Star.
London, England, 1821-03-24 00:00:00

THE EVENING S'l'Aß.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1821.
TILE FUNDS.

The bustle which has, during the past week, pre-
vailed on the Stock Exchange, appeared this morn-
ing to have subsided into a dead calm. Consols,
which left off At 711/4 Vs, opened to-day at 70%; at
twelve they recovered to 71 A, but, as the day ad-
vanced; were 'again on the decline. •On the whole,
there was but little business doing ; the interest ex-
cited by the first leparts of the affair :it ltieti having
vanished with its aicnowledged unimportance.
• earecs AT O$ O'CLOCK Z

5 rcr Cent. Cons. 707/4 sAi •
1 per Cent. Navy 105 gs 3/ tilt
India Bonds 535. pr.
Exclieq. Bills Is.'2i. dis.
Consols for Actt. 7076 71 Y 4 70 4 /8.

The Catholic Disabilities Removal Bill, was again
brought forward in the House last night. Mr. PLCN-
NETT was absent, as ue understand, in consequence
of a severe domestic calamity—the death of Mrs.
Pctmcerr ; and, in the absence-of the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman, in consequence of this melan-
choly event, Sir J. NEWPORT moved the re-commit-
pent of the• Bill. Mr. CROKER postponed his propo-
sition for making provision for the Catholic Clergy,
until the bringing up of the Report. The House
having gone into the Committee, the clause tespect-
ing the new Oath of Supremacy was opposed by Sir
.W. SCOTT, Sir J. NiclioL, and Mr. BROWNLOW, and
defended by the Secretary for Ireland, Mr. C. GRANT.
Mr. WErnertm. opposed the Bill, on its principles
being hostile to the Constitution of the land. The
measure was supported by Sir J. MACKINTOSH and
Lord CASTLEREAGH, and opposed by Mr. PEEL and
others, but carried on a division by 230 to 216.
The discussion will, evidently, occupy much more
Of the attention of the House; for only the first
clause has. yet been gone into, and that has been
carried by a majority Of only fourteen, which is
much less than that by which the first stages of a
similar Bill were carried in 1813, when it was lost in
the Committee, by the celebrated clause proposed
by the SPEAKER being carried, which went to ex-
clude all Catholics from sitting in either House of
Parliament. Mr. BANEES has given notice of a
similar motion, which, it is confidently expected,
win also be carried.

We received, this morning, the Paris Papers of
Wednesday. They contain nothing to keep in coun-
tenance the pretended Bulletin of the French Minis-
ter of Finance, which was received yesterday from
Paz is, announcing the defeat of the Neapolitans at
Rieti; and there can be little doubt that it has had
its origin in the same bureau from which so many
former things of the same veritable sort have pro-
ceeded since the commencement of hostilities in Italy.
We must confess, however, that we shall feel no sur-
prise, and scarcely any disappointment, should the
intelligence contained in this Bulletin prove to be
substantially correct. The Neapolitans, it is said,
attacked the Austrians, and the Neapolitans were re-
pulsed. They could expect nothing else; nobody
who is not looking out for miracles could expect any
thing else. It is from a succession of such attacks
and repulses that the Neapolitans must look for
victory in the end; by partial assaults, often re-
peated, on the vast military force which is sloWly
and cautiously wedging itself into their country—by
cutting off now a hundred, next day a thousand, that
they must hope to see it finally wasted and destroyed.
No doubt such a mode of warfare is not to be carried
on, any more thin great battles are to be fought,
without considerable loss ; but, if we only allow the
loss on both sides to be equal, the history of all inva-
sions tells us what must be the ultimate fate of an in-
vading army opposed to a whole population in arms.
What would those who vaunt most of the repulse of
the Neipolitans at Rieti have had us to expect ? That
the Neapolitans were, at once, to overwhelm the
whole Austrian army, and drive it back, at one
shock, beyond the Po ! The absurdity of the sup-
position shews of how little account the reported re-
pulse at Rieti ought to be considered; and how
little ground it furnishes for sinking in the hopes we
shall never cease to entertain of the discomfiture,

sooner or later, of one of the most lawless aggressions
ever made on the rights of an independent nation.
Since writing the preceding, we have received by
a Post-Office Express, the following extract from the
Do*, a Paris Evening Paper of Wednesday last.—
It appears to establish, beyond a doubt, that the
Neapolitans really were repulsed on the 7th, and that
clic Austrians had made a movement in advance :
PARTS, MARCII 21.
An account from the Austrian Head-quarters, at
Iticti, of the Bth of Maych, says--
The enemy, to the number of 9,000 men, ad-

vattced yesterday, the 7th, in the direction of ltieti,
• and attacked the Corps tuuler the command of Gene-
ral Count Walmuden.
u The third of the advanced guard of this Gene-
ral was sufficient completely to beat the Neapolitan

Corps, which fell back upon Cirita Ductile in the
greatest disorder.
0 A second column of the enemy came from