The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDQN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1842.

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the workshops and manufactory of M. Pihet by the fire on
Sunday evening was very considerable, but that the precise
amount is not known. The accident is attributed to a beam
which was in contact with one of the chimneys of a forge, and
had become ignited in consequence of some flaw in the
brickwork.
The greatest man in the 43d regiment of the line, quartered
at Bayonne, has deserted its ranks—the Tambour-major of
that corps having, for some cause not yet known, abandoned
his drums and crossed the Spanish frontier.
The Minister of Public Instruction has confirmed the deci-
sion of the Rector .of the Academy of Strasburg, in suspending
the lectures of M. Ferrari, Professor of Philosophy, for sup-
porting Socialist doctrines.

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" The Abbe de Lamennais," says the Moniteur Parisien,
" is reported to be on the point of leaving Paris, to take up his
iesidenee in, the East."

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prig. Prier.
Frencb! Der Cents l:9 ... :14... 1 9 119
4!. per Ccnts.
3 per Ccnt•..
Loan
Rank of France
Lalete tank MOM St area 1017 50 _1)10 _lOl7 50 ...le2o

5,0k01. S:. arcs :Alio ...50. 0 ...5030 ...503.1
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Cent!., 1840. 11'5% ... 105 li, ... 1(.51( ... 1,54
Dutch 2N, per Cents 52 .. :2% ... :.2% ... 52%
N.... 0 active :4,74 ... :145 ... •.*4A —. 24%
Passive 5..0 ... byi
.... 5!.6 sx,
geapoluan ........ .....

Aosrian ... v ... .. 101 101 ... 1(4 ... 104 -
-It AIL W A Y SHAKER.
R. Germain
Vet-tallies, K. is 345 ... 1:45 ... 345 ... 345
LB
Rouen
()rte.., .
BELGIAN l• UNDs—BaussaLe, FEB. 2.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C. nt.......
Loan a Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 94
3 per Cent.
-- • 724i
(184,1 102%
Loan of City, 1':32, 4 per Cent. ........
Society el Commerce, 4 %per Cent B5
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent........ ..... 79%
NationalSaciely. .. —
Exchange on Londe% (short)
--Brussels Papers, Feb. 2.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VieNNA, JAN.2S.
five per Coats. Metalliques
Fors per Cents. 99%
Three p,r Cents.
Bank Shares
...Allgonrine Zeirung, Jan. 29;
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTCRDAM, Faa 1.
Money. Bills.
Actual De!,t. '2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mart Syndic,4% per cent—. ............
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 70% 76
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 157,4 r 57%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9731 984
Exchange on London, One month l2 10
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 6-t%
Two months 35 433 i
Dutch Papers, Feb. 2.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, JAN. 29.
Bills. Money
11814

Thirty.seven.

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 160,0
__ _
A siglo-Itussian Loan llO4 1007 f,
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, C..rtiticate
Inscription, IstSezias... 104%
Russian 5 per Cont. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th

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Series — 91
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) B9 b 8
Dutch Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent
.51 501 i
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Polish Bonds
New 1 icket -
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7Bg 77%
Not wegian Lean, 1831, 4 per Gout.... 11,.N 102%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l9 •

