The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

fIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 184`z:

vcrnment towards himself personally as the Represen-
tative of Spain. He assured the Chamber that all
difficulties would be soon overcome, and that there was
no reason to dread any further unfriendly act on the part
of France.

The Bourse at Madrid, on the 26th, was at 32 for cash,
and 32i 1 for account 60 days.

The Paris Journals of Wednesday devote their lead-
ing columns to the question of the Budget, respecting
which, however, they write with an appearance of great
indifference. The Ministerial organs are pleased, as
they always are, with everything done by the Cabinet ;
and the Opposition papers treat the whole question with
an air of lofty indifference, as if they were above the
consideration of the mere details of taxation. Upon the
prosecution of the Press they are more earnest, and de-
nounce the conduct of the Government with energy and
spirit.
There is no news in these papers of any political inte-
rest. We subjoin the only interesting extracts found in
them :

A letter from Toulon, quoted by the Temps, says that the
Prince de Joinville is shortly expected in that port, to sail in
the Belle Poule on a voyage round the world. His Royal
Highness will visit the French East India settlements and the
China seas.

The Journal de la Haye publishes an article on the respon-
sibility of printers, occasioned by a recent trial in Holland. It
shows that the Dutch law, as fixed by the High Court, esta-
blishes the maxim, that the author being known, the printer
cannot be considered responsible.
M. Gualtier, ex-banker at Anjers, whose trial we reported
the day before yesterday, has been condemned by the Correc-
tional Tribunal of Anjers to two years' imprisonment, a fine of
25,000 f., suspension of civil rights for ten years, and the costs.
The moment the sentence was pronounced, M. Gualtier in a
loud voice declared he should appeal.— Constitutionnel.
The Gazette de. Tribunaux says, " It is stated that a for-
mal motion will be made in a few days in the Chamber of De-
puties to revise the 24th article of the law of the 27th May,
1840, relative to printers. This motion cannot fail to be taken
into serious consideration.
It has been said after accounts from Vienna that Prince
Leopold, youngest son of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg,
was one of the candidates for the hand of the Queen of Spain.
The Presse says on this subject :—" It is certain that one of
the first acts of the new English Ministry was to propose a
Prince of Coburg as consort of the young Queen of Spain, but
it is equally certain that the Continental Powers rejected this
plan, which tended to evince the preponderance of England in
Spain, as it already exists in Portugal."—Commerce.
A young soldier shot himself at Verdun a few days since in
a fit of melancholy, brought on by disappointed love. He loaded
his musket so heavily, that his head was blown entirely to pieces.
The snow has been drifted this winter, as the Courrier de
Lyon states, to a considerable depth among the mountains in
the department of the Drome, and the cold has been very in•.
tense. A young man and a woman, on different days during
the course of last month, perished in the snow among the
mountains. The former, overcome by fatigue, was caught in
a storm and frozen to death ; the latter fell over a precipice into
a snow drift, and has not since been seen. All efforts to find
her body have proved fruitless.
The Mayor of Rouen having refused some time since to
enregister the marriage of a Swiss with a Prussian female,
because they did not present authorization from the compe-
tent persons in their own countries, an action was brought
against him by the parties ; and the Tribunal de Premiere
Instance of that city has given a decision in favour of the
plaintiffs, ordering the Mayor to make the registration forth-
with. The Mayor founded his refusal on a Ministerial cir-
cular issued in 1831.

A few days ago, says a letter from Alost (in Belgium), a
young man of one of the most respectable families in that
place shot an old female servant of the family through the
head. He was taken into custody and sent to prison, but it is
said that he is insane. The woman, who is not dead, but who
is not expected to survive, as the wound was very serious, is
the widow of a man who was murdered a few years ago, and,
on the day when she was shot, her sister died suddenly at
Wetteren.
The Gazette des Tribunaux says that the damage done to
the workshops and manufactory of M. Pihet by the fire en
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.

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

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2.

11181 Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price.
'trench 5 per Cents ll9 ... 119 ... 1 9 ... 119
414 per Cents.

3 per Cent- 79 7J .... 79 90 ... ;9 70 ... 711 90
Loan
lank of ?lance
.
Lattlite Bank 1,0001. Shares 1017 50 ...INC ...1017 50 ...le-20
5,0(2W. Shares 1030 ...5020 ...5030 ...503J
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cents., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 10514 ... 10514
Dutch 2) per Cents.
ii..rusti Astute 14% ... g. 1% ... `243i ... .24%
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5%
`feapolitan
aornan......
RAILWAY SHARES.
tit, aermain
Vecsailles.K. A. 345 ... 245 ... 945 ... 345
L. 8..— 2lO ... 212 50 .. 210 ... 212 50
Rouen .......... ............. ....... 505 ... 505 ... 5.2 50 ... 505
Orle.ins .. 542 50 ... 5t7„50 —7542 50 ... 516 25
tlea.ti lA DI 1 If NDs—lsaussaLs , Fr.n. 2.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C, nt lO2
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 94
--------------- 3 per Cent.
-----.Thirty.seven----- 72N
.------- (1W) 102%
Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. 45 >4
Society et Commerce, 4 4 per Cent.. ........
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ........... .......• 70%
NationalSeciety.
Exchange on Lonilem (short) —
—Brussels Papers, !Feb. 2.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 25.
tiveper Coats. Metalliques
lout per Cent 5........................„.
Three par Cents. ..... ...... ................... ..... .. .....
Bank Shares • ..... ..... ...... .»..........».................. 1613
—Alleemeine Zeltung. Jan. 29.:

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
Amongst the invalids suffering under fever, who
arrived at Liverpool with Captain Trotter, is Mr. Ansell,
from the Horticultural Gardens, at Chiswick, who went
out as gardener to the Niger expedition. Mr. Fraser,
the naturalist to the expedition from the Zoological
Society, remains an invalid at Ascension.