The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. In the
Courrier Francais %c find the following important an-
nouncement :
The disarmament has commenced ; Marshal Soult has made
a communication to the Commission, the result of which is
that the budget of 1842 is to be reduced 23,000,000 f. ' The
Minister announces that the effective force, such as it had been
announced at first, will be reduced by 60,000 men. He has
not yet given any explanation with respect to this tardy reso-
lution. Marshal Soult must think' that projects of law may be
corrected like speeches for the Moniteur. °The communication
of Marshal South, seems tolhave been'received by the Commission
with the greatest surprise, which the public will doubtless
share.
The Chamber rejected on Saturday, by a majority of
178 rgainst 160, M. Merailliod's motion. against the
Buenos Ayrean rfrealy. M. Tillers and his friends all
v..tted iq the minGrity,-
letteut
written by ass officer on board the Neptune, dated Cagliari, the
2d of Februarp
,6 We left Toulon on the 21st of January. The sea was
calm. The next day the weather changed, and a frightful
wind blew from the north-east, which created great disorder
in the Hugon division ; our mainmast broke, and the damages
increased with the wind. In the evening we were all on deck,
when a sudden blast knocked us all down ; and in this pelt-
me'l, in which legs were broken and arms put out of joint, the
cauldron, in which the crew's soup was boiling, was overthrown,
pouring its contents out upon the deck, and scalding all who
had not had time or strength to get up. The wind continued •
increasing;_ a great quantity of sales were carried away; the
• great yard-arm was broken into bits ; the wizen-mast cracked ;
an immense sea carried away two of the boats and broke two
others, carrying away at the same time fifty-six packets of
grape shot and one of the gum. The weather continued in
this state for six days. The vessel was scarcely able to keep
the sea, and we scudded under bare poles until we came to
Cagliari, where we found the Jena and the Triton, both in
worse condition than the Neptune." -
Thtrc is no additional news whatever is the French
Journals of Sunday.
In she Chamber of Deputies on Saturday one cf the
Members signified his intention of bringing forward the
proposition of M. Remilly for rendering funetinnpries in-
capacitated from seats in the Chamber. M. Remilly
thought that in the present situation of France with fo-
reign Powers such causes of internal dissension should be
avoi Icd.

BELGIAN lUNDS—Bruaacta, FEB. 33.
Actual Dal, 2% per Cent,
Itottischild's Loan, 5 per Cunt Vi:,k,;
Loan of Thirty Million:, 4 per Cent B9
----:------- :I per Cent.

. • Csg
.(1,4o) 97%
Load of ('ity, 1)i3!2, 4 per Celit bill
Societ:; of Conimprce, 4!.', per Ccnt llO.
Hank of iielgiurn, 5 per Cent.... ...... ... l-S!4
National Seciety .
Exchange on Londe?: Want t)
—lli ussels Papers, Feb. 20.

Thirty.sevei,

SPAIN.

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We have received itadrid :Journals of the 14th insiant, but
they contain no intelligence of any moment. 'l he Regency;
aware of the importance that should be attached to the woods
and mountainous districts of the country, had issued an order
for a table to be .drawn up of the divers forests and mountains
bel-ng,ing to the State, making a ditinetion between those
which. are public inoporty and those which belong to the dif-
ferent communes, with ass exact indication of their produce in
timber and charcoal.

It appears quite certain that M. Ant.,nio Gonzales will leave
Madrid for London in a very few days.

PORTUGAL.

The Royal Tar, steamer, arrived at Falnmatli on Sunday,
with the Peninsular mails. The Bovne -and Prince Regent,
transports, Lieutenants A!drilge ana Jeffrey, R.N., agents,
having on board detachments of the 33d Regiment. for 13ar-
, ba.does, remained in Gibraltar Bay. 'the Great Liverpool
steamer, passed Gibraltar, bound up the Mediterranean, on the
nth inst. Serious disturbances were reported toha7e taken Owe
at Palma, in the island of Majorca. The malcontents insisted-
upon the suppres.sion of certain duties established by the Legis-
lature, and great •alarni prevailed il3r some tone ; but
mutely the law was Maintained and order restored. The Spa-
' nish Government, in reply to the representation of the
Intendant at Cadiz of the Commandant's forcing a sum
of money from him for the wants of the soldiery, has undis-
guisedly acknowledged that the national coffers are so bare
that it cannot provide for the pressing wants of the army. It
accordingly urges the intendants, generally, to use every means
in their power to obtain the advance, or loan, of 15.000 of rs.
vu. for the use of the troops ; for which the Government
offers to pay interest at six per cent. per annum ; and as a
temptation to native capitalists, it engages for the re-imburse-
ment of the debt an assignment of two-thirds of whatever sums
shall be recovered on account of the extraordinary contribution
of 180,000,000, the :payment of which is supposed to have
already commenced.
The dates furnished are—from Gibraltar, Friday the 12th,
Cadiz 13th, Lisbon IGth, and Vigo 18th.