The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-20 00:00:00

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, FEB. 14.
Great preparations are making at Mayence to make
ready the Grand Ducal Palace to receive the Royal Family
of Darmstadt in the course of the summer. Since May-
ence has been a federal fortress the presence of foreign
troops has kept away the Court of the Sovereign, and no-
thing but the powerful inducement of the arrival of the
Empress of Russia in June at Ems could have decided the
Darmstadt Royalty to hare gone into its vicinity. The
marriage of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia with
Princess Maria of Hesse Darmstadt, youngest daughter
of the reigning Grand Duke, now appears to be deCnitively
settled. The Princess Maria was born August 8, 1824.
Her mother was a Princess of the house of Baden.
The most absurd stories have been current respect-
ing the Grand Duke's marriage with this Darmstadt
Princess. The simple facts of the case are these :—'The
Emperor of Russia, who prefers to allow his children to
marry according to their own inclinations rather than sacri-
fice them to political interests and considerations, had sent
the Hereditary Grand Duke last year, as you are aware,
on his travels, and gave to him at the same time a list of
Princesses from whom he could select a wife. The
Princess Mai ia, having been considered too young, had
been omitted in this list. Before the Grand Duke's ar-
rival at Darmstadt he had visited Baden, where everybody
was anxious that he should choose the Princess Alexan-
drine at Carlsruhe, but be did not pleat to this soft im-
peachment. The other small Court of Baden, who re-
sides at Mannheim, presided over by the Grand Duchess
Stephanie (Beauharnais), had also its hopes and fears that
the Princess Maria of Baden, sister of the Princess of
Vasa, would hare been the happy bride ; but the Grand
Duke passed, unfortunately, by Heidelberg, only a short
distance from Mannheim, without visiting it. Oa
the evening he arrived at Darmstadt, and went with
the Grand Ducal Family to the theatre, where a short
time after the piece had commenced the Princess
Maria entered, and seated herself in a corner of the
Court box: The Grand Duke was smitten at once, and
pointed out to Count Orloff the attractiens of the fair
Princess. After the theatre he was presented to her at
supper, and had a long conversation. The Grand Duke
left the next day, but not before he had sent letters to St.
Petersburgh, to state that he had made his choice. Every
kind of rumour has been current respecting the birth of the
Princess, and it is even said that an officer of the Crown, a
Swiss by birth, was honoured by the favour of the deceased
Duchess at the time of the birth of the Princess, and of her
young brother Alexander. Count Orloff believed it to be
his duty to report these rumours to the Czar, and it is said
that his Imperial Majesty replied, " If my son is attached
to her, that is enough ; and as to the reports in question,
I despise them, and they will cease when she is my
daughter-in•law." Shortly after the departure of the
Grand Duke a frequent exchange of couriers between
St. Petersburgh and Dramstadt took place, and for the
first time a Russian Minister was accredited to the latter
Court in the person of Count de Brunow, now in Lon-
don on a special mission. The Count was charged to
watch narrowly the conduct of the Princess, and the men-
tion of the fact will prove this. She had recovered from
an indisposition, and was yet pale, and he expressed his sur-
prise that she never walked. The next day, with her
Ladies of Honour, she was seen promenading. After the
Grand Duke's return from England he passed a week at
Darmstadt, and was a most attentive and anxious lover.
He is expected to arrive to see his lady-love early in
March. This marriage, which will probably take place
this summer, has excited no little wonder, and many am-
bitious prospects have been disappointed. The Princess
Maria is very handsome, her deportment is very modest
and retiring, her figure is elegant, with chesnut hair. She
has been well educated, and, although so young, her tact
and ease are remarkable. The Darmstadt Court is one
of the most ceremonious in Germany, and she has been
brought up with all the severities of the ancient etiquette,
to which the Grand Duke is very strict.
The President Minister of the Diet, Count Munch Bel-
linghausen, is still absant. He received lately from the
King of Hanover the Order of Guelph, sent to him richly
studded with diamonds worth 1,000 louis. In the absence
of Count Munch, General Von Scoeler, the Prussian Mi-
nister, will be the President of the Diet. The most re-
markable man of this Assembly is, without a doubt, Lieu-
tenant Colonel M. Radowtz, Plenipotentiary of Prussia,
of the Military Commission of the Germanic Diet. He
was formerly in Napoleon's service, and is now the inti-
mate friend of the Crown Prince of Prussia, and is one of
the most learned men in Europe. speaks above
dozen languages with equal facility, including the Arabic
and Syriac, and is acquainted with ail branches of science.
is a walking dictionary, only excelled by Humboldt.—
Morning Post.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(TIIIIS DAY.)

