The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

FOItE6GN FUNDS.

A astri an, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
ilelgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto.... 31
Brazilian Bow's ... .. Prussian, 5 per cent....
Buenos,lyres, 6 percent Russian, 5 per cent...
Chilian, 6 per c.nt
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 1t324 — Ditto, Deferred . . 121
Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c.
Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange ..
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 24 per cent
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 98;
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid)
.. .. . _... . ..

Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)... ..... tii
Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid)
Great Western Railway (05 paid) B9
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western 574
Manchester and Leeds (70 patd) .. ......
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
North Midland Railway (100 paid) 75
South Eastorn and Dover (28 paid) ..... ... 12}

We understand that Dr. Patrick M'Farlane and
the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, have been appointed a deputa.
Lion of the General Assembly's Committee, to proceed to
London, to watch over the affairs of the Church.—
Greenock Advertiser.

It is expected that the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests wil I shortly commence preparations at Cla-
rence House, St. James's, for the reception of her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent.
ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAMES OF COUNTRIES.
—The following countries were named by the Pncenicians,
the greatest commercial people in the ancient world.
Those names, in the Pi.cenician language, signify some-
thing characteristic of the places which th,y designate.
Europe signifies a country of white complexion, so named
because the inhabitants there were of a lighter complexion
than those of either Asia or Africa. Asia signifies be-
tween, or in the middle, from the fact that the geo-
graphers placed it between Europe and Africa. Atrica
signies the land of corn or ears : it was celebrated
for its abundance of corn and all sorts of grain. Si.
beria signifies thirsty or dry—very characteristic of the
country. Spain, a country of rabbits or conies. This
country was once so infested with these animals, that
they sued Augustus for an army to destroy them. Italy,
a country of pitch, from its yielding great quantities of
black pitch ; Calabria also, for the same reason. Gaul,
modern France, signifies yellow-haired, as yellow hair
characterised its first inhabitants. The English of Cale-
donia is a high hill. This was a rugged mountainous
province in Scotland. Hibernia is utmost or last habita-
tion; fur beyond this, westward, the Phoenicians never ex-
tenied their voyages. Britain, the country of tin—as
there were great quantities of lead and tin found on the
adjacent Islands. The Greeks called it Albion, which
signifies, in the Phoenician tongue, either white or high
mouniains, from the whiteness of its shores, or the high
rocks on the western coast. Corsica signifies a woody
place. Sardinia signifies the footstep of man, which it
resembles.

FROST AND SNOW-The count!), papers re-
ceived in town contain notices of the extreme seve-
rity of the weather, and of a fall of snow to the full as
deep in many parts of the country as occurred in the pre-
ceding storm a week or two ago. In Ireland the frost
appears to have been severer, and the fall of snow greater
even than in either England or Scotland. We lament to
observe that in various parts of the country poor people
have perished, some of them baying been frozen to death,
while others have, we fear, died from privation of the com-
mon comforts and necesssries of life.
APP ROACH ING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.
mai riatre of the E„,il of Eglit:t,•n with Airs.
Cockerel!, sister-in-law of Sir Charles Ceckerell, Bart ,
will be solemnised in the course of the ensuing week.