Star.
London, England, 1826-11-20 00:00:00

ANTWERP, ?hymns 13.

Several custom house officers and a merchant's clerk
have been :incited here yesterday and to-day. It is said
that the number arrested is six, and that they are ac-
cused of great frauds on the customs.

OSTEND, Nova:aga IL

The officer who commanded the detachment of artil-
lery on the 19th of September, the day of the explosion,
was examined again the day before yesterday, and
taken to Bruges the same day, under the escort of an
officer of infantry.

Italian Papers to the sth instant have been received.
The following are extracts :

N A PUts, °nom 26.
His Majesty having resolved to make some changes
in his Ministers at Foreign Courts, hai been pleased to
appoint the Prince of Casaro to the mission to the Em-'
peror of Austria ; the Duke de Florida, Prince of Par-
canna. to that to his Catholic Majesty ; and the Marquis
de Gagliati, to that of the King of Sardinia. His Mas
jesty has been further pleased to make the following
promotions:—The Chevalier De Castro Ruffo de Prin•
cipi de Castelcicala, is appointed Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to the King of Prussia; the Commander D:
Paolo d'Ambsono, is appointed Charge d'Affaires to'
the Ottoman Porte, in the room of Chevalier De Giu-
seppe Romano, who is called to other functions.
The Commander De Vincenzo Ramirez, now Secre-
tary of the Government in Sicily, is appointed Charge
d'Affaires to the Court of the Netherlands.
On the 16th of this month, at half-pa,t eleven rM.
a very smart shock of an earthquake wa4 felt in the
Commune of Palma (Calabria Ultra Prima), which was
soon followed by another equally violent. These shocks
were felt in all the adjacent country, and the regularity
of their motions is supposed to be the cause .of their
having occasioned no damage whatever.

CEPH A LON lA, Ocroaea
Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Commissioner,
is every moment expected in Corfu, on his return horn
England. His arrival is impatiently looked for by all
ranks, of persons, as they know how greatly he feels
interested in the prosperity of the lonian Islands, which
owe to his care and to his judicious and wise measures
a great part of their present prosperity, which is proved
by the ate ict.administration of justice, the improvement
of agriculture, the activity of commerce, the new ma-
nufactories, the roads, public instruction, dtc.
This Island has the good fortune to have for its re-
sident, Colonel Napier, who perfectly fulfils the object
of his mission, and is very useful to the inhabitants, by
whom he is highly esteemed.
French Papers to the 18th inst. and the Voile of
Saturday, have reached us. It would appear from their contents,
that the Pawnee: of HAY'S' has perceived the impolicy of the
treaty concluded with France, and availing himself of some law or
other, had ventured to abrogate one of its most important articles.
According to these accounts, instead of exclusive advantages being
granted to French goods, they are to lose, on the lst of January
next, the exemptions to which they were entitled by the treaty of
last year, and the import duties were to be equally high for all
nations. Letters from Chuquisaca, capital of the Republic of Boli-
via, dated the alb of July, state, that the act of recognition of
the independence of that Republic by Peru, and the Constitu-
tion proposed by the Liberator, had been brought to the Grind
!Arabs), General Sucaa, by the son of Sir Korea: Filmy,
Sours a's Aid-de-Camp, who had travelled 576 leagues of dillicult
countries in the short space of nineteen days. The Grand Marshal
instantly rewarded his activity by bestowing upon him the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, and selecting for doing so the birth-day of the
Liberator.

The Deihl contains sonic information front Odessa to the end of
October, which says that the Divan bad been assembled several
times, to consider whether the acceptance of the additional Convect.
don, proposed by the Russian Commissioners at Akermann, should
be ratified. Nothing of a decisive nature had taken place; but it
was thought that the Porte would not endanger her security by
departing from the treaty which be r Plenipotentiaries bad signed.