Livaaroor., FEE. 19.—Win 5.F.., moderate breeze.—
Arrived the Horsford, Warnack, from Laguna--sailed 21st
December ; and Francis Ann, Saule, New Orleans. Sailed
the St. Lucia, Itaisbeck, for Sydney, New South Wales ;
Creole, Muller, Jamaica ; Isabella, Aymer, Pernambuco ;
Litherland, Baxter, Singapore ; North America, Lowther,
New York ; Louisa, Osborne, ditto ; Shannon, Mobile ;
Hesperus, Jackson, Africa ; and Jane, Lowe, dittu. Off port
the Martha, from Africa.

PouTstiouni, Fax.. 19.—Wind E. to E.S.E.—Sailed the
Broxborniburg, Burnett, for Sydney.
Pr.l-xtouTtr, Fes. 18.—Wind E.S. E.—Sailed the Claudine,
Brewer, Madras ; and Diligence, 13” s, Batavia.
BRISTOL, FEB. 19.—Arrived the Dash, Funtress, from
Newfoundland. Sailed the Lucy Ann, Brown, for Demerara.
Gi.ouctsTEK, FEB. 19.—Arrived the Era, Kingston, from
Odessa.

CLYDE, FIB. 18.—Arrived the Oliver and Eliza, Murray,
from New Orleans.

FALMUI3III, FEE. 18.—Wind S.E. to E.S. E., strong
breezes.—Arrived the Royalist, Cumming, from Charente ;
and Alchymist, Wills, INfiramichi. Sailed the Adelaide,
Douile, for St. Vincent; Sophia, INPNair, Calcutta; Bayne,
Richardson, Mauritius; Arabella, Rogers, New Orleans;
North Star, Benedict, Philadelphia; Betsy, Ivey, Alexandria;
Pigeon packet, on a cruise, with supplies for the homeward-
bound.

The account of the melancholy death of Mr.
David Jones, which we published on Monday, was copied
from the Welshman, a journal that has long advocated with
zeal and ability the cause of the Dissenters.
On Monday, the 10th, the Norwich Museum
was thrown open, gratuitously, to the public, in honour of the
wedding of our Most Gracious Que•n. it was decidedly the
lion of the day ; upwards of six thousand persons, mostly of the
lower order, were delighted, and their behaviour so decorous,
that the Committee have passed a resolution to open itfree the
first Monday in every month.
COWES, FEB. 19.—The Princess Charlotte
West Indiaman, which was on the Puller Bank, was got off
I.st night, and has proceeded to Portsmouth. A stock of tim-
ber has been towed in here by the Nancy Pilot-boat. An-
other has been driven on shore at Brook, and one at Grange,
the two former partially burnt, supposed to be part of the cargo
it some timber...4llp destroyed by fire.

