The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-29 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1b24.

STOCK-EXCHANGE, 12 O'CLOCK.—Consols opened
this morning at 901, but afterwards were at 91, for the
Account, with little doing.
Up to this hour we do not hear of any Express hay-
rig arrived from Paris, owing, we suppose, to the
boisterous wind last night.
This day is a holiday at the Bank, as well as to-mor-
row.
FOREIGN FUNDS.—The only business this morning
in the above market was in the Mexican Bonds, which
opened at 31, and got up 44.
There is very little doing in Spanish Bonds, which
opened at 2.4 and remain steady at that price.
New Spanish, 16q—Old, 241—Colombian, 65f —New
Austrian, 30—Chili 771—Russian 90—New Prussian S 9/
Old 9l2—Prench Scrip 71—Portneuese l pr to par—
Mexican Loin 41 to I—Poysis 311 to

An opinion has been gaining ground for some time,
that our Ministers were becoming alarmed at the re-
sults pi-educed by the Bourbon .invasion of Spain.—
This, if true, which we believe it is, augurs
well for the interests of England, as it certainly shetvs,
that the plans and plots of the Holy Alliance, aro now
losing, here at least, that popularity which the pious
pniity of its origin, had in its outset, attached to
the character of the high and mighty Members form-
kg that Royal Club. The present state of subju-
gated Spain, ruined in her finances, torn asunder by
the fury of factions, and now a general scene of rob-
beries and assassinations,are the bitter fruits of Bourbon
polities and the morality of Bourbon Allies. This is
enough to dispel the delusion of the most thoughtless,
and to prove the danger of allying ourselves with bigotry
and fanaticism. That such is something like the present
Gering of our Alinistersonsy be inferred from the tone and
slit it of their speeches, delivered at the Meeting of time
sldp-owners' Society at the LondonTavern,onTuesday last.
With ail the caution and rrserve, wl:ich Ministers impose
upon themselves at such Meetings, respecting great wt-
tional measures, still in embryo, yet enough may he
collected from the speech of Lord Liverpool, to show be is
decidedly pacific. Mr. Canning ventures in his speech to
the Meeting to go a little beyond his colleague, for he
cat's, that " there never was a period at which this Coun-
try was in a course that promise! more permanent or
gr4winf prosperity. A prosperity, which I trus:, no
untoward accident may interrupt ; bat, if any accident
interrupt it, let us, remembering the experience of the
pas., look forward with confidence, to a future, as grati-
fying as the present," This anticipation of possible
accident, interrupting our growing prosperity, can
scarcely in the present state of things, allude to any other
measure, than the independence of South Ameica, which,
in spite of any opposition, our Cabinet is now di ter-
mined, by • public recognition, to acknowledge. If this
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conclusion, drat+ n from such expressions be correct, a vast
field sill soon be opened for English skill and enterprise,
that may restore Englishmen to days of happiness, to
which in sober truth, they have long been strangers. For
these reasons, we believe, that our readers may expect, the
important measure of South American indepen letter, with
form a leading, and consolatory topic, in the Royal Speech
of Tuesday next.

The question to he tried to-morrow, coneerning the
legality of a fine imposed fur publishing a report of a
trial, involves considerations of the first importance to the
interests of truth and justice, as well as to the rights of
the Public Press. We ventured yesterday to make a few
remarks on this interesting. case, and shall now proceed
to consider it in other points of view.