The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-08 00:00:00

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LIBERATION OF THE JAMES WATT STEAMER:—The
Gazette des Tribunaux states, that on the 21 instant, the
Cour Royale of Rouen, on appeal, had reversed the judg-
ment of the President of the Ci%il Tribunal, who on the
complaint of the French Company, owners of the steam-
boat Phenix, ordered the British steam-boat, James Watt,
to fieleized as security for the loss of the Phenix, sunk by
a collision with a steam-boat belonging to the English
Company. The James Watt has, iu consequence of this
judgment, been permitted to sail on her usual service.
Tug FRENCH FLEET —We quote the following from a
Toulon letter of the Ist inst. On the day after the first
consist'ng of the Ocean, Admiral Hugon's
ship. the Jena, Neptune, Triton, and Genereux, went out
of port, it was dispersed by a violent gale. The day be-
fore yesterday the Genereux reached the Island of Hyeres,
having lost several of her men, and a considerable part of
her sails. Captain Verdier has hail his shoulder dislocated.
The Gencreux can give no account of her consorts."

Madrid Papers of the 29th ult. have come to
hand. Among the many grave affairs that em-
ploy the attention of the Regency, we find that
of Court notices, prescribing the order in which
the Grandees of Spain were to attend a Levee to
be hoiden by the/Most Serene !Infanta MARIA
Loufs.t, sister of Queen IsAnELLA 11., on the 30th
ult. the Infanta LoufsA is a puling, ptinny child
of nine years of age, whose infantine, caprices
occupy the grave heads of the Regency! In the
land which commemorates the martyrdom of
MEG°, this display of devotion to the most con-
temptible forms of despotism is really ,too bad.
But, perhaps, we mistake the object of the Re-
gency, which may be to render Court etiquette
as contemptible as it is silly and vexatious. If
such be their object they 'are' going the right
way to work ; and that it really is, would appear
from an article in the. Castellano, which states
that intrigues were on foot for the establish-
ment of a republic. The same Journal of the
29th has the following account of the state of
the Money Market :
The funds continue to decline, arising, no doubt, from
the news from the provinces, where the state of things is
regarded in a different light from that of 'Madrid. The
vacillkting nature of public tranquillity,the impotent and im-
provident Governnient, the oppressed state of the Treasury,
and the ill-managed division of the revenue, are sufficient
reasons for speculators to take alarm, and to lose confi-
dence. The present disorder is a sad guarantee for the
future. In the Four per Cents. twenty bargains were
effected at 241 at sixty days. In the New Five por
Cents. forty-one operations were transacted for 28,480,000
teals, at 284 for cash ; 28 1-16, k, 3-16, and 30, at'sixty
days; and at 284, 11-16, 13-16, 15-16, 291, and 30, at
different periods. In the debt without interest business
was done at 6k for cash..
B :SE.— I9Aras, FEIDAY, FED. 5.
• First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pries, Price
te. ch cc Cents ll'2 55 112 70 ... 112 60
per I:Oils 102 50 102 50 1119 50 ... 102 50
4 per gents
3 per Cents 7ti Li ... .70 ... 76 65 ... 7o 65
k of enttiCe
L ilitte Link 1,11001. Sh lO5O —1,50 —lllso' _IMo
5001. SVares 1140 ...5140
57; 50 57' 50 ... 577 50 ... 577 50
5 I.er 09% ... 99% ... 9J%
• 3 oer Cents 6B 10 623 10 .315 10 ... CS i 0
Ncw'Loan 98% 98% ... tirq„
Active. 125- ... c 5% *25%
l'assirc 6/Ai (114 61. 614
161 1,0... 1111 6.... 101 60 'Ol 6.
t'Je an•
F.AILWAY SHARES. •
St t 1e! Mai
Ve:railies,lt, It
235 3:35 ... 532 50 232 51)
Orleans
5,..,4,0 co flats
Innen

We have received this morning Belgian and
German J ournals of the latest dates. The fol-

lowing are extracts from them :
BRUS.nE.L3, Fee. 4.—We learn that the Minister of
Public 'sVorks is eng:gcd on the means of introducing into
Belgi.:m one of the greatest improvements that have been
made in ow'' time, namely, a uniform rate of postage to
letters. A principal clerk of the Post-ofce was see
short time ago -to England, to study the new system hist
report is said to indicate the meats of introducing .1
'artiong e 4, bUt with modifications, which would'prevent
the enormous diminution of the receipts vrhiela has taken
place in Englithd. M. itogier will thus have the honour
of introducing the two greatest measures which have taken
place in the administration •of Belgium—the com-
pletion of Our rail-roads, and a reduced uniform rate
uf postage, which Fr:wee has just rejected.
' We most confess that if the representative system have
the serious defect of wasting the time in debate, the Bel-
gian Chlmbers, which talks much, at least finds time to
do something. I: is not the case in France ; there
nothing or less than nothing is really done, for the erec-
tion of the fortification is spending its money in the
worst possible manner; they might as well make ducks and
drakes with it.