A Lisboa Mail arrived last night with Papers to the
9th instant. Their contents relate chiefly to the proceedings of
the Chambers. The PIWICISS 11101 INT bad selected the Bishop of
Comes& to be President, and Senbor Jose Anemia Gusaamau to
be Vice President, of the Chamber of Peers. It was also agreed
in that Chamber, that an Address should be presented to the King,
Don Paseo, thanking hint for having granted a Charter to Portu-
gal. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Finance read a
Report, from which it appeared that there was a deficit in the
Budget for neat year of WOO Cantos of gas, but that means would
be found to pruvide for it without any direct contribution. He
consequently submitted three proposals to the Chamber, which
were ordered to be taken into consideration and to be printed. Ail
Address or thanks to his Majesty Don Paean was also adopted.
Two Committees were then appointed, one of Finance, consisting
of nine Members, and the other to consider what laws were ne-
cessary for the fuU execution of the Charter.

In the preceding page we have inserted a very in.
terescing letter on the propriety of erecting a County
Asylum, for the pauper lunatics of this County, ad.,
dressed to the Magistrates of Middlesex, by Sir ANDREW
HALLIDAY.

There is no subject that ought to claim our more im-
mediate attention as men, or our more serious considera-
tion as rational and accountable beings, than that which
concerns the well-being of a portion of our species, in
which the ravages of a fearful disease have made, as it
were, a wreck of the human soul, and left them without
the power of either ca:ing for themselves, or of calling
upon others to sere for them. The profligate and the guilty
are too often able to excite our pity and compassion, by
their urgent appeals to our better feelings, even when
we know that their sufferings are merited; but the heart
.is never assailed by any tale of woe from the raving

madman, or any demand for compassion from the harm.
less idiot: the former, in most cases, will heap curses
upon the head of him that, for his necessary preserva•
lion, interferes in his concerns ; and the later is too often
left as a thing for the vile and worthless to scoff at. It
is therefore only from the best and purest feelings of
human nature—feelings void of all that is selfish or iia-
terested, that individuals are. and have been, induced to
persevere in their attempts to ameliorate the condition
and improve the treatment of the insane poor in this
country : and amongst many who have started forward
as the friends of these most friendless and long wretched
outcasts front society, we know of no one that has been
more steady in his pursuit of the object in view, or hAs
adhered to it with a kindlier heart, than the aathor of
the letter now on our table.

From various accidental circumstances, Lord Ro•
WIRT SZYKOUR, " a Nobleman," as the Author has
justly stated, " whose exertions in the cause of humanity
have'never been surpassed,"—we would say a man after
his own heart—was led to observe the crowded and un-
comfortable state of many of the Private Mad Houses in
the vicinity of the metropolis ; and as it was known that
the greater number of the insane poor of Middlesex
were confined in these houses, and that notwithstanding
the enormous sums levied by the parishes for their
maintenance, their treatment, from the overcrowded
state of the asylums, was very defective—the question
of erecting a County Asylum, under the authority of
Mr. WYNN'S Act, was then first mooted by his Lord•
ship ; and a return was called for by the Clerk of the
Peace, of the number of insane poor is each parish in
the county—the places where they were confined, and
the sums actually paid for their maintenance in each
place. The totals of this return, as stated by Sir A.
HALLIDAY in his letter, are " 700 paupers in confine-
ment—about 600 of them in private mad4souses, 50 in
public hospitals, and the remainder in parish work-
houses," while the annual expense exceeds 18,0001.
These are important facts, and though we agree most
fully in all that has been stated by Lord Rostra
&widow: and others, as well as by the Author of
the Letter to the Middlesex Magistrates, as to the
humanity and propriety of a County establishment,
we must confine the few remarks we have to offer
to the econ. my of the measure ; —we would rather
appeal to the purses of our readers than to their
passions—to their personal interests, than to their
humanity. We have it slated here, from authentic and
official documents, that 700 insane paupers cost the in-
habitants of Middlesex upwards of 18,9001.
for their maintenance in private asylums. Is the pre-

