The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-10 00:00:00

ship in flames in the middle of the ocean. By some per-
sons the adeAent is attributed to a barrel of quick linv,
which, being reached by the water, ignited, and at last
burst into flame ; hut the more general opinion is that it
was caused by the lightning, as there was a tremendous
explosion only a few seconds before the flames were rer-
ceivcd. The journal states that the value of the property
destroyed was very great, but does not mention the loss
of any life.
A correspondent of the Sud, at Alexandria, writes on
the 23d ult., that Commodore Napier was riding about
wherever he went in the carriage of Boghos Bey ; and
that Walker Pacha and his aides-de camp were taking
their promenades on the Viceroy's horses of ceremony,
with their gilt saddles. Mehemet Ali himself isdecribed
as not presenting any symptoms of dejection in his coun-
tenance. He continued his friendship as usual to the
French Consul-General, and complained of not seeing
him at the palace so often as before.
The foll,r‘ving from Odessa, 18th ult., is given by tl.e
111,miteur Parisiett
,‘ The pl ,gue has made its appearance in Georgia, and,
although not very malignant, has already extended about
20 leagues on this side of T Ells. General Golowin, the
goverresr•general, hail received orders to establish a sana-
tory cordon on the line of the Caucasus, in order to save
the interior from.being attacked. lie, however, abstained
from ding this, representing that cordons to such a
vast extent tfferd no protection, while their more cer-
tain consequences are ruin to commerce, discontent
of the people, and imi.ediments to military operations;
he added, that he censidered the measure adopted by
him of surrounding every place where there was the least
appearance of the evil, leaving the intercourse between
the other parts of the country free and open, as one more
effie&ClOLl3. This opi iion is said to have prevailed at St.
Peters,surgh. Never heless, as in such cases too much
precaution cannot be taken, four regiments of Cossacks
have been placed at the disposal of Ceunt Woronzow, to
establish sanatory cordons wherever he may think right, in
case the plague 51 o ild pass from the Caucasus and make
an irruption into Ru;i'a. Should this disease inaleq pro-
gresa, it will render :Still more complicated the affairs of
the C ucasus, wi ich during the last year have been quite
bad enough. In spite of the rigour of the season, the
1 4th division tTIS to leave Taganrog for Georgia last week,
althouei it bad taken up its quarters for the winter."
The mails from Loadun, Bordceux, Havre, Nantes, &c.
have aot arrived. The Moniteur Las the fillowing ar-
ticle : ---" The President of the Council, Minister of War,
has received the most satisfactory accounts of the readi-
ness which the young soldiers of Finisterre and the Cotes
du Nord have shown to join their regiments."
BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, FEE. 8.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy, Price
French `, per Cents ll2 ... Ili 5 111 60 ... 111 75
4 per Cents 29 ... 99 ... 92 .. 99
3 per Cents 76 35 76 ;15 ... 75 75 ... 75 90
Rink oa ',ranee
L tutee Sank 1.0001. Sh 1055 ...1'65 ~.1055
5000 f. Shares 5145 ...5115 ...5145 ...5145
Belgian Bank
5 per Cents 4114 29% 04 ... 88
Dutch 234 per Cents 5l ... 51 ... 51 51
Active 25 ... 25 ... 241 24%
Passive 6l/4 ••• •••
,:eapolittn
Raman
BAILWAY SHARES.

St Germain
Ve.-sailles,R. B 445 ... 445 ... 432 50 ... 45S
1...8. ?SO ...20 ... 325 ~. 325
Orleans .. 483 75 ... 48.3 75 ... 482 50 ... 468 50
Strasburg to Bale 2.'o ... 550 ... 245 ...:46 25
Youen ' 463 ... 460 ... 460 ... 460
BELtiIA V P UNDS—BaussaLs, FEB. G.
Actual Debt, Shy per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Csnt 974
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent tltill
----- 3 per Cent.
--Tairty.seven--------- .. ... • OS it;
(1F40) 97.4
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent. 6O
Society of Commerce, 4la per Cent lO2 •
Bank of Belgium, b per Cent FB
Nationalbsciety.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers. Feb. 6.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vignxii, JAN, 20
fiveper Costs. Metalliques ........ ........ ....... ....... 106%
Four per Cents. ••••••••• ...... ••••••••••••• ..... ••••••• ........ Pi." 4
Three per Cents.
Bock Shares 1035
—Ai/gen:eine Zeitunt. Feb. 3.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY),

CORN EXCHANGE.

