Star.
London, England, 1820-01-17 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1820.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONIS O'CLOC.4
3 per Cent. Reduced 68% 743
3 per Cent. Consols 6sl/6 ac. dir.
3i per,Cent. 77%
4 per Cent. 871/8
5 per Cent. Navy 102 n 1031 A ex.
Bank' Long Annuities 18 1-16
India Bonds Bs. 9s. pr.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) par, 2s. its par.
Consols for Acct. 69% % %.

To-morrow will be settling day for the present
Account, and, from the extensive bargains that have
taken place, and the fluctuations in the price, there
will be large balances to receive and pay. Various
have been the struggles during the last fortnight be-
tween the Bulls and Bears at the Stock Exchange;
and as various have been the rumours. The Bah,
however, that is, the speculators for a rise, have been
the most powerful ; and, on the whole (to use a tech-
nical phrase), the Market has a healthy appearance.
This morning, Consols began at 69if and 691 for the
February Account.

We lately toek occasion to notice the absordity of
continuing to exclude British Merchants from the
Trade between Canton and the European and Ame-
ric4n States. This exclusion arises from the con-
struction put upon the Clause of Monopoly, allowed
to the East India Company in their last Charter.
We are happy to find that this question is now under
the consideration of a Committee of enlightened
British Merchants ; and, it is probable, will be sub-
mitted to the consideration of Ministers or Parlia-
ment, at no very distant period. At this time the
Americans have about 18,000 tons of Shipping em-
ployed in this Trade, and probably not less than
3,000 Seamen. In the course of the year 1818,
above 011,000 chests of Tea were imported into
Canada—not from the East India House, in Leaden-
hall-street, but 'Erectly from Canton, in American
bottoms!

Can any thing be conceived more absurd, than to
shut out our own Merchants from a lucrative branch
of Commerce, for the purpose, as would appear
(for such is the practical result), of securing the Trade
to the Dutch and the Americans ? and this too, while
our own Merchants cannot find employment for their
shipping ! The East India Company, in the nature
of things, never can secure to themselves this branch
of the China Trade. They would be no way inju-
red by at once allowing a liberal construction to be
put upon their Charter--a construction which would
secure to them the supply of Great Britain, but allow
her Merchants to participate in the supply of Europe,
America, and the West Indies. Indeed, the result
would be, that British capital and industry would
soon secure, to this country, the whole emoluments
of the trade, were Teas allowed to be warehoused in
Great Britain for exportation.

A Mail from Flanders arrived last night, and a
series of German Papers of late dates, this forenocn.
The following are the only notices we have met with
of any interest : .

CARLSRUHE, JANUARY 2.—The damage done by
the inundation last month, appears to have been
more considerable than was at first supposed. Many
Parishes on the Rhine have lost almost all their win-
ter stock. We hear that an intimation has been
given to the Merchants here to renounce all connec-
tion with the Society of the German Merchants and
Manufacturers. The report still prevails that our
Assembly of States will meet in April.

, .-
COPEI4:IIIAGEN, JAN. I.—During the Christmas ho-
lidays, the windows of the house, of the first Jewish
merchant here were again broken, though the mea-
sures adopted by the Magistrates to prevent the re-
currence of such excesses are still partly in force;
and small parties of cavalry patrols the streets in the
evening.—The prohibition to import corn into Eng-
land, and the high duty imposed on it in Sweden,
having contributed still more to depress the pikes of
grain, to the peat prejudice of the farmer, it has
been proposed to levy a duty on the importation of
foreign corn into Denmark, to prohibit it for some
time. Of the Danish cities, Copenhagen is probably
the only one which imports foreign corn, namely
(last year), about 30,000 barrels of rye and wheat, of
which 20,000 were consumed in the country.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 12.—8 y a Decree of his Majesty
the king of Prussia, dated the 30th of December
last, and which has been received at the Post Office,
in this City, all_the Journals printed in the Nether-
lands, without any exception, are strictly prohibited
in all the Prussian dominions, and are not to be per-
mitted even to pass through to other parts of the
German Empire. The preamble of this Decree
states, among other reasons, that the falsehoods and
lies circulated by those Journals, have led to thii
measure. We learn frorp.Ghent, that an attempt has
lately been made in that City to assassinate M. R iourt,
Editor of the Journal Le Vindigue. He was at-
tacked, when returning home in the evening, by four
men, and received metal wounds,- one of which is
in the head ; he would inevitably have lost his life,
had not I:is cz ies drawn several pemons to the spot.