The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN MAILS.

ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 4.—The St. Petersburg Com-
mercial Jourual contains an article written by Mr. Harter,
Consul at Warsaw, in which it is shown that those Eu-
ropean States, which desire to maintain and to improve
their manufacturing industry, have no interest in wishing
for the reduction or the abolition of the duty on corn in
England.
FROM THE MAINE, DECEMBER s.—lt is but too
certain that the affair of the fortresses in Upper
Germany has come to a pause. In order to find
out how we are to build according to the most in-
genious theories the best possible fortresses, the execu-
tion will be delayed till the French come over the Rhine
to give us another lesson, and teach us what we ought to
have done. Meantime, the fortifications of Paris proceed
rapidly, and we have only to wait till the iron railway
from Strasburg to Paris is finished to go in a few hours
to Paris, and see how such works are rapidly executed.
HANOVER, DEC. 10.—The Privy Cabinet Counsellor
Von Lutcken, was attacked on Wednesday evening by
an unknown person, and severely wounded on the head
by a blow with a stone. Mr. Lutcken, though wounded,
ran after the man, and called after his assailant, who was
stopped by a servant of Count Hardenburg, but contrived
to escape, and has not yet been taken. Mr. Lutcken was
conveyed to the Royal Palace, and immediately at-
tended by two surgeons. His wound, it seems, is not
dangerous.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 16.—T0-day being the King's birth-
day, was celebrated in the usual manner, by the dis-
playing of the national colours on the public buildings.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 17.—Sir George Seymour, the Eng-
lish Minister at this Court, had a private audience of
their Majesties on the 15th, to deliver the letters an-
nouncing the birth of the Prince of Wales. Their Ma-
jesties will set out on the 18th for Mons, to be present
at the ceremony of opening the iron railway to the fron-
tiers of France, which is to take place on Monday, 20th.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 17.—His Highness the reigning
Duke of Saxe Meiningen and her Highness the Duchess
Ida of Saxe Weimar and suite, arrived at Cologne on the
15th, in the evening, on their return from London.
ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 6;—The Nerva being almost
wholly free from ice, Isaac's bridge was again laid down
yesterday (Sunday), but flakes of ice again comingdown,
the bridge was taken up at a late hour in the evening.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Dec. 17.
Money. Bill
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..... 51 51%
Jitto, ditto 5 per ce:st.
Amert Syndic, 4% per cent 90% 91
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.... ........ 75% ;6%
Commercial Company, 4 per cent ...... 151% 15:i%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) b per cent. .....,..»•• 101% 102
Louis 1837, 5 per cent—. .......... 97% 9.%
Exchange on London, One menth l2 10
Two months
Hiunburgh, One month 35 et
Two months ..« 35 50
Dutch Papers, Dec. la.
BELGIAN I. U N DS—BaUst , DEC. 17.
Actual Debt, 23 per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per 101%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per CenL ..... 92
3per
Thirty ,Oven
101%
Loan of City, 1232,4 per Cent. .....»•».».»» 117
Society et Commerce, 4 4per Cent. .....
Bank of Belgium, 5 per 74%
National Society• ........
Exchange on London (short) -
-Brussels Papers. Dec. 17.
AUSTRIAN FUND3.—Vlarm, Dec. 9.
riVe per Coats. MCWINUeII • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 106%
°lli per Cents. •••••«••••••••••••••••ia••••«•«••••«••••«•• 99%
Three per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 75
Bunk !.hares ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1610
—Altpmeine Zeitung. Dec. 13.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Dec. 1'
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1625 1625
Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 101
Russians per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist SertPB 10'...%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 34 and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% ts 6%
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .......... 77% 77
Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent...,,„ .......
Spanish. New 5 per Cents. .
1b it-% 103
1k
.........
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMEURO, Dec. 17.-13 7.—Two months 13 5%.
RIGA, DEC. Il9..—Three Months,
BERLIN, DEC, 11.—Three months, 6. 19%.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Billaux. Dec. 14.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. Bills. bloney.
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per ..... ... . .::110•°21%% 1100313,34
Exchange on London, three mom hs
—Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 15. — 6 19%

Lieut.-Col. George Macdonald has been ap-
pointed Governor of Sierra Leone.