Star.
London, England, 1821-06-21 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LOND ON.

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1821.
THE FUNDS.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 230-3 per Cent. Reduced 76 1/4 3/i
Sper Cent. Cons. shut-3% per Cent. 86%4 1/4 A
4 per Cent. 941/8 1/4-5 per Cent. shut
Long Anns. 19 1-16 Vs—lndia Bonds 455. 465. pr.
Exch. Bills. par Is. dis. 2s. pr.
Consols for Acct. 77% 3/8

In the House of Commons, last night, a short but
interesting debate took place on the Immolation of
Widows in India. From the statements both of Mr.
BUXTON (who brought forward the subject) and of
Mr. ILtrutrasr, the President of the Board of Con-
troul, it appears that this inhuman custom has, of
late years, greatly increased. It is scarcely neces-
sary to say, that it met with nothing but the most
indignant reprobation in a British House of Com-
mons, and that the only difference of opinion re-
garded the best mode of putting an end to this out-
rage on humanity. To promote this object, copies
were ordered to be laid before the House of all com-
' munications received by Government respecting the
evil so justly complained of.
Mr.H UTCHINSON after wards submitted his promised
motion on the state of Europe. It consisted of two
Resolutions ; the first pronouncing the pretensions
which have been lately set up by the Allied Powers,
as equally novel and dangerous, and " in direct op-
position to the principles of our own Revolution,
and to the independence of all other nations;' and
the second, proposing an Address to his MAJESTY,
requesting him to use his influence " to secure to the
minor States of Europe their undoubted, and, till
now, never disputed right to choose their own form
of government."
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY made a weak and
evasive opposition to the motion. He professed to
think that the Declarations of the Allied Powers
assembled at Laybach did not proceed from any love
of t)-r.uiny, and were the case otherwise, he did not
conceive that it was for the Government of this coun-
try to interfere. Every one must see that this is a
most wilful conglomeration of the question. To act
tyrannically, and to lore tyranny, are two different
things. A Monarch of the most benevolent disposi-
tion may, from mistaken views of the rights and
interests of men, play the part of a tyrant as effec-
tually as the most deer ared and ty) army-loving

despot that ever wielded the sceptre of dominion.—
!It was not with the motives of the system on which
the Allied Potentates proceed, that the motion of Mr.
HUTCHINSON had to do ; but with the 'act, whether
that system is or is not in hostility to the indepen-
dence of all nations, and in particular, to the pi inci-i
pies of our own glorious Revolution ? Here is a
plain question to which the Marquis of LONDON-
DERRY might have made, if he chose, a plain answer.
And what other reason can be assigned for his not
doing so, than that so well suggested by Mr.IIcT-
CIIINSON, in his reply, that his Lordship is, in fact, a
sleeping partner in the concern of the Holy Alliance?
Unsatisfactory as the Marquis of LONDONDERRY'S
speech was, the fate of the motion shews that, with
the sort of support which his Lordship had at his
back, he might as well have spared himself the expo-
sure of saying anything at all on the subject. After
a few words from Sir ROBERT WiLsoNin support of
it, no other Member offering himself to the notice
of the House, a division took place, when the Reso-
lutions were negatived by a majority of 117 to 28.
The discussion on Mr. ScAnutrr's Bill for depo-
pulating the country was next brought forward, but
lac a late hour adjourned till this evening. Mr. CAL-
CRAFT made an able—in our opinion an unanswer-
able speech, in opposition to the Bill. The poor of
England are much indebted to him for his manly
vindication of their rights and character. We are
happy to observe that it appears on all sides to be an
understood matter that there is no chance whatever
of the Bill's passing this Session ; and we are not
without hopes that the result of the adjourned dis-
cussion this evening will be to give it its quietus,
now and•for ever.

The Earl of LIMERICK has brought into the House
of Lords a Bill of great importance to Ireland. The
chief object of it seems to be to facilitate the means
of protecting lenders of money in England on Irish
securities. Some doubts were 'entertained as to the
legality of collateral bonds in Great Britain for the
payment of the interest on sums borrowed on Irish
securities at 6 per cent. This Bill will remove these
doubts, which have alarmed many, and prevented
English.capitalists from accommodating Irish bor-
rowers, so freely as would otherwise have been the case.
It is scarcely to be supposed, that English capitalists
will invest money on Irish mortgages without a gua-
rantee in London for the regular payment of the in-
terest in this city, and hence it is a matter of the first
importance to remove every uncertainty on the
subject.

The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday arrived
at a late hour this forenoon. Their contents are not
of much importance. On the 29th May, 8000 Aus-
trians embarked at Naples for Sicily. A letter from
Leghorn, of the Sd June, confirms the report of a
fleet of 72 G reek vessels having passed the Dardanelles.
—Of the Turks, since their crossing the Danube,
there are nothing but the most confused and contra.
dictory accounts; some asserting that YPSILANTI is
a deserted fugitive, and others that he is gone in
strong force in pursuit of a division of the Turks,
lunder the Pacha IBRAIL.

French Five per Cents. Saturday, 86 fr.

Accounts have been received in town of a Revolu-
tionary movement near Dantzic. It was, however,
of an insignificant description, and easily quelled by
a Prussian detachment.

A vessel from Bahia, named the John, which lately
touched at Holyhead, reports that it fell in with a
vessel which had spoken the Royal Portuguese squa-
dron at sea, on its way to Lisbon, with the KING
and suite on board. His MAJESTY is said to have
sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 25th April.

A Mail from Flanders arrived this forenoon, with
Papers to the 19th instant. Some quotations are
made from the Milan Gazettes, from which it appears,
that since the commencement of hostilities between
the Greeks and the Turks, the naval force of the
former has already captured four frigates and eight
other armed ships, besides a great number of small
vessels. They found 800 barrels of powder on board
one of the captured frigates.

We have received, to-day, Papers direct from
Madrid to the 7th inst. The following are extracts:

MADRID, JUNE 4.

We daily receive, from all the Provinces of Spain,
respectful Memorials, in which the Provincial Depu-
tations, the Constitutional Municipalities, and even
numerous bodies of citizens petition his Majesty,
that making use of the prerogative given to him by
Art. 162 of the Constitution, he would be pleased to
convoke an Extraordinary Session of the Cortes
during the months that will intervene between the end
of the present Session and the commencement of the
next All the Memorials adduce the same arguments
of public utility which we have expressed for some time
past; and all the citizens who address them to the
Throne, chew themselves to be animated with the
purest desire to see the Constitutional System conso-
lidated, and entirely convinced that this is his Ma-
jesty's most ardent wish. Such are the sentiments
expressed by the Provincial Deputations of Catalonia,
the Constitutional Municipality of the City of Sego-
via, that of Burgos, that of Bilboa, and a large num-
ber of the citizens of Badajoz, and the public teachers
of the University of Alcala de lien:nes." We much