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND SIR ROBERT PEEL.
—lt was remarked on Thursday evening, that
Lord John Russell spoke with unwonted fluency
and boldness, as if the air of the Opposition
benches had acted like a tonic, had braced his
nerves and steeled his heirt. Sir Robert Peel,
however, slouched into the House more ungainly
than usual, looking pale, timid, and conscience-
stricken. He hung down his head, a characteris-
tic Which the Short-time Deputation noticed, and
seemed afra:d to look either his friends or his op-
ponents in the face. His voice, too, when lie
began to speak, indicated decrepitude, it was thin
and small, like the voice of a man who breathes
hydrogen. gas. It soon rose, indeed, nearly to
its wonted fullness and pitch, but still the canker
care was visible in walk, gesture, and speech.
Sir Robert Peel was a happier man at the head
of the Opposition, worrying and teasing his op-
ponents, than he is as the head of the Ministry,
clothed with vast official responsibility, and made
to feel that a child cannot meet with a mischance
in this wide empire but he may be blamed for it.
The total number of deaths in the metropolis
during the week ending Jan. 29 was 1,110; being
an increase of 6 as compared with the previous
week. The deaths caused by diseases of the
lungs are still on the increase, having been in
the former week 374 and in the latter 407. The
difference between the mortality in the autumn
and winter is most remarkable, as regards the
amount and the causes. For instance, the return
for the week ending the 2d October—total deaths
857, and for the last week 1,110. The increase
has taken place chiefly among old people, and
those affected with diseases of the lungs. In the
weekending the 2d October the deaths were—
old age 52, diseases of the lungs 231; while dur-
ing the last week they were respectively 109 and
-407, - being in the latter case somewhat less, and
in the former more than doubly.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IN AND OUT.—Lord
Melbourne congratulated Ministers on Thursday on . the
more comfortable views which they took of atEdrs now
than they did on the 24th of August last." This
" comfortable " change of opinion is -very easily ac-
counted for. Office—to borrow a phrase from a fickle
Contemporary—" has done it all!" When Ministers were
" withering in the cold shade of Opposition," their views
,of things were naturally enough tinged with the gloomy
and inclement character of the climate they dwelt in ;
public affairs were desperate, because their own condi-
tion appeared so ; but now that they are inhaling the
balmy air, and basking in the sweet sunshine of office,
their opinions take the sunny hue of their locality ; and
the Pessimists of August become the Optimists of Fe-
bruary! Talk of the metamorphoses recorded by Ovid !
There are no metamorphoses equal to those wrought by ,
Office ! One transformation alone this mighty necro-
mancer is unable to effect—it cannot transform Sir James
Graham into an honest statesman !

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1 man; is to be brougl:t under the notice of -the Ifonwon
Wednesday.. .
Church-Rates, Sir Robert . Peel said, in .reply 'to
questions, he. had, no intention whatever to meddle with.
The Di;isclaters must bear in patience their burdens. • •
Bribery, Sir Robert . Peel. told Mr. Buncombe, he
could not stop to suppress bribery; he is so eager to carry
forward his great commercial reforms.-
On the Corn-laws, Sir. Robert -Peel announced that he
will propose his plan on Wednesday, commence a de-
bate, print his propositions, and resume the discussion
on the ensuing Friday or Wednesday.
The Report on the Address was agreed to,
O'Connell: had expressed his serious apprehensions that
the proposed. alterations • in • the. :registration would de-
prive Irishmen of their liberty.
An ,Itddress to Prince .Albert on the birth of the
Prince of Wales was adopted.- after Mr.
- A Bill to remedy an error made in the Appropriation
Act, .of last. Session- was;- after obtaining leave, intro-
duced and read a first itne.
EMIGRATION was brought under the notice of the
House by Lord Stanley, who denied that the Govern-
ment entertained an idea of instituting a wholesale
scheme, thereby knoelting- down another dclusien which
the pretended filen& of the people and the. Tories have
spread abroad. .There is no occasion to promote emigra-
tion ; the people are running away as fast as they can ;
106.000 having expatriated themselves last year. Lord
Stanley, after pointing-out the rapid progress which New •
South Wales -had made—and after pointing out a whole
series of mischievous- blunders committed, and changes
made, by former :Colonial Ministers proposed to intro-
duce a Bill which 'should take away the discretion of the
Colonial Secretary over the waste lands of the Colony ;
and substitute for it an Act of Parliament, selling the
land periodically by auction, • 'beginning with an upset
price, and allowing all the land not sold by auction to be
sold at that upset price at any time afterwards. He
Wishes to make the measure applicable to all the Colo-
nies. : Only one half the' produce of the land sales is to
be devoted to purposes of emigration. These, and a
greater number 'of similar details are introduced into a
Bill which the Noble Lord moved for leave to bring in.
Lord John Russell expressed his acquiescence in the
motion and plan.

Mr. Ward did the same, though it must have been a
blow to his sanguine expectations.

