The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

TFLE FUNDS.

The English Securities opened firm this morning,
with a tendency to advance.. Consols are 891 for Money,
and 891 for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced,
891 ; ditto, Throe-and-a-Half, 991 ; Exchequel•
Bills, IGs. ISs. premium.

• Spanish Active Stock is flat at 24i, ; Portuguese Five
per Cents. are 331; Ditto Threes, 19i 20 ; Mexican
Bonds maintain the advance, they are now 301.
The intelligence from Washington, indicating the
probable repeal of the Bankrupt Law, has created a
greater sensation in this metropolis than any event that
has taken place in Congress since the veto of the Extra
Session.

In the Stock Market there had been but little business
transacted, and no alteration worthy of notice had occurred.
Exchange on England was 8 to 8/ per cent. prem.
PRICES OF HARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R., II WAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Groat Western 65 ...... 85
London ant. Brighton 50 ...... 36i..... to
Manchester and Leeds ...... 70 ...... 77
Ditto i Shares .. ...... 2
Midland C. unties . ........100
Ditto i Shares ......... 15
South Eastern and D0ver......... 48

SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 3. Wind this day at noon N.E.
DEAL, FEB. 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Emily North,
for Calcutta ; Superior, ditto, for Demerara ; Merchant,
Sunderland, for Jamaica. Arrd. from the River, War-
lock, for Sydney.
'RAMSGATE, FEB. 2.—The Margaret, Hardy, from
Newcastle to Fayal, arrived off the North Foreland, re-
ports having crossed Aldborough Neaps' in four fathoms
water, and no buoy on it.
OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, FEB. 2.—Margaret
Hardy, Shields, for Fayal.
OFF DUNGENESS, FEB. I.—North Esk, Leith, Rio.
BRIGHTON, FEB. 2.—Arrd. off, Beulah, James, China;
Augusta Julius, Havannah, for Ilamburgh.
CoviEs, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Arrte a Pain, Kopperholdt,
Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind W.—Arrd. Miranda,
London, Antigua; Lady Katherine, Bahrain, do.,_ for
Jamaica; the Sirocco, Ainsley, from Marseilles, which
put in here on the 2Gth ult., is discharging her cargo in
a damaged state.
FALMOUTH, FEB. I.—Wind N.W. to W.—Arrd. Fal-
con, Sinith, Odessa, leaky, with pumps choaked, long
boat stove, &c.
' • Coax, JAN. 31.—Arrd.. Thomas Naylor, Hannay,
Sierra Leone. Arrd. off; Aristo, Hutchings, New-
foundland.

THE SNOW STORM IN THE PEAK.--The
excessive quantity of snow which fell on the night of Monday
week enveloped the hills of the Peak to a most unwonted de-
gree. Many of the hoary-headed sons of these hills protest
that, in the same space of time, a greater fall never occurred
to their recollection. All communication from place to place
has therefore been almost wholly intercepted. The sudden
thaw of this mass of snow, which commenced on Wed-
nesday last, has deluged the valleys; and the hardy sons
of the mountains are now ploildin
g knee-deep in what
they provincially call " snow broth.". This immense aug,
mentation of water has been already. attended with unlcoked-
for effects. The lead-mines in this district are in general un-
der water ; and this conversion of snow to its pristine element
has greatly added to the usual impediments. The Water-
groove mine, near Eyam, just before the down-fall, totally
" rolled;" and the workmen had commenced work; but this
change, it is feared, will arrest for awhile the progress
of the highly commendable speculators. The power-
ful steam-engine erected at this mine has, through its present
limited means, been found incompetent to keep at all times the
works sufficiently clear. It is calculated that when the extra
pumps are in work, the engine will, as occasion may require,
be enabled to lift from the works a continually flowing volume
of water, equal to a circular column of five feet in diameter.
The outlay has been enormous, but not the least doubt exists
of a satisfactory result.— Sheffield Iris.
FUNERAL OF MR. DAVIDGE.—It has been
arranged that the funeral shall take place on Tuesday
next, and it is expected that the body will be followed to
the tomb by a great many members of the theatrical
profession ; for few men were more beloved as a thea-
trical manager than the deceased,