The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-02 00:00:00

FRENCH FUNDS.

!*43113, Jsx. 31._Renter opened at 96f. ; end of the month,
'4f* 94c•—Scrip, B.—Spanish, 25. 3.—Ducats, 81i. 31-2.

The Paris Papers of Friday contain the fol-
lowi .
ng Important articles :

(From the Journal des Debats.)
JIADRID, JAN. 20.—The King has appointed the Count of
%Alia Prime Minister.

(From the Eloik.)
JAR. 22.—The Asia ship of the line, and the
Achilles brigantine, sailed from Cadiz on the 13th. It is said
that they are to join the Jean Bart, and two other frigates, at
the Canaries, and thence proceed together to Lirna. It is
added, that in a few days the Arethusa and Descubierta cor-
vettes will sail for the Gulph of Mexico; the Pearl is about to
be sent to Carthagena to be coppered, and the Casilda will
ante from Carthagena to Cadiz.--(El Restaurador.)
NOTE BY THE EDITOR OF THE ETOILE.—We think we
flay state as certain, that this news is without foundation, at
least as regards the French ships.
Fiats, JAL 31.—A1l the Spanish prisoners are to return to
France. They are indebted to His Catholic
Alajesty for this
signal mark of favour.

(From the Courier Francais.)
PARIS, JAN. 30.—There is a report, that the Prince tie Po-
lignac is to be replaced at the Court of London by M. de Mont-
morency Laval, and Polignac is to go as French Ambassador
to Rome. We learn from Havre, of January 28, that the
American corvette Cyane, had arrived there with Mr. lirown,
the Minister of the United States to the Court of France,
to
suPersede M. Gallatin.
It seems that the Prince of Savoy Carignan is not expected
to return to Turin, from which he has been absent three years.
This voluntary or forced exile, to which the presumptive
heir of the Sardinian Throne submits, is not unimportant.
The reigning House of Savoy will be extinguished at the
death of Charles Felix, who has no children, and no appear-
" titituof haying any. There is only one collateral branch of
family—that of Savoy Carignan ; and of this there are
c'tilY two Princes—the one of whom we speak, and his son,
wh°
us four Yeats old. The right of the Prince to the Throne
hebe °oghcontested •; but long absence from a Court, where
horn for
lto -,e.upy the second place—his embarkation at Log-
in place of alleillea, when he came to join the army of Spain,
would have "'fling by land through Florence and Lyons, which
I,e °bilged
thereinto to traverse Piedmont and Savoy, and
tr-2, silence with regard to him preserved by the Gazette de
"", may give rise to some conjectures. The eldest daughter
A
of the deceased
ling Victor Emmanuel is married to an Austrian
rchdoke, and the desire of Austria to extend her dominions in
Italy is well
havenknow ; but it will not be a matter of indifference
fro
to France to Austria for her .
ntier. neighbour on t 4 leagues 'of her

Files of
"iv New York Papers to the 9th January
ed this morning. The following •is the only
article worth extracting :
cc 0
4,, %,ANARY ISLAND*.--A letter from Teneriffe
(i'' the 15th Nov. has been received at Baltimore,
-(24 which the writer mentions the arrival at Santa
it r", or a French frigate, and states that a Ge-
r4' On hoard demanded, in the name of his
:vernment, possession of the whole of the Ca-
-11,4p' Islands ceded to France by Ferdinand.—
„ le Governor requested a few days to reflect
-No the . is:
;'se 4".Ject. The inhabitants are greatly
.. 'Aerated, and declare they will sacrifice their
"es and fortunes ere the French flag shall wave
eVer them."

el"rt) inor Ttcetve o'Ciock.--Consols opened this
niog at
for thl/4 A
9(gii, 91, but soon after lowered. to
e `a-count. The Market this morning
ill
ratty
h-r ill a wavering state, in expectation of
tpl,e) —lN"'s aPeeeh to be delivered to-morrow.—
/ tie Expresses from Paris have brought the
inell Rentes, at four o'clock, 96,60 ; Spanish,
:11; Scrib) 134 r, I am informed that Saturday
was Settling Day at Paris for
----holida all Foreign Funds.
Y at the Bank.
~.."t"GN IVlAitxur.—Spanish Bonds opened at
Al 2
rk but. soon decline 1--,%
d to 2, with a heavy
et 'Mexican 13onds opened at 5,1, and got I
b
-P to 51.

w 0 4
It al
'll' Still disposed to lament, as we stated
z
'l'l of Satuniv, that the dicta of the LtArne'l

In the Document which we published on this subject, and
which was so numerously and respectably signed, we can trace
no desire to go beyond the preservation of good faith, as between
the subscribers and the London Dock Company; but on the con-
trary, as many of the parties are importers, and others of them
purchasers, their interests, in a question as to the propriety of
interfering with the right of stoppage in trantitu, would be
Opposite.

