Star.
London, England, 1829-08-12 00:00:00

THE NEW POST OFPICE.

.Notwithstandlng the exertions that have been made to
open the new Post-office this day--the anniversary of his Majesty's
birth-day, it has been found impracticable to complete the arrange- ,
menu, and some days will elapse before the Oasis take possession '
of their respective.departmenu. The whole of the arrangements of
the new Post-ofilce are complete, and most of the rooms, °Mies,
fire. perfectly finished. The sorter's room is ready to receive those
engaged in sorting lettemand is a fine apartment,. having nor lea
than 150. gas burners in it, and Is perfectly ventilated. The whole
of the inland department will occupy half of the building, near
Aldetwate-street, while the other half,htinching towards Cheap-
side, will be appropriated to the Foreign Department. In this de-
partment various improvements will bi made to give facility to
busioesst • The clerks and translators on duty connected with the
foreign delivery are to have rooms fitted up for them to*aleep
in order that they may be ready to act at a moment's notice on the
arrival of foreign mails and intriligenee. Measures are to be adopted
to give.greater facility to the delivery of all letters parsing through
the Post Office.. In the course of the last two or three days. a cart I
load of human skulls and bones have been dug up, part of the ground
where excavations'are making for laying bn gas, water, &A: having
formerly served as barial-ground attached to *t. Vedask ChUrch.
They were hid aside for re-interment: Among the improvements
contemplated in the vicinity. of the New Post Office is the demoli-
tion of Ibe old ball belonging_ to the Goldrinithe Compuly,,situate"'
in Posen Ilene, ana which has a* eery sorry appearance contrasted
with the impOsing building opposite to it. The. Goldsmiths' C?m-
patsy intend to erect a fine Hail oa the site of the 9141 one. : *

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HAYES, MIDDLESEX.
MR. JOHN ROBINS, of Warwick-house, Regent-
greet. informs the Public, that the Sale at
THE VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE,

commune
THE MANOR OF HATES,
With the aphid Mauston, Farms, and Land, advertised to be Sold
by Auction, at Gummy's Coffee-house, 'Change-ality, Corabili,
oa Thursday the 1.3t6 et August,
IS POSTPONED

Mug Tiromoo r,ilie224l of Ocrosn.
170, Regent-meet, 12th Augast,lB29.

THE EVENING STAR.

LON 1)()N.
NVEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12.
PRICE OT STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 215 India Bands 37 S 6
3 per Cent. Red. 891 1 South Sea Stock
3 per Ct. tons. 881 I Old Annultlei
31 per Cent. 1818, 981 New ditto
31 per Cent. Red. 981 1 3 per Cent. 1751,
4 per Ct. New. 1021 1 £lOOO Ifacbeq. Bills, 74 75
4 per Cent. 1826. 1051 1 £5OO Ditto 74 7S
Long Ann. 20 1-16 20 2100 and .1200 Ditto 7S 76
India Stock, 225 Consols for Acct. 881 11
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
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BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARKS. TWO O'CLOCK.
*HA kr. ram.
35 20 71
25 71 101
40 391 111

Masillan

Ditto National
United bleziean

Since the death of Lord LONDONDERRY in 1822, a
deplorable degeneracy has overshaded the PRESS of Eng-
land . It exhibited at that epoch—with the exception of
those journals which were more professedly the echo of
the Ministers—a fair picture of the public mind and feel-
ings : one leading print in particular, managed with
equal power and patriotism, kept alive the spirit of the
people, and greatly contributed to sustain them in those
times of trial. But the columns of a British news-
paper have long. ceased to be stamped with the
impress of popular opinion : and yielding, some of them
to party influences, but many more to the most depraved
corruptions, each colours—according to his own pre-

judiced, or knavish views—the interpretation of public
events. It is foreign to our immediate purpose, to trace
the causes of this degeneracy here : but its illustration,
on the occasion of the recent changes in France, is par-
ticularly striking.

The Morning Chronicle and the Morning Advertiser
both imagine, that—whatever may be its results in France

