied
that there are no grounds for supposing " that the
Public have not had the full benefit of the services of
this Establishment."

A charge of £14,000 for the Royal Navy Asylum,
for One Thousand Orphan Children
,of Sailors and
Marines, appears, we are informed, for the first tin'se
in the Navy Estimates, on account of the means of
that Establishment being insufficient to cover its ex-
penditure. To the charge for such an Establishment,
whether naval or military, the Committee state, that
they would not object were the means of the Country
more adapted to meet its expenditure ; but " under
existing

the Committee cannot conent
in recommending to the House to engage in an our
anal expenditure to this amount!"
Alas Britain, how fallen ! that thou art no longer
obit to provide for the Orphan Children of thy Gal-
lant &amen ! To what straits has our Economy
batched, when nothing else can be found—no Bi►
neentes— no extravagant Pensions—no su
Establishments—when nothing but the portion of the
Orphan is left to make a saving of, at the expense of
every feeling of humanity and of national honour 1!

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morning.l
The proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies on
Monday present a more than usual degree of interest.
The Committee on Petition's made their Report on,
a number of Petitions which have been addressed to
the Chamber, soliciting its interposition with the Go-'
vernment for the recal of those individuals now in exilel
fer their conduct during the recent Revolutions in
France. The Report stated it to be the opinion of the
Committee, that the Chamber ought not to interfere in
the matter, but wait in respectful silence the decision
of the KIND. The RZPORTICR therefore moved the
Order of the Day. M. DE CAUMARTIY, who had
been in a minority in the Commission on this ques-
tion, moved on the contrary, that the Petitions should
be remitted to the President *of the Council. The
discussion on the question became warm, and ended
at last in noise and confusion. The question was put
to the vote, and the Order of the Day on the Peti-
tions was carried by an immense majority.
Five per Cents. Monday, 66 fr. 70 c.

A Dutch Mail arrived this forenoon, with Papers
to the 19th instant. The only important part of
their contents ire some advice, recently received
frees the Dutch possessions M the East lodise s

BATAVIA, DPC&MBER
The robber chief, Bagoes genier, who, in the month
of July last, at the head of a body of armed men,
troubled for a while the public tranquillity in Chest.
bon, and was afterwards taken prisoner by the Re-,
sident Servatius, was brought to trial on the 31st of,
October, and found guilty by the Jery, of insurrec-
tion and disturbance of the public peace, and sen-
tenced to be hanged ; which penalty he suffered on
the 17th of November. At the same time the Court
declared a certain Naymg guilty of the same crime,
who was a chief promoter of those troubles, and who,
in 1811, was one of the adherents of the notorious
Bagoes Rangin. The first-mentioned was only a
common Javanese, in the service of Nayrem. who
persuaded him to assume the name of Bagoes Serrier,
as a descendant of an ancient family, and possessor
of supernatural powers. Since the apptebens oa of
Bagoes Serrier no fresh movements hh e been ob-
served in Cheribon, and tranquillity is restored.
The Sultan of Palembang has arrived here from
Palembang, on board his Majesty's corvette Eclipse.
On the 16th instant, another new ship, of between
400 and 500 tons burthen, was launched from the
dock-yard at Bantjar, equal in beauty and solidity of
construction to the best ships hitherto built to the
East of the Cape of Good Hope.
Admiral Wolterbeck has returned from his mission
tp Malacca and Rio, with his Majesty's ship of the
line Tromp, and the Wilhelmina frigate. At Rio he
left Captain Koningsdorfer as Resident,
Major Muntinghe, who had the command of an
Expedition to Borneo, has returned with the Officers
and meq under his command, so far as they were
not necessarily left to occupy the different posts.

Tuesday and Wednesday the PRINCE RESENT ho-
noured the Marquis of CHOLNONDELEIC with visits.
The Marquis is extremely indisposed.
The Duke and Duchess of WELLINGTON enter-
tained a large party of distinguished personages yes-
terday at Apsley-House.
The Duke of Nottsout gave a grand Entertainment
ussday to a large party of distinction.'
Thursday the election for a Member of Parliant
Isl.oe.Town and Port of Hythe (occasioned by Co-
TAYLOR having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds)
Mita on and terminated yesterday at noon. When
Pen closed, the numbers were—For Lori), E
1157—Sir JOHN C. HONTWOOD, 90.
The election for a Member for Shrewsbury, in the
room of the late Colonel L:araa, commence on
Monday. At close of the second, day's poll. th#
Lumbers were, for Jona Mmos, Esq. &5;
'AMOS CMILAIITT, Esq. 80.
We have inserted- in another part an inturisthif.
extract from a Letter from Frankfort, on the suirai
df the singular rumours which haw* leen MIK
*pectins Sweden. If the writer, who appears *"
infortned, may be credited, the Princes (lithe
of Vasa have never Made any attempt since.*
gress of Vienna to recover the Minnie of 3
but the son of GUSTAV'S (now aliOnt to CO
his studies at Oxford) has declared, that "
taws arm would accede, to
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