The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-31 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Montreal Papers to the Ist January, Quebec to the same date,
and Port-au-Prince to the 12th December, have been received at
the North and South American Coffee-house.
The Quebec Papers state that Monseigneur, the Coadjutor of
(,2tiebec, is not to be called to the Legislative Council; his Ex-
cellency the Governor expressed a desire to call the Catholic
Bishop of Quebec to the Executive Council.
A call of the House of Assembly has been ordered for the 10th
of January.
The Montreal Herald of the 31st ult. states that the waters of
the river have within these few years risen to such a height at
Lachine, that the communication with several houses had been
cut oft

Letters from Madrid of Jan. 18th, state that the remonstrances
of France, in regard to the affairs of Portugal, were not listened
to by the Spanish Cabinet ; in the last Council held Ferdinand is
said to have decided that an energetic answer should be sent to
the two Powers, and fresh troops advanced to the Pyrenees to
prevent an attack on that side.
The Papers from Port-au.Prince state that for a month past,
the rains have been excessive in the south, and on the4th several
smart shocks of earthquake were felt ; the dysentery continued
its ravages at Cayes and its environs.

THE FUNDS.
On Saturday last we stated in our City article that France and
England would ratify the treaty of Holland on the 31st inst.
this appears to be corroborated by a leading Morning Journal of
this day, therefore we have no doubt that in a short time Austria,
Prussia, and Russia will follow the same example ; for without
the co-operation of the first two Powers they can do nothing.
Consols, which left off' yesterday at 82% %, for the Account,
opened at the same price; at present they are 82, with little
doing.
The estafette from Paris is void of political news.
HALF-PAST ONE.
Up to the present hour we have neither reports nor authentic
information, but the public anxiously wait the result of this day
to know if any of the ratifications of the four Powers will arrive
by the appointed time. We are again assured that England and
France will give their ratification this night, and that that of
Prussia and Austria is expected, but that of Russia is at present
doubtful.
It is still stated that the King of Holland remains obstinate,
and wishes to take the chance of our present Ministers being
turned out.
Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 82, al-
ternately buyers and sellers, with little doing.
The Foreign Market is scarcely worth noticing—there being
little or nothing doing. Belgian Scrip 2to 1% discount.

THREE O'CLOCK

Consols, 82i.

FORFAR ELECTION.—The Committee of
the House of Commons on this election yesterday came to
a decision that Mr. Octrvv, the sitting Member, was not
duly elected, and that Mr. HALI)SUATON was duly elected

LITERATURE.

FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. X VII.

The first article in the present number is a
lively, gossiping notice, crammed with agreeable
anecdotes of the' Memoirs of the Duke De St.
Simon," a French aristocrat of the old school,
and a young man of fashion at the Court of
Louis the Fourteenth, who at his death,
in 1755, left not less than twenty-one
volumes in his own hand-writing, entitled
" Memoirs of St. Simon," which, though they
have from time to time made their appearance in
a garbled and abridged form, are now for the first
time published just as the author wrote them.
From these memoirs, of which he speaks in
• terms of high praise, the reviewer here makes
copious extracts, chiefly with reference to the
private character and habits of the great Louis,
and the most distinguished of his courtiers and
favourites. Of course, we have much gossiping
anecdote about that extraordinary woman,, Madame
de Maintenon, that odd compound of devotion
and sensuality, of meanness and liberality, of
humility and ostentation. Louis too figuies
conspicuously in these extracts, as also the Duke
de Lauzun, whose adventures at Court will
doubtless, one day, form the ground-work of
some romantic story. We recommend the sub-
ject to Mr. Bulwer, who will there find a French
Pelham ready made to his hands. " Literature
and Literary Societies of Ireland" is an intelli-
gent essay, but the theme, even-on the reviewer s',"!.
own showing, is a barren one, and will scarcely,
be attractive to the general reader. " The'
French Drama" contains much sound criticism
on a department of French literature which is,
we think, undervalued in England. It is not
to be forgotten, that the French comedy is the
finest in the world. " Mexican Antiquities"
possesses much curious research, a remark which
we may extend to the article on " Teutonic
Legal Antiquities." The observations on the
" Duties on Foreign Books" are of a service-
able, practical character, and deserve great at-
tention.

THE ITALIAN REPUBLICS.-LONDON, 1832.

This delightful history, from the pen of M.
Sismondi, who has already, as is well known to
all European scholars, written on the same sub-
ject to the extent of sixteen volumes, forms the
twenty-seventh number of Dr. Lartiner's Cabi-
net Cyclopmdia. The accomplished author styles
it a new work, not an abridgment of his former
more voluminous one. It is very ably written,
evinces a thorough mastery of the subject, and
will, we are sure, become as popular as any
volume that has yet appeared of this miscellany.

Lord HOLLAND and Lord JOHN RUSSELL
left town for Brighton yesterday morning. Lord HOLLAND,
as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, must bT present
at the pricking of a Sheriff for the county of Lancaster.
H AwicK.—The Anti-Reformers here are all

" down i' the mouth," by the Duke of BUCCLEUCH having
given a farm in the neighbourhood to one of the staunchest
Reformers in Hawick.—Scotsman.

