Star.
London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 216; India Bonds 65
3 per Cent. Red. 901 a South Sea Stock
3 per Ct. Cons. 91; 1 ; Old Annuities,
3} per Ct. 1818, .61000 Esc'seq. liill4, (2d.) 74 3
31 per Cent. Red. 99; a £5OO Ditto 7$ 5
4 per Ct. 103 j ; £lOO and £2OO Ditto 73 5
4 pr Ct. 1826,105 4; 5 Bank for Acct.
Long Alin. ex. d. 90 1.16 th India for Acct. .
India Stock Consols for Acct. 91; 3 ;
FORRIGv FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 2p. Ct 104 $3 Ditto 100, 20}
Brazil Bonds, S pr Ct. 66 ; Neapolitan Bonds, S p C. 119;
Do. Acct. 66; 53 6; 3 Pertly. Bds. 6 p C.
Colont. Bds. 6 per Ct. Do. Acct. 14; 1
Do. lids. 1824, 19; Port. Bds. 5 p. Ct. 48; 1
Mexican Bds. 3 per Cent. Ditto Acct. 48; 8 11
Do. Bds. 1825, 6 prCt. 20 Spanish Bds. 5 per Ct. 9; 81
Ditto Acct. 20; 20 Do. 510, 9;
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SII A HES, TWO O'CLisCh.

gittiti Palm. l'lll SHALL
Anglo Mexican Olt at ‘5 pm) 100 100 25
Ditto Subscrip. 8 8i
United Mex. (iss. at Cl, pm.) 40 29& 15;
We have received a very interesting narrative of the

treatment experienced by the Spanish Exiles from th
Usurper of Portugal and his agents. A case more cal
culated to call down the indignation of Europe, or
excite public sympathy, has never come within
our notice. We shall give this important document
a conspicuous place on Monday. Twenty-eight more
of these victims to freedom and public principle have
reached our shores. They would, like their com-
panions, have been still retained in the prison ships
of the Tagus, had not it become impossible for the
ruling faction to maintain them any longer, even on
the coarse bread, which has been their only sustenance.
Having been asked where they wished to be conveyed,
these unfortunate men had no alternative but to name
England, since had they preferred Spain, there is no
doubt but a prison—if not something worse—awaited
them, as it did those who had previously relied on the
good faith and generosity of FERDINAND'S Ministers.
We hope and trust the preference given to this country
will be met by a reception that shall prove we have not
entirely lost one of our proudest appellations, that of
being the succourers of the persecuted and oppressed.

The article on the state of Portugal in the Times of
this morning, merits attention in every way : there is
plenty of condemnation of Don MiGUEL—plenty even of
patriotic and high affectation to deceive those who cannot
read the double-mindedness of our contemporary. If he
could but ascertain on which side the ultimate triumph
would be, nothing would delight him so much as to be
seen foremost in the cavalcade of the recognition,
hooping and hallooing for the victorious party. But
which that party may be, matters not a straw to the
Times: wherever the throne shall be established, round
that—with instinctive pliancy—he would rush, along
with the earliest congregants. What a pity that he
cannot see beforehand, so as to enable him to lead
opinion ! In the mean time, he will take care—as we
have more than onco remarked already—not to be
caught far behind it. After picturing, with a due ap-
pearance of horror, the frightful condition to which
usurpation has brought that unhappy kingdom, he winds
up with the following characteristic passage :

Such a state of things inspires hope—though, we confess, Gland
~se—that Musom.'s power may not be of long duration. At the
same time we are bound to confess, with whatever reluctance, that
the ultimate recognition sf Dixon, should lie not be upset by his own
people, is an theodolite evil; and, however offensive to our moral feel-
ings, is an event which the ezigesseia y the State and of consmeree may
absolutely demand. Let, however, the step not be taken one mi-
nute before it shall be necessary, and in the interval something
may occur to avert the painful measure of apparent acquiescence
in so absurd as well as cruel a tyranny.