TIMES.—The expected notice relative to Exchcquo
Bills has appeared this morning, and great surprise is ex-
pressed at the hardihood of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer in taking his stand for the issue of new bids at the
old rate. There is so little in the state of the Money
Market to justify it, that the notice has only increased the
suspicion felt yesterday of some collision with the Bank,
of some arrangement to borrow paper from that Corpora-
tion, instead of capital from the public, which always has,
and always will, put our finance out ot. its right course,
and prods:cc mischief in the end. The current reasoning
today on the topic has been something to this ef-
fect t—When the Treasury offer less than 2i- per cent.
for twelve months at certain, at a time when the Bank ask
5 per cent. for a loan of 60 days, it is quite clear that
either the Treasury or the Bank must be wrong. The
presumption is against the Bank, for it is not to be pre-
sumed possible that the Treasury can have issued an ad-
vertisement at the risk of being called upon for some mil-
lions or money on a day's notice, without some un,lerstand-
ing with the Bank for assistance. That the Bank should
readily fall into this arrangement, and commit the incon-
sistency of lending to the Government on terms so much
lower than to the public, causes co surprise, as they have
an obvious interest in keeping in favour with the Ministry.
The policy of the latter, if they desired to preserve an in-
dependent position in the approaching discussion, lay en-
tirely the other way. The decline in Exchequer Bills
whic-h has occurred to-day proves the justice of these re-
marks, and that such assistance, whether a matter of agree-
ment or otherwise, is very likely to be called for on or be-
fore the 10th of rext month. The experiment is watched
on all sides with much curiosity.

POST.—Consols and the other permanent securities
left off firm this aftertnon, in consequnce of a notificatica
issued by Government relative to the paying off of the un.
funded debt.

CHRONICLE.—The notice that all Exchequer Bills
dated in the month of March, 1,839, would be paid off on
the 16th of March next, and that new bills of even date
might be obtained in who!e Gr in part payment, is adver-
tised tc-day ; but as the new bills are only to bear an in.
terest of one penny three farthings by the duty, con stlerable
disappointment has been felt by those who had invested
in those securities under the expectation that the
notice would have contained an intimation that the rate
of interest would be increased ; and they have, in conse-
quence, closed heavy, at a further decline of three shil-
lings on the prices of yesterday. The fatness has also
been greater from its being known that there is still
1,000 0001. of them to he thrown en the market under last
year's vote of supply. Some people think, as no notice of
raising the interest has been given, that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer has resolved upon funding ; but it is quite
possible that a notice to raise the interest may still appear,
as he has no cause to make such an announcement so long
as the bills in the market stand at a premium, amounting at
present to 20,000,000/. ; and it is materiel to observe that
an increase on the interest of one halfpenny per day (which
would make the interest twopence farthing per day, or 31-
per cent.) would add 100,000/. to the interest pa, able on
the gross amount.

HERALD.—This announcement has, of course, had a
depressing influence on the Exchequer bill market, as it
bad been fully expecied, by every capitalist of the least in-
telligence, that the interest of lid. per diem would have
been advanced to 2d. What the Chancellor can mean by
continuing the same rate, with the tendency of the quota-
tions so decidedly against him, we are at a loss to conjecture.

SUN —Up to the close of the Tea sales the bid-
dings were languid. The reduction in prices, as com-
pared with yesterday, is Id. to I,id. per lb.
The Colonial markets were not quite so brisk.
There was again an appearance of firmness in the
English Stock Market, although money was rather
scarce. Consols closed at 904 to for money, at.d 90i
to 91 for time. Exchequer Bills, in consequence of the
official notice, establishing th rate of interest on the
new Bills to be given in exchange (whore desire 4) for
those expiring in March, at lid. per cent, per diem,
were heavy to the close of business at 3s. to ss. prem.
B ink Stock left off at 1781 to 4, and India Stock at
2484.
There was a little speculation in Mexican Bonds,
which fluctuated this afternoon between 28i and 291
for the 28th instant. It is said that in an interview with
the Committee of South American bondholders, the
Secretary for Foreign Affairs promised every assistance
it is in his power to give, in enabling the English cre-
ditors to obtain justice. Portuguese Three per Cents.
were heavy at 23A ; Colombian 251 to 1. The other
Foreign Stocks did not vary in price after the middle
of the day.

The 11ii1way Shares gave way just before the market
closed. The London and Birmingham were done at
63 prem. ; the Great North of England at 18 discount ;
the Southampton at .5i prem., and the Great Wi'_s-
tern 1-1 premium.