The frost continues, and the navigation of the river being
entirely closed by ice, there is no report of arrivals, and
every article remained nominally as on Monday.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Game and Poultry were in fair supply, and met with a
moderate. sale at the rates established on Saturday. The
supply of Foreign Eggs small in consequence of the river
being full of ice, and pried from 7s. to 103. per 120.
Meat in good request, trade active at rather higher rates.

MA.RVELLOVS PROP

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The Frankfort, German paper, of the Nth of Jain Wit
1841, contains the following:—there
" In the French Pyrennees (Haut Comminges)
lives, is great poverty and seclusion from there the world,
hal' IT,
old man named Bug de Milhas, who for moe
a century has been looked upon by his countrymen as
prophet, but he has not often promulg
12 ated his predictions.
" In the year 1780 be foretold the revolution of 178.
" In 1793 the rise of Napoleon and in IC his fell'
" In 1828 he predicted the revolution of Jul?,
" Since then he has been bilent until now, when be "Pug
1842
forth the following astounding prophecy That in
a war will again break out, in which Great Britain will
annihilated ; Paris reduced to a mere spot ; and priests
and lawyers disappear." However crazy:in its separate pro"
1830.
,3
dictions this last prophecy may appear, it is creating agree'
sensation in a large portion of France, amongst the super-
, stitious masses."