Leave to brhig, in theAllillwasgiven. The House rose
at Half-past Six o'clock:_

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PUBLIC OPINION.
The principal leading articles 'of our Morning Con-
temporaries we have given under the head of Spirit
of the Public Journals ;" we need therefore only state
here that the chronicle contains a second article on the
pernicious effects produced by the Corn-laws, wherein
our Contemporary remarks :---" Corn does not reach the
rate at which the ports are open and the warehouses un-
locked, but by an aicending scale of suffering. Priva-
tions among the poor, of graduated severity, are the
steps of the ladder from whose top the approach of
foreign supply is to be discerned."
The Herald, in remarking on the speech of the mover
of the Address in the House of Lords, takes occasion to
observe that " the necessity for expanding and invigo-
rating the sources of income without (so long as it may
be possible to avoid it) the imposition of any new fiscal
burdens on the people, becomes the most sacred of prin-
ciples among those which should govern the policy and
measures of her Majesty's servants."
The Post, in an article on the subject of free trade,
expresses itself to the effect that the monopoly enjoyed
by the Canadian timber-trade entails no loss on this
country.
MONEY—TRABB7COMBIERCE.

The journeymen shipwrights of Limerick, aware of
the work which the late hurricane has prepared for
them, struck last week, and refused to go to work at
7s. Gd.
The glove trade of Worcester is reviving, and during
the past week many orders have been received by the
gn and home account.
There
manufacturers
now
there,at ,0 r k bothin Boeiligfiourm 1,300 steam-engines,
e
with a total power of 33,100 horses.
A meeting of the iron trade, held on Friday at Wol-
verhampton, advanced the price of manufactured iron

10s. per ton.
A letter from Geneva states, " our clock and watch
trade is more flourishing this winter than it has been for
several years past."
ECCLESIASTICAL.
The members of the Marylebone Tradesmen and Ope-
ratives Protestant Association, had addressed a memo-
rial against Puseyism to the Bishop of London, stating
that there arc at, present, in their borough, places of wor-
ship and officiating clergy who follow the ceremonies of
the Romish Church, and praying his Lordship to ac-
quaint them with the iheasures he will adopt against
them, by the time of their next meeting, on the 28th inst.

COURT-CIRCULAR.
Her Royal Hi,ghness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
Buckingham Palace at an early hour yesterday morning,
and joined the Illustrious Party at breakfast.
The Baron de Humboldt, Monsieur le Conseiller de
Muller, le Baron Meyerinck, Mons. le Docteur Grimm,
,and Mons. Frederic, who had been staying at the King
of Hanover's residence, in St. James's Palace, arrived
and joined the other Noblemen and Gentlemen of the
King of Prussia's Suite.
His Majesty took his 'departure at half-past nine
o'clock, and was conducted to his carriage by the Lord
Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the
Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.
The Queen and the Duchess of Kent accompanied the
King to-the Grand Entrance, and tbere took their leave
of the August Visitor. His Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert accompanied his Majesty, and his Serene Highness
Prince Frederic of Saxe-Cobourg also went in the same
carriage and four.

Their Serene Highnesses the Prince Augustus, and
Prince Leopold of, Saxe Cobourg were in the next Royal
carriage. The King of Prussia's suite, consisting of his
Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, Baron de Humboldt,
General Natzmar, General de Neumann, Count de Stol-
berg, Le Conseiler de Muller, M. de B. Meyerinck, M.
de Brauchitsch, Dr. Grimm, and M. Frederic ; the Earl
of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting on his Majesty, Captain
Meynell, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Arbuthnot,
Equerry in Waiting on the King, Captain Francis
Seymour, Groom in Waiting on Prince Albert, and Co-
lonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting on his Royal High-
ness, also followed, in several of the Queen's carriages
and four to Woolwich.

A party of the Life Guards escorted his Majesty from
Buckingham Palace.