The Governorship of Scarborough Castle, and
:he Chief C,)lonelcy of the 3d Regiment of Buffs, are vacant
[ty the death of General Sir GEORGE DON.

VOTE OF TIIANKS TO MINISTERS.---The
deputation from this county, appointed to present to Earl
GREY and his Majesty's Ministers the vote of confidence
passed at the county meeting held at Stowinarket in
No-
vember last, waited on his Lordship on Saturday morning,
and communicated to him that honourable testimony of the
county's approbation. Earl GREY expressed, on behalf of
himself and his colleague., his high sense of obligation for
this mark of confidence, and trusted that his Majesty's
Ministers would continue to pursue that course of political
measures which would entitle them to a continuance of the
approbation of the county of Suffolk : and the High Sheriff
was requested by Earl GREY to make this communication
t. the county, on the part of himself and those with whom
he bas the honour to act.—Suffolk Chronicle.
LITHOGRAPIIY.—The Tribunal de Pre-
miere instance decided, on Tuesday last, upon a question
wising nut of lithographic engravings, from two paint-
ings by DESTOUCHES, that the right of engraving also re-
mains with the painter, and is not passed by a sale of the
original picture.—French Paper.
A fellow, who was committed a few days since
from one of the Police-offices, for " unlawfully possessing
a plaice,- alleged as his excuse, that he was " out of
.place!"
DUNDEE.—Account of the quantity of linen
exported from Dundee in the quarter ended Jan. 5, 1832 :
Gibraltar, 556,897 yards ; Canada, 304,735 ; Jamaica,
1,550,818 ; Hayti, 1,758,695 ; Cuba, 410,016 ; St.
Thomas's, 733,266 ; United States, 4,768 830; Brazils,

1,770,050 —Total yards of linen, 11,853,307. Total
amount of the value of said linen and other miscellaneous
articles, viz.:—cordage, coals, stones, glass, bottles, twine,
&e. 332,0001. Is. 4d., and which goods were exported in
16 vessels, amounting to 3,195 tons, and navigated by
187 seamen. The above account is altogether unprece-
dented in the annals of Scottish commerce, and demon-
strates that judicious enterprise, commercial knowledge, and
mercantile activity, are capable of raising a comparatively
obscure town to rank with and outstrip those places which,
in the language of the Treasury, are called first class
port•.—Scotsman.

There are some curious stories told of the
mistakes made by an eminent physician in the north of
England, who, it appears, on one occasion mistook the
symptoms of approaching accouchement for those of ma-
lignant cholera. 'Whilst he retired to wait for the prepa-
ration of a dose of calomel and opium the cries of an infant
proved it ta be unnecessary.
The following singular notice is posted in a
window in Bond-street :—" An Evening School, con-
ducted by a reduced relation of the Earl of Lonsd3le !"
Brighton Gazette.—[Dyes Zoucii again ! !]
REMARKABLE, DISCOVERY OF A TIIIEF.

—On Thursday evening the landlord of the Jolly Farmer,
at Bramley, near Guildford, discovered that the till had
been robbed 474. 6d., and the servant girl observed that
a bail of cotton, which lay by it, had nearly all disap-
peared ; this circumstance furnished a clue to the robber,
for on tracing the line of cotton it led to the lodging of a
fellow who had been at the public-house just before. On
being charged with tLe theft, he at first denied it stoutly
hut on being told he was seen to commit the robbery he
made a full confession.

The Indian-Mohammedans take great plea-
sure in making elephants drunk, " by certain drugs mixed
up with the wax from the human ear," and setting them
to fight. Tigers and elephants also enter upon the arena
in mortal combat, and tigers and buffaloes, or alligators;
or, in the absence of such lofty excitement, it is deemed
an amusing pastime to throw in a tame antelope or stag,
and see it torn to pieces by a leopard. Tigers and leopards
are frequently tamed and brought into the room after
breakfast, as an English gentleman would exhibit a fa-
vourite spaniel. —Athencrum.

Some of the private letters by the Dutch mail
of this morning intimate a strong conviction on the part
of the writers, that the King of HOLLAND is wholly im-
moveable in the affair of the treaty of separation ; and it is
understood that all the effect from the representation•
lately made to him on the subject has been, the reiteration
of his former objections to it, without in the slightest de-
gree deviating from them.— Times.
Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, a
fire broke out in the extensive corn-mill, part of the west
milli, in Mirfield, and destroyed the whole of the machi-
nery and building ; but fortunately, through the most ex-
traordinary exertions of the inhabitants of Mirfield, the
fire was got under before much injury was done to the
adjoining woollen mill. Tie Leeds and Yorkshire fire-
engines from Huddersfield, with the usual despatch, ar-
rived on the spot in less than half an hour after the ac-
cident was communicated to the men.—Halifax Express
of Friday.