—this revolution in her Cabinet is matter of decided con-
gratulation for England : that it will strengthen the hands
of the present Ministers, by securing for them a more cor-
dial co-operation in their plans of foreign policy--
proh pudor !=and that they will now be able to guarantee
the integrity of Turkey, and coerce his Northern Victor
as they please ! The Morning Chronicle says, indeed,
that ho has " much more to say," and we shall be glad to
hear it from him. In the meantime, can the Morning
Chronicle and the Morning Advertiser be insensible to the
influence on European Cabinets, which these changes will
necessarily exercise ? •Do they regard with indifference
the re-consolidation of those despotic interests—the pre-

ponilerance of which was becoming every day faintei and
fainter, as their inter-coherence was enfeebled by prevail-
ing popularities—and the revival, in all its inveteracy
of the Holy Alliance ? For, tantamount to such revival—
taken together with the compleiion of our own Ministry
is the coincidence of M. DE POLIGNAC at Paris, with
Prince METT Ea x tut at Vienna. The Times publishes a
letter from his correspondent in Paris, which reflects in a
lively manner the operation of this astounding Ordonnance
upon that sensitise people. It is characterised there as
a sudden darkening of the horizon—a bursting of the
storm: it plunged the capital into consternation, and
sunk the value of the public funds. Pottox Ac, the
Prime Minister, is universally detested: BOUItMONT—
Ripointed to the War' Department—is an unprincipled
renegade, greedy of money, and careless by what means it
comes ::he sold Louts XVIII. in the hundred days, and
deserted from La Vendee to NAPOLEON at Waterloo: he,
:• too, is equally detested with PoLioNAC. COURVOISI ER
—4linisier of Justice—is a Congregationist and a Jesuit :
RE NEVlL.LE—firefect of Police—is a fanatic, and a
Jesuit too: MONTBEL, Mayor of Toulouse—Minister
of Public Instruction—is -the friend and follower. of
de VI t tat. E, :and Champion of his disastrous policy
FRASSYNOUS, Bishop of Hermopolis—that jesuitical'
organ and hierarch, too well known even in England to
need other description than his nameis to appoint to
all ecclesiastical preferments. There is only N. de
la BOUlt DON NAT IL, whose character is .allowed to •be
firm and uncompromising ; but he is represented.
to •be as' formidable . as he is firm, and likely to ad-
' here—through any conjuncture • of .the State—with
ferocious obstinacy to his ultra-despotic principles. "/t
leas difficult," says the Correspondent of the TIMES," to
choose names more disagreeable to France. The pre-
sent Ministry is one which our most exaggerated Ultra*
could not' have hoped to see in power, even 'in their
Wildest driams."

'Stich has been their effect, and such 'the expression
of opinion on the other side concerning these ominous
appointments. But,' says -the Times—" With the per-
sonal qualifications and antecedent history of the men
composing the new French Ministry, we have nothing to
do :" as if their personal qua/cations-unless our
pleasant contemporary speaks literally of their " singe-et;
tigre"•accomplishments—ought to weigh nothing in their

selection al Ministers of State ! As if no deductions drawn
from antetiecUnt character, no exploits illustrative of theirl
political Mee; eoglit to inileence the nomination of indivi
duals; called to take a *share in theiniernment -of the
world ! If these matters;then, are to be considered so un-
lipPertenti- we shill be 104 to hear. from.ihe Tinto ihit
may be AN criterion, by; which to judge of the fitness of
1 public men'. Will he answer us, tbat-;as kissing goes

by favour -eo the honours and emoluments of public
trust ought to be conferred where there is the greatest
wealth, and the most plentiful means of bribery, and the
most extensive, though corrupt, connexions end inclina-
tions, and the amplest resources and ramifications for in-
trigue? That it is not necessary to have been distinguished in
former life by a career of political purity, or by the ad-
vocacy of any great or good principle, the dissemination
of which might improve the condition, or advance the
intelligence of nations ? But the hour is gone by, when
we should heed the answer of the Times. He is
leagued now against the people, as in days past he was
banded with them. We disclaim all factious feeling, we
have no revolutionary partiality ; but we cannot contem
plate without unmitigated sorrow the change in our neigh-_
bour's government, when coupled with demonstrations
which are too visible in our own. We repeat, that this is
a crisis which demands all our watchfulness ; that
the most perfidious councils are in activity ; and that a
line of Europe an policy is again laid down to which—
if England become accessory—it will redound equally to
her detriment and her dishonour.

The Marquis of BARBACENA has arrived at Laleham,
from his mission to the Court of Bavaria. The Empress
of BRAZIL travels by way of Brussels and Bruges to
Ostend, where a yacht will be in readiness to receive her
Imperial MAJESTY. The EMPRESS is not expected to
arrive at Portsmouth before the 20th of this month.

German Papers have been received this day, but they
do not convey further accounts from the theatre of war
than we already possessed. Indeed the only article of
interest which we find in these papers, is a letter from
Smyrna, by which we learn that Admiral RICoRD is
determined strictly to enforce the blockade of the
Dardanelles, and to seize every prohibited commodity—
particularly provisions for Constantinople,—no matter
whether conveyed in English or in French ships. The
following are extracts
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FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, JULY 13.

