The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-24 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, 111Aucn 24.

The arrivals of this week are moderate, except of Oats,
which is large : 'Wheat 2,600, Barley 2,050, Oats 12,500, Irish
Oats 825 qrs., Flour 1,900 sacks. Wheat continues very dull
at Monday's prices. There is a little trade for fine Barley, on
the same terms as last quoted. Beans and Pease continue heavy
sale. Oats still continue very plentiful, and the trade remains
extremely dull, and Monday's terns arc hardly supported.

No. 5499, drawn first day of present Lottery
a blank, was put in the wheel again, and re-
drawn second day, when it came up a Prize of
X 00,000., and was sold by Bisii in ten shares :
One Quarter was sent to Glasgow, one Eighth to
Chester, one Eighth to Liverpool, one Eighth to
Stockport ; six Sixteenths, all sold in London,
one of them registered to five maiden Ladies in
Yorkshire, one to a Club of thirteen Silk Weavers
in Warwickshire, one to a Naval Officer in
Hampshire, one to a servant maid in Norfolk ;
the other two not being registered, their destina-
tion cannot at present be ascertained. BISH has
also sold, in present Lottery, N 011,686, t 500.;
2,213, 2,912, 10,859, 11,689, and 11,703, Prizes
of X2OO. each.—Warranted andrawn Tickets
and Shares are selling at Bisti's Offices, 4. Corn-
hill, and 9, Charing-cross. There are still three
Prizes of X 20,000. and thirteen other Capitals
to be drawn, and the very first Prize next day
LI must be k 20,000.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, March 24.

[THE TIMES.]
We had hoped that the reign of the Holy Al-
liance, in so far as the measures and institutions
of the British empire were to be affected by it,
would ere this have expired, or might at least
have been permitted to drop quietly into obli-
vion ; but it seems we had made too favourable
an estimate of the consistency of his Majesty's
Councils, in assuming that the domestic govern-
ment of England was to drink at the same foun-
tain by which her foreign policy has of late been
refreshed, or that individual victims of Conti-
nental power were to enjoy an equal certainty
of protection from the laws, as whole nations in
their collective character have done from the
commercial jealousy of Great Britain. The
Alien Bill being about to die a natural death, it
was expected by many people that Ministers
would not think it worth reviving. Something
better was looked for from Messrs. Canning and
Peel than a servile imitation of such noble per-
sons as their predecessors, on a point where no-
thing but sickly delicacy towards the memory
of one man, and the feelings of another, could be
set against the fame and constitution, the usages
and honour, of this free country. Mr. Peel, and
those who went before him in recommending the
revival of the Alien Act, have not failed to
urge their very temperate exercise of the
powers which it created. This may be a de-
fence of the practice, but it is an argument
against the principle—that is, against the neces-
sity of the law itself ; for if its provisions have
been such that there was no need for calling them
into action, why pass a Bill, which, by the show-
ing of its advocates, is no less superfluous than it
is confessedly odious ? Again : what plots are
now apprehended, of which England could now
be the scene, and any foreign State the object ?
Buonaparte is gone. The French nation—as we
are assured by those who refer us to the late
elections for proof of what they affirm—the
people of France are one and all devoted to the
Bourbons. What confederacies, then, against
the peace of Europe cam Ministers anticipate
from the landing of foreign refugees upon our
shores ? These Castlereagh-politics ought, in
common decency, to be abandoned. Mr. Peel 4
introduced last night a modification into the mea-
sure, which is of a lenient tendency. It ap-
pears that the whole number of foreigners whose
names are known at the Alien-Office amounts
to 26,500. Of these, near 20,000 are resi-
dent in London ; and 1,300 have sought an
asylum in the course of the last year from
the scenes of trouble on the Continent.—
About 10,000 foreigners have been inhabitants of
this country for seven years and upwards ; and
upon them it is not the design of Government
that the act should operate at all. The imperfect
right of denizenship thus restored to one class of
strangers, might, with equal safety, be extended
to all; for the laws by which a foreigner is bound
and punished like a native, ought, according to
every English principle, to serve him, as they do
the native, for a complete and unqualified protec-
tion.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The notice given two or three days ago of a
motion for leave to bring in a Bill to continue
the provisions of the Alien Act for another
twelvemonth, rather disappointed us. We had
flattered ourselves that Ministers, in their anxiety
for the removal of restrictions, and to gain a cha-
racter for,liberility, would be willing to renounce
the arbitrary power which this measure gives
them over the unfortunate foreigners compelled to
fly for refuge to our shores. Mr. Peel proposed
the continuance of this odious, and, we think, un-
called-for measure, last night. It has, however,
received an improvement which was very much
called for, namely, that all foreigners who have
been seven years in the country are exempted
from its operation. The number of persons
who are thus withdrawn from arbitrary power,
and placed under the protection of the law,
amounts, it is said, to upwards of 10,000. No
ground vas laid for the measure last night, which
would not justify its permanent adoption. We
are now in the tenth year of peace, we are
threatened by no danger, either from without or
within. The greater part of the Continent has
also been long tranquil. It is true that the South
of Europe is at present in a very unsettled state;
but if we wait till every part of Europe is in a
state of profound tranquillity before we abandon
this measure, we may wait long enough. -11 e
confess we are at a loss to see hOw any good ob-
ject can be answered by the power which Minis-
ters now claim. We are unwilling to suppose
that they would lend themselves to the views of
the Holy Alliance, by driving from our shores
any unfortunate object of its persecution ; but if
they do not wish to lend themselves to the views
of the Holy Alliance, why do they demand a
power which can be used in no other way than in
sniservience to that league ?