sent system, then, proper, we would ask, supposing it to
,be equally beneficial for the poor themselves, as that
which exists in other comities, where public asylums
have been established ? We answer, without any hesi•
tation, or any kind of reservation, that it is not 6 and
though we do not go quite the length of Sir A.
HALLIDAY, who states that one-third might be saved,
we have no hesitation in affirming that, even sup.
posing the Magistrates, instead of raising the money
for building by assessment, were to borrche 100,0001.
the whole annual charge for the maintenance of
the insane, in a County Asylum, with the intetest
of the money borrowed, would be considerably
under 18,0001. The total expenditure in the Wakefield
Asylum, which contains two hundred and fifty patients,
was 4,7991. 3s. In the Lancaster County Asylum the
charge for a pauper lunatic is 7s. 6d. per week ; and
in the York (City)Asylum it is only seven shillings; and
in Edinburgh, the average annual expense of each indi-
vidual in the Bedlam and Charity workhouse, which are
under the same management, is 91.105. 6d. These are
facts, and we offer them to the consideration of our
respectable Magistracy, and in corroboration. of the

statements made by the enlightened and kind-hearted
Author of the letter addressed to them, and, what we
consider of more importance, as a strong inducement for
Lord Rosser SEYMOUR and his friends, to persAvere is
their humane endeavours to have a County -Asylum
established. Sir A. H. states in his letter, "that by
kindness and proper medicine there is often less difficulty
in removing insanity, than manyother dise4i.es of which
the faculty have long entertained juster notions;" and
" that in proportion as proper treatment is adopted, the
number of the insane will diminish, and the expense of
their maintenance be lessened." In all these we cordially
agree with him, and we trust there is not one of our
nearly SOO County Justices, whether stipendiary, or of
the body of the greet unpaid, that will venture to eon-
travert our assertions. _

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The Coned Market has become rather heavy within this hour,
Consols which were done at the commencensent of the Market at
ll4i for the Account, have since receded to 831,which is a fall of I
per Cent. and may be quoted up to ate present time at 83f j (or the
Account, and 1141 for next Account; this sudden fall is not attri-
buted to Political information, but merely through the fear that the
.Bears will not be able to pay their differences at settling day, as there
has been already a fluctuation in the Account of 41 per Cent. It
also appears that the• Public are realising their refits. Consols km
done at $5l I for the Account.
_ _

In the foreign Market South American Securidee have somewhat
improved, and remain steady. There has been some sellers in Greek
Bonds, which lowered the market ; since which the above Wads
'have improved.' In Shares very little doing.
FORRION FUNDS% TWO O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonder, 5 p Ct. 67 I Mei. lids I SUS. 6p. Ct. 67 I i i

I Do. Acct..* 74 4 1
Colombian Bends. 6 p C. Portuguese Beads, S p C. 91 SO}
Do. Bonds, 1824,42 4 Ditto Acct. 11l 4
Do. Acct. 421 Priam Bds. Sp C.
Danish Bonds, 3 pet. 634 3 Do. Hoods, 1922, 5p C. 97
Ditto Account 63 24 34 Russ. ilds, 1822, S p C. 674 4 1
Omsk Bonds, 5 p Ct. Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. 136 1 4 4 IS
D0.80ud5,1825,5p C. 194 420 Ditto Acct. 134 413
194 4 i French Rates. 3 p C. 72f —4
Do. Aect.l94 490 194 4 I Eacbange,llSt 60e
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARIV. TWO O'CLOCK.
NIA MIL PAID.
British Iron Company 100 34 6 i
Colombian 100 15 74 11
Pasco Peruvian 100 IS 14 1
United Alesican 40 25 15 144 14
United General Gas 50 1 a Pi i

Ditto Acct.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Novassan 18.
At two o'clock this day the Stamm took the Chair, and the
swearing In of new Members was continued, as on previous days,
until four o'clock, when the House adjourned till Monday neat.

NEWCASTLE, Novak/inn 18.

We regret to state the following awful occurrence that took place
on Wednesday last, in South Shields. Lieut. Guthrie, R.N. with
two other Gentlemen, had crossed the Tyne from North Shields,
fir the purpose of proceeding to Sunderland, and while he was in
the act of stepping into a chaise at Mr. Oysten's door, he soddenly
dropped down and expired without uttering a word. Mr. Guthrie
was much respected in the Navy, and also in private life.