No importer can wish that the instant he has given an order
for delivery his right of property shall be lost. With the great
bulk of our importations such a course is utterly impracticable ;
for the goods are not in a deliverable state. The rate at which
the vendor is to be paid is often the only point which can be
definitively settled : the amount and the quantum of the goods
are to be afterwards ascertained by weighing, gauging, mea-
suring, separating, &c. ; and to admit of this, there is, in all
trades, a usual prompt, or time, allowed for payment.-H
Surely, as between the original vendor and vendee. the
former has a right to follow and resume possession of
his goods as against the latter ; and if the vendee
makes them over to a third party, shall that make any
difference ? We conceive it ought not, as the sub-vendee must
know that the goods are not in a deliverable state; and
if he pays his money for them, under such circumstances.
he does it in own wrong, even admitting that there is no
collusion between the parties. An order for delivery is a
niece incipient proceeding. Until actual or constructive
delivery take place, so as to admit of final settlement,
the contract is not conclusive, and may be revoked.—No man
can give a better title to any property than he himself possesses.
The original Vendee, therefore, must do every thing necessary
to terminate the transit of the goods, before he can sell them to
another; and it has always been hitherto held in law, that " if
any thing remain to be done," the transitur is not at an end ;
This is clearly the case with tallow sold at per cwt. Until it is
weighed and the quantum thereby ascertained, the goods are
in tranritu.

The present Chief Justice, in his able book ou Shipping,
says—" Not every mercantile practice of frequent use, and
" even of general convenience, is or ought to become in all its
" consequences a part of the law of the land ; for if such a rule
" were adopted, the law must, in many cases, depart from its
ow•n principles, and vary with the varying fashion of the
" times."—P. 393.
The varying fashions of the present times are such as to lead
to a serious departure from the ancient principles of the law ;
whether fur good or fur evil remains to be proved.

Bayonne Papers to the 25th, and Dutch and
Brussels to the 31st ult. reached us last night.—
The former are totally insignificant : the latter
intimate that some conspiracy of an extensive
and alarming nature had been discovered in Ba-
varia, but without entering into any other details
than that " the Officers of Justice and Police
were permanently assembled to continue the exa-
minations of a considerable number of prisoners,
and that six pounds of poison had been found in
the barracks of the military at Nuremberg."
Letters from Batavia, of the 16th September
last, bring the news of the death of his Highness
the Soesochoenan of Soerakarata, Pakoeboeana-
Senopatti ngologo - A boul - Rachman - Sahidin-
Panatogomo V., which happened on the sth of
that month. This Prince succeeded his father in
October, 1820. He had not left any legitimate
descendants, and till the supreme Government
should come to a decision respecting the succes-
sion to the throne, the Dutch Resident at Soera-
karata had taken possession of the Seals of Go-
vernment, and fixed his abode in the Palace.

THE RING'S CO U 1.1011 Saturday, at four
o'clock, lab MAJESTY heid a Court at his Palace
at Brighton, which was attended by the Lord
President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal,
the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Fo-
reign Affairs, the Lord Steward, &c. The King
held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Buller at-
tended as clerk. The King's speech for the
opening of Parliament by commission was finally
arranged, and received his Majesty's sanction.—
The King then proceeded to prick for the She-
riffs of the different counties, according to ancient
and annual custom. His Majesty gave audiences
to the Earl of Harrow by and the Earl of Liver-
pool. The Court broke up a little before six
o'clock ; afterwards, those composing the Court
were entertained with a sumptuous dinner, with
the addition of the Hanoverian Minister and the
Judge-Advocate.
On Saturday the Duke and Duchess of GLOU-
CESTER arrived in town from Bagshot for the
Sea SOU.

Friday morning the Duke of Yoktx left town
for Windsor, and visited his Royal Sister, the
Princess AUGUSTA, at Frogmore. The Royal
Duke dined with the Princess, and afterwards
left for London, where his Royal Highness ar-
rived between eleven and twelve o'clock.
The Earl of LIVERPO•L and Mr. Secretary
CANNING left town at the early hour of half-past
seven o'clock on Saturday morning to attend the
KING in Council, and returned yesterday.
On Saturday Mr. DYKES, the King's Mes-
senger, left town with dispatches for Mr. Secre-
tary CAN Nusa, at Brighton.
GREEKS.—Letters from Naples and Ro-
mania, of the 29th December, state that the for-
tress of Carystos, in the island of Negropont,
was taken by storm on the 12th of that month
(St. Andrew's Day), by the Greeks under the
command of Ulysses And ruso.
THE PoPE.—The Diario di Roma continues
to give satisfactory accounts of the state of his
Holiness's health, which is gradually improving,
and holds out the hope, that in a short time his
Holiness will be quite recovered from his late
severe ilines3.

CONSTA syrxxoPr.F., DEC. t4.—The
Fader, which arrived here on the Gth instant,
from London and Marseilles, has been formally
refused a passage into the • Black Sea, on the
ground of her site exceeding that stipulated by
treaty, and even that which has occasionally been
tolerated beyond it. She is, therekbre, OA the
pciat of re.u;'aing to Marseilles.

Judges, in pronouncing judgement in the cause HAWES V.
WATSON, should have gone beyond the point at issue.
There is a newfangled mania afloat at this moment, which
tends to disturbing the law of Commerce in many important
respects. The doctrine that possession is to constitute title is
sought to be established, and the equitable rights heretofore
acknowledged, as between Principal and Factor, and Vendor
and Vendee, are to be annulled.