DEATH FROM THE SEVERITY OF TO%
WEATIIER.—An inquiry took place on Monday evenieg
befers Mr. Payne, the Coroner, at the Three Tons:.
Bridgewater-gardens, Barbican, concerning the death
Thos.. Wells, who had been out of workafor some time.
had been cut on Friday trying to obtain employment, ana,
about ten o'clock that night he ran into the tap-rooen 0'
the Three Tuns, exclaiming. " For God's sake give we
some brpody ! I shell die !" Ile threw himself on the
floor ; and, as all attempts to restore him were unaucces
tut, he was conveyed home. where be died in a few
minutes. Mr. Raimes, the surgeon who was wiled to at-
tend him, said that the deceased was greatly emaciated,'
and, from the appearances, he had na doubt that his dotri
'
was occasioned by exposure to the neverity of the we.
Verdict, " Died from natural causes."
POsEN, JAN. 28.—Travellers who have arrived'PosEN,
from Warsaw and Kalisch confirm, it is true, in genersl
the news that Russian troaps, are collected in the West'
ern frontiers of the kingdom of Poland ; but they state
jour-
their numbers to be much smaller than the foreign
nals have announced. The reason for concentrating
trocps in Poland is alleged to be that it is easier to so-
:ist the regiments returning from the south in that hint;
d, m than in the interior of Russia, where, as is Wel'
known, the harvest last year was very indifferent.
named
During the late snow-storm a man t.he
Roddy Divver, went to the village of Cresslough,
‘bee
county of Donegal, and remained drinking in a lani-
house till be became intoxicated to such a degree thsea
at,
when about to return home, the people of the hou
as the
fearing he might fall on the frost and be injured,
road tnat night was very slippery, made a bed of straw Or
him beside the kitchen fire, on which they placed h
heir
i.
when retiring to their respective places of rest. On ria
in the morning an awful spectacle was presented to l°
to
view. The unfortunate man was literally burned
cinder, his body being so mutilated from the effects of
th:
fire that it could not ba removed till it was placed in
coffin, —Londonderry Sentinel.
SINGULAR CASE.—OiI TUDSday morning err
elderly man, named Peter Buse, expired in the Lott:
Hospital, under the following singular circumstances•
A few weeks since he aceide4t.ally scratched his left lit,
with a pin, and took no notice of the circumstance. 'l.,
stead of the puncture, which at first was but slight. hesto
ing, it gradually extended, and his arm became swollen
about twice its usual size. Everything was dune to s'd
the poor man's life, but mortification at length ensued, 8g
after enduring much pain death came to his relief.
as
ST. ALBANS ELECTION.]—TiIe nunaber!',oo
decltred yesterday by the Mayor, according to the l'5""
the polling booths, were—
For the Earl of Listowel
For Mr. B. B. Cabell 205
Majority for Lord Listowel
Mr. Cabbell, on taking leave of the electors, assured the-
that he would dispute the return in another place. to
MR. NOTTER'S BENEFIT.—Mr. Notter,
box-keeper at Covent. garden Theatre, will take a bole ebe
to-morrow evening at the Surrey Theatre; and an "ea
know the civil and obliging manner in which be perfortobt,
his duties in that situation for 17 years will, 'relieve pod ca'
willingly come forward to assist him on the present ocea.
sion. The pieces to be performed are well selechtlie,
Some of the actors aro great favourites with the pow
and those, therefore, who wish to confer a benefit °at
meritorious public servant, will find am
for the money.
THE BURNING OF CAMBERWELL °,:io
CHMRCH.—Yesterday afternoon the surveyor of the
tared
Fire insurance Company, in which the church is ins:-ay
to the amount of 4,0001., inspected the ruins, 10 it
ple eatertaintne
of several gentlemen. krom the inquiries they. m's",-tbe
appeared that the furnace which heated the interior n'
church was situate under the north entranceto the eburigag
and the chimney or flue extended to the flooring i° etfi
centre of the middle aisle, and from thence through thee 0;0
side of the organ loft to the top of the tower. it m
that the end of the principal beams that supported
organ loft had projected several inches into the oPnola
or centre of the flue. Soot had from time to tinter "tbe
lected on it, and it is supposed that on the lighting,
furnace fire on Sunday morning the soot must have Igal'apla
and set fire to the beam, which smouldered until it
carne
to the wainscoting of the organ loft, where ;t burst tit
s
flames. There can be no doubt but that this wins do
cause, fur the organist and other persons who were best
organ loft on Sunday evening experienced a grey
during the service. 01
A fatal accident, attended with the &sop,
three individuals, occurred on the Manchester and ss-
minghem Railway, at Holmes Chapel, Cheshire► olt
turday last. A viaduct is being erected over ;he rip
Dane and the adjacent valley, somewhat similar torall
one at Stockport. About seven o'clock on Samos
morning, three young men, named John and attic
Butterworth, brothers, and John Ryley, and a ander!
man named Williams, were pushing a waggon 'l),-010
with bricks along a temporary wooden bridge larding" site
the river, when one of the large beams cowl:K00lb
bridge broke, and the whole fabric fell into the rives plat