Their: Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and
Prince George left town yesterday morning for Wool-
wich, to witness the review of the Royal Artillery, and
to take leave of his Prussian Majesty.
On the embarkation of his Prussian Majesty at two
o'clock on board the Firebrand steam-packet for the
Continent, his Royal Highness Prince Albert left
Woolwich Dock-yard for town, accompanied by their
Serene Highnesses Prince Ferdinand, Prince Augustus,
and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and attended by
Captain Francis Seymour and Colonel Wylde. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince
George also took leave of the King, and immediately left
for town.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert returned to Buck-
ingham Palace twenty minutes before four o'clock.
The King of Prussia honoured Mr. Wyld yesterday,
by accepting a copy of his large " Atlas of the Battles
of the British Army," and expressing his approbation
of the work.

Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, had an audience of the Queen yesterday.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience, yes-
terday, of her Majesty.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Lord Stanley and Sir
James Graham.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, joined the Royal dinner party
at Buckingham Palace last evening.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Palace a quar-
ter before ten o'clock last night, to honour Covent-
garden Theatre with their presence, accompanied by
their Serene Highnesses the Prince Ferdinand of Saxe
Cobourg, and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of
Saxe Cobourg, and attended by the Royal Suite, includ-
ing the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Earl of Morton, Hon.
Captain Duncombe, Captain Francis Seymour, Colonel
the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel Wylde.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. •
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta So-
merset, honoured the British Institution with a visit
yesterday.

The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, on a special
mission, and Baron Schleinitz, Prussian Charge d'Af-
faires, returned to town last evening from attending their
Sovereign to his embarkation at Woolwich.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The Lords present were the Lord President,
Lord Wynford, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and
the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. Bush was heard on an appeal from Jersey, " Tou-
zel v. Filleul," part-heard at a former sitting.
Their Lordships affirmed the decree of the Court below.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Turner, Queen's
Counsel, were heard on an appeal, " Cameron v. Repre-
sentatives of Fraser," and " Cameron v. Representatives
of Gelland." Mr. Turner, Queen's Counsel, commenced
his address for the respondent.
The Court rose at four o'clock.
Mr. Charles Buller and Mr. Baring had interviews
with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
The tendency towards improvement in the Public
Securities, which we noticed last evening, became more
developed to-day, and there was a larger amount of busi-
ness got through. We may remark, however, that
nearly everything depends upon the nature of the re-
forms in our. commercial code which Sir Robert reel
may deem it expedient to propose, as to whether Ms
improvement shall be confirmed. Consols were quoted
894 to for present transfer, and 89,i. to for Account.
Exchequer Bills were 17s. to 19s. premium, and East
India Bonds 9s. to lls..*premium. The New Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. obtained 98j to 98k. Bank and India
Stocks were not dealt in.