The epidemic has latterly abated in some degree at Bucharest,
but in the country still rages u before. At Slobosia, M. Von
Schlegel, physician to the Russian staff, has fallen a victim to his
seal in the service. We are entirely in the dark respecting the
operations of Baron Von Geismar. Some say he is before Widdin
and Nicopolis, while others seem be is in Rachova. We are
without any recent authentic news of the main army under Count
Diebitsch ; but it is asserted that, having successfully crossed the
Balkan, he has arrived at Aidos. The expected reserve of 40,000 men
has not yet joined the army. Serb Mahound, the Governor of
Silistris, has been sent to Russia with 800 of his troops; but
Haggi Aches= is stIU at Muria. Only part of the garrison con-
sisted of regular troops; but the whole were robust handsome
men. We are equally without certain information respecting
Giurgeve and Rudschok ; it is reported, indeed, that Kutscbut
Achmet had lately oesociatid with General Kisselew for the sue.
render of the fortress ; but we cannot learn that these negotiations
have led to any result. Reports of negotiations for peace, or of
an armistice, are again in circulation.
• SMYRNA, Jun= 27. •

The English brig Mary, Captain Plum ; and the .French brig,
L'Hearm, Captain Bauner, which sailed from this port for Con-
stantinople in the first half of 'Ws math, have been stepped at the
Dardanelles by Admiral Ricord ; and it having been found en
searching them that their cargoes consisted partly of provisions,
every thing of this description was seised and taken oat. The ships
then proceeded on their voyage. There is every reason to sup-
pose that the Admiral, whose forbearance may have encouraged
some speculations, will restore their merchandise, and not increase
by cooliscatihn the distress under which commerce already
labours. He wiU consider that the vessels did: not attempt
to violate the blockade, but suffered the Rimini to come on
board without dilliculty—it not being expected that they would be
treated with a rigour, which is lawful certainly, but which had not
hitherto been exercised by his squadron. Admiral Rkord has in-
formed the Consul General of the Netherlands that the blockade
will be mat strictly enforced, and that aU provisions will be seised.

FRANKFORT. Ave. 4.

. On the application of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs to
the. Government of the Netberbnds, respecting the will of a person
of the name of Brandt, who left a fortune of 400,000 florins, and
respecting which there have been advetUsensents in almost aU the
Journals, answer has been given that all parts of the will had been
carried into effect, and that the_ pretensions of all new cleimenti
are rejected by the tribunals.—Freeiort Papers,. stll August.

BERLIN, Mx 30.

The author of the false report that was•spread here Hof the death.
of a great Sovereign' has been discovered; he is *Jewish speculator
in the funds, who does not appear to have derived ao#-profit from
the speculation. • .
Foreign, Journals lay some stress on the new pacific overtures'of
the Prussian Cabinet. Prelate, however, has acted in the same
spirit for many years ; and nobody has an idea that our State will
take any pint whatever in the hostilities. It is merely -in Oast
red mussel la the- Ports that Prussia /at acted its' can.est with
!hags / —Artgrelithanh Owropeadent.l4B4nd 4.

Our domestic intelligence fOr the last few days is of a
Very distressing character. The beginning of last week
was marked by a storm—particularly inScotlana—of such
unprecedented violence, and so destructive in its effects,
that it must entail distress and ruin on many a family.
Whole socks of cattle, and fields of growing Corn, have
been swept away, or covered with the debris of the rapid
and Swellen'Streams ; and, what is still more melancholy,
some lives have been lost. Besides the destruction of pri-
vate' property; which is very great—and which in many
instances eannoi be repaired—im find, on looking at the
details of this dreadful visitation, that the pi:blic must
suffer severely. The lines of communication with the
north of SCptlan,d are broken end it must lisi.'ome a
question whether the Parliamentary Commissioners. for
Highland BOatia and Bridgee,.or the different counties in
which these loses are sustained, are to be at the expense
of repairing the broken bridges and impassable roads.

The Hobart Town Papers; to the 28th March, state; that
the managers of the Agricultural Company of the aisteico-
lony have fallen out amongst themselves ; and they,are
about to form a new establiihment on the east coast of New.
Holland, where sugars are to be cultivated. By the new
schedule of. duties it will. be seen, that the following is
the difference between the amount of duties in the two
colonies New South Wales the duties upon brandy
and hollands-gine, '2E., pet. gallon* less than they'are
in VIIII Diemen's ; upon runt.the duty is 18..6k
less ; upeif wine, • • the reduce .ef. the British colony*
the Cape4l Good Hope; the duty levied in New South
Wiles; is.)b per Cent. less tbaii- at Yen Dieman's Land
on the other hand, the duty _levied in Van Dienian's
Land on tobacco, is 6d. per pound. lam than is levied in
New South Wales ; bolt it is to be recollected that tobacco
is a staple article of the growtliof that colony.

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