a tremendous crash, carrying along with it the sb°ll,. et
individuals and several others who were on the brivt-es
the time. Three of the above-mentioned individuanis "der-
killed by the materials falling upon them, and John I.l°-
worth was seriously injured.—Doncaster Chroniclo• .
ll
rnOrniy
STATE OF THE RI VER.—YeSteruay - „lot'
in consequence of the lofty tide and the immense:oos
tity of ice which floated up the river, serious 0t
tity
done to the wharfs and craft at Shadwell, and site
destruction of property took place. In the esee'l'aviteo,
ice had accumulated in the lower pool to such eater
that, for the first time since the memorable wil;hiesy
1813-14, persons began to pass over the ice, with bore,
sistance of hurdles, from the north to the south ti red
The river in the neighbourhood of Shadwell was c;,,gcsi.t
from side to side, the ice in many places apPearWr
and seven feet shove the surface of the river. 'll°. DOW
steamer, from Ipswich, landed her passengers I";. 0010 i
wall on Monday night, and came up the river o,,eta PIP
ing with the tide, to the sue rise of every one. I'l'l jer,
Victoria steam-ship, for Leith, left St. Katharittea-gid for
terday, at two o'clock, with a schooner in tow, bo-or
the same place. She got as far as Execution
ping, when she was brought to a dead standu 011!
warps mado fast to the schooner gave way, aila t"eneriL
was carried back again. The Victoria bad no 51%00
rid of her charge than she ran into a lighter, naves
four men, who were drifting up. ele"
The season has been and is particularlidsohlP
on the Border?. The flacks have suffered contle
and should the spring be backward, a loss of sakgsat"
be expected. Great numbers of grouse and haciletter:
have already perished, and a great many more are, stit''
Doclts The
ing about the sides of kedges and dykes in a dYiP,Led 6.5
Even that hardy denizen the crow has not est'o stwhii
scathed, as in many instances he has been found ay of
out of sorts as to be unable to fly out of the vrti!
natural enemy, man. N. Oa:
DISCOVERY OF A GENTLEMAN 31.-„I
Men.—On Sunday night, Police-constable
of the R division, received information that a InteAsta%n
mersed in the mud, near to the General Stearn !de P_A)",
Company's works, in the Stowage, Deptford. rOro
ceeded to the spot, and, by means of a tackle ap.% berll
succeeded in hauling the person on board the
Ns of t"sa
and Mary. At four o'clock yesterday, syrnfate° but -
turning life presented themselves—warm water get 0.14
baying been applied to the hands and feet, toget tv
continually rubbing the body all over, p
vital parts, and forcing restorative medicines jot° ; 001
mach. He is a young man, and resides at CI ef gale's
e°o;
Greenwich. He says another gentleman leas t be,. 0.
pany, whs is supposed to have perished. How '',l"
ertieulathe ot%
in the sad predicament has not yet been explained, •
ta
sequence of his extreme weakness. A gelds
ELGIN DISTRICT OF BURGHS.----- ~„0,„00
lion has been got up here, and in the other '"-Creet";ol
the district, requesting the lion. Fox Maui° t° at' "ir
as this representative of these burghs in Parlistacaest to
ihdor tnik
iteNeisasryth.
let
Dehr
feetu,
ffbEt
ragagtitnhtsiti,ohe ors in OAPi:slretisejtol,
manwesi°icr
e a I
Airhocans.Le,o ler informed,n
Alit
adbyLyto
caPj
ntc
for Leith-ball; and we understand that he wseieo -
in canvassing the electors in Bull and Maeda" -
day and Tuesday last.—Elgin Courier. ossiOot
LORD CHATHANI ON TIMELY CO
—" We shall be forced ultimately to retract; t tra
while we can, not when we must. I say we,7-1606,ini
sarily undo those violent oppressive Acts ; tu-;elf for
sarily undo those violent oppressive Acts ; ygel,epStf
repealed—yen will repeal them ; I pledge 111% y tlere
that will in the end repeal them ; I tshes";
ton omit will consent to be taken for -his o„,isig
they arc not finally repealed.—Avoid, them t beceacrdt
sting, disgraceful necessity. With a dignitito ee6c te
your exalted situation, make the first advances dipitP,oo°
to peace, and happiness that is yoUr
should oat car
act with prudence and justice. That vou sr; C°°frclit
cede is obvious, from sound and rational poi!ei:cifecL
sion comes with better grace and more salute° 00et c 00
superior power ; it recuncilcs superiority el rfileec
the feelings of men ; and es•abliahes solid e_?.. OOP':
theha
. foundations of effection and gratitude. °° the: n
wise poet and a wise man in political sageeitnio IP" the
of Meemnas, and the eulogist of Auoustes. biT'er
adopted son and suceesaor, the first learar*--doet _ 016
master of the world, he wisely urged this con pre]"0;
deuce and dignity—' 'Fugue prior to pare c ; •e°
40°
menu. "'—Lord Chatham's Letters. eat- to
The Tories are everywhere making l'srorpoeored
for a coming election : even those who areericlioB tesei;
they cannot afford any great outlay, are 6P fectlf gt is'd
for the purpose of making their return Per 0010101
The general impression, indeed, is, that the Vibe e
of affairs must lead to a dissolution under „,a all(see
registry. This was foreseen by us leng.aqcoar ?iPs";
the Reformers have to do is to unite in ad t
good candidate, lay the foundation ro, a at
tr,
wort: wii. thy ut''''.,ert
inticc, ,:outt; nun it to. y, . be r , lii
to ercure ru turn. thrum colon r
Tories will net gain any auciitiou 1:13‘1
Mum—Glasgow Argus.