The Foreign Stocks, although in some instances bet •
ter, did not, upon the whole, participate in the improved
tone of our own funds. Brazil Stock improved to 631,
owing to late advices from Pernambuco, which make no
allusion to the insurrection said to have broken out in
the Northern Provinces. Mexican Stock touched 308
and 31 ; and Colombian 22 to 221. Active Spanish
Bonds were flat all day at 248. Belgian continued firm
at 1031. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. were steady
at 511 to 518.
In Shares there was very little doing, but prices were
fully supported. Brighton Railway were 13k, Northern
and Eastern 3,1, and South Eastern 21 discount. London
and Birmingham were 80, and Great Western Fifths,
5i premium. London and Westminster Bank Shares
were 24.
Bills on the principal Continental cities were taken
upon rather more favourable terms this afternoon. On
Paris at 25f. 741 to 771 e.; Frankfort 150 to 1501 ; on
Harnburgh at 13 101 ; on Antwerp, at 12 4 ; on
Amsterdam at 12 4 to 41 ; and on Triest at 9 51.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 3.—We have had
a very good demand for Cotton to-day, and a fair business has
been transacted. The sales consist of 5,000 bales, of which ex,
porters have taken 600. American descriptions sold to-day
chiefly 5a to s*.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 3.—The trs.ns,"B.
at the Stock Exchange this day are as fa—
Counties, 84 ; Grand Junction, 18A• w: Eastern
Quarter ditto, 26/. I Is. 3d.. Half Shares, 92i;
;
London and Brie , —iverpool and Manchester, 191 ;
Ther!.
•-(0,, 354 ; Paris and Rouen, 13j.
-are no later arvivals to-day from any quarter.
MAlicirEsT;;a EXCISANGE, FEB. 3.—The market
contii-oeit without change, and prices firm. Some transac-
ticns have taken place in Manchester and Birmingham, at
N and 28/, with a good inquiry ; Liverpool and Manchester,
1804 ; and Leeds Quarter Shares, at 41. Os. 6d.
Tho Speech of her Majesty has given universal satisfaction
in the City, and a buoyant T
_to the British Securities. Consols
have advanced to 89A for Money, and 89?, for the Account ;
Three per Cents.. Reduced, 894 ; Ditto Three-and-a-Half,
991 .3 ; 7t--;xeliegner Bills, 17 19 prem.
panish Active Stock opened at 241, ; Portuguese, Fives,
331 ; Ditto, Threes, 194 20. Brazil Bonds fell 2 per cent.
yesterdO in consequence of the accounts received of an insur-
rection having broken out—they are now quoted at 62 64.
The English securities continue firm, but there has been
but little business transacted. Consols are 89i a for Money,
and 893 for OW Account. Exchequer Bills 17, 19, and India
Rends I Is. prem. Brazilian Bonds are heavy at 62% 631 ;
luenos Ayres Bonds are quoted at 18%; Mexican Bonds are
tirm at 30i ; Spanish Active Stock 241 4; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 51i a ; ditto Fives 101-a
The following are the only quotations in the Share Market :
—Birmingham and Gloucester, 62*; Great Western Fifths,
; London and Brighton, 363/i ; London and Birmingham,
1701 Paris and Rouen, 16*.
Consols, 89i d ; Colombian; .214 221} ; . Mexican, 30a 4 ;
Spanish, 244 4. '''•
The points in the debate ot hat night which tabst occupy
attention here are of course those relating. mere paiticularly to
financial and mercantile matters. The announcement that
the important question of the Corn duties is to be early brought
under discussion, leads to a good deal of speculation and guess-
work among the city quidnuncs as to what the plan of the Premier
will really be, and the announcement on the part of the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade that certain measures will
be submitted to the House for consolidating the fo-
reign trade of the country puts the commercial interest
also on the qui vice. The Corn Market is in the meantime in
a dull state, and the same may be said of trade in general.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS. •
Bank Stock. — 'lndia Stock
3 per Cent Red. 9O \ Ditto Bonds ll pm
3 per Cent Cons B4 Ditto Old Annuities ... 871
3f per Cent Red . 991 Ditto New Annuities... 871
New per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Sniall l7 pm
Jan. 1860....•..... 12a 'Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct 1859......... 'tindia Stock for Acct.

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Jan. 1860...,,..,,, 12i Consols for Acct B9i
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pet cent lO3l Ditto, New Ditto
Braailian 80nd5.......... 631 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 percent Russian, 5 per cent.....,
Chilian, 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent. 24i
Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... Ditto, Deferred....
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent
Greek, 1825,5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per rent.... 30i French, 3 per cent —*. _c
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. 51a
Peruvian,lB2s, fjper et. Ditto, 5 per cent..., . 101 i
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 62/
Great Western Railway ( 65 paid)
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) .. ••••91
London and Brighton (50 paid ).. ......... 361
London and Birmingham (90) ......
170
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ........ 35
Northern and Eastern (40 paid) 36}
North Midland Railway (100) ... •
Ditto Thirds (15 paid) ............... 16
..............1
South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) . 27••

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.—Thursday evening
a large and most respectable public meeting was held at the
King's Arms Tavern, Phillip-lane, Wood-street, A. Fairburn,
Esq in the Chair, for the purpose of a public discussion on
the Queen's Speech, delivered on the opening of the present
Session of Parliament ; when, after a long and able debate, the
meeting came to a vote, by the immense majority of at least
eight to one, that her Majesty's Speech merited the marked
disapprobation of the meeting.
A short prayer reaches heaven—a hint to those
who want favours not to molest others with long letters and
ud complaints,