We are become acquainted with our contemporary at
last, and know therefore at :chat value to estimate his
contemptible cant: yet, even thoroughly as we can trace
his motives—licet intas, et in cute nuvimus—there are
moments when such language as this exalts the tempe-
rature of our blood to boiling. According to this doc-
trine, State expediency requires that England should
recognise a villain, whom the Times himself has a hun-
dred times held up to the execration of Europe: a wretch,
who—not contented with seizing power through per-
jury and treason—has from that moment never ceased to
wade through blood and crime, as the only means he
possessed of reconciling the people to his sway. The
fate of a nation, whose political position can ask such a
sacrifice of honour and principle, is neither to be envied nor
to be doubted. What shall we say, then, of the Journalist,

who endeavours—by such a species of circumlocution and
cant as we have above extracted—to prepare a great and
generous people to hear the damning acquiescence pro-
nounced in its name ? With regard to the Usurper's
being " upset by his own people," the Times is well
aware that—but for the protecting policy of the Noble
Duke and the Noble Earl—this, had occurred long
since. But the recognition anticipated—or rather,
invoked—by our contemporary, will never be. Could
it, by any disastrous combinations, be brought about, it
would be the signal here for the immediate impeach-
ment, both of Lord ABERDEEN and the Noble and Gal-
lant Premier, to whom such dishonour would be due.

There is an article in the Brighton Gazette—intended,
evidently, from the wording of it—to serve as an apology
for the late proceedings at Newark. A great stir, it
says, has been made in consequence of the Duke of
NEWCASTLE'S ejection of those tenants, who refused to
vote for Mr. ►SADLER. And yet, be says—as if this
were any justification of the NEWCASTLE outrage—
the Borough of Arundel offers no uncommon examples
of the like oppression. What do we care if it do ? The
injustice of his Grace of NORFOLK is not to be a mantle

to cover that of the Duke of NEWCASTLE. This rotten
palliation betrays the corrupt principles of the Brighton
Gazette, whose vote—if he happen to have one for any
Peer-overshadowed borough—we cannot doubt, is
always tendered with due obsequiousness to the great
proprietor :

det♦elat ine,
Res übi mason nitet.

These defences are of the school of that unlamented
Corruptionist, who declared—in the zenith of his evil
ascendency—that the practice of seat-selling in that
House, which he was then addressing as a Minister, ma,:
as notorious as the noon-day sun. But the notoriet'
does not excuse the flagitiousness.
" After the elections"—says the Brighton Paper—
" when the late Mr. BLAKE, of Leominster, in this county,
biumphed over the NORFOLK interest of that town, all
the Duke's tenants who supported that Gentleman, had
notice to quit." We ourselves have understood this to
be the case, nor did the tyrannical dismissal of a stud-
groom last summer—an old and faithful servant—by
Lord SURREY, because of an anti-Catholic Petitioi.
signed by him, escape us unremarked. These are uncon-
stitutional excesses, which cry aloud to be checked : the
effrontery with which they are resorted to by men of all

denominations has made the term patriotism a mockery
with the people, and political integrity a bye word. Tht.

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difference between the Duke of NORFOLK and the Duke
Of NEwCASTLE is, that the Catholic oppressor has been
more dexterous—as well as less extreme—in his oppres-
sions : he did not call the living multitude his PROPERTY,
nor punish their independence by such wholesale diaper-
lion as the Protestant. But the tyrannous feudal prin-
ciple has been the same in both cases, nor is there any
hope to see its flagrancy diminish, till Reform—as uni-

versa', as it shall be pure and radical—come like a moral
PERBEVS, to deliver the Constitution from the monster
that threatens to devour it.

CITY. TwiLve o'CLocx.

We have a great dearth of arrivab this morning. consequently
no information of importance has as yet come to hand. We have

an arrival front the Flavannah, but the time of her sailing is not as
yet ascertained. Consols opened this morning at the same price ,
they left off yesterday 91i money, and 903 for Account, with
little or nothing doing as yet.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols which were in the early part of the morning
at 91i buyers for the account, are not quite bo good at
present, and may be quoted at 91i buyers, and 911 for
money. _ _

The public for several days past have been purchasing
the Consols, owing to apprehensions being entertained
that Government are resolved to pay off the 4 per cents.
which is still the opinion of the well-informed, and who
have no doubt that Consols will reach 94 a 95.

In the Foreign Market the business doing was in Brazil
bonds, which lowered to 65i, since which a re-action
has taken place and they got up again to 66.
Portuguese Bonds have been done at 48 to which is
also a decline in the price. In other Foreign Stocks
little or nothing doing.

THE WEATHERCOCK OF " THE TIMES."

Would you find out bow the" Tlmes" stands incliti'd-*
Watch AMDUN'S thoughts—and then look at the wind :
No matter in whate'er direction they go.
He is sure to manoeuvre—and puff as they blow.
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