The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

The accounts from Holland possess no interest.
The Rhine and Moselle Gazette, published at Cob-
lentz, has the following account of the diverting of the
stream of the Rhine, which appears to have caused co
little excitement in that quarter :

4 The Nassau Government has caused a work to be
made from the upper-end of the Paauwen Island, op-
posite Biberick, towards the left bank of the Rhine, in
order to lead the current of the Rhine between this
work and the Island of Petenan, lying on the
right • bank of Biberick. These operations • were
looked on by Hesse Darmstadt with the more
dissatisfaction, because since the construction of
the iron railway between Frankfort and Wiesbaden a
plan has been entertained to make a harhour at
Biberick, which has been declared a free port by the
act for the navigation of the Rhine, and though very
useful to the general interest must greatly injure the
trade of Maintz. The Estates of the Grand Duchy
had therefore already petitioned the Government to take
measures to prevent it ; but it seemed that nothing
would be. done in it, when suddenly at an unseasonable
hour of the night, above 100 vessels laden with stones,
appeared off the lower end of tha island of P. tenan
where two of them were sunk, and the cargo of the
remainder thrown overboard ; so that the passage
between the Petenan and Poaweden Island, is com-
pletely stopped, and the blo4elts of stone appear above
water. As the water between the Petenan and the right
bank of the river is too shallow for ships to pass, they
must sail, as hitherto, along the left bank ; the steam-
boats that want to stop at Biberick experience a great
delay, since they must go round the islands above-
mentioned to reach Biberick. This affair is a severe
blow on the trade of this town, which has so much in-
creased of late."

DUTCH FUNDS.-AMSTERDAM, MARCU 9
Money. Mils.
ictual Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amor t Syndic, 4% per cent 8,4 83%
Ditto, ditto, 336 per cent 7l' Z 72%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 161)6 6234
Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1137, 5 per cent. •...•• 953 oj
Exchange on London, One month l2 02%
TWO months
Dutch Papers, March 10.
BELGIAN k UNDS—BaussELs, MARCH 10
Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant l9
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
3 per Cent. .....
---.-Thirty.seven—
(l.:4o) 9:l
LOan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent ...........
Society of Commerce, 4;.iper Cent lO2
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 87%
National Society . -
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 10.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.VIIIHNA, MARCH 2
Five per Cents. Metalliques • ........ ........." ..... 10fi%
Foar per Cents. ............" ....... .....•.............. ........ 9 %
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares IC3B
.Allgemeine Zeitung, March 8.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MARCH S.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ........ lO5 1013¢
Bank Shares 1625 1815
Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 10636
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, let Series lOl --.
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 49% 49
Ditto 5 per Cent •
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 74 73%
Norwegian Loan, '1834, 4 per Cent. —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
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CHRISTIANIA FEB. 24.—Three months, 4 52.
STOCKHOLM, FEB. 26.—Seventy-five days, 11. 42.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, MARCH 5.
Biils. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. lo3lfi 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 100% 100%
Xxchange on Lendon, three months 6 17%
—Prussian Stale Gazelle, March G.

THE SPAS OF ENGLAND. BY DR. GRAN-
vILLE.—IIe author of this work is so well known, from
his populai work on the Spas of Germany, that it is
scarcely necessary for us to say more than that this, his
new publication upon the Spas, &c. &c. of England, is
every way worthy of his pen. Dr. Granville in this
volume gives most graphic and true accounts of Harrogate,
with the attractions of its neighbourhood, Studley, with
Fountain's Abbey, Ripon, Knaresborough, Thorpe
Arch, New Melton Spa, Scarborough, Hovingham Spa,
Croft, and Dinsdale, Gainaborough and Red Car, But-
terby Spa, Durham, Hartlepool, Sunderland, Tynemouth,
Newcastle, Shortley Bridge Spa, Gilsland, Walter
Scott's wooing-place, Blackpool, Shapwells, Southport,
Clithero and the Craven, Horley Green, Lockwood Spa,
Slaithwaite, Askerne, Halifax, Leeds, &c. &c. The au-
thor has made his book more than merely topographically
excellent, for the analysis of the different waters, the
hints as to their usefulness respectively in the cure of dis-
eases, and the professional remarks generally, cannot but
prove of the highest value. The work is illustrated by
numerous views from the graver of Orrin Smith, and
contains an elaborate map.—Age.
*:.THE NEW POOR-LAW BILL.-A meeting
was held yesterday at the Crown and Anchor, to petition
the Legislature against this Bill. Mr. Walter was in the
chair, and in an introductory speech denounced the Bill.
Resolutions against it were proposed and seconded.
Counter-resolutions were also proposed and seconded, in
favour of Universal Suffrage, which the Chairman refused
to put, he finally left the Chair, amidst uproar. The
Chartists appointed a row Chairmanland carried their
reselutious by a great majority.