Star.
London, England, 1816-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON.

•
THURSDAY, APRIL 4. ISIS.'
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 'IWELVE O'CI.00K:
• Reduced (Mist)—Cons. mo. stqf --(or ace. GI
74 per Ceut.(shat)—S per Etat. 90I—Bonds la. dia. par.
Otnu. pay. LOU—Each. liilb Its:dw. par.
To-morrow the Dividend, on the 9 per Cent. 'educed, and
the s per Calm. Stock are due The foilowini Jai the Bankers
wad Merchants wall be paid; and on Munday.the Public at large.

Mr. TIERNEY'S promised motion for the :oppression
of the office of Third Secretary of State came on last
night. We have given a full report of the arguments
used on both sides of the• House; and we venture to
assert, that it will be read throughout the country
Iwith great attention. We will not endanger weaken-
1.
mg their force by offering a condensed abstract. The
Motion was lost for• the present ; but the division
'hewed that many of the independent County Mem-
bers aro convinced that nothing but economy can re.
trieve the prosperity of the country ; for out Of 282
Members who voted, Ministers had only a majority
of eighty-two.

This country has had the honour to originate and
to teach the other States of Europe the art of Repre-
sentative Legislation. Would it not be a shame to
allow. our pupils to outrun us in the application of
the practical benefits ? In this rase we are now en-
gaged against France, and either we must exert our-
selves or she must relax in her labours, or else we shall
have to experience a discomfiture; nor will its conse-
quences be merely an ideal disgrace but absolute ruin.
Economy is not merely a term in the mouth of the
French Legislators, but a syrem of practice occupy-
ing their chief attention, and calling forth their whole
energies. The sum of 41,030 in a single y.:ar to a
Secretary, arising from salaries and gratuities, seems
to have been viewed as sn enormous, as to require a
long explanation from the Head of the Department.—
How would they have horns to find a Secretary, in the
same period of time pocke ing£Bs3o. "Before we re-',
gulate our imposts," says one of the French Members,
ist we should regulate our expendituie. The enormous
solaria of these offices have absorbed half the income
of our property by the aggravated weight of taxation
which the/ have caused." Let it be remembered, that
the persons whd hold this language—aye, and who
stet upon it too, by enforcing the strictest economp—
are not a set of factious democrats, but the most firm
and honourable supporters of the Km° and Coasti.
union. The men who opposed the despotism of
BONAPARTE, on priacipl:, are the men to Whom
France is now indebted for an opposition equally
strenuous to the abuses which have survived that
despotism.

Do you complain of the distresses of the country
Do you believe it ? Continue then to press retrench-
nient in every departmer.t.—ln no other way can you
restore the prosperity of the country. The whole
question is one of maw and extterukturs. The remedy
must be practical. The Petitions on your table at;
sert, and the truth of the assertion has been
vouched by yolr Members, not merely that the
Owners and Occupiers of Land are embar-
rassed, but that the Labouring Classes in. the
country are starving, Is it any remedy to my to
men in such circumstances, '0 kys warverc4 and Iv je
clothed" ? Won(r will neither 611 the hungry: n(4
clothe the naked. You most give them what is
necessary: that is, you must lessen your liberality
to those who we neither naked nor hungry, tart 344
may have to silse so him that asedetls. Economy may not
be pleasant, but it is indispensibly necessary it' jot
wish to cave the country.

Tun PP!NCI REozwr's Irictsvu.--:Yesterday the
inswier given to, the 'inquirers was—." His Royal
Highness continues better." •
Yesterday his Royal Highness the Paws Roomer
held a*Court at Carlton House, which vs. attended
by. the LORD CSIANDIU.LOR, the F!usr Loan of the
Tasaiiner, the Loup Patyv SEAL, the CuaucesLoe
of the EXCHKUtR, the SU:I4ETARIII2 Of STATH fur the
Pious and WAR DISPARTIItiTs, the LOAD STEWARD,
LOP CUASIERI.AIi, he MASTS* of the Hoist, &c.
Yesterday Princess SOPHIA of GLoyearrea. sad a
number of the Nobility, paid their respects—and the
Count and Countess MUNITRR were introduced to her
MAJIIB.I Yi at the Queen's Palscee At six "Moe*
the- PIING R.ESIDIT went to dine wish his
mother, at the Palace.