The frost was very severe during the night. This morn-
ing the mercury in Rcauther's thermometer was 9 below
zero. All the canals arc frozen over, so that the navi-
gation is totally stopped, for the second time within two
months.

Bat'ssims, FEB. s.—The King will set out to- morrow
for London, where he is expected on Monday. He is to
be one of the godfathers to the Princess Royal of England,
whose christening is fixed for Feb. 10.
M. Von de Wege, who has been here on leave of Os-
Bence, le.t Brussels to-day with his family to return to
his post.
VIENNA, JAN. 27.—Major-General Von Hess, who has
lately returned from the south of Germany, is on the point
of setting cut for Berlin, to confer on some points not suffi-
ciently discussed relative to the measures which have lately
become necessary in Germany.

6 ELUL AZ! I, UNDS—glitussistA, FEB. r'..-
ro
Actual Dela, 2 .;, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ii7%
Loan rel Thirty 3iillions, 4 per Cent. 6e%
------(1.4o) 97
------- 3 per Cent. .— .
Thirty seven ..• fiS%
Loan of City, 1831:, 4 per Cent B2
Society of Colt-an,rce, 4 %per Cent IC2
Bank of Flelgitan, 5 per Cent - 87%
Nationa I Society . —
Exchange en London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 5.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VignBs, Jaw, 27
five per Cents. Metalliques
Pour per Cent 5........ .............. . lO3
Three p.r Cents.
Bank Sham ll3O
—..ittgerncirie Zeitung Feb. 1
DUTCII FUNDS.—AMSTERDAII, FEB. S
Moiler. 81l 8.
.ctoai Dsht, t: per Cent
..htto, ditto 5 per CCM.
,I,,iti t Svntlic, 4 4 per cent 86,4 ' IIN
nitro, ditto,- 3% per cent 71134 71
Commercial Company, 4% p,r cent
Ditto (i 635 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan I/:37, 5 per cent. 94% 95
Exchange on London, One month l2
Twn months
Dutch Papers, Feb. 6.
HA 11BUltG BORSENHALLE, Fin. 2.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
:tank share. -
it tfOo.rtussiati Loan .. 106% . ioN
it wsizn 5 per Cent. !St series, Certificate ...... 102% 102%
Inscription, Ist Se:i•:s lO3
Rustitit 5 per Cent. Hopi and Co. 3d and 4th
Scats ... 9634 96
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 48% '',
Onto 5 per Cent
Polish liond.
New ticket a 157 156
Anglo-I)anith Loan, 3 per Cert... 144 74 •
N ,wegian Loan, 1831, 4 per Cent.... III
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. la%
3.I2CCHANUE6 ON LONDON.
'Damao, FEB. :1-13 s.—Two months, 13 3 .
sTouttitou4. JAN. 21.—Seventy.five days, 11 :8.
CHRISTIANIA. JAN.:O —Three months. 4 50
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— 132aLib, FHB. 2.
... ,
_..

• - _
Brno. - Money.
St. Schuh'. Sch., 4,v per cent. lts.% I. 3%
Prlnsisit English Limn, IS3II, 4 ver cent 100 A I( ot4
NYC!, ango on London, three months...—. • 1750
...Pf'' titSioll Sr/ 0 ciimcite, Feb S.

ri;il-E WEATHER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCINCE, ADELAIDE
STREET.

Noce. FEE. 8.
Barometer 29,425 In.
Thermometer

Highest....., . 29
Lowest
Wind E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.
The wind now is greatly moderated, but the cold is still
very intense, and owing to the severity of the weather
vast rumbas of persons are thrown out of employment.
The Thames above bridge is no longer navigable. The
ica which has been accumulating for some days past has
now so connected itself as to become one vast and conti-
nuous field. The barges moored on either bank from
Westminster-bridge to Putney aro barricaded, and many
are at anchor in the middle of the stream. At four
o'clock yesterday the ice was so connected at and above
Battersea-bridge that a man might have easily crossed the
river upon it.
As a proof of the severity of the weather, and a prog-
nosticati, n of its continuance, a great many sea-gulls were
observed fling and hovering over London-bridge yester-
day afternoon; about Eve o'clock upwards of a dozen were
. counted at one time. Large numbers of snipes have, dur-
ing the week, been seen in the marshes of Tottenham and
Hackney, and in the adjoining low lands of Essex, and
occaSionally some wild duck.
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BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. 5.--.ouf
cffices have been very barely supplied with sampreitince
our last, and nearly everyth►ng on show taken at rather
higher prices. The stock in first hands is now reduced to.
a few hundred hogsheads, and there teems every probability
of our being absolutely destitute of sugars before arrivals
of any consequence come to Land.—Bristol Mercury,
APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.:
—The marriage of the EArl of Eglinton with Mcs.
Ceckei ell, sister-in-law of Sir Charles Cockerel!, , Bart.,
will be solemnised in the course of the ensuing week.