The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-23 00:00:00

HAMBURG MAIL.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. B.—Our finances were never in
so favourable a state as at this moment. In the years
1834 to 1836, that is, during the period of the last
Diet, the Riksgalds-Condor (i. e. the General Chamber
of the Public Debt and Sinking Fund) had to "pay debts
of long standing to the amount of 2,600,000 rix-dollars
banco money, and now its debts amount to no more
than 160,000 rix-dollars, while it has at its disposal a
million of rix-dollars in ready money, being the surplus
of the sums granted it by the Diet.

HANOVER, Nov. 17.—As his Majesty had reserved
to himself in the law on the formation of the Coun-
cil of State, the faculty of granting suitable salaries to
three of its members, he has now, as we hear, granted
to Prince Bernhard of Solms Braunfells, the Presi-
dent, an annual salary of 6,000 dollars.

It is rumoured that the Crown Prince of Prussia,
accompanied by two of his brothers, will pay a visit to
this Court.

The Princes are expected on Saturday, and they will
stay here two days. The King is gone to-day to
Brunswick and will return with the Prussian Princes
and the Duke of Brunswick. The young Count Mun-
ster, son of the late Hereditary Marshal, who is on his
travels, has fallen dangerously ill at Geneva. He is
only son of the late Count, but not being of age, has not
yet taken tha office of Marshal. Should he die, the
male line of family would be extinct, and a new Marshal
would have to be chosen.—Hamburg Papers, Nov. 19.

Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock,
Richard Jones, a young man, 24 years of age, the foot-
man of Mrs. Harcourt, in Baker-street, Portman-square,
shot himself with a pistol through the mouth. The
ball passed obliquely, and shattered his left jawbone in
a dreadful manner, but hopes are entertained of his re-
covery. The cause of his committing the act is stated
to have bean that he had pawned a portion of his mis-
tress's plate, which he was requested to produce.
THE YEAR 1840.—The Gazette de France
contains the following remarks on the various
prophe-
cies which are said to have been made relative totheyear 1840 :—" For a length of time the year 1840 has
been looked upon, without any positive reason being
assigned, as a critical period in modern history. 'Phis
opinion has prevailed for the last fifty years from one
end of France to the other. We have been told
that the brother of Count Capo d'lstrias, the Go-
vernor of Greece, read an inscription on a tomb
in the mosque of St.
Sophia,
Turks
ofeminence would be drivenwrote from a, in 1519, that the
Constantinople in 1840. A
person rot.rerecenti y from America, stat-
ing that the opinionent oferta the
entertained, i n
importance rteannicye
in
nf
America, the year
1840
wasgenerallybut
also in Asia, Ancient and modern history have fur-
nished us with very singular facts, which may really be
called popular presentiments, and we have oursek es
seen a book, which was printed at the commencement
of the 17th century, in which the writer, Pavillon,
amuses himself at the expense of those who sought to
attach importance to the year 1789. These rumours,
however, respecting 1840 prove one remarkable fact,
that people's minds are almost universally engaged in
speculating upon it."